Official comment
Hello Miazma,
From your examples the squid works like example 1.
But if you don't want to trigger all 16 sounds from the Drum machine you should be able to turn off those channels with the drum machine.
Example:
When using the TORAIZ SP-16 sampler if I only want to trigger 8 drum pads I can turn off the other 8 so those channels can be used for other instruments.
Hope this answered your question.
Thanks