Reduktion is a meticulously crafted Sound Pack for Digitakt II, by the wonderful Hamburg-based sound artist Keinseier. It is an exercise in self-imposed limitation, yielding focused and distinctive results, and is compatible with any sampler that supports WAV files.
Each of the 110 samples was captured and then carefully reduced into a concentrated, considered form, uniquely refined for this collection. There is a broad and beautiful variety to explore across rhythm and melody: kicks, snares, hi-hats, rim shots, glitches, loops - as well as pads, leads, basses, chords, and more. All are ready for you to put to use as you see fit.
Keinseier creates music that drifts between the blurry boundaries of glitch, structure, and contrasting textures. This pack forms the foundation of his latest EP, also titled Reduktion and produced with Digitakt II. It too is a considered, textural palette shaped by constraint and contrast; a toolkit of sonic fragments, grounded yet abstract, and offering an intimate view into a soundscape that spans from eerie crackles and crunches to gleaming glistens and flickers, and beyond.
Reduktion is designed for Digitakt II and other stereo samplers that handle WAV files such as Octatrack.
It will be cool to have in further sample packs mono compatible versions for Rytm/DT OG/M:S
Yes, you can upload those samples to mono-machines, but instead of summing L+R, Transfer just utilizes left channel. Yes, you can convert it by yourself using summing, but it could create phase cancellation of something you want to preserve in your sample. Thus, as a solution is adaption of samples while making them using the same processing as well but with less side information, decreasing panning, stereo information inside synths and effects.
I love Keinseier’s work and the new EP has been on repeat since last Friday, this one is an instant buy for me.
