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The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences that are more inclusive of diverse knowledges and abilities. Drawing on multiple disciplines—including rhetoric and composition, performance studies, anthropology, history, and information science—the contributors to Digital Sound Studies bring digital humanities and sound studies into productive conversation while probing the assumptions behind the use of digital tools and technologies in academic life. In so doing, they explore how sonic experience might transform our scholarly networks, writing processes, research methodologies, pedagogies, and knowledges of the archive. As they demonstrate, incorporating sound into scholarship is thus not only feasible but urgently necessary.

Poptastic vintage patterns from Korg’s MiniPops Junior

Ten preset rhythms plus individual kit pieces so you can program your own Light, snappy vintage tone perfect for complex and agile rhythms Tilt EQ for easy added punch or air Combine rhythms for wackadoodle weirdness!

8-bit percussion from SuperDrums’ stablemate

Crunchy, punchy and percussive! Another little plastic gem from the 80s Perfect partner to our recreation of the Korg SuperDrums Adds 8-bit cabasas, congas, timbales, agogos and more to your standard kit pieces

The Boss HC-2 Hand Clapper… and friends

Crisp, punchy electronic claps – perfect for when you want to go electric! 127 individual samples covering multiple positions of the Boss HC-2’s controls Multiple randomised round-robins for added realism …plus six other electronic handclaps sourced from cool old machines bolted on for extra flavour!

Serious analogue feel from the Boss Dr. Rhythm

Cool claps, snazzy snares, bopping bass and hissy hats… what’s not to love? Every kit piece can be adjusted for pan and level, and have its Accent altered for a more nuanced feel Velocity Retrofit for humanised beats!

Yamaha’s RX21L Latin drum machine

Lilting early digital Latin sounds from 1986, with randomised round-robins for accuracy Cuicas, agogos, congas, timbales, claves, tambourine, COWBELL (yay!) Sixteen sampled sounds ideal for adding some South American shimmy to your tracks Bongos, whistles, high and low variants of most sounds… oh, and did we mention the COWBELL?

Cloned from the groovy little Boss Dr. Rhythm DR-55

“Rhythmic Robot have sampled every percussion voice at every accent level and have also provided a ‘Velocity Retrofit’ button, so that you can play with nuances no genuine DR55 could match. The neat and recognisable UI is the perfect setting for this recreation of the oldest Dr Rhythm” – Sound on Sound magazine

The second 32 factory patches from the warm and characterful Korg PolySix Simple but powerful control set including Tilt EQ, Filter and Amplifier so you can craft your own sounds Velocity-to-volume and Velocity-to-cutoff retrofitted so you can enjoy expressive, responsive patches Classic sounds for 20p per patch!

Vintage chip music tone synthesiser

A grungy little chiptune synthesiser based on the onboard sound chip of the Sinclair Spectrum Perfect for chip-based musical styles, or for blipping up your electronic tracks!

This PatchVault collection is a custom set of patches, programmed here in the lab by Mongo on our lovely Korg PolySix. There are 34 patches in total, many of which have been specifically designed not just to sound good on their own, but to offer excellent starting-points for your own tweaks and modifications as well. For example, unlike the two Factory Sets, most of Mongo’s custom sounds start with an instant attack which we’ve then tailored as necessary using the PatchVault interface’s envelope sliders – leaving you with more control than, say, a fixed slow attack which can never be speeded up.

48 classic DX5 internal memory presets

All 48 factory patches from the DX5’s internal memory (less the piano patches… get them in DX Keys Deluxe) – plus the necessary Program combinations free of charge! Four velocity layers, AET Morph, tons of multisamples: 1.6Gb of FM goodness Custom-created twin patches designed from the ground up to work in layered, detuned pairs for a rich, warm sound Signature DX5 convertors bring surprisingly ‘analogue’ weight to digital technology

Early digital goodness from the Ensoniq ESQ1

The full 40 factory presets from Ensoniq’s wonderful early-digital synth Aggressive pianos, shimmering stereo synths, thick chewy basses, airy pads Simple but powerful control set including Tilt EQ, Filter and Amplifier so you can craft your own sounds Velocity-to-volume and Velocity-to-cutoff retrofitted for even more expressive options Classic sounds for 20c per patch!

20 digital tones from the Casio HT6000 pro synth

All 20 factory presets from Casio’s big-league HT6000 Digital hybrid sound: digital waveforms plus analogue filters Simple but powerful control set including Tilt EQ, Filter and Amplifier so you can craft your own sounds Velocity-to-volume and Velocity-to-cutoff retrofitted for even more expressive options Classic sounds for 20c per patch!

The Ensoniq SQ-80 is one of our favourite digisynths (at least from the more affordable end of the spectrum… we’re not saying no to a PPG Wave any time soon). In many ways straddling the analogue / digital divide, the SQ80 and its forerunner the ESQ-1 make a virtue of combining digital waveforms, short digital samples, and analogue resonant filters, into a very warm and rich-sounding package that nevertheless has that unmistakeable early-digital sheen to its sound. Grafting little attack samples on to grainy digital sustain waves and then running the whole lot through the filter leads to instant gratification time and time again – it’s a lovely synth to program (love that big vacuum-fluorescent display!), has a ton of really useful modulation routings, and its velocity capability and full stereo output make it a responsive and rewarding synth to play, too. We have a real soft spot for this machine.

The marvel of PatchVault brings you more classic synth patches for 20c a pop!

Hurrah for the Korg PolySix: an affordable, portable analogue polysynth with nice simple controls and a surprising amount of sonic potential. On the surface it’s a one-oscillator machine, but there’s a very useful sub oscillator for beefing up your patches, plus excellent Bucket-Brigade style effects for thickening the sound (the standout here is the Ensemble effect, which is wonderfully sweet and sweeping)… plus the awesome Unison, which stacks all six voices for massive leads and basses.