SoundPad: Alien Starship (Remastered)

Greetings Patrons,

I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.

Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear patrons, and you alone!

The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the time being, but these re-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears online (bandwidth/cost issues) and have been tweaked to the standards of the later SoundPads.

The format for these will be .ogg as it's superior to mp3 for looping purposes as well as quality/file size considerations.

As with most Patreon content, the simplest way to access it is via the Tabletop Audio website. As each SoundPad is remastered, a "Download on Patreon" button will appear on the page. That link will take you to the appropriate post.

If there are any Multi-part sounds (denoted by the x2, x4, etc on the website), they will be split into individual sounds as they would require the SoundPad engine to play properly. e.g.

Additionally, the files have all been renamed with a more consistent naming convention and id3 tags have been added.

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Originally released in April 2019. Here are my thoughts from its original release:

I see this as a companion piece to the original Starship SoundPad, in which we take things in a darker direction. My creative brief to myself was that this was either an alien craft, or some kind of derelict ship or facility that had been inhabited by hostile creatures. Obviously my inspiration comes from the the original 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien - and somewhat from the James Cameron 1986 sequel Aliens. I also watched films like Pitch Black, Europa Report, Event Horizon and others. The subject of the film is often not as important as a single scene or situation that i can recreate with a few sounds.

The sounds here are split between high tech and organic. All the wind and drone sounds, and even the thunder were created on a synthesizer to give them  that slightly 'off', other worldly feeling. I also wanted the sounds to feel less polished in keeping with the period the movie was made. For the alien creature sounds I went the opposite of synthesized/artificial and started with organic sounds and twisted them just to the point where I felt like I was losing the original source. 

Jerry Goldsmith's score for Alien is a masterpiece and has been imitated countless times. In an era of romantic and melodic cues, he instead chose tone, timbre and dissonance to create a disjointed unease. The musical track 'Tension' is a deep (apologetic) bow to Jerry's score.

In addition to the 2 musical tracks there are 5 tone tracks which can be combined to create subtle underscore.

Thank you all, for your continuing support.

Best,

Tim

Listen to the original Alien Starship SoundPad here