SoundPad: Steampunk (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 June of 2018, here's what I wrote about it back then:

This was a tough one. Do I say that every time? I think I do. Steampunk, like Film Noir, is an extremely visual genre. Everyone has some idea of what it looks like, but sounds, as it turns out, are a different story.

I started with the basics. I decided that I needed a toolkit with which to build machines. So I recorded and assembled lots of mechanical sounds. Ticks, hits, clangs, the works.  Then I thought about iconic locations. An airship, a booksellers/antiquarian dealer, a Victorian street corner. Slowly it started to come together. 

Accent sounds abound in this. A simple addition of say, a bubbling flask to a bookshop makes it an instant laboratory.  A propeller sound added to any contraption, makes it fly.

Of the 3 musical tracks, I wrote two - Organ Music (borrowed heavily from A. Badalamenti) and Bells Music. The Accordion Music track is from a 1924 78rpm recording by Galli Rini (public domain) that I cleaned up (a lot) and looped a section of. I thought it was perfect.

This is the largest SoundPad to date, with 40 sounds. 4 of which are tones. You'll definitely want to go with the less-is-more approach here. Adding all the machine sounds into one mega-machine is going to sound too busy. Try various combinations of 2 or 3 sounds to start.

Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.

Best,

Tim