SoundPad: True West (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 on 17 May, 2017. Here's a snippet from the original release post:

"Like all my SoundPads before, this one (True West) is a noble failure. By which I mean, there's just no way that a few dozen sounds could ever do justice to a genre this broad. But as I created each of the sounds (I usually make almost double the number needed and whittle it down) I felt that I was getting closer to describing the idea. At least in broad outlines.

Distilling, in this case, 36 sounds to illustrate an era, is a bit like writing poetry. If a poem uses an economy of words to create a sensation or mood that is greater than the sum of it's parts. So too, a SoundPad, or any sound design really, attempts to tap into an established audio vocabulary that excites the brain into experiencing or remembering a place or action. In True West I've taken the basic ideas of outside life and inside life (in this case, the saloon) and combined them so that they would make a fitting backdrop to adventure.

You could create entire scenes using just the night wind with crickets around a campfire. Or craft an episode using the slow stagecoach and theme music. Or, if you're feeling spicy, try robbing a train or playing a hand of cards."

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

Best,

Tim