SoundPad: Wasteland (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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Wasteland was originally released on 19 July, 2016. I re-read the original post I made about the creation process before I started the remastering, and I find that it still holds true:

"I've been kicking around ideas for a Post Apocalyptic SoundPad since I first started making them. I even attempted one but it never really worked for me. It's funny, the whole premise of a Post Apocalyptic environment is that it's empty, void. A shadow of a civilization that was, and now isn't. Visually, this is a lot easier to imagine - nature gone to seed, buildings to rubble, man's gleaming cities reduced to twisted avant-garde sculpture. But what the hell does it sound like?

I began  with two sounds, desolate wind, and bone chimes. I liked the notion of a degree of primitavism happening as a result of the world ending. We hang up things that make noise in the wind to keep predators and scavengers away.

Once I had those two sounds I started adding things. As always, I throw out nearly as many sounds as I create trying to find combinations that work well together. With a limited number of sounds I wanted to be able to describe the sonic character of the environment without writing the whole story. It's mostly exterior sounds, but there's a nod to  interior environments as well. In the Post Apocalypse, interior and exterior are fairly fluid concepts."

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

Best,

Tim

https://tabletopaudio.com/wasteland_sp.html