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After designing the background sounds of a castle on high alert I couldn't get the idea of a thief darting among the shadows, avoiding detection, out of my head. After work...
2023-09-06 15:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's track started from a set-piece idea about a clifftop castle, market, civilization etc. that had only one point of access. Over millennia a massive system of pla...
2023-08-30 13:49:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's track features the classic sci-fi trope of terraforming, the process by which a lifeless planet is transformed into one that can sustain life. I have no idea ho...
2023-08-23 13:15:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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I considered calling this track "50 feet of Rope". I also considered never telling anyone that. But, here we are!
Descent is an adventure/mystery/tension/wha...
2023-08-09 15:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've had this track on the back burner for several weeks. I'd bring it out and tinker with it, and then put it away again as it never seemed to click. The working title was...
2023-08-02 14:21:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here is another one of my liminal spaces ambiences. This track centers around a busy dock where workers are loading a ship in preparation for a long voyage. The sounds are ...
2023-07-26 15:47:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: The attached files were missing their id3 tags so have been re-uploaded. If you downloaded these prior to 26 July, 2023 you should re-download. The files themselves are unchanged. - Tim 2023-07-19 16:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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I have a notebook that I keep by my desk that had the word "statues" written on the open page. It was circled. I don't remember writing it, but - if I circle anything, that...
2023-07-12 15:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's a steampunk setpiece that should be equally at home in fantasy, or gritty sci-fi. "Infernal Machine" is an impenetrable mass of gears, cogs, pistons, and whatsits al...
2023-07-05 16:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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I should start by assuring everyone that this particular house of ill repute is quite tame on the baudiness scale. That being said, if your characters need a tavern that is...
2023-06-28 17:25:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Well, what started with a single low-strings ostinato somehow turned into a manic, slightly stressful extended action sequence.
A ship at sea is being drawn, in...
2023-06-21 15:53:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm a big fan of scoring particular moments, just like I would do if I was writing to picture. The challenge for me in creating Tabletop Audio tracks is always to come up w...
2023-06-14 14:55:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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For this week's track, I imagined a massive Nordic troll nestled in his cave and surrounded by bones and trinkets. Settings like this a great for set pieces in which the st...
2023-06-07 16:30:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's track evolved rather organically from a simple breathy vocal ambience to a derelict mountain shack in wintertime. As I played with the vocals - both melodic and...
2023-05-31 15:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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A quick preface to say that I forgot to add id3 tags to last week's track, Roc's Nest. I've r...
2023-05-24 17:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit 24, May 2023: I mistakenly left out the id3 tags on the attached mp3 files, I have re-uploaded them with the proper tags. The file contents is unchanged.
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Edit: May 19, 2023: This is live on the site now, so share away!
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Here is the 32nd installment of the SoundPad series, "Ancient Greece".
This was an int...
2023-05-10 14:55:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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As a fan of in-between moments in stories, I created this army in motion. These are foot soldiers, no fancy officers on horseback. Whatever country, whatever year this was,...
2023-05-03 15:55:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Once again, I found myself in a position where the music for this was almost completely finished and I found myself asking; "cool, but what is it?" I'm not sure how I lande...
2023-04-26 14:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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I'm back from my quick trip to the North Carolina mountains. I spent most of the time sitting on the porch watching birds and identifying them with my new favorite app, Merl...
2023-04-19 16:06:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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I had this idea for a set piece/drop-in scenario that was based somewhat on the Wandering Emporium from the D&D book, Descent into Avernus. The concept was that instead...
2023-04-05 16:11:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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I began this piece with the rising and falling glissando synth line and thought it sounded pretty grand on its own, but I kept adding parts to it: children's choir, regular...
2023-03-29 17:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is the story of a fighter, so confident in their ability that they decided to derail the entire plot of your story, just so they could enter a winner-take-all, one-on-...
2023-03-22 16:46:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: The music only track somehow contained ambience so it was replaced on 21 March, 2023.
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I guess I was in the mood for old-school Hollywood adventure this...
2023-03-15 16:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's ambience features all manner of slime, ooze, and gore. Or, to be precise, stewed tomatoes, eggshells, and mac & cheese. It's a standard sci-fi horror set pi...
2023-03-08 18:01:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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I was noodling around on the piano this week and this little melody came up that reminded me of a solitary figure looking out over the ocean from a rocky cliff. In my 'head...
2023-03-01 17:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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This week's track is designed as an opening credits style piece. It's part 'title theme' and part expository. In a film or tv opening, this would be accompanied by im...
2023-02-22 16:09:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've always loved the idea of greenhouses on spaceships. From the 1972 film "Silent Running", to "Sunshine" (2007), to "Passengers" (2016). Even if the film isn't about gro...
2023-02-15 18:09:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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The original save file for this track was called something like: Feb_2023_orch_magic_thing. I do this a lot. My working folder is full of snippets that I come back...
2023-02-08 18:13:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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After last week's dark action track, I thought I'd do something a bit more atmospheric. Once again, I've chosen an image by one of my favorite fantasy artists Grandfailure ...
2023-02-01 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post