tabletopaudio

SoundPad Broadcast Feature Sunset

Greetings All!

I'm making this post public as it pertains to all users of Tabletop Audio -- free, as well as patrons. The main reason I'm writing this is so I can quickly share this post with people who have questions about the feature (which I rarely get these days!)

Also, I apprecia...

New Ambience: Drow Slave Camp

Greetings Patrons,

The Drow are the worst. Everyone seems to hate them. I know there was that one guy, but he seemed to be an outlier. On the other hand, are they kind of awesome in a love-to-hate-them kind of way? Sure, let's go with that.

When the blindfolds come off, you find yours...

New Ambience: Light the Beacons

Greetings Patrons,

This track has been kicking around for a while. It's been through lots of revisions and tweaks and I finally feel like I'm ready to move on. My working title for this was "Barry_thing" - because I thought the opening low strings riff sounded like a John Barry / Bond villa...

SoundPad: Vampire (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 t...

New Ambience: Petrified Forest

Greetings Patrons,

A barren landscape is always a great backdrop for adventure. But a once thriving landscape that has turned - wrong - is even better. A desert might always have been a desert, but a petrified forest begs the question: "what happened, and why?"

Here's an ambience of s...

New Ambience: Listening Post

Greetings Patrons,

Listening Post is a remote facility in the middle of nowhere. Nowhere could mean deep space, a desolated wilderness, or on one of the frozen poles (terrestrial or other). The point is that it's been there awhile. The amenities aren't great, and it's either just you, or m...

SoundPad: Desert Planet (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 t...

New Ambience: Foghaven

Greetings Patrons,

Foghaven is a small industrial city in the north. It's in the foothills of a mountain range and, as its name implies, is perennially rainy and foggy. Despite it's dreary outward appearance, it's a very friendly place. The people work hard and they welcome (well behaved) t...

New Ambience: Resurrection

Greetings Patrons,

I have returned from our family trip to Madrid. It was my first time in Spain and it was amazing. What a truly wonderful city. I even managed to go to a few music shops and not come home with an extra suitcase full of toys! One of the best parts of travel is coming home, ...

New Ambience: Doll Shoppe

Greetings Patrons,

Magical, quaint, slightly terrifying? We've all got opinions on Victorian Dolls. Especially in numbers.

So here we are, on a side street in London. A charming storefront with a murder of dolls in the window. (No, that's not the correct collective noun for dolls, but...

Tech Update: Player Fade-out.

Greetings Patrons,

I finally got around to making a quality of life improvement to the ambience player. I know many of you have been requesting a better fade-out algorithm. The old behavior was an abrupt stop that could sometimes take players out of the mood. The tried and true method, as m...

New Ambience: Xenon Refinery

Greetings Patrons,

I was noodling around on my Prophet synth last week and came up with a cool idea that I thought could work in a track. It was an interesting process as rather than sequencing everything I put on a click track and recorded the entire thing live. Not being highly quantized ...

New Ambience: Deep Blue

Greetings Patrons,

I love underwater adventures. I've created several ambiences over the years, and a couple of SoundPads (Deep Six and Atlantis). But, like taverns and dungeons, I always want more.

Deep Blue follows a submersible craft as it navigates through kelp forests, trenches, ...

SoundPad: Ice Planet (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 t...

New Ambience: Hunting Grounds

Greetings Patrons,

The genesis of this track was a simple piano part that I ran into a fuzz pedal. In this case, a clone of the legendary Shin-ei Fuzz-wah (minus the wah) made by British maker Fredric Effects. I'm trying to incorporate more analog external effects into music lately as I jus...

New Ambience: Drawing Room: Night

Greetings Patrons,

The drawing room was the hub of all activity in manor houses. It was here that guests were received, families gathered after meals, games were played, and even small concerts. Salons, parlors, living rooms and state rooms are all based on the human need for congregation. ...

New Ambience: Harper's Waypoint

Greetings Patrons,

This track started out as a tavern, viewed from the outside, but slowly morphed into a secret hideaway in the forest. I thought a Harper's Hideaway away would be a pretty good title, but I went with 'waypoint' because it seemed more like a destination known only to a sele...

SoundPad: Weirder Things (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 t...

New Ambience: Broken Pantheon

Greetings Patrons,

I was playing around with reverb recently. In particular, chaining a few different types together to see what combinations of sound I could get. Eventually I created this massive space that was fed by some shorter modulated reverbs. I thought it sounded like a cavernous s...

New Ambience: Capes and Canes

Greetings Patrons,

This track is a couple of different things. On the ambience side It's a Victorian-era cityscape complete with Hansom cabs, horses, pedestrians and rain. On the music side it has a slightly sinister, slightly goofy, stealthy / pursuit / peering out of doorways type of vibe...

SoundPad: Hell Planet (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 t...

New Ambience: The Last Express

Greetings Patrons,

Train stations, like their sci-fi cousins space stations, are amazing story generators. Stories can begin, develop and end in them. Arrivals and departures are meaningful events. Crowds can act en masse, like a school of fish, or individually and chaotically. You can los...

New Ambience: Orb of Doom

Greetings Patrons,

Let's just start with the title: My working title was "Slowly Rotating Sphere of Prophecy", which obviously wasn't going to fit on the website. I kept it that way as I worked because I wanted it to be a neutral sounding thing and not necessarily evil. At least - not capit...

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 t...

New Ambience: Nightlands

Greetings Patrons,

This week I created an atmospheric, moody location that I called Nightlands. It could be 'ruined lands', or 'shadow lands', or any number of permanently twilight, partially destroyed environments, brimming with dark magic.

In my mind, this is a world which was once ...

New Ambience: A Royal Visit

Greetings Patrons,

This track fell squarely into the 'I've written some music...but what is it?" categories. More importantly, 'where is it?'

At the beginning of the week I didn't let it get to me. I continued to write, edit and orchestrate the arrangement. As often happens, vibes em...

SoundPad: Combat: Siege (Remastered)

Edit: I forgot to include the .jpg of the cover in the .zip file. This has been added to the .zip, and also as a stand alone so you don't need to re-download it. - Tim

Greetings Patrons,

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

New Ambience: Checkpoint Omega

Greetings Patrons,

There was a scene in the beginning of the Star Wars film 'Solo' (which I enjoyed, and has a great soundtrack) where Han and Q'ira are trying to escape their pursuers and are at a military checkpoint waiting in queue. The scene is busy and tense. Will they get to the windo...

SoundPad: Castle Raven (Remastered)

Edit: I had left out a single sound "Male Laugh Dist 4". This has been added to the original .zip file and also as a separate download if you just needed the one file. - Tim

Greetings Patrons,

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

New Ambience: The Murky Depths

Greetings Patrons,

My idea for this one was an underground environment that was intensely humid, and bursting with life. I imagined tribes of indigenous hunter gatherers scouting for copious flora and fauna. Small bands of raiders attacking other settlements for resources or to secure bette...