Greetings Patrons,
Happy New Year! I hope you had a safe and joyous holiday season. I managed to sneak away to my studio more than I thought I might. Mostly I did lots of boring things like upgrade hard drives, tidy cabling and some basic sprucing. Between all that, I even managed to write ...
2025-01-01 17:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-12-22 19:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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I was playing around designing a rumble sound last week. I thought it came out pretty well so I designed an entire track around it.
Lava King is a boss. Like all bosses who live in subterranean caverns, he's mean - but also a bit lonely. He really (really) looks for...
2024-12-18 18:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-12-14 16:28:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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As usual, I didn't start out writing anything in particular. Definitely not this holiday-adjacement music. But that's what came out! I'm not even sure why this seems so seasonal. Maybe sticking a glockenspiel, harp and cimbalom together just makes it happen? I need to loo...
2024-12-11 17:19:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sometimes in the process of noodling around you stumble across something that makes you say, 'there's something here, but I don't know what it is yet'. This is exactly what happened when I created a synth patch that made me blurt out: "John Carpenter!".
As any sane ...
2024-12-04 17:01:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Before I drop everything and begin cooking for tomorrow's Thanksgiving dinner, I present to you the (usually) sleepy (and totally made up) county of Darkmoor. Darkmoor is in the moorlands, or moors, which if you've seen the horror classic "An American Werewolf in London" ...
2024-11-27 18:10:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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As a longtime resident of New York CIty, I have an affinity for urban environments. They're not always the easiest places to live, but they do seem to offer occasional surprises that I feel like I wouldn't see in suburbia. Obviously, the country has it's own set of surpri...
2024-11-20 20:28:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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This track was entirely based around a violin recording I made a few weeks ago and revisited. It was kind of an anti-violin recording actually. Light bow strokes that only really hinted at the played note. Mostly wispy bow noise and organic sounding string vibrations. I h...
2024-11-13 17:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-11-09 15:05:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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Goodhaven is a quiet, peaceful village on the banks of a river. It's a joyous and welcoming place. There's a lovely inn, bountiful game in the woods and a decent ruined church with catacombs nearby in case you get bored.
The ambience, as you would expect is verdan...
2024-11-06 17:55:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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As much as I love the pew-pew laser battle aspects of sci-fi, I also love the grittier, hard, humans expanding their reach in a hostile universe side as well. Logistics, resource management, and problem solving may not sell a lot of toys, but they make stories of future h...
2024-10-30 16:51:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-10-25 15:52:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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This started out as a funny thought: What if you, the dungeon master, had a bestiary of creatures at your disposal that were simply too unhinged to function properly. They refused to adhere to their stat blocks. They moved when and where they wanted. Sometimes they just y...
2024-10-23 17:51:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's still fall here in New York City. In fact, most of our trees still have green leaves on them. But did that stop me from jumping head first into a winter themed ambience? No. No it did not.
I was trying out various microphones for violin recording so I figured I...
2024-10-16 17:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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Unlike the word in its current usage, the original, medieval undercrofts, were subterranean. This is obviously the better and more correct way to describe a stone floored, vaulted ceilinged, dimly lit collection of rooms beneath a castle. I don't even want to discuss mode...
2024-10-09 16:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-10-04 15:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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As it's officially the spooky month, so I wanted to do a bit of sci-fi horror in the style of Event Horizon, Alien or Sunshine. Cryo Pods has all the elements of classic sci-fi horror. Atonal, arhythmic, and aleatoric. All the A's! But really, at its heart,...
2024-10-02 16:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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This track started out as a Halloween piece, but soon morphed into something magical. As you all know, this happens to me a lot and I simply follow the prevailing winds to whatever destination it's taking me to.
I think there's a bit of a Harry Potter vibe in here, ...
2024-09-25 18:56:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-09-22 14:25:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: Oops! I forgot to add id3 tag info to the files. I've fixed that and re-uploaded them!
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Before anyone asks, yes, I do love the Ken Russel film "Lair of the White Worm". It's one of my favorite campy, low budget comedy/horror films!
This is not th...
2024-09-18 15:51:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Something happens to my brain when I hear a few notes played on the vibraphone. It goes straight back in time and I start seeing everything in black and white.
To that end, I embraced this vibe (oof, terrible unintended pun) and created a classic hotel lobby in the ...
2024-09-11 17:11:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-09-06 15:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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The first hints of autumn are descending on New York City and I do love a bonfire in the cool evenings (not in the city, of course). Which is to say, I was thinking about fires when I created this tribal/pagan/ritual track of a group of revelers around a large fire pit. I...
2024-09-04 16:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: Fixed the double 'no troopers' file and replaced one with Amb-only no troopers.
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This is one of those tracks that I've had in the works for a few months. I liked it originally, and then I didn't. I'd let it be for a week, then listen to it again,...
2024-08-28 15:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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My end of summer vacation is a wrap and I'm excited to be back in the studio.
For the latest track, I found myself stumbling back into the universe of Dune. It's another one of my in-between state pieces. A mostly interior setting of a quasi-religious nature. But of...
2024-08-21 19:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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I know, I know, I should be packing... But! I managed to get all the sounds from the latest SoundPad, Bleakwater Docks, added to the Custom SoundPad tool. There are now over 1100 sounds to mix and match.
See you in a week-ish!
Tim
Greetings Patrons,
Before I introduce the latest track, I wanted to let you know that I'll be off next week for my annual beach holiday with the family, so there will be no release next Wednesday.
Also, the Bleakwater Docks SoundPad has been released to the public, so sha...
2024-08-07 16:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's a new SoundPad that I've been working on for a while. Astute observers will recognize the title from a 10 minute ambience I did a few years ago. There's also a docks background sound inside the Cthulhu SoundPad from the same year. I wanted to explore that environme...
2024-07-31 16:03:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-07-29 19:26:21 +0000 UTC View Post