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New Ambience: Sleeping Ogre
Greetings Patrons,I was thinking about a fun set-piece type ambience that I could do this week. Maybe something to inspire a scene or a challenge in your story or game. Here's a basic encounter for your party or hero. The treasure, or way out, or goal - what have you - is blocked by an enormous ...
New Ambience: Storm at Sea
Greetings Patrons,All the planning in the world can't prepare you for that moment when the sea turns against you. You rarely get much of a warning, and it's only the skill of every soul on board that gets you through.This is a fitting track coming so soon after Space Battle. The ocean of the...
New Ambience: Waterkeep: Night
Greetings Patrons,A relatively recent request which I thought was an excellent idea: A nighttime version of a larger fantasy / medieval city. I had already done the city of "Waterkeep", my not very subtle nod to the fabled D&D location, so I thought I'd think about how that place would s...
New Ambience: Space Battle
Greetings Patrons,Did I really not have a proper sci-fi space battle on the site? Don't answer that, I know the answer. Well, I've remedied that now I think.For this track, creatively titled Space Battle, I definitely followed 'the rule of cool' - meaning that it doesn't matter i...
Sales Tax Update
Greetings Patrons,Sorry for this terribly dull post. As most of you know, Patreon is being mandated to collect sales tax from certain states and countries to comply with local laws. These changes will go into effect July 1st and will have very little impact.The good news is, that I'm allowed to ...
New Ambience: Castle Kitchen
Greetings Patrons,This ambience is a very recent request, but one of those that I felt I needed to do immediately. The medieval castle was a massive and complex ecosystem, and the kitchen was almost always at the center of it. From preparing feasts, to feeding the staff, to heating ordnance for sieg...
New Ambience: Burning Village
Greetings Patrons,One of the suggestions on my list was over 2 years old and all I had written down was flames everywhere. I started thinking about scenarios where this might fit into a story and a I found that it actually had a surprising number of plot possibilities in it. This ended up with a tra...
New Ambience: Witch Mountain
Greetings Patrons,I started working on this track a couple of months ago and shelved it for some reason. Cut to a few weeks later and I was browsing through my work-in-progress folder and found a track called 'ostinato_idea_1a_march20'. Yeah, cryptic. So I opened it and thought, well maybe.....
New Ambience: Thieves' Guild
Greetings Patrons,I feel like a broken record each time I mention that the thing I started working on isn't the thing I ended up with. But, I guess it happens to me a lot. A few iterations in to this piece, I started thinking about thieves, shadows and stealth. It was just a kernel of an idea an...
New Ambience: Temple Garden
Greetings Patrons,I had a request from a few months ago for an 'Asian themed' garden and thought this would be a good track to work on this week.As I started to play around with some ideas I realized that the traditional, and frankly overused, koto and shakuhachi style arrangements were maki...
New Ambience: Rat Battle
Greetings Patrons,I wanted to do a fight track that wasn't EPICLY EPIC™. It's not about slaying dragons with flaming swords as much as it is about clearing out the rat infestation with rusty daggers. It's almost tounge-in-cheek, but not quite.Rat Battle is a purely musical track that&#...
New Ambience: Ghost Town
Greetings Patrons,I know this may come across as too on-the-nose, but I can't ignore the fact that one of the busiest cities in the world, my home, New York City, seems to have become rather depopulated. Or rather, it appears that way with everyone indoors.Nevertheless, on my daily dog walks or ...
New Ambience: Biodome
Greetings Patrons,I hope you are all weathering things and doing as well as can be expected. It's tough going, I know, and I feel very (very) fortunate that I can lean on my work at this time.As I started on this track I realized that, once again, I was injecting a bit of wishful thinking into m...
New Ambiences: Heart: The City Beneath
Greetings Patrons,I was asked several months ago to produce 10 ambient tracks for Grant Howitt and Christopher Taylor's new RPG, Heart: The City Beneath. This is a sequel to Spire: The City Must Fall, a game I also produced tracks for.In Spire we heard the story of the dark elves in a gleaming, ...
New Ambience: Haven
Greetings Patrons (and guests!),I started working on this piece during the first week of lockdown here in New York City. I didn't think it was going to turn out to be something of use for Tabletop Audio at the time. I had a simple solo cello line in mind and I just wanted to get it down and move...
Custom SoundPad updated
Greetings Patrons,I just wanted to let you all know that all 40 sounds from the 25th SoundPad "Vampire" have been added to the Custom SoundPad tool and are now ready for mixing and matching.I've got a few new ambiences in the works and I'll be sharing some of the work I did for Grant...
New SoundPad: Vampire
Greetings Patrons,Firstly, I just want to say that I hope everyone is safe and well in these surreal times. I am fortunate that my quarantined life, as far as work goes, remains mostly unchanged. To that end, as long as I am able, I'll continue to work in the studio producing content.--On to the...
New Ambience: Druid Hilltop
Greetings Patrons,I got a rather specific request for an ambience last week on Twitter and I thought that, in addition to being a decent Yester Hill track (from Curse of Strahd) it would actually make a fairly good generic, occult / druidic / shamanic summoning type of scenario.The basic idea is tha...
New Ambience: Sun Dappled Trail
Greetings Patrons,As many of you know, I love creating sounds for the in-between portions of games and stories. These are the places and times that connect plot points or major scenes. Often this is a journey from A to B, or a conversation in neutral area. Sometimes it's just downtime in front o...
New Ambience: Shadowfell
Greetings Patrons,I've been meaning to do a Shadowfell ambience ever since The Feywild came out. Apparently I got sidetracked. Thankfully, a few of you reminded me of this oversight recently.I had to dig into the lore a bit to make sure I was starting off on the right track. This interview with ...
New Ambience: Battle of the Amazons
Greetings Patrons,I was watching the film "Wonder Woman" last week with my son and I just loved the training scene in which the young Diana watches the warriors drilling from her perch on a hilltop. I thought that this would make a cool setting, so I started working on sword sounds, bows and...
Desert Planet Sounds added To Custom SoundPad
Greetings Patrons,Just a quick note to let you know that I've added all the sounds from the latest SoundPad, Desert Planet, to the Custom SoundPad tool. This means there are now over 800 sounds available for mixing.Regarding the Custom SoundPad, I've gotten a couple of emails about finding a...
New SoundPad: Desert Planet
Greetings Patrons,I've completed the 24th SoundPad and the first of 2020, Desert Planet. This is a sneak peak for Patreon patrons and will be released to the public later this week. Please feel free to just share with gaming groups and family until then.As with many of these biome SoundPads, I a...
New Ambience: Crossing the Styx
Greetings Patrons,I've always loved the Greek Myths, so when I was looking through an old book I used to read to my kids and came upon a picture of Charon the ferryman of the dead, I knew I had to create that scene in sound. Crossing the Styx is a dark, foreboding ambience that is actually stran...
New Ambience: Shopping Mall
Greetings Patrons,Happy 2020 everyone! I've decided to start the year off by creating an ambience that I've had several requests for lately.The shopping mall was an integral part of my adolescence, as I'm sure it was many of yours. It was a safe space to congregate with friends, to peopl...
Behold the Tarrasque!
Happy Holidays!As a special gift over this holiday season, it was my great pleasure to team up with 20 battlemap makers, 2 miniature makers, another composer, 1 magic item creator, 1 monster maker and 1 adventure writer to bring you a giant, terrifying, fully formed Tarrasque for your party to take ...
New Ambience: The Steppes
Greetings Patrons,"More drums!" is a frequent line in many request emails. Well, I started working on this "more drums" track and, as I added Erhu, Guzheng and a bit of throat singing, I found myself on the steppes of Mongolia . I wanted to conjure up a vibe of vast plains, rolling h...
New Ambience: Swamp Planet
Greetings Patrons,I started playing around with a strange, meandering musical idea this week and the further I got, I couldn't get the idea of a swamp out of my head. So that's where it ended up. I was actually picturing Yoda's home, Dagobah if you must know! I thought maybe Disney would...
New Ambience: Dying World
Greetings Patrons,This ambience started out very differently. In fact, I created a cool glassy sounding patch with Omnisphere and my first pass of this track was titled "Crystal City". So, yeah. What happened?Well actually this kind of thing happens all the time. I set out on one path and en...
Alexa Skill is back online
Greetings Patrons,Just a quick note to say that the Tabletop Audio Alexa skill is back online after being down for awhile. My apologies for not noticing this sooner, but it was only recently brought to my attention. Apparently Amazon had changed some of their back-end code which broke a number of au...
