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New Ambience: Brood Mother
Greetings Patrons,Here's a sci-fi track, masquerading as a fantasy track, masquerading as a horror track. Wheels within wheels!Brood Mother began its life as a sustained action sequence that would have been at home in a Mad Max film. As the work progressed though, various elements (I'm not r...
SoundPad: Dark Forest (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-m...
New Ambience: Vampyr
Greetings Patrons,I sat down this week to write a piece in 5/4, mostly as a challenge. For non-musicians, that means there are 5 beats in a measure (quarter note getting 1 beat). It's not too far out, but considering that 90% of music is written in 4/4 it does have a bit of an unsettling vibe to...
New Ambience: Steel Foundry
Greetings Patrons,Steel Foundry is a large reverberant chamber where blast furnaces, chain hoists, and strong arms all work to create raw material.It's vaguely dwarven, by which I mean there are certainly echoes of Moria, but there's a slightly more sinister vibe at work.Musically, this is p...
Quick 'Drowned Tower' Edit
Greetings Patrons,Just a quick note to say that I listened to last week's track and noticed some weirdness that must have happened on export. Naturally, I found some things that could have been better so I had another crack at it and this one is the one. I've attached the new files to the or...
Quick Dungeon SoundPad update:
It's been brought to my attention that I can't count!There should have been 36 sounds in the archives. Somehow 'net trap' and 'blade trap' were missing. I tracked them down and replaced the archives.The original post is herebest,Tim
SoundPad: The Dungeon (Remastered)
Edit#2: It was brought to my attention that I can't count. There were 2 missing sounds from the original upload - blade trap and net trap. These have been located and added to the .zip/.rar files. There should be 36 sounds plus 1 image in the archive.Edit: Sorry Mac users! I forgot that .rar isn...
New Ambience: The Drowned Tower
Edit: I updated the 3 tracks with music in them (neither of the AMB tracks) as I found some weird issues after listening to it a couple of days later. You can find the new tracks below. The date should be 12 Feb, 2024. - TimGreetings Patrons,The music was completed on this one before I knew what it ...
New Ambience: Feast of Crispian
Greetings Patrons,This track started with a jaunty rhythmic melody shared between a mountain dulcimer and a harp. It was giving me tavern music vibes from the start. However, as I added various sections and instruments, it seemed somehow more 'important' than a simple tavern band bashing out...
New Ambience: Whispering Caverns
Greetings Patrons,Ever since I saw the 1959 classic, Journey to the Center of the Earth with James Mason, I've been a sucker for stories that take characters deep underground. It's as if the plot writes itself. It's dark, it's dangerous and it's not a dungeon. (Of course I love d...
New Ambience: Whiteout
Greetings Patrons,Is it a coincidence that during work on this track, New York City received its first decent snowfall in 701 days? (It was only 1.4")Whiteout is a POV of a struggle against nature. Brutal headwinds, stinging sleet, deep drifts, and biting cold are your adversaries in this one. I...
New Ambience: The Misty Marsh
Greeting Patrons,I recently watched, and enjoyed the series "The Essex Serpent", but, if I'm being honest, mostly for the beautiful landscapes. I think I scrawled something like 'marsh/boat" in my notebook. I've done some similar natural environments before but they were eith...
New Ambience: Homecoming
Greetings Patrons,A happy 2024 to you all!It is so good to be back in NYC after a short holiday away. I think I kid myself when I say I love what I do, and therefore downtime is unnecessary. It really is necessary, and 6 days seems to be the perfect amount of time away from the studio. Anything more...
New Ambience: The Ansible
Greetings Patrons,Back in 1966, writer Ursula K Le Guin created a device she called an "ansible" to enable instant communication over vast distances of space. It became a cornerstone of her world-building and has appeared in many of her sci-fi novels.As Le Guin was also a noted fantasy autho...
Surround Sound Experiment
TL;DR - I set up some extra speakers in a quad arrangement in the studio and mixed a test ambient-only track. If you have a surround setup like this in the place you game, please give this a test and let me know how it went!Greeting Patrons,I've been playing around with speaker configurations an...
New Ambience: Launch Day
Greetings Patrons,Here's a modern/sci-fi adjacent track that centers around a rocket on a gantry. The community is out to cheer on the brave souls aboard as preparations for launch are made. So many stories came to me while making this: A dying world makes a last-ditch effort to discover a new h...
New Ambience: Demon Army
Greetings Patrons,Here's a track that is somehow dark, yet upbeat at the same time. The ambience came first for this one. It all started with the distant rhythmic shouts and foot stomps of thousands of soldiers. I thought it sounded like a horde of demons and that's what I went with. A massi...
New Ambience: Hellhound Alley
Edit: Uploaded non-amb files for amb. Fixed now!Greetings Patrons,I should start off by mentioning that this began as a gothic horror track and ended up squarely in cyberpunk territory. However, I think this could still work as dark fantasy or sci-fi. As always, I encourage you to ignore everything ...
New Ambience: Trireme
Greetings Patrons,It's the day before Thanksgiving here in the U.S. so as soon as I send this off, I'll be getting out of the studio chair and into the kitchen. (Don't worry, I'll be back at work on Friday)Triremes, for those that don't know, are the ancient boats used by the Med...
New Ambience: Train Job
Edit: A small glitch in the ambience-only exterior version resulted in a blank file. This has been replaced.Greetings Patrons,This track was, at one point, my nemesis.I had the bones of it fairly in place a couple of months ago but it never really gelled for me. Every week or so I'd revisit it. ...
New Ambience: Desert Devotional
Greetings Patrons,This week's track grew organically out of a few tracks of vocals. I was enjoying the way they bent in and out of tune, especially when I added a long, evolving drone beneath them. Eventually, I determined that this would be some kind of monastic ritual. I didn't want to gro...
New Ambience: Medieval Market
Greetings Patrons,After some recent heavy, doom and gloom-type tracks I needed to lighten the mood a bit.Medieval Market should really be called 'fantasy market' as there's nothing gritty or dirty about it. The weather is lovely, the people are lovely and everyone is smiling. If you'...
New Ambience: Lord of Bones
Greetings Patrons,Well, this ended up being a boss encounter.Meet Mr. Bones, or Lord Bones as he'd prefer you call him. He (checks image..) wears a flaming gold crown embedded with a large jewel. Someone (rogue) in your party wants that jewel. This is not the first time they've endangered ev...
New Ambience: Docking Bay
Greetings Patrons,I had this great plan for Docking Bay to be a set piece of various space-themed activities in a massive hangar. Mechs loading and unloading cargo and munitions, troops marching in formation, and general preparations for mobilization.That all went according to plan. I designed the a...
New Ambience: The Attic
Greetings Patrons,Happy Halloween! I thought a classic 'what's in the attic' trope would be a fun thing to work on while I sipped pumpkin-spiced lattes in my studio. (ed: kidding!).This is a POV of an old, dark, dusty attic. Creaking floorboards, pattering raindrops on the thin roof abov...
New Ambience: Infiltration
Edit: Mistakenly uploaded doubles of the mixed tracks (no drips/no infiltrator) instead of ambient only no drips/no infiltrator. This has been fixed!Greetings Patrons,This is a hybrid track based around a stealth/action theme. The idea is that you're an operative/adventurer who needs to get in o...
Foundry VTT/Moulinette update:
Greetings Patrons,If you are a Foundry/Moulinette user you've probably received an update from Moulinette about a few additions/changes in the Tabletop Audio content.$5/month Foundry VTT Plus patrons (who are also Moulinette patrons) can now access alternate track content from within the Mouline...
New Ambience: Western Watchtower
Greetings Patrons,On a desolate hill, overlooking a narrow pass in the mountains, stand the ruins of a once formidable defensive tower. When attacking hordes approached, archers and mages could dispatch them at great distances. The Western Watchtower was a crucial part of the defense of the realm. B...
New Ambience: Banshee's Lair
Greetings Patrons,This is a house, deep in the forest, occupied by a strange old crone. No one can remember her ever not being there. The legend is that she's a banshee in mortal form. She seems kind enough at first, but if you don't flatter her, or bring her gifts, she gets cranky. Most of ...
New Ambience: Long Rest
Edit: I added an mp3 version of the loop file. You should only use this one if your player/device can't play .ogg files. Caveat: it may not loop as well. - TimGreetings Patrons,I know the title is fairly specific to D&D, but this is really just a peaceful, downtime ambience. You're not alway...
