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SoundPad: Weirder Things (Remastered)
🕑 Added 2025-03-03 17:28:15 +0000 UTCGreetings 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-mastered audio files are of higher quality than what appears online (bandwidth/cost issues) and have been tweaked to the standards of the later SoundPads.
The format for these will be .ogg as it's superior to mp3 for looping purposes as well as quality/file size considerations.
As with most Patreon content, the simplest way to access it is via the Tabletop Audio website. As each SoundPad is remastered, a "Download on Patreon" button will appear on the page. That link will take you to the appropriate post.
If there are any Multi-part sounds (denoted by the x2, x4, etc on the website), they will be split into individual sounds as they would require the SoundPad engine to play properly. e.g.
Additionally, the files have all been renamed with a more consistent naming convention and id3 tags have been added.
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Originally released in July 2019, Weirder Things was something of an inevitability for me as a) I was a huge fan and had already done 2 ambiences and b) So many people requested it.
Here are my thoughts from the original release:
Many of you are already familiar with my love of the TV show Stranger Things, and especially the music. Any excuse to do a synth only, knob tweaking analog music track I will take it. I've done 2 10 minute tracks on the front page of the site, each one coinciding with a season of the show. For season 3 I assumed I was going to repeat the process and then I thought...wait a minute! There's a SoundPad in here!
As a child of the 80s there's so much nostalgia to sift through on the show. I re-watched season 1 as that was the season that established the time period. I coupled that with my own sound memories and then took it from there.
This is more of a Stranger Things SoundPad than a generic 80s one as there are elements specific to the show. Creatures, alternate universes, isolation tanks etc. I'm hoping that there's enough utility here to add to many different types of games, even modern ones. The sounds of suburbia honestly haven't changed that much have they?
There are 40 sounds in this SoundPad including 6 tones, the largest number yet. Each of these can be used individually to create a specific atmosphere or can be layered in any combination to create new beds and moods. I love just setting the 'Boom Tone' track over a simple background for instant suspense.
There are also 4 musical tracks that I composed in the style of the show, not necessarily the 80s. I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.
Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
Play the original Weirder Things SoundPad online here.
