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New SoundPad Preview: Monster Pack
🕑 Added 2018-01-26 19:16:36 +0000 UTC Greetings patrons,I've had this idea kicking around for awhile. An all monster SoundPad.
It's a bit of a departure. SoundPads were originally conceived as environment simulators. Cohesive sets of background sounds, tones and music that described a place, with a few foreground events thrown in to describe time-specific actions. The Combat SoundPad first broke this mold by not describing a place, but by describing the background and foreground of a larger, action based tableau.
With Monster Pack, I'm taking SoundPad even further from it's roots. Sort of. Monster Pack is really more of a utility add-on. A way to add more elements to existing scenes. I suspect that most of you will access these sounds via the Custom SoundPad, where you'll drop them into already existing places: Dungeons, forests, star ships etc. I actually thought briefly about only adding them to the Custom SoundPad, but clearly I changed my mind.
I tried to think of only the most iconic and useful adversaries for this set. You won't find anything too specific here. The idea was, that you could probably use the small, medium and large beast sounds for a ton of monsters. The beholder is in there because, well, beholders.
Each of the 18 monsters has an idle sound and a multi-part attack sound. Category sorting is limited to all, idle or attack.
I'm fairly sure that I'll expand this occasionally with new monster sounds. I know that lots of you will have requests so please remember that I want to keep this as widely useful as possible and for a wide variety of games, not just D&D - even though my header graphic kind of belies this.
I'm still doing some last minute tweaks so this is in preview mode and it's accessible by direct link only - i.e. it's not linked from any of the menus on the site yet. Please don't share it until I say it's ready - should be a few days. I wanted to get this out to you for the weekend. Apparently some of you game then?
https;//tabletopaudio.com/monsters_sp.html
These sounds have already been added to Custom SoundPad, no waiting for that one!
https://tabletopaudio.com/custom_sp.html
I hope you enjoy this latest addition and thank you as always for your support.
best,
Tim
p.s. The lovely beholder image in the header is by Patrick Jones who very kindly let me use it.
Comments
Tabletop Audio
Cool idea, I'd have to think about how that might work and if it's possible for me to do it!
Antti Lusila
This is magnificent! :D really great sounds, again! Attacking dragon is really impressive, something I've been really hoping for! Btw have you thought of the idea about making multi-sounds repeatable by repeating them in random order after random delay (perhaps altering pitch slightly if your audio kit allows it)? If it's not a big task, it would give a great number of new ambients (eg. making possible a goblin battle as ambient). And speaking of adding a great amount of additional stuff to the custom pad, integrating main ambient player to the it would really explode the amount of options... just tossing around some thoughts :) I like playing with soundpads so much I realize I'm ignoring the long ambients way too much even if there's so much really excellent stuff.
