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Carriage Journey: Alternate Track

Just in case some of you would prefer Carriage Journey as pure ambience (no music) I've included a version without music here. 

best,

Tim

New Ambience: Carriage Journey

Greetings Patrons,

It's so tempting in our games and stories to focus on set pieces; the action sequences, the iconic locations. While these are important, we sometimes forget that the transitional periods are equally valuable. How did the characte...

New Ambience: Halfling Festival

Greetings Patrons,

I needed to spend some time working on something joyous this week. Winter in NYC seems to get longer and longer, and with an impending snowstorm (in mid-march!) I had to find sunshine somewhere.

So I thought, what could be ...

New Ambience: Open Ocean

Greetings Patrons,

I've been deep in code world this week, trying to wrangle some new features. This is always slow going for me, so I needed to clear my head and balance things out with some audio work. Open Ocean was just what I needed. ...

New Ambience: The Bog Standard

I get requests for 'more taverns' a lot, but this one had a specific requirement: no music. I thought that was a pretty good idea. After all, many of you want to add your own music on top, or just don't want the distraction, or - maybe your ...

Jungle Planet Sounds added to Custom SoundPad

Greetings Patrons,

Just a quick note to say that the 32 sounds from the latest SoundPad, Jungle Planet, have now been added to the Custom SoundPad tool and are ready for mixing.

Thanks as always for your support.

Best,

Ti...

New SoundPad: Jungle Planet

Greetings Patrons,

I've been quiet for the last couple of weeks, I know. But I've been working  on this.

I got a request a few weeks ago for a waterfall sound. Just the sound, not a full ambience. And, while I've been known to drop in so...

New SoundPad Preview: Monster Pack

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...

New Ambience: Russian Winter

Greetings Patrons,

I had a request from a Twitter follower a few weeks ago for something Slavic,  or as they said, "you know, something with balalaikas". They al...

Update: Custom SoundPad

Greetings Dear Patrons,

Just a quick note to let you know that the Custom SoundPad tool has now been updated with all the sounds from the recently released 'Deep Six' SoundPad. There are now over 400 sounds available for mixing.

Additionally,...

New SoundPad Deep Six is Live

Made a few tweaks over the last couple of days and finally decided that it was ready for the public at large, so feel free to share now!

Also, the music cross-fade feature is now available on all the individual SoundPads

best,

Tim

New SoundPad

Greetings and Happy New Year!

It's been so cold here in New York City I found myself retreating into my studio more than I usually do over the holidays. So much so, that I've managed to get a brand new SoundPad done in time for the New Year.

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2017 End of Year Retrospective

2017 is coming to a close which means I’ve been working on Tabletop Audio for 4 years. I’ve done a few of these year end retrospectives now. I find they help me put things in perspective and motivate me to create new and better things in the new ...

Tech Update: New Track Looping Mode

Greetings Patrons,

I hope the holiday season has been good to you.

Thanks to a request from a supporter here on Patreon, I've added a new feature to the ambience player on the homepage. You can now loop individual tracks within a playlist. 2017-12-27 15:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post

New Musical Track: Weirder Things 2

Greetings Patrons,

Guess which 2nd season of a show I recently finished watching?

As you know, I was a big fan of the first season of Stranger Things and composed the track "Weirder Things" as an homage to the vibe of the period and ...

"No new fees" - Patreon.

Dear Patrons,

If you haven't read my post from a few days ago on the new proposed fees being levied by Patreon on you, the supporters, then maybe it's for the best. Patreon has issued a mea culpa in the form of a 2017-12-14 00:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Custom SoundPad: fade in/out music tracks

Greetings Patrons,

Before I get into the tech update I'd like to take a moment to thank those of you who have commented or emailed me about my Patreon fees post. It was truly heartwarming to hear from so many of you and I want to thank you all from...

Patreon's New Fees:

Update Dec. 13 2017: Patreon has issued an apology and the proposed fee structure will NOT be taking place. There are no new fees associated with being a supporter on Patreon. 2017-12-08 15:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Tech Update: Custom SoundPad

Greetings Patrons,

 2 new features have been added to the Custom SoundPad.

First, music tracks no longer play over each other. They correctly cancel/replace each other the same way they do in the individual SoundPads.

When playing ...

New Ambience: Waiting Time

Not every story is all action, drama, or suspense. Sometimes you need a little lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek downtime. Maybe you need to think, or do research, or create a montage of events. For this we need a musical track that implies time - or mor...

Car Chase: Alternate Tracks

As promised, here are the 2 alternate tracks from Car Chase.

One is the music only track (10 sec of silence at the beginning as it is taken from the master track) and one is the ambience only track for those of you who just want the...

New Ambience: Car Chase!

There must have been some kind of weird synergy happening in the rpg/game world last month. I received 4 separate requests for car chase ambiences. As I didn't really have one of these specifically, I thought I'd give it a try.

This was a tough one...

New Ambience: Endless Voyage

Greetings Patrons,

I was feeling a little earthbound last week. Not in a good way. What I needed was some floaty feeling, synthwavy style ambient music to take me far, far away. 

As often happens, I started messing around designing sound...

Happy (early) Halloween!

I started Tabletop Audio in early 2014. By the time October of that year came around, I knew I wanted to make a special Halloween ambience. When the following October arrived, I did it again, thus making it an official annual occurrence. 

It's...

Two-fer Tuesday: Final Spire RPG tracks

Greetings Patrons,

I've decided to release both of the final Spire: RPG tracks today. The main reason for this is - Halloween. As in, it's coming, and I have to finish polishing my annual made-for-Halloween track and release it in time for the actu...

New Ambience - Spire: The Ministry

Another in the Spire RPG series. This track is called “The Ministry”. In the game world, it’s a sanctuary of sorts for the player characters.  As always for these tracks, I like to include the design notes from the games’ creators: 2017-10-18 16:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post

New Ambience: Spire: Derelictus

Greetings Patrons,

This is the 4th installment of the Spire: RPG tracks that I've been working on. It's called Derelictus and, as it's name implies, it's a gritty, seedy place, full of darkness. From Grant Howitt's design brief:

New Ambience - Spire: New Heaven

 Here's the third installment of audio from Grant Howitt's upcoming RPG, "The Spire". For the previous tracks, I'd been working off Adrian Stone's  amazing Spire artwork a...

New Ambience: Spire RPG 'Amaranth'

I'm having such a great time working on these tracks for Grant Howitt's upcoming RPG, The Spire. 

Each location is a fascinating exploration in sound. This one features the domain of the cruel and haughty high elves, or aelfir as they...

Shirts

Ever since I updated the site logo I started getting t-shirt requests, not many, maybe one or two a week. But it started me thinking. I realized that I wanted a t-shirt. Maybe I'd wear it out and about, and maybe..someone would ask me about it! So I ...