St. Erasmus Dancing!

Owlin | 38 | she / her | 10th level bard | champion of Locria and basically everywhere else

[mothwingsbardforhire]

I live b*tches

fucked around with amen breaks nd some weird synths recently. rather happy with the results

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[theforeverbird]

when your wife brings home an incredible bounty from the music store

[theelectricdreamsofddx]

Hey, wanna make music? Yeah? Got a buncha money? No? Well that's perfectly fine, check this free stuff out:

Vital - A powerful wavetable synth, my personal favorite VST synth, very easy to figure out creating new synth sounds, with the help of the plenty of tutorials that are out there for the plug-in. (There are paid versions but they are completely unnecessary to get 99% of the features of the plug-in.)

Synth1 - A classic piece of synthesizer software.

Pendulate - An interesting, chaotic synth that you can make weird little sounds with.

Native Instruments' free plug-ins - Various cool VSTs, including the Komplete Start pack.

The Free Orchestra - A set of orchestral instruments for Kontakt Player (see previous link).

BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover - More orchestral stuff! This one has its own player so you don't have to download a separate VST to use it if you don't want to.

Magical 8bit Plug - A chiptune plug-in, intended for producing sounds like that of 8-bit systems like the NES and Master System.

Genny - A synth VST made to emulate the soundchip of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

MT Power Drum Kit - A nice rock n' roll style drum kit plug-in.

This guy's weird VST collection - 6.4 gigabytes of weird VSTs, including some you might know, like Delay Lama and MeowSynth!

sforzando - A free player for soundfont files.

Musical Artifacts - A resource I mainly use to find soundfonts, on which you can find other various things as well.

Kilohearts Essentials - 30 effect VSTs including reverb, delay, compression, pitch shifting, transient shaping, ring modulation, phase distortion, and more.

Xfer's freeware VSTs - Exactly what it says on the tin, including the one and only OTT compressor.

Illformed - The good ol' dblue Glitch 1.3, Crusher, Stretch, and TapeStop.

Hysteresis and Fracture - Two interesting glitch effects, one being a delay and the other being a buffer.

Codec - A cool digital audio degradation effect.

Le Phonk - A slick distortion plug-in.

MAIM - An effect that mimics the sound of MP3 compression.

Soundly Shape it and Place it - One is simply an equalizer VST, the other is an effect that emulates a speaker (ex: a radio) and a space (ex: a cave).

Fresh Air - An effect that adds high end information to your sounds, to provide brightness.

ValhallaSupermassive - A combo reverb and delay plug-in that sounds quite big.

UnplugRed - A collection of various interesting VSTs, most of which have free versions.

Chowdhury DSP - I can't personally speak for all of these but their tape model effect is great for some lo-fi style effects.

TAL-Chorus-LX - A thick sounding chorus, good for "retro" sounds too.

Polyverse Wider - A great effect for widening sounds up, really simple too with only two controls.

Freesound - A good audio file resource, mainly for foley recordings.

Cymbatics Dubstep Starter Pack - A little sample pack with some good drum and synth samples.

fishmonger drum kit - A pack of samples from the album 'fishmonger' by Underscores!

WangleLine's sample packs - Free samples put out by my awesome mutual WangleLine!

aaand I might as well include this set of drums I made a while back :P

As for DAWs, it's been a long while since I've used anything other than FL Studio (not counting Audacity, which I still occasionally use for specific purposes), which, while being the only one I can directly recommend, is paid. However, I've heard good things about Reaper which has a "free trial" that you can technically use forever, akin to WinRAR. Additionally, I've also heard some good things about Waveform Free.

[theforeverbird]

@mothwingsbardforhire

[mothwingsbardforhire]

Mothwings the bard is officially for hire!!!!

Greetings, adventurers! Do YOU have an adventure that needs immortalizing in the form of beautiful sonic scapes????

Of course you do. I just rolled a 19 for Persuasion. Character themes, boss music, area themes or ambient tunes to set a mood... All of which this bard can do!

I am most experienced in contemporary orchestral music or rock-adjacent styles, though I am always keen to experiment and learn! Let me know what kind of music you want and we can go from there :)

Prices!

*all listed in USD

Looping tracks: $70

A short-form track designed to loop under gameplay, tabletop chatter, or whatever you would like!

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Structured/Extended tracks: $100

A longer piece with an extended form, designed as a comprehensive theme for your characters or locations.

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Both: $140

If you would like a theme made in both a short looping format and a full piece, I would be happy to throw in a lil' discount. But only because we're friends.

These prices are not set in stone! I am more than happy to negotiate. Who ever heard of a bard who didn't haggle?

[theforeverbird]

feeling like jello biafra rn. got a strong desire to drill my tooth

[jazandtheholograms]

Twin fantasy inspired dolls I made. They were Christmas gift for my sister and her gf who are big csh fans :-)

some Wip photos + planning sketch included for fun

[jazandtheholograms]

did you guys know you can just make stuff

I received some doll shoes in the mail today. They were in this cute packaging so I scrambled some of the letters to make a fitting badge for my terrible trash bag made from trash.

I still have the other half of the packaging and I'm trying to come up with anagrams of "Vicki Collection". Cock lion? ahh forget it...

[mothwingsbardforhire]

Heart pounding, blade ready, you break through the door to face it. As long as you don't see under its mask, you think, you can keep your nerve...

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This one might be my favourite work. I had been playing a lot of Silksong around the time I made this, and the intensity of its soundtrack definitely inspired me. This was my attempt at writing a boss theme that felt every bit as frantic as games like Silksong and Bloodborne. The instrumentation of piano, strings, and orchestral percussion gives the theme a sense of elegance, while the aggressive, irregular rhythms make it feel urgent and frightening. The ostinato that plays through most of the song almost has a "djent" sound to it, which I decided to lean into with the addition of a rock drumkit. My players had a lot of fun with this one.

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Soft green light flows through cracks in the ceiling, falling on the broken statue of a forgotten god. The sea has long since claimed this reverent temple...

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I made this piece for the folio, hoping to showcase something a little less orchestral and more "electronic". I was inspired by the general vibe found in many video games' water levels, and used many techniques to make the theme feel "wet". Low pass filters, chorus and reverb give the instruments a watery sound, while the piano arpeggio rolls over itself irregularly like waves. Subtle tempo shifts following key changes give the piece a sense of push and pull, like shifting tides.

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Every year, the town celebrates as hundreds of brightly coloured pearls wash up on its shore. See the sights, sample the drinks, just don't dive too deep...

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This piece was made specifically for my portfolio, with the purpose of showing that I can make happy music, too! I was given the prompt of the festival itself by my girlfriend, a seaside city-wide party with dubious origins and implications... Inspired by music from the Pokemon games, this theme features bright strings, a sugary flute melody, and rhythms that accentuate the excitement of exploring a festive city. Swaying the mood toward uncertainty are out of place chords and a dissonant celesta lead further in.

[mothwingsbardforhire]

The air is thick with mold and miasma, and distant scraping echoes down subterranean stone hallways. You could almost swear you hear breathing, just past your torchlight...

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I made this piece quite a while back for my D&D campaign, as background music for dungeon exploration and slow-burning moments of uncertainty. It's a minute-long loop that uses dissonant chords that I played on guitar and bass, drenched in reverb that imitates distant echoing from stone walls. Distortion and a low-pass filter give the tune a grimy atmosphere, while helping it sit back and play its role as background music.

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Dragged through undeath for untold centuries, the last of the Storm Knights march on to face their final mark...

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I made this piece a few months ago for my D&D campaign, as a theme for a boss fight heavily inspired by the Dark Souls games. This piece was an attempt to recreate the styling and textures found in their soundtracks, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! The battle was between my players' party and the eponymous storm knights, undead warriors who had "lived" without purpose for centuries as their master had lain aslumber, unchallenged. The fight took place in a storm, which I represented with bellowing percussion to mimic the rumblings of thunder and crashing of lightning, and a twinkling descending motif on the piano to imitate rain. The brass section and its orchestration showcase the melancholic nature of the warriors, while the gloomy bells help to drive home both the mood of the piece, and the knights' majesty.