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Hello everyone!

I have only recently joined this website in the search for Music Tracks to use in a Chronicles of Darkness game. While there is a myriad of different sounds on the website, it is hard to find ones that fit well for the games I am running. I tend to run into issues, especially if it comes to sounds that can be looped as a lot of the tracks that are great tend to have a cut-off or a slow start, making them basically unloopable without that "Dip" in between loops.

As such, I was wondering if people would be interested in working together to create tracks that can be used specifically for such games, being samples that don't have to be long but can be repeated for several minutes in combination with other effects to create specific atmospheres in online TTRPGs.

I am more than willing to commission people for such a thing, albeit my budget in the coming 6 weeks is limited, and I want these tracks to remain for public use so that other Players can use them freely. I was wondering if any artists would be interested in such a project.

Hi, Freesound isn't ideal for music, see I created a song, where can I upload it? and "Freesound is for sounds only. Self-created music fragments/samples/loops are also ok, but not complete songs or compositions." as stated in the upload form . Hopefully the FAQ will be more clear on that soon. Maybe the loop criteria matches what you're looking for though.

You might find solutions and packs for your needs by searching in TTRPG focused communities. Some interesting stuff showed up via googling "ttrpg music console site:www.reddit.com".

Music for games/RPGs that hopefully will be suitable for TTRPG can be found on OpenGameArt and itch.io. Maybe there's something on YouTube? As is true with all music everywhere, it will take time to pick out what you like.

Should you particularly be interested in the Creative Commons aspect of music, that scene has been shutting down or moving away from free culture. Soundcloud, Jamendo and ccMixter don't care about license search, Free Music Archive is the one with a filter for that. WikiMedia has a recently updated list ( Free media resources/Music ).

I have a pack of horror themed atmospheres that may be useful - all edited so that they are seamlessly loopable without clicks or pops:
https://freesound.org/people/UlrichWehner/packs/40784/

Forgive this shameless plug, but it can be useful in this context; it's a reasonably simple way to make any sound seamlessly loopable with Audacity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwC05zMaFw

HTH,
copyc4t

Jûunamelie wrote:
I tend to run into issues, especially if it comes to sounds that can be looped as a lot of the tracks that are great tend to have a cut-off or a slow start, making them basically unloopable without that "Dip" in between loops.

It can be easy to create loopable from non-loop, but only if the sound is complex and not so periodic as to create interference in the same tone present in each end where you overlap/splice. You just pick an overlap/transition period (maybe 3 seconds or so), and you'll edit that much of each end. For one end, you'll be removing that portion, so you'll probably want to pick a zero crossing for the inner edge defining that section. It needs to be faded out toward the end, so if it as the end, that's a fade out, if its at the beginning, that's a fade in. You then cut off that section, and will paste/blend/mix it into the same duration section at the other end, but first you have to fade that one in the opposite direction (to nothing at the edge), so it's a fade out if at the end or a fade in if at the beginning. So you fade what is there first, then blend/paste/mix the pre-faded piece from the other end into/onto it. Simple.