Hans zimmer strings kontakt library windows#

Would anyone here happen to have experience with this library, enough to. I was browsing for some string libraries to top my current ESQL Hollywood Strings GoldX, and the Hans Zimmer Strings from Spitfire Audio caught my eye, however its very pricey. This is one I’ll recommend without a moment’s hesitation. Hey, Im a composer looking to expand my sound arsenal a bit. Yes, its sweetspot is cinematic scoring, but those beautiful samples excel in seasoning virtually any music with striking percussive elements, be it subtle or overt. Between the mic positioning and the reverb amount you can finely control the width and size of each sample so while you might have it sounding cavernous for cinematic passages, there’s nothing stopping you from winding it back and throwing a darbuka or surdo on that folk acoustic song you’re working on.Īfter having this library at my disposal for several months, it has found its way onto every track I’ve produced without fail.

The reverb is gigantic and lush - no wimpy room verbs here. There’s a clarity and intentionality in each hit from the softest to the loudest velocity.

Hans zimmer strings kontakt library windows#

CineStrings Core, Kontakt, Windows & Mac, 399. Each is sampled with up to nine round robins. Spitfire Strings Libraries, Kontakt, Windows & Mac, 249 799. There’s plenty of ‘standard’ stuff too, like epic cymbal hits and snare rolls. You’ll find darbukas, tombeks, dhols, boobams, tamtams, surdos and more. These fed into a Neve 88R console then into HDX and Prism converters at 192k. The Percussion Library is essentially a re-release, combining HZ01 and HZ03 inside a redesigned GUI with extra manipulation options.Īll samples (nearly 50GB of them) were recorded through 96 microphones from AIR Studios’ arsenal, with up to 60 used at any given point. Hans has previously teamed up with UK-based sampled instrument developer Spitfire Audio to release Hans Zimmer Piano and HZ02 (Jason Bonham playing his DW Vistalite kits at legendary locations in LA). Given just how big a role percussion plays in the majority of Zimmer’s scores - even assembling his own league of 12 extraordinary drummers for the Man of Steel soundtrack - a percussion-focused pack is a welcome addition. Hans Zimmer Percussion Library is exactly that. If his name is attached to something, you know it’s going to be big, bold and dramatic. With a seemingly bottomless creative wellspring, Zimmer is renown for his emotive and dramatic scores that weave sound to sight with the bombast of a floor-to-ceiling tapestry. See the Spitfire site for audio demos.Hans Zimmer is the godfather of modern Hollywood film scoring.

Hans Zimmer Percussion: London Solos can be purchased directly from Spitfire Audio for an introductory price of £149.00 GBP (subject to VAT within the EU) - rising to £199.00 GBP (subject to VAT within the EU) on November 14, 2014. It includes all articulations and drums recorded with up to nine ’round robins’ and six dynamic layers per hit, for authenticity.Ĭo-creator Paul Thomson say “We’re having a load of fun with this here, and hope that you find it an incredibly useful and valuable addition to your HZ01 libraries - even as a standalone library, or even to cut into rock tracks and stuff with HZ02, since it works very well with that, too.” The end result is a virtual instrument designed to provide inspiration, using no less than 13GB of compressed data and 17,151 samples.

The library was captured using a collection of 96 rare mics, via Neve ‘AIR Montserrat’ preamps through the world’s largest Neve 88R console and into HDX and Prism AD convertors, to emerge as 32-bit floating point/192kHz files (subsequently SRC’d to 24-bit/48kHz).