Hans Zimmer Cinematic Percussion Library For Kontakt

Spitfire Audio has announce availability of Hans Zimmer Percussion: London Solos — the third virtual instrument installment of Hans Zimmer’s cinematic percussion production for Native Instruments’ Kontakt Player. According to Spitfire, London Solos is an authentic recreation of the percussion techniques Zimmer has used on his soundtracks Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Inception, and The Dark Knight. The library features percussionist Frank Ricotti… Read More Hans Zimmer Cinematic Percussion Library For Kontakt

Inside Hans Zimmer’s Studio

  Music technologist and author Peter Gorges shared these photos of the absolutely amazing studio of Hans Zimmer. Not only is the studio a cathedral for music, but, if you look closely, you’ll see that one wall is a giant modular synthesizer. 

This Could Be The World’s Coolest Electronic Music Studio

Saturday Synth Porn: Photoblogger Trey Ratcliff posted a gorgeous collection of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos earlier this year of the amazing studio of Hans Zimmer, along with the story of his experience meeting the composer. While Ratcliff doesn’t offer any insight into the amazing synths and instruments in the studio, he does offer his… Read More This Could Be The World’s Coolest Electronic Music Studio

The Dark Knight Rises Soundtrack & Sound Design

The latest episode of the SoundWorks Collection takes a look at the process of creating the soundtrack and the sound design of The Dark Knight Rises. The video features the sound and music team for The Dark Knight Rises, including composer Hans Zimmer and Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Richard King.

u-he Dark Zebra Features Hans Zimmer Patches For The Dark Knight Rises

Urs Heckman of u-he software has posted a bit more information about Dark Zebra – a custom version of the Zebra software synth that features Hans Zimmer’s patches from The Dark Knight Rises soundtrack: This modified version of Zebra, dubbed “ZebraHZ” will ship exclusively with The Dark Zebra soundset that we’ll be releasing shortly after the… Read More u-he Dark Zebra Features Hans Zimmer Patches For The Dark Knight Rises

Patchwerk Lets You Control The World’s Largest Modular Synthesizer

Patchwerk is a new web browser-based application that lets you control a massive modular synthesizer, housed at MIT, and hear the results: Patchwerk lets you control a massive analog synthesizer from your browser, and streams the results back to you and everyone connected. The interface on this site is linked to a physical synth cabinet… Read More Patchwerk Lets You Control The World’s Largest Modular Synthesizer