“90% of what I do is done on one software synth”: Hans Zimmer on the synth plugin that he’s been working with for years - and still hasn’t run out of ideas.
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U-He Zebra 2 ZebraHZ special Hans Zimmer version.
there. saved you a click.
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Zebra Hz is amazing , and you have to be living under a rock if you didn’t know about the zimmer-Zebrahz connection , it’s almost 13 year old 
Zebra 3 will be even more amazng ( been alph testing it for months , and it’s now in beta , can’t say more )
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thanks. i didn’t know about zebrahz.
i updated my zebra2 to the newest version of v2, and installed ZebraHZ, and started using ZebraHZ and installed the presets. opt-Z will open ZebraHZ from now on.
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Have you also seen the Synapse The Legend HZ? It’s a beast!
I’m not a fan perse , but I certainly liked the score for interstellar
I’d say richard Devine is the Jordan Rudess of elec.music
For anyone interested in the red midi controllers , they are Choi sauce designs …( really topnotch stuff it seems )
It wouldn’t surprise me that the Joystick ones are tailor made for use with Zebra-dark Knight score ( since the designer of Choi Sauce is-was his former technician )
I reallywant those Joystick ones to pair up with my kenton control freak live
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Here’s an example why:
Besides of that he was born in the same city as me and he also grew up next door to my home, so there are quite a few matches. I like his compositions, he always manages to transport emotions and to hit the right spot. 
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Frakfurt is not so far from my home village near Heidelberg.
Let’s meet for a Bembel.
The Dark Zebra soundbank contains all the presets he made and used for the Dark Knight soundtrack.
I know , And I haven’t played a single one of them 
, rather roll my own stuff
Correction , the presets where made by Howard Scarr ( u-he in house sound designer , and did lot’s of stuff for acces , N.I. et c… )
Zimmer’s time is literally too precious , you really don’t think he’s making presets do you?
None of those top composers do , they have a whole team behind them
plus he’s got a audio software company UJAM
Nowhere is written that movie scores have to be orchestral. There’re a lot top movies that have scores made only with synths.
People have different tastes. If it’s not your taste, no one forces you to listen to him. I bet there’re also enough people who don’t like Vangelis.
I imagine that MusicRadar summarizing Rick Beato interviews with Hans Zimmer is the kind of thing I’ll be reading for all eternity if I don’t make it to heaven.
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He ain’t no high priest or anything , just a dude who happened to have a succesfull career ,with a genuine love for music tech from the early days on .
It’s not that he has to endorse anything , I think he just wants to spread the word about certain products he seems worthy of attention .
It has always been like that , engineers recommend stuff to other engineers etc… ( out of the public eye ) … the internet just made this easier and more revealing for (us) outsiders
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Pretty sure that the orchestral scores are anything but fake .
We’re talking multimillion dollar movies here , they rent orchestra’s when the time is fit .
The orchestral sampling libraries are just used for draftwork .
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It may seam he doesn’t deserve his position but thats life, some are luckier than others or have more talent or work harder, he was once the same ordinary guy in the late 70s without money, poor rented apartment and big love to synths, doing session work and programming synthesisers for Buggles and now he has an impressive catalogue of releases and there are about 150 films, it’s a really hard work even if you don’t like his music.
I don’t like all his music myself but what like about him that he very often collaborates with less famous composers providing them more recognition, invites unexpected people and specialists to his projects giving them a job opportunity, he not only engraves scores on paper in the composer’s tower, but as synth and techhead does some ground work himself and likes experimental audio scenarios in composing environments and audio design
Here is some nice reading from the 80s how his career started to understand the extent of his involvement, he was also a tracker of his time composing on Roland Microcomposers (MC-4 MC-8) which were an early form of trackers:
his band Helden
Love these presets, really good work.
@cupcake i get you. I often randomly say jokingly “I hate Hans Zimmer” all the time. I don’t hate him, but what he stands for and that people are worshipping him as a genius, when in reality there are a lot of people in the background doing the real work. He’s kind of a britney spears of film music. A brand, a label. Well anyway i don’t want the get in a rage. After all some of music is quite good written. It’s probably also that everyone is using the pirates of the carrabean theme and Time for everything EVER 
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Interesting podcast (not just for this episode):