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:
@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 .
Real orchestral sound my friend, not fake at all. The scores match the movies perfectly, that’s why he is successful. “The Last Samurai” OST is one of the best that was ever made, and the movie is fantastic. I enjoy movies and its scores like The Last Samurai, Gladiator, Interstellar or True Romance, not bland at all. More great movies that have OSTs made by Hans Zimmer: Black Hawk Down, The Dark Knight, Blade Runner 2049, Dune etc.
It’s always the same, isn’t it? Why is Taylor Swift successful? Why do charts all around the world contain 99% crappy shit? Why is any influencer successful by doing nothing special at all? Why is Bill Gates, the one who stole all the ideas from Steve Jobs, rich? There’s an army of people who could do way better in every aspect! Are you also baffled because of all that? Hans Zimmer is undoubtetly a REALLY talented composer. He deserves to be successful, and it’s not his fault that other people are not. The world is full of unknown talented people. But not everybody can be on top, right? That’s not how the world works. Not fair, but that’s reality.
It’s Frankfurt, no frak involved. Of course we could meet if you’re willing to drive a little, but I don’t drink alcohol. YOU could drink for me, no problem at all.
Zebra2HZ also is one of my favorite synths and my most used synth actually. However, what’s good to know about Zebra 2 / 2HZ: Some of the OSC fxs are sample rate dependent (not a good thing). So it’s wise to remember the samplerate of the project in which you use Zebra2 / 2HZ and not changing it later on. I guess that Urs meant those dependent fxs to be played at 44,1kHz, seems to sound most balanced to me in that case. 48kHz still works nicely, too. I bet that @gentleclockdivider exactly knows the fxs which are affected.
The osc fx in zeb-2 are updated at 800Hz , which i most cases was enough , but most people forgot to set the resolution tos max
In zebra 3 this will be 2Khz ( with the option of 200-800Hz ) and three different modes ( precise , fast , rough)
Zebra Hz has also been my workhorse synth for years , together with Tranzistow and reaktor .
I can do literally everything with those.
I do have a few other plugins but those are purely for character an becasue they sound marvelous ( ops-7 , Gforce sem , oddity etc… )
No, I mean for example the bandworks OSC fx will sound completely different on 44,1 vs 96 kHz. It’s not sample rate independent, since it was one of Urs’ very early 2000s fx added (Zebra 1 I guess). I thought you also wrote about that at KVR, maybe mixing up…
The true heavyweight soundtrack best of best all time champ is John Williams tbh.
Jawss ( that horror E.F.E.F ,wtf… legendary, only Hitchcocks Psycho was at the same league),
Jurrasic Park ( check out this killer ssoundtrack omgoodnesss),
Star Wars and many many more
I like the fact that Hans Zimmer also follows the rule “If it sounds good, it sounds good”.
Glad he pointed that out. Today’s plugins are great, no need of hardware.
Check this 10 € keyboard (2010) which is working perfectly for 15 years now.
My daughter was at school and the teacher played movie music in the classroom. He said, 'This is from Starwars", and all the kids aggreed, except my daughter, she said, “No, this is Indiana Jones, it’s from the same composer, but it’s not Star Wars!”. The whole class room ridculed her for this, but that didn’t change her mind. Then the teacher looked it up on internet, and she was right.
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