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HZ's Library

I wonder what would happen to the sample library market if he ever decided to commercially release them...?

Here's what would happen...

1) Hans announces library. Hysterical Fanboys respond with "credit card in hand drooling"
2) 100 exabytes of debate on how it will revolutionize the world of composing
2) Samples released - servers crash
3) VI lights up - "OMG BEST EVER"
4) One week goes by
5) New posts "So what's out there that's better than Hans Zimmer's library?"

Trust me...
 
Here's what would happen...

1) Hans announces library. Hysterical Fanboys respond with "credit card in hand drooling"
2) 100 exabytes of debate on how it will revolutionize the world of composing
2) Samples released - servers crash
3) VI lights up - "OMG BEST EVER"
4) One week goes by
5) New posts "So what's out there that's better than Hans Zimmer's library?"

Trust me...


LOL I think you are probably correct. :grin:
 
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Ok cool man! Thanks! Very interesting!

I'm guessing HZ just records people playing. Music is music!

"Just" haha
 
Last year I took part in a sampling session that was roughly 70-80 dynamic layers per instrument. It's totally a thing, but also totally a giant pain in the ass!
 
Would be curious to know who organizes such sampling sessions! (Would not be surprised if it were someone like Junkie XL.)
 
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Last year I took part in a sampling session that was roughly 70-80 dynamic layers per instrument. It's totally a thing, but also totally a giant pain in the ass!

Of course it’s a thing. Thanks. Why somebody can’t understand recording a professional musician at a specific dynamic isn’t possible speaks volumes.
 
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I wonder how the instructions are given to the musicians in such detailed sampling sessions. I mean, do they just tell them : "play two ranks above mf but eight below f?" How do they synchronize their understanding of the dynamics the sampling team expect them to play?
 
I wonder how the instructions are given to the musicians in such detailed sampling sessions. I mean, do they just tell them : "play two ranks above mf but eight below f?" How do they synchronize their understanding of the dynamics the sampling team expect them to play?
Play louder, play louder PLAY LOUDER!!
 
I wonder how the instructions are given to the musicians in such detailed sampling sessions. I mean, do they just tell them : "play two ranks above mf but eight below f?" How do they synchronize their understanding of the dynamics the sampling team expect them to play?

I mean...it's not perfect. A whole lot of this happens in post, at least in my (admittedly limited) sampling experience.
 
Yeah that's another interesting idea. Suppose you just ask someone to play a bunch of spiccatos "around mp to mf." They can record dozens per note, without worrying about the exact dynamic. Then, someone working in post can cut all the samples, and then rank them according to dynamic and group them into round-robin sets on dynamic layers 33, 34, 35... This way the player doesn't have to be constantly pinpointing a particular dynamic layer "between 37 and 39." As long as they record enough material, all the ranking can be done in post.
 
Yeah that's another interesting idea. Suppose you just ask someone to play a bunch of spiccatos "around mp to mf." They can record dozens per note, without worrying about the exact dynamic. Then, someone working in post can cut all the samples, and then rank them according to dynamic and group them into round-robin sets on dynamic layers 33, 34, 35... This way the player doesn't have to be constantly pinpointing a particular dynamic layer "between 37 and 39." As long as they record enough material, all the ranking can be done in post.

That's what I was thinking would happen too. I think it would be much easier than trying to record at such precise levels.
 
I could be mistaken, but didn't Hans' have his older library available via Spitfire many years ago? I think there were even a few demos such as Colin O'Malley's 'Raise the Atocha'.

If I recall, it was astronomically expensive like £50,000 or something...
 
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