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Those "Hans Zimmer" Movie Drums
I've been looking everywhere on Google for a name to these type of big cinematic drums...
...but I've been unsuccessful so far. I call them the "Hans Zimmer drums" since he spams them a lot in his scores. I guess they could be "war drums"? I know the drums aren't timpanis, nor are they higher drums like congas, bongos, timbales, etc. Can anyone please help me finally demystify what the "Hans Zimmer" drums are? Thanks.
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There's dozens of sample packs these days with "cinematic drums", should be pretty easy to find something similar if that's what you're after.
http://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hz01-london-ensembles/
http://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hz02-los-angeles/
https://www.spitfireaudio.com/shop/a-z/hz03-london-soloists/
That's literally all the Hans Zimmer Drums from the man himself.
@Tarekith I guess it's easy enough to find the loops/samples. However, the idea is to find the name of what the drums are. Lol.
@gonekrazy3000 Got a spare $1000 for me mate?
(Yeah, those are pretty expensive sounds, lol.)
I think they are some big taiko drums
Here's an interesting behind the scenes video:
You asked and I provided
The samples are massive in size too. Its like almost 200 gigabytes for all 3.
Yeah, a lot of it is just heavily processed synthesized drums too. Hans is a huge user of u-he's Zebra, I've seen some some videos where he makes those big impacts that way as well.
I think it is a combination "grand cassa" and "taiko" drums.
you don't have to spend a grand for that, thanks to ios...check out Cinematic Percussion for Taiko drums and Orchestral percussion for grand cassa as IAP in sampletank.
Both are $20. But if you want it free there is a soundfont collection available that has these percussion.
Check out StormDrum from EastWest. Cool thing is you can subscribe to their cloud service for a month at a very reasonable price and get access to a bunch of great libraries and sample the heck out of them before the month runs out. Plenty of time to record awesome high quality cinematic drums. I did this once. Damn Good Deal!!
@AudioGus, Is it legal to use the sampled sounds from the cloud while you were a member, later after you cancel the membership?
Storm drum is awesome.
Taikos are maybe the most (over)used for big drums.
But i also like things like Heavyocity Damage (expensive too) which uses car crashes and whatever for drums
Mostly all these really heavy drums are layered.
Indeed, video games are the land of overused (insert anything in a video game here).
I am pretty sure it must be legal. If you made an album using content while subscribed to the cloud I can't see you being obliged to stay subscribed to the cloud the whole time you receive revenue from the album.
They have some terms regarding not being allowed to resell the sounds in isolation etc. (ie. make a song that sounds more like a row of samples etc.)
Thanks for clarifying this.
That EastWest subscription service looks pretty good actually, and normally I'm not a proponent of subscription services. In this case, however, it's accessing ALL their instruments worth thousands and thousands of dollars $29.95/month! Pays in dividends if you stop to think about it.
EastWest even have an optional external hard drive with everything installed for an extra $129.95, and the iLok doesn't require a shitty dongle, just an iLok account. Not bad!
Anyhow, in the meantime, while I save money to invest in that, I checked their drums list for Symphonic Orchestra, and sure enough! Taiko is on there, and having seen a live Taiko drumming performance in the past during my college days, I'd say that's the drum I've been looking for! I never would've paired that drum with driving film scores in my mind otherwise, lol.
Thanks for all the insights mates.
That's what Hans is famous for - he really likes (and encourages others) to experiment with different sounds
Could someone recommend a sampler in ios that can sample from East West cloud with least effort?
I would like to ideally map/copy all of the sounds available across the keys for an instrument/patch to the sampler.
can this be done in a single "button click" or we have to play the sound for each key, route audio to sampler and assign it to the corresponding key in sampler?