London ensembles and solos
Hans Zimmer Percussion combines the output from two extraordinary recording blocks. Material from the “London Ensembles” block features four of Hans’ go-to percussionists - Frank Ricotti, Gary Kettel, Stephen Henderson, Paul Clarvis - performing a variety of instruments and styles, in what is essentially a distillation of over a decade's worth of musical experimentation and innovation.
This includes his classic selection of drum ensembles and key solo instruments:
Low Booms, Low Boom Gallery, Taiko Ensemble, Tamtam Ensemble, Boobams Ensemble, Hi Taiko Solo, Low Taiko Solo, Large Taiko Solo, Bass Drum Gallery, Gong Drum Gallery Solo, Surdu Ensemble, Dohl Ensemble, Tombek Ensemble
Bombo Ensemble, Buckets & Snares Ensemble, Buckets & Crushers Ensemble, Bucket Top & Darbuka, Paper Djun, Piatti, Anvils, Timpani Ensemble. Instruments played by Paul Clarvis include: Bucket, Snare, Crusher, Paper Djun, Tombek, Dohl, Darbuka, Surdu.
The remainder of the library features long term Hans collaborator and percussion legend, Paul Clarvis (Spectre, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter, Star Wars) who plays a beautiful selection of solo instruments that offer added bite, detail, focus, clarity and nuance to this epic series. Hans loves the quiet layers more than any other so as well as the bitey thunder you'd expect, there are lower layers that offer up the potential for engaging delicate drum programming to help tick your cues along.
The blockbuster sound
As per many of Hans’ scores, this library is recorded in Lyndhurst Hall at AIR Studios, London, via an impressive signal chain: 96 rarefied microphones into Neve Montserrat preamps, into the world's biggest Neve 88R desk (which was exhaustively re-gained at every dynamic layer for optimum signal quality), via a dual chain to HDX and Prism converters running at 192k. We have recorded the drums and articulations each with up to 9 round robins and 6 dynamic layers per hit; there’s well over 30 TB of raw material from these sessions alone.
The Professional edition
This library includes mixes by the following A-List composers, producers and engineers:
Hans Zimmer* -Dunkirk, The Lion King, Interstellar, Inception, Dark Knight
Junkie XL - Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool, Batman v Superman
Geoff Foster - Bjork, Life Of Pi, Dunkirk, Nocturnal Animals, Gone Girl
Alan Meyerson - Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Interstellar
Steve Lipson - Paul McCartney, Jeff Beck, Annie Lennox, Pharrell Williams - (5 Grammy wins and multiple nominations)
Across all instruments
*Hans Zimmer: Artist Elements: Close Perspective, Room Perspective, Surround (Far) Perspective
Alan Meyerson: Artist Elements: Close Perspective, Room Perspective, Surround (Far) Perspective
Geoff Foster: Artist Elements: Close Mics, Tree Mics, Outrigger (Wide) Mics, Surround (Far) Mics; Additional Mics: Bottle Mics, Mid Mics, Gallery Mics, Overheads Cardioid, Mid PZM, Ambient Pair
We are also excited to announce that the library is now NKS ready, with multi-outputs added to the mixer, a technique editor for customizing presets, various optimisations to RAM and CPU usage, and finally, improvements to the legato patches. For information on how to update, read our FAQs here.
Across the ensemble content only
Stereo mixes by Hans Zimmer, Alan Meyerson, Geoff Foster, Junkie XL and Steve Lipson
Junkie XL: Artist Elements: Close Perspective, Room Perspective, Surround (Far) Perspective
*These mixes are included in the standard edition of Hans Zimmer Percussion
Kickstart engine
This interface is built especially for our percussive libraries to make it easy to map sounds to any connected MIDI interface. It also includes the microphone mixer and available feature controllers.
Kickstart 2
An additional kickstart interface for the timpani allowing you to play the full range of these instruments in a separate patch.
What's Included
Taiko ensemble
- Ensemble - Hit
- Ensemble - Roll
- High - Hit
- High - Roll
- High - Puilli Hit
- High - Rim Hit
- Low - Hit
- Low - Roll
- Low - Rim Hit
- Low - Puilli Hit
- Large - Hit
- Large - Roll
- Large - Rim Hit
- Large - Puilli Hit
Paper djun
- Ensemble - Hit
- Ensemble - Roll
- Solo - Hit **
- Solo - Hit (alt) **
- Solo - Roll **
Bombo ensemble
- Hard Hit
- Hard Roll
- Soft Hit
- Soft Roll
- Hand Hit
- Hand Roll
- Finger Roll
- Flam
Surdo ensemble
- Ensemble - Hit
- Ensemble - Roll
- Solo - Hit **
- Solo - Roll **
Low boom
- Hard Hit
- Hard Roll
- Soft Hit
- Soft Roll
- Rim Hit
- Rim Roll
- Puilli Hit
- Puilli Roll
Low boom gallery
- Hard Hit
- Hard Roll
- Soft Hit
- Soft Roll
- Rim Hit
- Puilli Hit
Bass drum gallery
- Hard Hit
- Hard Roll
- Soft Hit
- Soft Roll
- Rim Hit
- Puilli Hit
Gong drum
- Hard Hit
- Hard Roll
- Soft Hit
- Soft Roll
- Rim Hit
- Puilli Hit
- Alt Hit
Dhol ensemble
- Ensemble - Stick Hit
- Ensemble - Hand Hit
- Solo - Hand Hit **
- Solo - Hand Top **
- Solo - Hand Bottom **
- Solo - Stick Hit **
- Solo - Stick Top **
- Solo - Stick Bottom **
Darbuka
- Hit **
- Fist **
- Slap **
- Tap **
Snare
- Hit **
- Flam **
- Roll **
Tombek ensemble
- Ensemble - Hit
- Ensemble - Slap
- Ensemble - Tap
- Solo - Hit **
- Solo - Slap **
- Solo - Tap **
Boobam
- Random Hit
- Random Rod
- Beater Hit - F3
- Beater Hit - G3
- Beater Hit - A3
- Beater Hit - B3
- Beater Hit - C4
- Rod Hit - F3
- Rod Hit - G3
- Rod Hit - A3
- Rod Hit - B3
- Rod Hit - C4
- Hand Hit - F3
- Hand Hit - G3
- Hand Hit - A3
- Hand Hit - B3
- Hand Hit - C4
- Hand Hit - D4
- Hand Hit - E4
- Hand Hit - F4
Buckets
- Solo - Hit **
- Solo - Flam **
- Solo - Roll **
- + Snares Ens - Hit
- + Snares Ens - Flams
- + Snares Ens - Roll
- + Crushers Ens - Hit
- + Crushers Ens - Roll
- + Darbuca Ens - Hit
- + Darbuca Solo - Hit **
- + Darbuca Solo - Hit (alt) **
Tamtam
- Hit
- Scrape
- Scrape (long)
- Scrape (Choke)
- Scrape (Spatial)
- Roll
- Roll (Spatial)
- Roll (Inverse)
Metal
- Piattis - Hit
- Piattis - Choked Hit
- Anvils - Hit
- Crusher - Hit **
- Crusher - Roll **
Timpani
- Hard Stick Hit
- Soft Stick Hit
- Rod Stick Hit
- Hard Stick Roll
- Soft Stick Roll
- Rod Stick Roll
** Not present for Junkie XL, Steve Lipson or stereo mixes
Mics & mixes
Across all instruments
Hans Zimmer artist elements
- HZ Close Perspective
- HZ Room Perspective
- HZ Surround (Far) Perspective
Alan Meyerson artist elements
- AM Close Perspective
- AM Room Perspective
- AM Surround (Far) Perspective
Geoff foster artist elements
- GF Close Mics
- GF Tree Mics
- GF Outrigger (Wide) Mics
- GF Surround (Far) Mics
Additional mics
- Bottle Mics Stereo
- Mid Mics
- Gallery Mics
- Overheads Cardioid
- Mid PZM
- Ambient Pair
Across the ensemble content only (HZ01)
Stereo mixes
- HZ Stereo Mix
- AM Stereo Mix
- GF Stereo Mix
- JXL Stereo Mix
- SL Stereo Mix
Junkie XL artist elements
- JXL Close Perspective
- JXL Room Perspective
- JXL Surround (Far) Perspective
