Hans Zimmer and Synchrotone

Steve-o · Post by **Steve-o** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 9:01 am

... I was asking myself all the time, what Hans Z. is using his CW-platform for, because nearly everything he composes is performed by real orchestras - now I know when listening to a track of his new album "Black hawk down" (No.7) which was named after a great Pulsar-Synth: SYNCHROTONE! Check it out!
http://www.creamware.de/de/Home/news/30_09_02.asp
Greetz, Steve!

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 1:49 pm

Actually all of the orchestral stuff is done by stacks of Gigasampler computers, fitted with custom sample libraries (which were of course played by real orchestras in the first place).
Apparently he also used some of the Zarg synths extensively in movie scores, although I can't remember which one. (it's all in the latest Sound on Sound though).

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Steve-o · Post by **Steve-o** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 6:20 am

I read an interview in KEYS 2/3 yrs. ago where he was talking about a wall of Roland Samplers containing a whole orchestra sampled by himself. But he stated elsewhere that he composes in Cubase (maybe needing the orchestral sounds to imagine the end-result !?!?) but records the final score with real orchestras. That's persistent whith the credits on each soundtrack-album. AFAIK he did 'Rainman' with TX-816 modules. But today: if you listen to his soundtracks - do you think THIS is possible with samplers (even GS or STS

) ??
I think you can hear the difference.

pwhitmaker · Post by **pwhitmaker** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 1:19 am

I have never heard of a Pulsar synth called "Synchrotone" before??
Anyone knows anything about it?

Peter

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Tue Oct 15, 2002 3:55 am

http://www.creamware.de/en/products/sof ... efault.asp
The Zarg synth is Red Dwarf EX.

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 2:50 pm

On 2002-10-15 02:19, pwhitmaker wrote:
I have never heard of a Pulsar synth called "Synchrotone" before??

That's because it's actually called "Synchrotron"

I tried the demo and it's actually quite a cool beast. At first I thought it sounded pretty crap, but after a while fiddling with it I got some really good sounds. The built in distorion, eq and delay are great and you can get some cool phasing sweeps with the combfilter. I think this will be next on my "to buy" list, even though I have zero money to spend. (well it's not very expensive anyway).