Mysterious Harry Gregson-Williams!!!

[Nash]

Hello to all,

Harry Gregson-Williams?
I have spent almost two years to find out about “What symphonic orchestral library he uses”?????

! All I know is that Harry Gregson-Williams is into Cubase SX . No library or VST mentioned at all?

Your answers will be highly appreciated.


Regards:cool:

[chocothrax]

2 years? :) Why does it matter what he uses. These big name composers have all the libraries pretty much.

[JamesIII]

If I'm not mistaken, I thought that he and Zimmer use their own sample library. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Bod]

I adore Harry Gregson-Williams... although I have no idea what libraries he uses; he probably has heaps.

[tgfoo]

I love Gregson-Williams. From what I've read, he seems to have a collection of all of the major commercial libraries along with a large set of custom stuff.

[chocothrax]

There's one lib that I think all these MV guys have is Art Vista's Malmsjo. You hear it a lot in their stuff.

[Nash]

2 years? :) Why does it matter what he uses. These big name composers have all the libraries pretty much.

It is not a huge deal, but the quality of the sounds that he produces is outstanding.

[chocothrax]

It is not a huge deal, but the quality of the sounds that he produces is outstanding.

What score are you talking about the has great samples?

[Nash]

The score: The Replacement Killers, Metal Gear Solid (game), Enemy of the state or something like that.

[kaztix]

Listen to Metal Gear Solid 3 main theme, from 3:20 to 4:10

...great performance of Stormdrum's Clone Army :D

[LEX]

After Harry and John left MV, they recorded their own sample library.
And spent a pretty penny too.

They do not use Han's library.

I remember when they were doing it.

LEX

[Bessinnox]

I know that he uses stylus RMX ( Narnia score )

found in 5 minutes with google :D

http://www.spectrasonics.net/pronews/

[Waywyn]

i think it doesn't make any difference what he uses, it is in the fingers :)

... and besides that: if you get a pay of like several hundred thousand bucks per movie you could just easily hire an orchestra, pay a good programmer and get your custom stuff together.

you should be set with around 100-200k incl. editing and stuff :)

[Phantom]

Listen to Metal Gear Solid 3 main theme, from 3:20 to 4:10

...great performance of Stormdrum's Clone Army :D

very well spotted

Now take a listen to Gladiator - honest to say I cannot remember which track it is on the soundtrack but I am certain there is one part I recall hearing from instruments in Storm Drum konpakt (although they are single snips) it still definitely sounds like Hans is using storm drum for something there)

:D

[chocothrax]

very well spotted

Now take a listen to Gladiator - honest to say I cannot remember which track it is on the soundtrack but I am certain there is one part I recall hearing from instruments in Storm Drum konpakt (although they are single snips) it still definitely sounds like Hans is using storm drum for something there)

:D

I'm guessing Hans somehow travelled through time, bought Stormdrum and then travelled back to 2000 to use it then.

[Edx]

very well spotted

Now take a listen to Gladiator - honest to say I cannot remember which track it is on the soundtrack but I am certain there is one part I recall hearing from instruments in Storm Drum konpakt (although they are single snips) it still definitely sounds like Hans is using storm drum for something there)

:D


Hans' studio isnt just used for music, but also for travelling through time!!!!111 :eek:

[Edx]

There's one lib that I think all these MV guys have is Art Vista's Malmsjo. You hear it a lot in their stuff.

Really?? :confused: where?

[chocothrax]

Get on AIM and i'll tell you. :)

[Phantom]

I'm guessing Hans somehow travelled through time, bought Stormdrum and then travelled back to 2000 to use it then.

Before Storm Drum, didn't East West Quantum Leap release smaller versions of this library?

Isn't that what Zimmer might have used?

[chocothrax]

No.

[Phantom]

:)

Probably the same type of drums then

My mistake

[kstevege]

Yes, Williams uses Cubase SX3. And he does have a lot of the commercial libraries including East/West but he is from the Zimmer school and I think he still uses Zimmer's customed produced library. He also uses Spectrosonics stuff, and Native Instruments stuff and a lot of what we all use. Big difference as compared to me anyway, is that he has the luxury of bussing everything to Pro Tools for mixing/mastering and lets his audio engineers finish the hollywood mock up.

[Neilfactory]

Yes, Williams uses Cubase SX3.

http://www.steinbergusers.com/vids/harrygw/index.php

>Neil.

[LEX]

Yes, Williams uses Cubase SX3. And he does have a lot of the commercial libraries including East/West but he is from the Zimmer school and I think he still uses Zimmer's customed produced library. He also uses Spectrosonics stuff, and Native Instruments stuff and a lot of what we all use. Big difference as compared to me anyway, is that he has the luxury of bussing everything to Pro Tools for mixing/mastering and lets his audio engineers finish the hollywood mock up.
Actually since Harry left Media Ventures so did the Hans library.

After he left, he and John Powell went in together and recorded their own custom library, which is much better than Hans's.
Harry's Studio:
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j297/lexaudio/harry2hgwsstudio.jpg

Well one of them.

I'd say another big difference is this:

Sequencing and digital audio
Steinberg Cubase SX and Ableton Live running on dual 3.6GHz Xeon server with 4GB
RAM, two RME HDSP 9652 soundcards, 75GB mirrored SATA system drives and 400GB
mirrored SATA audio/sample storage drives. MIDI is streamed over LAN to Gigastudio
PCs, and an Emagic Unitor 8 and AMT8 are used for hardware synths.
Pro Tools HD Accel system running on dual 2GHz Apple G5, with one 192 Analog and
seven 192 Digital interfaces.

Samplers
14x Emu E4X.
24x Roland S760.
7x 3.0GHz Pentium 4 PCs with 80GB SATA system drives, RME HDSP 9652
soundcards and 250GB SATA sound drives with custom and commercial sound libraries,
running Tascam Gigastudio 3.
Software synths and plug-ins
Arturia ARP 2600, Minimoog V and CS80.
Antares Filter and Auto-Tune.
Applied Acoustics Lounge Lizard.
Gmedia Imposcar and Oddity.
GRM Tools.

Korg Legacy Collection.
Native Instruments Absynth 3, Battery 2, FM7, Kontakt 2, Pro 53, Reaktor 4.
Ohm Force Ohm Boyz.
Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, Atmosphere and Trilogy.
Steinberg D'Cota, X-Phraze, Virtual Guitarist, VG Electric Edition, Groove Agent and
Halion.

Hardware synths
Access Virus, Indigo 2 and Redback.
Clavia Nord Rack, Nord 3 KB and Nord Modular.
Korg Trinity Pro X, Wavestation A/D and M1R.
Novation Supernova II Pro.
Roland JP8080, JD990, JV1080 and MKS80.
Studio Electronics SE1, ATC1 and Omega 8.
Waldorf Q, Microwave II, Microwave XT and Pulse.
Recording, mixing & outboard
Avalon 727 preamp.
Eventide DSP4000 effects.
Lexicon PCM80 and 90 reverbs.
Quested HQ108 speakers in 5.1 setup.
5x Yamaha 02R digital mixers.

Well that and Harry knows too that the end of the day he has a live orchestra waiting for his score.

LEX

[Neilfactory]

GOD!I saw it last year...Harry, do you want that i cross vacuum cleaner???

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j297/lexaudio/harry2hgwsstudio.jpg

>Neil.

[Crossingsound]

This is kind of what my studio looks like. Only take away all the fancy stuff, put it in a garage, and then it will be closer :( Extreme gear envy right now

[kstevege]

I'd say another big difference is this:

Sequencing and digital audio
Steinberg Cubase SX and Ableton Live running on dual 3.6GHz Xeon server with 4GB
RAM, two RME HDSP 9652 soundcards, 75GB mirrored SATA system drives and 400GB
mirrored SATA audio/sample storage drives. MIDI is streamed over LAN to Gigastudio
PCs, and an Emagic Unitor 8 and AMT8 are used for hardware synths.
Pro Tools HD Accel system running on dual 2GHz Apple G5, with one 192 Analog and
seven 192 Digital interfaces.

Samplers
14x Emu E4X.
24x Roland S760.
7x 3.0GHz Pentium 4 PCs with 80GB SATA system drives, RME HDSP 9652
soundcards and 250GB SATA sound drives with custom and commercial sound libraries,
running Tascam Gigastudio 3.
Software synths and plug-ins
Arturia ARP 2600, Minimoog V and CS80.
Antares Filter and Auto-Tune.
Applied Acoustics Lounge Lizard.
Gmedia Imposcar and Oddity.
GRM Tools.

Korg Legacy Collection.
Native Instruments Absynth 3, Battery 2, FM7, Kontakt 2, Pro 53, Reaktor 4.
Ohm Force Ohm Boyz.
Spectrasonics Stylus RMX, Atmosphere and Trilogy.
Steinberg D'Cota, X-Phraze, Virtual Guitarist, VG Electric Edition, Groove Agent and
Halion.


LEX

Yo Lex, how did you find all this out?


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[fongi]

Thanks LEX I guess the mystery is over right? :D

[Nash]

WOW!

Lex, it seems that you are a hero by providing this informations.

Thanks

[aLfR3dd]

WOW!

Lex, it seems that you are a hero by providing this informations.

Thanks


i'm starting to think that Lex is harry Gregson-Williams.....:p ...i mean....look at the hardware that he has........it's very similar to williams stuff!!!!:D :D

[Nash]

i'm starting to think that Lex is harry Gregson-Williams.....:p ...i mean....look at the hardware that he has........it's very similar to williams stuff!!!!:D :D


HAHAHA!! Goo one! Everything is possible.

I guess that Lex did very good research over the years.

Its all cool