Media Ventures (RCP) software

[Randall Flagg]

Hello everyone!

My first post here! :D

I'm sorry for opening anothen Zimmer thread,but I guess everyone wants to know what software do guys from ex Media Ventures (now Remote Control Productions) use?

I know they're using:

Pro Tools
Cubase Sx
Giga Studio

[LEX]

Harry Gregson williams:

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.

LEX

[Randall Flagg]

Woooow thanks for that list.Very cool information.


If only existed list of Zimmer's stuff. It would be like 3 x Harry's :D

[aLfR3dd]

great stuff.....but do u think he uses all these synths??? i don't think so

[Randall Flagg]

great stuff.....but do u think he uses all these synths??? i don't think so

You mean hardware or software synths? I bet he uses almost all software synths on every project...

[aLfR3dd]

You mean hardware or software synths? I bet he uses almost all software synths on every project...

both

[Harpya]

Hans Zimmer has pretty much the same setup, except that he has even more computers that work as (giga-)samplers, and that they use Xeon CPUs instead of P4s - just like his main SX 3 sequencing computer.

[Sequent]

Yipes, that reads kind of like my synth list... granted perhaps on a "slightly" smaller scale though! Maybe. :)

Good choice re all the Waldorfs!!!

It may sound crazy to have all of those synths, but believe me, not so crazy. I bet he uses/browses his synths the way some people use/browse through patches on only one synth.

If you do have that much available you tend to go to certain instruments for a certain sound - and they do indeed have individual characteristics and specialties. Also... why would you bother struggling to achieve a certain sound on synth a, when it might be only a couple tweaks on synth b... that kind of thing. Especially if you're on a tight schedule. Finally... I think having that many choices and that much variety helps to keep things from sounding too boring. I think it would get pretty boring if you just had the same handful of synth sounds all the time.

I tend to incorporate at least 20-30 different synths on most Inquisitor Betrayer projects (since the IB stuff is what tends to be more synth oriented). But that doesn't necessarily (hopefully) mean that it's a big mess. Things get layered, where certain synths are providing certain elements or aspects of a given sound. Other people are doing this too... as evidenced by the popularity of the new Kore product and other similar things. So you think you're only hearing three or four synth lines but in reality you might be hearing three or four times as many.