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Hans Zimmer Percussion

Hans Zimmer Percussion features ensembles and solo instruments ranging from tombeks to taikos, playing from whisperingly quiet to thunderously loud.

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  • The ultimate cinematic drum sample library

    Spitfire Audio joins forces with the biggest name in film scoring to produce the ultimate drum sample library for cinematic percussion. Featuring the ensembles and solo instruments used by Oscar-winning Hans Zimmer in his blockbuster scores, we've drawn on his years of creativity and studio experimentation to give you all you need to create epic drum composition.

    From tombeks to taikos, playing from whisperingly quiet to thunderously loud, we’ve worked with Hans' Grammy award-winning team to capture the highest quality recordings, featuring the same players in Lyndhurst Hall at AIR Studios where Hans records his biggest scores, all mixed and produced by the man himself.

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    Includes Kontakt Player (free download)

    Compatible with NKS

    Ensemble and solo instruments

    96 rarefied mic signals

    Kontakt Player

    Listen to Hans Zimmer Percussion

    Hans Zimmer portrait

    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, and 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.

    The remainder of the library features long-term Hans collaborator and percussion legend, Paul Clarvis (SpectreThe 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, lower layers offer up the potential for engaging delicate drum programming to give your cues momentum.

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    Included in Spitfire Scoring Professional

    Hans Zimmer Percussion GUI

    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.

    Hans Zimmer Percussion GUI

    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


    FAQs

    I already own HZ01 and HZ03 and I want Hans Zimmer Percussion, how do I get it?

    If you already own HZ01 and HZ03, you will receive Hans Zimmer Percussion Professional completely free of charge on the day of release!


    Is Hans Zimmer Percussion the same as HZ01 and HZ03?

    Hans Zimmer Percussion is a consolidation of Hans Zimmer’s mixes from HZ01 and HZ03, plus additional features. Hans Zimmer Percussion Professional contains additional microphones and mixes from Hans Zimmer, Junkie XL, Alan Meyerson, Steve Lipson and Geoff Foster.


    I own one of HZ01 or HZ03, how do I get Hans Zimmer Percussion?

    If you own one of HZ01 or HZ03, you will get a special crossgrade price for Hans Zimmer Percussion. Put Hans Zimmer Percussion into your shopping cart on our site and your crossgrade price will be worked out for you automatically. Please make sure you are logged in to get your crossgrade price.

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    Tech specs

    Mac system requirements

    Mac OS 11, 12 or 13 

    Both Intel and Apple Silicon/ARM are supported

    Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM

    Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM

    32-bit systems are not supported.

    PC system requirements

    Windows 10 or Windows 11 - (Latest Service Pack, 64-bit)

    Minimum: Intel 2.8 GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM

    Recommended: Intel Core i7 6th gen and later or AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM

    32-bit systems are not supported.

    File size

    ~12225 samples

    48.5 GB uncompressed .wav

    19.6 GB download size

    39.20 GB disk space required during install

    Too large to download? Choose hard drive delivery at checkout


    Kontakt player

    Kontakt or Kontakt Player 5.6.8 or higher

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