Hans Zimmer Percussion

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

Hans Zimmer is one of the most successful, influential and prolific film composers of his generation. Having won countless awards including Oscars, his scores for films including Gladiator, Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight and Dunkirk he is considered one of the greatest living film composers. Hans has defined not only a compositional style, but also a production approach and sonic innovation that has influenced a generation of composers.

Made in close collaboration with Hans Zimmer and his team of Grammy-winning engineers, musicians and technicians, we present Hans Zimmer's expert, authorised take on cinematic percussion production. Herein lies not an emulation or synthesis of his approach, but a recreation; the same world class studio, musicians, instruments, signal chain and engineers, overseen in every detail by Hans himself with the same attention to detail and perfection, coupled with Spitfire's pioneering technology designed to offer you ultimate creative customisation.

The blockbuster sound
As in many of Hans’ scores, this library is recorded in Lyndhurst Hall at AIR Studios via an impressive signal chain: 96 rarefied microphones into Neve Montserrat preamps, into the world's biggest Neve 88R desk (which was exhaustively regained 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, resulting in well over 30 TB of raw material from these sessions alone. The library consists of close, room and ambient perspectives mixed by Hans Zimmer himself.

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, 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 (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, lower layers offer up the potential for engaging delicate drum programming to give your cues momentum.

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 Solo, 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
Bucket, Snare, Crusher, Paper Djun, Tombek, Dohl, Darbuca, Surdu, Darbucket.

macOS 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 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

Kontakt Player version

• Kontakt or Kontakt Player 5.6.8 or higher