For it to become a viable product, the soundset would have to be for one particular synthesizer: It was decided on Hive.Īutumn 2019: Viktor, Howie and Urs start programming new Hive presets. He describes the kind of sounds he is looking for, and asks Urs whether he knows of any u-he sound banks that would fit the bill - or failing that, the names of sound designers who would be capable of creating such presets.Īfter some thought, Urs recognizes the sonic gap in u-he's portfolio… u-he could make those presets themselves, to be released as a soundset after Johnny's project hits the cinemas. Summer 2019: Composer Johnny Klimek approaches Urs about Zebra2 presets for a secret film music project. However, meticulous XY pad programming in Metaphorium makes many of the presets defy categorization: You can create radically different versions with ease, bending presets so they become suitable for any genre of music. The soundset includes a wide variety of rhythms, chugging basses, melodic loops, atonal and tonal pads, dreamy soundscapes, dramatic and ambient effects. Nick over at Sonic state a walkthrough video of a lot of the presets which will give a sense for them as well as a sense for Hive if you’ve never used.Metaphorium for Hive 2 contains 220+ presets programmed in-house by u-he team members Howard, Viktor (TUC) and Urs himself. Summer 2021: IMDB quotes Johnny and Tom as co-composers for The Matrix Resurrections movie! Clearly, this was the secret project! And sure enough, Hive features heavily in the score. Spring 2020: Johnny and Tom Tykwer’s project Babylon Berlin airs, with some episodes already featuring the new presets. By the end of 2019, a bank of over 200 presets is ready for the composers. Howie and Johnny sit together and tweak the presets until everyone is satisfied. Howie and Urs fly off to Gran Canaria to polish the sounds and integrate them into Johnny’s workflow. Urs adds features to Hive so that it can deliver all sound types Johnny described. He describes the kind of sounds he is looking for, and asks Urs whether he knows of any u-he sound banks that would fit the bill – or failing that, the names of sound designers who would be capable of creating such presets.Īfter some thought, Urs recognizes the sonic gap in u-he’s portfolio… u-he could make those presets themselves, to be released as a soundset after Johnny’s project hits the cinemas. So how did all this come about? Below is an excerpt from the U-HE web site on the 2 year journey to create these sounds and I also included a 27 minute review of these preset with Nick Batt over at Sonic State.
And as with Dark Zebra presets, Howard, Viktor, and Urs’s work here is also master class in sound design.
That being said, these sounds for HIVE don’t disappoint.
In the past U-HE and U-HE’s Howard Scarr has collaborated with composers like Hans Zimmer to make sounds (and even a special version of Zebra called Dark Zebra), so I was kind of surprised when they made these sounds for Hive.
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These sounds were used film composers Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer for the TV Series Bab ylon Berlin and then by both composers again for The Matrix Resurrections. Over two years in the making, Metaphorium for Hive 2 is now available! 220+ presets programmed in-house by Howard Scarr, Viktor Weimer (TUC) and Urs Heckmann himself.
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