Hans Zimmer invests in Wizoo...

[Tobias Erichsen]

Hi everyone,

I just read in the German "Keys" magazine, that Hans Zimmer has
invested in the company "Wizoo" (the guys who developed The
Grand etc.) to develop a new high-end sampling-system for
orchestral samples which will surpass everything currently
available. He either has already or will be producing the samples
himself, the hard/software-system comes from Wizoo.

First of all this seems to be custom-made for him, but it's use will
also be licenced to a couple of other composers who have enough
budget to do so...

Tobias

[Alexcremers]

For the majority of the people April Fools' day is over, Tobias!

[Tobias Erichsen]

In case you understand German, I'd like to direct you to
a short abstract of the article in "Keys":

http://www.keys.de/Aktuell/f_listen.htm

As that issue is for "Mai", I doubt that this is their
April Fools joke...

Tobias

[Theodor]

That sounds amazing ! Zimmer has some spare cash , he can invest in a good sample library :)


The Briefing for the interview read shortly and tightly: Hans room threw a pile of dollar into the ring in order to become partner of the German Sound- and instruments smith Wizoo and to enable among other things therewith a project, that careless said like a Mixtur out of unfulfilled children dream and economic insanity anmutet: "we construct a Sampler-system of the luxury class, fully loaded with Samples of the Londoners Symphoniker as a raw material".

Translation = :confused: ( but you get the idea )

[FredProgGH]

This sounds like it could be IBM developing a huger mainframe in 1978. Raw sampling power is not the future; a lean mean blend of sampling and physical modeling is. I hope HZ and Wizzo (oops, that's chocolates :D) Wizoo develop smart technology, not just new gigs and gigs of samples.

[Theodor]

I hope HZ and Wizzo (oops, that's chocolates :D) Wizoo develop smart technology, not just new gigs and gigs of samples.

I agree so much ! After playing around with the Synful Orchestra demo which is only 32 mb and amazing ( fully functional i think 'tis ) i changed my idea on "Size matters" .

Sampling is like programming a video game, once upon a time they made games that ran on every computer because they programmed very well and the games Rawked! Now they have 20 GIGS of ram , 128 bit graph cards , Direct X 23 , 4D Acceleration etc etc and you can't play the games cause they have been overkilled with bad programming and stuffed with bad code .

Hans, do something cool mate !

[Alexcremers]

Will the name "Hans Zimmer" make it cost more than the whole VSL package? Or, is Wizoo planning to compete with GPO?

[robgb]

Hi everyone,

I just read in the German "Keys" magazine, that Hans Zimmer has
invested in the company "Wizoo" (the guys who developed The
Grand etc.) to develop a new high-end sampling-system for
orchestral samples which will surpass everything currently
available. He either has already or will be producing the samples
himself, the hard/software-system comes from Wizoo.

First of all this seems to be custom-made for him, but it's use will
also be licenced to a couple of other composers who have enough
budget to do so...

TobiasI think he should have invested in Garritan instead. The the potential of that new violin looks pretty damn good.

[josejherring]

It's what happens when you base your whole life and career on a technology. Now he's feeling the heat. He ain't the only kid on the block with cool toys anymore. Now everybody has cool toys. :D :D

[Herman Witkam]

Wizoo? That's the stuff that turns up in my Google ad-bar every now and then...lol

[dwdonehoo]

I got a chance to talk to Hans Zimmer (during and) after his talk (along with with Wazoo) at NAMM, where he explained his purpose with this new library. Basically, it will be for his own exclusive use with a few exceptions. Wazoo gets something out of this, but I am not sure what, besides being the paid developers of Zimmer's library.

[Veron]

I got a chance to talk to Hans Zimmer (during and) after his talk (along with with Wazoo) at NAMM, where he explained his purpose with this new library. Basically, it will be for his own exclusive use with a few exceptions. Wazoo gets something out of this, but I am not sure what, besides being the paid developers of Zimmer's library.

Looks like its going to be his private samples again .
But maybe a little bit of it will be released .
Like the Roland Libraries .
(I heard some of Zimmers samples are in the Library. The brass I think . )

[Dr. Grace]

Will the name "Hans Zimmer" make it cost more than the whole VSL package? Or, is Wizoo planning to compete with GPO?

If you look at the automated translation posted by Theodor, his name is "Hans room". Reminds me of the Pink Panther movie.


Originally Posted by Freetranslation.com

The Briefing for the interview read shortly and tightly: Hans room threw a pile of dollar into the ring in order to become partner of the German Sound- and instruments smith Wizoo and to enable among other things therewith a project, that careless said like a Mixtur out of unfulfilled children dream and economic insanity anmutet: "we construct a Sampler-system of the luxury class, fully loaded with Samples of the Londoners Symphoniker as a raw material".

[JohnCarter]

If you look at the automated translation posted by Theodor, his name is "Hans room". Reminds me of the Pink Panther movie.


Originally Posted by Freetranslation.com

The Briefing for the interview read shortly and tightly: Hans room threw a pile of dollar into the ring in order to become partner of the German Sound- and instruments smith Wizoo and to enable among other things therewith a project, that careless said like a Mixtur out of unfulfilled children dream and economic insanity anmutet: "we construct a Sampler-system of the luxury class, fully loaded with Samples of the Londoners Symphoniker as a raw material".


Zimmer means "room" in German

[lkthomas]

I like Zimmer's music, but I hated him because he is the only player on sample library all the time, we could never reproduce what he have done before, what a sad news...

[Alexcremers]

If you look at the automated translation posted by Theodor, his name is "Hans room". Reminds me of the Pink Panther movie.


Originally Posted by Freetranslation.com

The Briefing for the interview read shortly and tightly: Hans room threw a pile of dollar into the ring in order to become partner of the German Sound- and instruments smith Wizoo and to enable among other things therewith a project, that careless said like a Mixtur out of unfulfilled children dream and economic insanity anmutet: "we construct a Sampler-system of the luxury class, fully loaded with Samples of the Londoners Symphoniker as a raw material".

I thought they meant Hans Room, a convolution reverb of some sort.

[JohnCarter]

I thought they meant Hans Room, a convolution reverb of some sort.

Room is the english translation of "Zimmer" . Try it on google translator : type "Zimmer" and do a german-english translation.

[Dr. Grace]

Has no one around here seen the Peter Sellers movie?

Inspector Clouseau: I'd like a rhhheeom please.
Hotel reception clerk: A what?
Clouseau: A rhhheeom!
Clerk: A what?
Clouseau: (looks in dictionary) Ein Zimmer.
Clerk: Oh, a rhhheeom.

[Nigel W]

HZ plans to only license this...development?....to a limited number of users, who will surely have to fork out large wads of cash for the privilege.
Probably, for some people, having HZ samples will help hook clients.

Hans is a canny businessman and this reads like a further marketing of his own samples under the canopy of a developer......maybe the guys who used to work at Media Ventures all got VSL/EWQLSO and didn't want to pay for using Hans' library anymore.....:>)???

We really don't need another XXXGB of samples...we need the tools to use them fast, expressively and easily.

Computers and DAWs which work solidly together would be nice, too !!

Nigel