
Each of these instruments could sell for 50 to 100 dollars and no one would bat an eye, it’s really high quality stuff. LABS is an entire collection of free sample instruments put out by Spitfire Audio. This is one of my all-time favorite instruments, and I use it on 99% of songs. So the first thing I want to talk about is Spitfire LABS. Let’s take a look at 19 incredible VSTs you might want to grab! Which is why VST (Virtual Studio Technology) instruments can level up your songs immediately. The better your recordings sound, the better your final mix will be. With sound quality on par with premium offerings, it’s a wonder they’re all free of charge! These 19 FREE VST instruments in 2021 all deserve a place in your DAW. 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.ĭownload the full list of presets and Read Me (PDF).Why spend thousands on fancy instruments if you don’t have to? You can make incredible music without spending a penny. 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. 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.


Metaphorium for Hive 2 contains 220+ presets programmed in-house by u-he team members Howard, Viktor (TUC) and Urs himself.
