A Selection of Sounds from Hans Zimmer’s Personal Collection
Hans Zimmer, one of the co-founders of UJAM, is no stranger to scoring films. Using his expertise, UJAM has packaged four impressive Symphonic Elements plugins — Braaass, Striiiings, Drums, and Perrcs — together as the Symphonic Elements Bundle. Braaass comprises a curated collection of brass recordings from the Academy Award winner's collection of brass section phrases. Striiiings will captivate you with its selection of evocative string samples that Hans squirreled away over the decades. Hans also gave UJAM access to his library of percussion instruments and phrases — use Drums to add a pulsing beat or light accompaniment, and use Perrcs to add extra high-end percussion and shine to your next mix. Each of these plugins is extremely flexible, allowing you to use the Symphonic Elements Bundle to build a solid orchestral foundation or incorporate it into your next film score. No matter how you use it, UJAM’s Symphonic Elements Bundle will impress you with its user-friendly controls and amazing sound.
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Braaass
Tested in Hollywood, Braaass culls French horns, trumpets, trombones, cimbassos, and tubas, among other instruments, to take your symphonic, cinematic, hip-hop, or rap compositions to interstellar levels with killer sound. Intuitively accessible, Braaass offers 78 playing styles with six ready-made phrases each, 250-plus designer presets, and control knobs that will add unique character and stylings to your music.
Drums
UJAM's Symphonic Elements Drums virtual instrument puts Hans Zimmer's percussive talents on full display, featuring instruments, phrases, and more plucked directly from his collection. With Drums, you get seven different instrument types for adding ominous rumbling bass, driving melodic drums, and so much more to your works — all of which are possible without any formal training or experience in composition. To accomplish this, Drums features a massive supply of playing styles, phrases, and one-shots, with hundreds of presets so you can hit the ground running. Sweetwater composers love this powerful plug-in's simple-to-use interface for easily tweaking sounds to sonic perfection, with plenty of controls for things like FX, Ambience, Shape, and EQ to give each drum its own character. And with the handy Finisher setting in the center, catering your sound to different styles and genres is as easy as turning a digital knob.
Striiiings
The string section is the heart of the orchestra and the emotive core of impactful film scores and pop music. While today’s virtual string libraries are quite excellent overall, using them can be extremely challenging — particularly if you know little about orchestration. Sweetwater is excited to present UJAM Symphonic Elements Striiiings, an easy-to-use plug-in designed to deliver modern string ensemble textures with a minimum of effort on your part. The current trend in hybridized scoring integrates traditional orchestral instruments with sound design elements, and perhaps no contemporary composer exemplifies this approach more so than Hans Zimmer — who happens to be a co-founder of UJAM.
Perrcs
Whether you’re looking to add extra high-end percussion and shine to your next mix or composing a score for a grand pirate adventure, Perrcs by UJAM has the professional-grade samples and sound design features to bring your soundscape to life. Like the other virtual instruments in the UJAM Symphonic Elements series, Perrcs uses high-quality samples from the collection of world-renowned composer Hans Zimmer, impressing composers, sound designers, and film buffs at Sweetwater with the clarity that shines through the instrumentation. While UJAM’s Drums focuses on bombastic, low-end drums, Perrcs is geared toward a more orchestral spread of instruments, including sticks, shakers, tambourines, wood blocks, triangles, and more. That doesn’t mean Perrcs is relegated just to composition and sound design, though. Create ethereal soundscapes for an electronic mix, add shine to an instrumental section to complement a drum set, or give some extra drive to a big band’s rhythm section. With the features UJAM included in Perrcs, you’ll be ready to enhance current projects or dive into new experiences that you’ve only dreamed of until now.