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Man Of Steel Music Preview: https://soundcloud.com/watertowermusic/ ... er/s-LYFjd

No idea whether any film can live up to such an epic theme...

at your thread title.


I do love me some Zimmer. I wonder what he thinks of all the Zimmeresque "just hold this one note" sample libraries out there right now. I'm sure he doesn't feel threatened, but would still be curious on his feelings about it.

Dayum. I was thinking it's like Zimmer doing a manual Paulstretch version of the theme. It's like Charlie Brown losing his virginity on his 80th birthday.
Kinda funny as of now the last comment is the only bad one saying it's trash

shadx312 wrote:Kinda funny as of now the last comment is the only bad one saying it's trash

It's also telling that people are experiencing such deep joy after hearing only two notes. And it dosn't sound like Zebra

Dude for all we know he could've programmed all of it in Zebra

But yes, it is telling, though, it's also telling there's more to it than just notes.

Zebra was used for the last two batman films. and Zimmer used Zebra for 98% of the music in the film Inception.

A custom made Zebra was used for some of the music in The Dark Knight Rises called Zebra HZ it has DIVA's filters and a resonator and a few other things added. He may of used the version of DIVA that has a Roland JP 8000 oscillator and a Oberheim filter.

shadx312 wrote:Dude for all we know Howard Scarr could've programmed all of it in Zebra

Fixed.

Was listening to it at work on reasonably good headphones... Got home and listened to it on the hi-fi... holy moly!

stringtapper wrote:

shadx312 wrote:Dude for all we know Howard Scarr could've programmed all of it in Zebra

Fixed.

Ohhhh yeah I forgot about him, he says he did about 250 sounds for HZebra.

I absolutely love this track, it's so immersive and a few times creeps up on you and sets the hairs on your arms standing on end.

..but it's just not memorable. I listened to it quite a few times last night and woke up this morning trying to think of it. Nothing, but for a brooding mood.

I'm all for moving on and recontextualisation of old hat but maybe this one is a little too self conscious.

Still, it's a flipping good track.

I like it. But I like John Williams Superman Theme better, although it wouldn`t fit because "Man of Steel" is much "darker" than the old films.
However Williams Superman theme (although it has the typical Williams touch as this one here sounds like Zimmer) still is one, if not THE, most epic film scores ever.

If that is the new theme...I'm pretty let down. Nothing wrong with it (technically good sounding), but absolutely nothing memorable about it (which is the point of a theme!).

Schmidi wrote:If that is the new theme...I'm pretty let down. Nothing wrong with it (technically good sounding), but absolutely nothing memorable about it (which is the point of a theme!).

I can't understand how anyone could possibly feel let down by anything Superman related.

This is the new Hollywood formula:

+1 Dark.

(Oh, and before some smart arse jumps in to lecture me on some Superman comic book arc that's so much darker and completely different from the films: spare me.)