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I recently stumbled upon this Youtube channel by a German composer and producer named Tim Heinricht. I had never heard of him before and he is apparently not primarily doing film music but a lot of advertising and other media music.
The videos are very technical often but he has some interviews with some German film composer interviews who often in detail show how they work. It’s very technical often up to what software and plugins they are using as of course all work digitally.
I recently watched a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzTFRr_0YC0″>this episode with one of the current lead composers of the long running TV action series ALARM FÜR COBRA 11 (the Germans over here may have heard of that as it is on since 1996). It’s funny that even the composer says several times mention that there is not that much happening musically often and its all about sound. He even mentions Goldsmith and that he actually would love to just write for orchestra all day but currently synths are what is wanted currently.
The theme was by someone else. The original 1996 one was a Zimmer orchestra style – actually I would say Mancina’s SPEED was the actual inspiration – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAhbL9tHqTQ. Not following it but the theme is still used in probably changing arrangemens of each season and is now more synthy.