Composer Profiles

How the best composers and producers actually work

Studio setups, DAWs, and the workflow decisions behind the most influential modern composers and producers.

Cinematic film-scoring studio with three monitors showing a Cubase orchestral session, a MIDI keyboard, and a concert hall visible through the back glass wall, the kind of setup Hans Zimmer is known for.

Hans Zimmer

Studio setup, DAW, and scoring workflow.

Cozy North London home recording studio with an upright piano, hammered dulcimer, vintage synths, a Neumann TLM 49 microphone on a boom arm, and a Logic Pro session showing dozens of stacked vocal tracks on the monitor, the kind of MASTERY Room setup Jacob Collier records in.

Jacob Collier

The MASTERY Room workflow.

Modern Beverly Hills home producer studio with a Sony C800G vocal microphone on a boom arm with pop filter, a glowing Manley VOXBOX channel strip, a Pro Tools session with detailed waveforms on the monitor, Yamaha NS-10 monitors, and a smartphone on a tripod aimed at the screen for TikTok production breakdowns.

Charlie Puth

Pro Tools, perfect pitch, and the TikTok rebuild.