"Regardless of which film you see, the probability is extremely high that you will hear our sounds," says Hendrik Schwarzer, co-founder and managing director of Orchestral Tools, which also operates under the name Schwarzer & Mantik GmbH.

The company creates digital sound libraries, a kind of virtual archives in which sounds from real instruments are recorded and stored, and then sells these sounds to composers or music producers.

The latter place the tones of various instruments on the keyboard of their e-piano and thus create complex film music.

In the field of film music, a lot is now composed digitally, as Managing Director Schwarzer explains.

In the end, the big film productions still had entire orchestras play their music;

Renting these for a longer period of time in order to try out composition ideas is often simply too time-consuming and too expensive, explains Schwarzer.

Companies like Orchestral Tools offer a solution here: They record the sounds of instruments in different variations and sell these recordings so that every composer can build up entire orchestra worlds on their keyboard at home in order to create music from them.

Also Hans Zimmer, one of the most prominent film music composers in the world,

The sounds are recorded by musicians with a wide variety of instruments in the Teldex studio in Berlin.

"With our location in Berlin-Kreuzberg, we enjoy a large variety of orchestras," explains Schwarzer.

The company works with instrumental and vocal musicians from renowned ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

The company, which was originally founded in March near Freiburg im Breisgau and has been creating digital instruments since 2010, has also carried out special projects in the Baltic States and Asia.

More than 200,000 users

The created sounds are stored in virtual sound libraries.

These are acquired by composers in order to set film material, i.e. films, series, but also computer games, to music.

Every paying customer has the right to access the sounds of Orchestral Tools, so the sounds are not sold exclusively, but to many customers.

Only when a customer creates his own composition from these individual tones is this protected as intellectual property, giving the customer an exclusive right to the piece of music.

"It's the same as with ordinary instruments," says Schwarzer, "the piano maker only sells the basis for composing and thus does not receive any rights to the composition itself."

The company sells the products it offers, which Schwarzer futuristically calls Miroire, Modus or Metropolis Ark, for example, via its website for downloading.

While the most expensive product in the online shop is offered for 849 euros, you can buy some recordings of individual instruments for less than 50 euros.