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Jörg Hüttner is a German composer and synthesizer programmer currently living in Santa Monica, USA. He works with well known film composers and music producers and he collaborates with worldwide well-established synthesizer and software companies in sound design and product support.

Early life
Hüttner was born in 1974 in Ulm, Germany. He lived in Illertissen until he finished high school. At age 8 he started classical piano lessons. His interest in electronic music started shortly after at the very early age of 9 years, listening to artists like Kajagoogoo, Jean-Michel Jarre and Depeche Mode. He bought his first synthesizer at the age of 15 and played first concerts as a Keyboarder for German band Relatives Menschsein at age 17. Musical influences in his early years were mostly dark electronic genres like EBM and Industrial as well as Goth Rock and Electro Pop.

Career
Shortly after finishing school in 1993, Hüttner started to work in the industry as a keyboarder, recording engineer, synthesizer sound designer and music producer. Hüttner started as an intern at a recording studio in Bayreuth where he quickly became a freelance staff member. In 1994 he mixed the French leg of the European tour of German industrial band Das Ich as Front-Of-House engineer. Hüttner continued to expand his music knowledge by taking private lessons in music theory and harmony with a classical violinist and music teacher in Germany in 1998-1999. Besides his own music projects he worked as a synth programmer collaborating with bands including German Goth Rock bands EverEve and Dreadful Shadows. In 1997 he got in contact with German synthesizer manufacturer Waldorf Music starting his ongoing work and collaboration with various Music Instrument- and Software Industry companies. Especially his work in designing preset sounds for synthesizers started the contact with German film composers Hans Zimmer and Klaus Badelt in 2000 and later ended in his first collaboration with Badelt for the 2004 movie Catwoman and with Zimmer for The Ring Two as well as Batman Begins in 2005. In March 2007 Hüttner moved to Santa Monica, California, to pursue his career in Los Angeles.

Work: 2007 - present
Right after his arrival in the US Hüttner got introduced to icelandic composer Atli Örvarsson by Hans Zimmer. They were busy finishing Pirates of the Caribbean 3 at this point. Hüttner jumped in and assisted in finishing this film score at Remote Control Productions. Next he helped out on The Simpsons Movie and collaborated with Örvarsson on Vantage Point as music programmer, synthesizer programmer and technical score assistant. This continued with the Vin Diesel sci-fi movie Babylon A.D. and the heist comedy Thick as Thieves. Additionally Hüttner worked with Hollywood film composers such as Danny Elfman, Martin Tillmann, Lili Haydn, Paul Haslinger, Fil Eisler and Magnus Fiennes amongst others. In November 2009 Hüttner helped UK singer Imogen Heap to prepare her live setup for her US tour. He also continues to work for music productions with producers and professionals like Uwe Baltrusch (“Wise Guys”, “Mekong Delta”, "Kowalski"), Sean Beavan (“Kill Hannah”, “Marylin Manson”, “Nine Inch Nails”, “8mm”) and Matt Salazar (LA Sound Gallery, “Running The Risk”) amongst others. Hüttner just finished work on the new Roland Emmerich movie White House Down composed by Harald Kloser and currently collaborates again with Atli Örvarsson on the upcoming movie The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

Filmography

 * Composer
 * Sound in Motion (2004)
 * Zunar-J5/9-Doric-48 (2008)
 * White (2009)
 * The Hybrid Union (2010)
 * Firelight (2011)
 * The Darkness is Close Behind (2011)


 * Synth Programming / Engineering / Other
 * La torcedura (2004)
 * Catwoman (2004)
 * The Simpsons Movie (2007)
 * Vantage Point (2008)
 * Babylon A.D. (2008)
 * Thick as Thieves (2009)
 * The Fourth Kind (2009)
 * The Next Three Days (2010)
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
 * Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
 * Saluda al diablo de mi parte (2011)
 * Beneath the Darkness (2011)
 * The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
 * Bullet to the Head (2012)
 * Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
 * White House Down (2013)
 * The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
 * Rush (2013)

Synthesizer Sound Design
Between 1998 and 2010 Hüttner created factory presets and additional sound sets for software- and hardware-synthesizers for a wide variety of manufacturers including:


 * Access Music, Germany
 * Virus
 * Alesis, USA
 * Andromeda A6
 * Fusion
 * Digidesign
 * M-Audio, USA
 * Venom
 * Native Instruments, Germany
 * Novation, UK
 * Supernova II Series
 * Steinberg, Germany
 * A1, VST Software Synthesizer for Cubase SX and Nuendo
 * Xphraze, VST Software Synthesizer
 * Waldorf Music, Germany
 * Waldorf Attack, VST Software Synthesizer
 * microQ
 * Waldorf Microwave 2
 * Waldorf Microwave XT
 * Waldorf RackAttack
 * Waldorf Q