Good LoopsSamples, instruments and tools for composers and music producers

About

Hans Hafner

Hans Hafner is a German composer and sound designer based in Berlin.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2001 and has since built a diverse career working across film, television, theatre and interactive media. Known for his collaborative work on major international and German productions, his credits span composition, additional music programming, and music editing.

He works closely with composer Johnny Klimek and composer and director Tom Tykwer, and has worked with internationally renowned producers Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode) and Christian Lohr (Joss Stone). More credits on IMDb.

Good Loops

Good Loops started out of the need for intimate recorded performances. The appeal and ability to capture attention of listeners, as well as the direct emotional impact of a well performed instrument, were always central to me.

The mission is to capture those performances, clean them up and release those recordings as raw material, so you can quickly create lively sketches and drafts of your musical ideas.

Capturing that special performance has always been my main focus. Even in programming music it is vital to make the programming come alive: music is a live art, and recorded and produced music has to reflect that as best as possible.

Even though my love for handmade music is very deep, I enjoy working with and programming electronic instruments as well, and have closely worked with and designed sounds for u-he, the gold standard in software synthesis and the makers of Zebra3 and Zebra2, DIVA and other virtual instruments and effect plug-ins.

Live performances - sliced and looped.

Selected credits

Television and series

  • Together with Johnny Klimek he wrote the music for the international TV series Jett and Leopard Skin.
  • He contributed music production and editing to high-profile shows like Babylon Berlin and Sense8.
  • He composed music for the acclaimed youth series Allein gegen die Zeit (2010-2012, 26 episodes), nominated for an International Emmy Award and winning multiple awards, together with Pivo Deinert.
  • He composed music for the popular series Danni Lowinski (2010-2014, 65 episodes), which won multiple German television awards, and for Koslowski & Haferkamp (2014, 16 episodes).
  • He wrote songs for the long-running US daytime series The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives.

Feature films

  • With Johnny Klimek he wrote the music for the German movies Wochenendrebellen (2023) and Dieses bescheuerte Herz (2017), and additional music for Breaking In (2018).
  • He worked in various roles on the projects A Hologram for the King, The Matrix Resurrections and Das Licht.