Simon Franglen – Avatar: Fire and Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2025 album Avatar: Fire and Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
Music from Avatar: Fire and Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artists on Avatar: Fire and Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Gear Used On Avatar: Fire and Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Simon Franglen – Avatar: Fire and Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2025). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Software Plugins and VSTs used by Simon Franglen on Avatar: Fire and Ash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Avg price: $599.00
Used for the Avatar soundtrack, as stated in this March 19, 2010 Electronic Musician interview.
Between the three people who provided synthetic [parts] on the film, there’s not a single hardware synth used. It was entirely soft synths. Probably the vast majority of what I was using was [Native Instruments] Kontakt 4.
Avg price: $479.00
Used for the Avatar soundtrack, as stated in this March 19, 2010 Electronic Musician interview.
[Spectrasonics] Ominsphere, Stylus RMX. I used Trilian a little at the end; it hadn’t come out until I was getting to the end of the project. [FXpansion] BFD, I was using BFD2 on some of the stuff. I like [Native Instruments] Battery, especially for drum work. It’s very nice the way I can build things in that. And there’s some little boutique ones like [FXpansion] Strobe. I used a bit of [Native Instruments] Massive. But it wasn’t really a synth score.
Avg price: $379.00
Used for the Avatar soundtrack, as stated in this March 19, 2010 Electronic Musician interview.
[Spectrasonics] Ominsphere, Stylus RMX. I used Trilian a little at the end; it hadn’t come out until I was getting to the end of the project. [FXpansion] BFD, I was using BFD2 on some of the stuff. I like [Native Instruments] Battery, especially for drum work. It’s very nice the way I can build things in that. And there’s some little boutique ones like [FXpansion] Strobe. I used a bit of [Native Instruments] Massive. But it wasn’t really a synth score.
Spectrasonics Trilian Total Bass Module
Avg price: $279.00
Used for the Avatar soundtrack, as stated in this March 19, 2010 Electronic Musician interview.
[Spectrasonics] Ominsphere, Stylus RMX. I used Trilian a little at the end; it hadn’t come out until I was getting to the end of the project. [FXpansion] BFD, I was using BFD2 on some of the stuff. I like [Native Instruments] Battery, especially for drum work. It’s very nice the way I can build things in that. And there’s some little boutique ones like [FXpansion] Strobe. I used a bit of [Native Instruments] Massive. But it wasn’t really a synth score.
Native Instruments Massive Synth
Avg price: $84.00
Used for the Avatar soundtrack, as stated in this March 19, 2010 Electronic Musician interview.
[Spectrasonics] Ominsphere, Stylus RMX. I used Trilian a little at the end; it hadn’t come out until I was getting to the end of the project. [FXpansion] BFD, I was using BFD2 on some of the stuff. I like [Native Instruments] Battery, especially for drum work. It’s very nice the way I can build things in that. And there’s some little boutique ones like [FXpansion] Strobe. I used a bit of [Native Instruments] Massive. But it wasn’t really a synth score.
Used for the Avatar soundtrack, as stated in this March 19, 2010 Electronic Musician interview.
[Spectrasonics] Ominsphere, Stylus RMX. I used Trilian a little at the end; it hadn’t come out until I was getting to the end of the project. [FXpansion] BFD, I was using BFD2 on some of the stuff. I like [Native Instruments] Battery, especially for drum work. It’s very nice the way I can build things in that. And there’s some little boutique ones like [FXpansion] Strobe. I used a bit of [Native Instruments] Massive. But it wasn’t really a synth score.
Used for the Avatar soundtrack, as stated in this March 19, 2010 Electronic Musician interview.
[Spectrasonics] Ominsphere, Stylus RMX. I used Trilian a little at the end; it hadn’t come out until I was getting to the end of the project. [FXpansion] BFD, I was using BFD2 on some of the stuff. I like [Native Instruments] Battery, especially for drum work. It’s very nice the way I can build things in that. And there’s some little boutique ones like [FXpansion] Strobe. I used a bit of [Native Instruments] Massive. But it wasn’t really a synth score.
Avg price: $148.20
Used for the Avatar soundtrack, as stated in this March 19, 2010 Electronic Musician interview.
So you were doing a lot of sample manipulation: repitching samples and changing their timing?
Absolutely. There’s a bit where you see all the “wood sprites,” as we called them, floating down onto Jake. He’s in the night forest. And I remember taking a lot of things like vocals—I had some ethnic vocals—turning them backward and putting them through [SoundToys] Crystallizer.
