Tony Anderson

A gift from his grandparents years ago.

About half of the pads, synths and textures you hear are from Spectrasonics flagship power synth called Omnisphere. I've built a close relationship with that instrument (and its extension libraries like the Moog Tribute Expansion) since its release in 2008...to the extent that I have most of the patch names memorized and I know exactly which key words to search for when I need a specific type of emotion communicated. However, I rarely leave any of Omnisphere's patches in their natural form - specifically since 250-350Hz needs to be ducked a bit on many of their analog synth patches to avoid cluttering the mix. What I often do is set up a series of busses in Logic, each with their own personalities. One bus might have a low pass filter combined with 3-4 different delays and reverbs. Another might have punchy compression and saturation with dance-style reverbs and delays. Regardless of which bus I decide to run the synth through, I run Omnisphere's patches through one of them while I'm working out melodies so I can carefully fit each layer into the prior one. Delay and reverb changes everything for me because of the way I set up my signal chain (see screenshot below - I've got the high frequencies passed out and I've followed some gentle compression with Reverb and two independent insertions of my favorite delay). I am ridiculously meticulous about what tones I allow into my songs, which is why I write less content than other composers, but I am absolutely indebted to Eric and his team at Spectrasonics for providing such a powerful cinematic tool. It's more than worth its weight in gold.

8DIO Adagio & Agitado Strings (the divisis, ensembles & ambiences on 8Dio are killer)

He has a list of what he uses on the source page. You can clearly see Trilian under his Bass category.

Under his catagory Brass.

Not sure what version he uses. But his page tells us that he uses a version of NI Battery.

He mentions this on his list of woodwinds.

He mentiones this on his official website.

It is mentioned in his list of strings on the source link.

Mentioned in the source link (His official website).

Info from his official website.

Info from his official website.

My primary writing environment is Logic X. I grew up on FL Studio and Ableton Live, but both of those programs were too unstable, narrow and inconsistent to trust with anything that was more than a 40 track arrangement. Logic is the best marriage of audio and MIDI partnership I've found...some of my friends use Cubase and ProTools, but I've not found either of those programs to be intuitive or cost-effective.

I bought this based on the recommendation from my Sweetwater rep, Jason Koons. It's insane...that's all I can say. A wild animal.