Tony Anderson

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.

He mentiones this on his official website.

A gift from his grandparents years ago.

Mentioned in the source link (His official website).

Tony Anderson discusses his use of the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 on his website, describing it as "insane" and likening it to a "wild animal." He mentions purchasing it based on a recommendation from his Sweetwater representative, Jason Koons.

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.

Tony Anderson uses the Eastwest Hollywood Brass plugin, as detailed under the "Brass" section on his website, Tony Anderson Music.

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

tony anderson using Logic Studio in this video

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

Tony Anderson includes Spitfire Albion in his list of woodwinds on his official website, indicating its use in his music production.

On his official website, Tony Anderson discusses using the API 525 as part of his studio recording setup.

According to Tony Anderson's official website, he uses the Roland AIRA TR-8 drum machine in his music production process.

Tony goes over his piano set up, and talks about it being the driving piece in his studio.

The list of gear is at the bottom on the video, however he speaks about how good these mics are for filtering out noise when turned up in his studio tour video.

He doesn't say anything about it but he lists it in his gear list and it's on the table where his other pedals are.

You can see it sitting on the desk at 15:46

Tony states that the microcosm is his favorite pedal.

Seen behind Tony in this instagram video.

Seen in this video talking about his synth collection

Seen in this video discussing his synth collection

Seen beneath the Prophet 10 at 20:00 minutes into this video

Seen beneath in this video at 20:00 minutes.

Seen in this video 20:00 minutes in

Seen behind Tony at 19:00 minutes in.

Seen behind Tony 19:00 minutes in this video and somewhat throughout.