Eric Persing

Eric Persing
Eric Persing showing off his OMG-1 synthesizer
Born	22 July
Nationality	American
Known for	Sound design
Website	https://www.spectrasonics.net

Eric Persing is a sound designer, professional synthesist and producer in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as the Founder and Creative Director of the leading music software and virtual instrument company Spectrasonics. He was a major contributor to all of Spectrasonics' products, including Omnisphere, Stylus RMX, Trilian, Atmosphere and Trilogy.

In 2011, he and his team accepted the TEC Award for "Best Musical Instrument Software" for Omnisphere version 1.5.

Persing started working for Roland Music as Chief Sound Designer from 1984 to 2004, where he worked on many influential synthesizers and music-related products such as the Roland D-50, the JD-800, the Roland JX, JV, JP, XP series synthesizers and many others. Even today, his sounds can be heard in many productions.

Important influences for Persing are Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Jan Hammer, Yes, Genesis and Thomas Dolby.