Eric Persing
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Eric Persing is a 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 formerly worked for Roland Music
as Chief Sound Designer and consultant with Roland on many influential synthesizers and music production products as Roland D-50
, JD-800
and many others.
Virtual instrument
Virtual instrument may refer to:* A Software synthesizer* A program that implements functions of an instrument by computer, sensors and actuators. This can be a program written in the LabVIEW or in other programming languages ....
company Spectrasonics
Spectrasonics
Spectrasonics is a music software company based in California, United States. Founded in 1994, the company originally produced sample libraries and then became one of the first companies to create software instruments in 2002 Their flagship product is Omnisphere, an extensive software synthesizer...
. He formerly worked for Roland Music
Roland
Roland was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. Historically, Roland was military governor of the Breton March, with responsibility for defending the frontier of Francia against the Bretons...
as Chief Sound Designer and consultant with Roland on many influential synthesizers and music production products as Roland D-50
Roland D-50
The Roland D-50 is a polyphonic 61-key synthesizer produced by Roland. It was released in 1987. Its features include Linear Arithmetic synthesis, on-board effects, a joystick for data manipulation, and an analog synthesis-styled layout design. The external Roland PG-1000 Programmer could also be...
, JD-800
Roland JD-800
The JD-800 was a digital synthesizer released by Roland in 1991. The synthesizer featured many knobs and sliders for patch editing and performance control - features which some manufacturers, including Roland, had been omitting in the name of 'streamlining' since the inception of Yamaha's DX-7...
and many others.