Your favorite sound designer?

[Fannon]

Konstantin Klem

Good call. "An Epic Journey" soundbank for Pigments is very good.

Konstantin Klemm also contributed many patches to one of the latest Pigments 3 soundbanks: https://www.arturia.com/sounds#wavelengths_cinematic

His presets really stood out to me.

[liquidsound]

Bryan Lake! (Sound Author)
His latest work for Hive soundest at u-he store and other banks for Bazille are among the best I ever heard.

[susquash]

I think Marco Mayer for all the korg wavestate sounds is a great sound designer.
His music making skills are also good, but I'm not certain that he creates his own music demos.

[cryophonik]

Can’t say that I keep up with the newer guys creating/selling banks for soft synths, so I can’t name a fav, but there are a lot of talented guys doing it, no doubt. My favorite sound designers are mostly the guys who pioneered synth-based musical styles decades ago, like Rhys Fulber, Alan Wilder, Thomas Dolby, etc etc etc…

Bumping this thread to update my reply because I recently discovered Luke Neptune and really like his sound design. I've been on the fence about buying a DSI/Sequential OB-6 for a long time now, and most of the demos I had heard never impressed me enough to buy it, until I started listening to Luke's vintage/classic and synthwave presets and those sold me. I don't usually buy presets for hardware synths, but I'll probably buy all of his OB-6 soundpacks as soon as my synth arrives.

http://www.lukeneptune.com/soundsets/

[soulata]

J3PO's patches for various synths are pretty great.

Well, they sound amazing when he plays them anyway...

[NomDeWhom]

Hello, first post here, many years of learning and practicing that I hope to continue. It may be a bit of a switch-up, so my bad If it is. What about your favorite use, piece of gear, workflow, etc for your sound design? I get the "what made it click" question and realize it's an always-growing list. Most of the sound design people I usually get to talk to are from the more field recording and "Old School" methods they can get. I am always interested in what others do and use for their sound design workflows/processes. I prefer to avoid any discord on analog/digital beyond why something works better for you, let's have some fun and organize some noise.

Personally, I am in a bit of resampling, granular manipulation, and rebuilding phase I'm trying to break out of lol. It's tedious and I need to be in a higher output mode now so any inspiration and reminders of semi-forgotten processes I have blinders to are always appreciated. much love