John Wilson

I worked in audio for ten years. Audio is signal flow: what goes where, in what order, and what happens when a stage fails. So is software, and so is getting models to build it.

I'm the lead developer at Sessionwire. I designed the architecture and built the platform through two rebuilds to over 36,000 accounts. From 2024 I led a developer on the team. I planned the work each week and reviewed every change against the design. I also run index9 (opens in a new tab), a small Mac software studio. Kelowna, BC.

sessionwire, 2017 to now

An online studio for recording and mixing, now in its third version.

36,000+
accounts
100,000+
calls since 2023
200+
releases

The Sessionwire page has the history and the bigger pieces of work.

with AI models

Call rebuild
A rebuild of how Sessionwire calls work. If your connection drops, you're put back in. In over 8,000 calls since July 2026, nobody was left waiting alone.
Triage
A tool that finds why something broke in Sessionwire and shows the evidence. It only looks, and never changes anything. Tested on 22 real past problems, it got 20 right.
Search
Search that finds music by how it sounds and people by what they do. Type a description or drop in a track. It costs Sessionwire under $30 a month to run.
Remote control
Control someone else's computer during a Sessionwire call, once they click Allow. A recording engineer can run the session for them.
Firelight
A YouTube channel of sleep stories, each set in a new place. Nora tells the story, then the sounds of that place play for the rest of the three hours. I built the software that makes each episode.

also

The Tascam Portastudio 488 rebuilt in the browser: eight channel strips, a cassette deck, level meters and transport keys.
A Tascam Portastudio 488, an 8‑track cassette recorder, rebuilt for the browser. Open the studio and press play.
Whetstone (opens in a new tab)
A Mac app from index9 that rewrites your rough prompt for the model you picked.
Windrose (opens in a new tab)
A Mac app from index9 that controls the fans on Apple Silicon Macs.

before

Ten years in audio: live sound in Canada and the UK, music for film and TV, and leading the audio engineering program at a Kelowna college. I left in 2015 to write software.

BA in Sound Technology from LIPA. MA from Middlesex, on remote multimedia collaboration.