Bringing a legendary wave sequencing synthesizer to the PC, without losing what makes it special.

The Korg Wavestate is a wave sequencing synthesizer that can run up to four independent layers of sound simultaneously, each with its own timelines for sample, pitch, shape, gate, and step sequencing. The result is a kind of musical tensor: a multi-dimensional space of sound that evolves differently every time you play it.

The hardware is inspiring to perform on but difficult to program. Bringing it to PC as a plugin offered the chance to give composers and sound designers the screen real estate they had always wished for.

How might we translate a deeply physical, hardware-native instrument into a software experience that is both more powerful and more intuitive?

Korg Wavestate Native

The "Expedia for groceries", an AI-powered mobile app that optimizes your weekly shopping trip.

The average Canadian family spends over $1,000 a month on groceries, yet the tools available to manage that spend are fragmented, inconvenient, and leave real money on the table.

As Lead Engineer at TD Lab, I led the R&D effort to find out if we could do better. The result was Shopping Optimizer: a mobile-first experience that aggregates flyer and pricing data across retailers, applies a custom NLP clustering algorithm to normalize products, and presents users with a fully optimized, route-aware grocery trip plan.

How might we help everyday shoppers save time and money by unifying the entire grocery journey in one intelligent experience?

Shopping Optimizer

There are two ways to produce music without the expense of a recording studio: loop samples and digital instruments. Digital instruments have come a long way over the last decade but their loop sample counterparts haven't enjoyed the same leaps in innovation.

Loop samples are often regarded as a repetitive hassle or a cheap band-aid in the community due to the friction associated with working with them. This friction is caused by the lack of discoverability, cost of acquiring unique sound samples, and the cumbersome workarounds needed to tweak each loop to fit your music piece.

How might we eliminate the friction associated with working with loop samples and create a flexible workflow in a digital platform?

Momentum

Designed to help artists create layered melodic patterns with ease.

Fluid Harmonics is a triple play instrument featuring a sound bank of 30 guitars.

The digital synth's three arpeggiators move in sync to create a fluid sound. This is graphically supported by the pick shaped knobs that visually fill with rolling water based on intensity.


Fluid Harmonics

A unified, accessible design system for one of the world's most widely used pro audio plugin suites.

Waves Audio makes some of the most widely used audio plugins in the world. Their quality is unquestionable. Their visual design is not.

This thesis project set out to unify the Waves plugin suite under a single coherent design language — one grounded in accessibility standards, audio industry conventions, and a design philosophy rooted in the mathematics of sound itself.


Waves Audio UI Redesign

Korg brings back the 90's for the world to hear.

KORG iWaveStation is an authentic reproduction of the original 90s device that was used by artists such as Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, and Depeche Mode.

The WaveStation was the first to feature an advanced vector synthesis system that created new sounds by combining multiple waveforms. To this day it's still considered a legendary and unique instrument.

This project was a dream come true. With KORG being the leading brand in music technology, it's the equivalent of being asked to reimagine the original Porsche 911 for the 21st century.


Korg iWavestation iOS

Crafting the perfect horn section for any musical style.

The modern‑day horn section, various combos of sax, trumpet, trombone and other brass or reeds, forms a crucial and distinctive part of the sound of big band, soul, funk and ska. Think Benny Goodman, Birth Of The Cool, James Brown's JB Horns, Tower Of Power, or Steely Dan/Don Fagen.

Hardware workstations frequently fail miserably with horns and their various specialized playing techniques, and even dedicated sample libraries sometimes only scrape the surface.

Mojo2 was designed from the ground up to give the flexibility of many horn techniques to the composer as they create their track. The UI is clean, simple and feature packed giving the user 4 different eras to choose from at the highest level with the ability to dive deep to settings down to room mic positions.


Mojo2: Horn Section

Apollo revolutionized audio interfaces for the modern day composer.

This top-rated sound design interface marries the music industry's traditional vintage analog look with a modern UI experience.

By mixing textures, lighting effects, and line work, Apollo visually evokes the familiarity of a guitar amp with flat design to create a truly unique experience.


Apollo Cinematic Guitars

Improving access to Canada's foreign policy.

I was approached in 2016 to rebrand the Centre for International Governance Innovation's (CIGI) website.

CIGI is a Canadian non-partisan privately funded think tank. Their research, opinions, and public voice strives to make a difference by bringing clarity and innovative thinking to global policy making.

Since the beginning, CIGI's publishing platform was driven by their researchers and board members needs. Due to the stakeholders' divergent directions and needs, their online presence became a collection of inconsistent microsites over time.

The goal of this project is to better communicate what CIGI is to the public at large and simplify their publishing platform to increase readership, article discoverability and long term scalability.


CIGI Think Tank

Celebrating Canada's birth as a nation in 1867.

In 2017, a team of proud Canadian volunteers including myself, digitized our country's founding documents in celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary.


Frank JE Flitton

Korg Wavestate Native

Bringing a legendary wave sequencing synthesizer to the PC, without losing what makes it special.

Shopping Optimizer

The "Expedia for groceries", an AI-powered mobile app that optimizes your weekly shopping trip.

Momentum

Never get slowed down by your samples.

Fluid Harmonics

Designed to help artists create layered melodic patterns with ease.

Waves Audio UI Redesign

A unified, accessible design system for one of the world's most widely used pro audio plugin suites.

Korg iWavestation iOS

Korg brings back the 90's for the world to hear.

Mojo2: Horn Section

Crafting the perfect horn section for any musical style.

Apollo Cinematic Guitars

Apollo revolutionized audio interfaces for the modern day composer.

Selected projects.

Korg Wavestate Native

Shopping Optimizer

Momentum

Fluid Harmonics

Waves Audio UI Redesign

Korg iWavestation iOS

Mojo2: Horn Section

Apollo Cinematic Guitars

CIGI Think Tank

The Confederation Debates