About Us
AudioCipher is a small group of musicians, programmers, and designers. Our founder fell in love the with idea of text-to-music years before it became a trend in AI. We decided to create a MIDI plugin that would deliver that experience to music producers, directly in their DAW. We've since gone through three versions of the app. V4 is due Mid-2024.
Ezra Sandzer-Bell
CEO / FOUNDER / PROJECT MANAGER
Ezra is an award-winning music tech marketer specializing in artificial intelligence trends. He bootstrapped AudioCipher and writes all of the articles for the site's blog. His professional background includes programming and B2B software product marketing. He currently works as a freelance marketer in music tech.
Stevie Parris
LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Stevie is a motivated software developer who loves writing, producing and performing music. Based in Philadelphia, PA he connected with Ezra online and joined the team in early 2020. AudioCipher was built in the JUCE framework, which Stevie has since become adept in. When he's not working on the app, you can find him playing Fortnite.
Chris Gruchacz
VIDEO GAME MUSIC COMPOSER / ABLETON PRODUCER
Chris Gruchacz initially joined AudioCipher as a video content creator in 2021. He later became part of our core product team, providing quality assurance testing for our software, installation tutorials, and product demos.
AudioCipher also subcontracts Chris as a freelance QA tester for third party clients.
Carisa Lolmaugh
PRODUCT DESIGN LEAD / ART DIRECTION
Carisa is a visionary artist and designer. She played a critical role in early market research and transformed our early plugin wireframes into futuristic, modern looking user interfaces. Over 4 years she has created AudioCipher's product trailers, motion graphics and helped to design our website landing pages.
Kimberly Dunivan
ASSISTANT PRODUCT DESIGNER
A talented and detail-oriented designer, Kimmy contributed the initial layout designs for AudioCipher and assisted several times throughout the project to polish and fine tune the plugin layout. She's armed and dangerous in Adobe Illustrator.
VIDEO CONTENT CREATOR / MARKETING PARTNER
Brett Simmons
Brett became a marketing partner in 2022. He was initially hired to review our software and later became a content partner.
Publishing under the handle Simulation Beats, Brett has created over a dozen reviews of third party software. These deep dives help educate readers on our blog and provide a closer look at key features and functionality.
