John Lehmkuhl

John Lehmkuhl started playing music at the age of four, beginning with piano lessons in the music store his parents had opened in 1977. By his teenage years, he owned a Minimoog and, in 1983, he attended Yamaha’s three-day conference to teach music store employees how to program the Yamaha DX7. John earned a music performance degree, then began working in a music store selling synthesizers, teaching classes on how to play them, and programming patches for his customers. Connections with Korg led to him becoming a product specialist and member of its voicing team for workstations from the T-Series to the Kronos, as well as other Korg products. In the 1990s, he also worked on commercial soundtracks and session work in LA studios. In 2009, John created PlugInGuru.com, an online source of sound libraries for over 20 software plug-ins. In 2020, he released his first commercial plug-in, Unify, a cross-platform utility that allows users to load different plug-ins, layer and split them as needed, and save new presets. Over 45 commercial libraries are available for Unify, and improved Unify 2.0 came out in early 2025. John hosts a Livestream every Saturday and considers himself blessed to be in this unique position doing a job that would have been impossible ten years earlier.