Lift, and the note rises.
Raise your hand and the melody climbs with it. Lower it and the music settles. That is the whole of the first lesson.
Sonari open on a Mac: a player lifts both hands into the camera, the hands light up on screen, and the note under each one is named as it sounds.
Sonari Remote on an iPhone, moving through the ways it plays: a sphere that leans with the phone, a grid of notes under a thumb, a face read for expression, a ring that answers a breath.
Sonari
Play music in the air.
Your Mac’s camera watches how you move, and the movement is the note. Ten thousand sounds are built in, or use it as a controller for your DAW.
- macOS 26+
- Apple silicon
- iPhone optional, iOS 26+
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What it is
One instrument, two surfaces.
A camera reads your hands, your face and the way you lean. A paired iPhone adds motion, breath, touch and a second camera. All of it becomes sound, and all of it becomes MIDI.
The Sonari window with a performance running: two hands tracked in the air, the note under each one named as it sounds.
The instrument
Sonari, on the Mac
The tracking, the seventeen ways to play, the synthesizer, the libraries, the looper, the recorder and everything that reaches a DAW. It plays on its own, with nothing attached and nothing installed.
macOS 26 or later, on a Mac with Apple silicon.
Sonari Remote on an iPhone, connected, showing the way it is being played.
Part of it
Sonari Remote
A second way to play, right in your hand: tilt it, touch it, breathe into it. It makes no sound by itself. Your Mac does that part.
Free. iOS 26 or later, and a Mac running Sonari on the same network.
The first minute
Your hands already know how.
Nobody has to teach you this. Three movements, and you are playing. Everything after that is finding out what else they do.
Lift, and the note rises.
Raise your hand and the melody climbs with it. Lower it and the music settles. That is the whole of the first lesson.
Open, and the sound opens.
Spread your fingers and it brightens and widens. Draw them in and it closes to a whisper.
Hold, and it keeps answering.
A note does not stop being yours the moment it starts. Lean, reach or turn, and it goes with you.
Ways to play
Same you. Seventeen playing styles.
Pick a way to play, and it becomes a different instrument. A drum kit in the air. A string section. A line you play with nothing but your breath. Pick another, and it changes again.
The library
Ten thousand sounds, waiting.
Open Sonari and it already plays. Grand pianos, gamelan, brass, strings, choirs, and patches that sound like nothing you can name. Nothing to download, and nothing else to buy.
- 10,000+
- sounds, built in
- 17
- ways the synth builds one
The sound library in Sonari, scrolling past bansuri, cello sections, alphorns, zithers and drift machines, every one playable in the air.
The synth
Then take one apart.
Every one of those sounds is made here, and every one of them opens. Pull a flute apart and put it back together as something nobody has heard. You are not choosing from a list; you are standing in front of the thing that made it.
Sing into it, or sample anything in the room, and it becomes something you play.
Sonari's synth with a sound open inside it: harmonics drawn across the window and moving, and the character of the sound laid out as places to move between.
The band
Bring a band with you.
Put a part underneath what you are playing and it keeps itself going. A bassline that follows your chords. A groove that never drifts. Raise a hand to push it harder, close it to leave a rest.
There are 3,800+ of them — patterns, in the application's own word — taken from the world's rhythm traditions and from the mathematics underneath them. Most of them do not repeat: they follow the chord you are holding and the hand you are moving, and every one arrives with an instrument already chosen.
A player standing in a living room with her laptop open in front of her, playing the air, while a string quartet reads from her.
ArpeggioThere and back
BasslineRoot and fifth
GrooveSon clave
FigureClimb
- 3,800+
- parts, built in
- 16
- styles that carry parts
- 10,000+
- sounds each one can pick from
iPhone
Everything a camera
cannot see.
Sonari plays on your Mac, and your iPhone joins it. Play its screen, tilt it, breathe into it, or leave notes around the room and walk into them. Six ways in, and every one plays alongside your hands.
Sonari Remote playing: a sphere that leans as the phone leans, a face read for a smile and a raised brow, a ring that swells with a breath, and a grid of notes lighting under a thumb.
Touch
Play the screen.
Hold
Hold it and move.
Face
Play with your face.
Air
Breathe into it.
Camera
Point it at your hands.
Space
Play the room.
A player holding an iPhone up in one hand and playing the air with the other.
One approval, once. After that the two find each other on their own.
The music of everywhere
Not everything fits on a piano.
Ragas, maqams, gamelan and the blues, each at the pitches its own musicians actually play. Sonari does not round the world to the nearest white key. Choose where your music comes from, and every note you reach for lands inside it.
A player sitting alone at a window with a sitar, a cello, a piano, tabla and a row of bamboo flutes standing around her, none of them in her hands.
- 490+
- scales, at their own intonation
- 8
- living traditions
- 220+
- rhythm cycles beyond four
A player at an upright piano inside a room made of light: a face the size of the wall behind her, rays turning and folding with every movement she makes.
The Stage
Everything you play,
you can also see.
Your music becomes light, on your Mac or thrown across the wall behind you. Play a room, and the room plays back. Keep the take in one press, picture and all.
Visuals
Then choose what the room sees.
Every one of them moves with what you play, in time. Pick a look the way you pick a sound. Then take it full screen, send it to a projector, and let the room have it.
- 1,000+
- visuals, built in
- 3,900+
- looks to play through
The visual library in Sonari: a shelf of moving covers, one of them opened, and then the same look taken full screen and filling the window.
In the studio
Play it into anything.
Sonari arrives in the session you are already in, as one more instrument, already playing. Nothing to install, nothing to route, and no driver. Play the part with your hands, then keep it.
Plays into
Logic Pro
GarageBand
Pro Tools
Sonari being played from a Mac: chords land one after another, the keys light as each note sounds, and the readout names what is sounding.
Recording
Nothing good gets away.
The best thing you play is usually the thing you were not trying to play. Sonari is already listening, so you can decide it was worth keeping afterwards.
Sonari open on a Mac while somebody plays into it: both hands lit up in the air, the note under each one named as it sounds, and the take being kept as it happens.
It was already recording.
The take you did not plan is still there, minutes later.
Play over yourself.
Chord, then melody, then bass. One pair of hands, a whole arrangement.
Sound and picture.
Both leave as one video, ready to post.
Into your session.
A real file, for wherever you finish things.
For everyone
If you can move, you can play this.
Turn your head and the notes walk with you. Hum, and a wind instrument answers. Four of the seventeen ways to play never ask for a pair of hands. Every other instrument asks you to fit its shape. This one fits yours.
Questions? Answers.
Do I need to know music?
No. Sonari holds you inside a key, so anything you reach for belongs there. Move your hand and it will be music. If you do read music, none of that is in your way: choose any scale you like and it gets out of the road.
What do I need to play it?
A Mac with Apple silicon, running macOS 26 or later. Nothing else. The camera your Mac already has is the instrument, and every sound is already inside, so there is nothing to plug in, download or buy. It will not run on an Intel Mac: reading your hands quickly enough to feel like an instrument takes Apple silicon.
What does it cost?
$129 once, from the Mac App Store, after fourteen days of the whole thing to make up your mind. No subscription, no tiers and no account. Every sound, every scale and every visual is in it, and there is nothing else to buy. Sonari Remote for iPhone is free.
Where do I have to stand?
Wherever you already are. Hold a hand up and open, about half a metre from the screen, roughly at chest height with your palm towards the Mac. An outline of your hand appears the moment it has you, and from then on you can move as freely as you like.
Will it work if I can only use one hand?
Yes, and none of it is a reduced version of anything. Four of the seventeen playing styles are built for exactly this. One Hand gives a single hand the whole instrument and never looks for the other one. Face, Head and Breath need no hands at all: a turn of the head walks the notes, an open mouth sounds them, and Breath is played by humming into your iPhone with no camera involved. Every one of them has its own sound, its own controls and its own reason to be chosen.
Do I need an iPhone as well?
No. Sonari is complete on a Mac on its own. An iPhone adds what a camera cannot see: the tilt of your wrist, your breath, your thumb on a screen, and a note left standing in the room. And the other way round: Sonari Remote is half an instrument. The sound is made on the Mac, so the phone on its own will open, and will not play.
Does it work with the music apps I already use?
Yes. It appears in Logic Pro, Ableton Live and everything else you work in the way any other instrument does, with nothing to install and no driver. When another music application is leading, Sonari goes quiet rather than playing over it. If you want both at once, it takes one press.
Can I play more than one part at once?
Yes. Put a part underneath what you are playing and it keeps itself going: a bassline that follows your chords, a groove, or the chord in your hand read out behind you. There are more than eight hundred built in, every one of them picks its own sound, and your hand decides how hard it pushes. Sixteen of the seventeen playing styles carry them. The one that does not is Expression, which plays no notes of its own.
Can I keep what I play?
Yes, and you can decide afterwards. Sonari is already listening, so a take you did not mean to record is still there when you realise it was the good one. Layer over it, keep the light it made along with the sound, and send the whole thing into the session you were going to finish it in.
What happens to what I play?
It stays on your Mac. Sonari has no account, no server and nothing that reports back, and the camera never leaves the machine. The full statement is the privacy policy.
Something is not working.
One address reaches a person, with no ticket system and nothing to sign in to. The support page answers the handful that come up most, and everything else is a reply away.
Put your hands
in the air.
Open it, lift a hand, and it is already an instrument.
macOS 26 or later, on a Mac with Apple silicon.