Guides
Seven things worth knowing before you play in the air.
How a camera becomes an instrument. What Sonari sends to the software you already use. And how all of it stands beside everything else you could buy.
- Instruments you play without touchingThe theremin got there in 1920, and almost nobody plays one. What changed since, what you can play in the air today, and why a camera reads a hand the way an antenna never could.
- Gesture MIDI controllersCameras, rings, gloves and infrared. What each one costs, what it can feel, how much hardware it needs, and which of them make a sound on their own.
- MPE, and what Sonari sendsBend one note without bending the chord. What MPE is, which apps read it, and the exact messages Sonari sends as your hand moves.
- Sonari with your DAWSonari turns up in Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio and Pro Tools as an instrument and as a controller. What to expect in each, and the one setting people miss.
- The Stage, for live visualsYour playing becomes light in the same instant it becomes sound. A thousand visuals, full screen or thrown across the wall behind you, drawn from the notes rather than the audio.
- Scales from eight living traditionsMaqam, raga, gamelan and more, at their own pitches rather than flattened onto a piano. Hundreds of scales, and a way to stay inside one while you play.
- If you were waiting on a ROLIYour Seaboard still works, and here is why. What to do with an Airwave, what else plays expressively, and where a camera fits alongside them.
Or skip all of it and lift a hand.
Nothing here is required reading. Open Sonari, raise a hand in front of your Mac, and it is already an instrument.