Arpeggiator with latch
Up, down, as played, random or chords over up to four octaves, with gate and swing. Latch it, take your hands off the keys and ride the filter.
Play it with AI
One screen, just play · A polyphonic synth for Mac
Analog soul. Digital body.
Every oscillator, filter, envelope and effect sits on one panel, with no pages and no menus. Load one of 250 presets by Re:Axis, latch the arpeggiator and ride the filter, on its own or inside your DAW.
Standalone app · VST3, Audio Unit and CLAP plugins · Apple Silicon and Intel
16
Voices
3 + 1
Oscillators + noise
2
Multimode filters
5
Effects
1
Screen, no menus
250
Factory presets
01 · Listen
Hear it before
you play it.
Factory presets, played on SONORA and recorded straight from its output, with nothing added after it.
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02 · Live
Made to be
played live.
A scale under your fingers
Don't play keys? Pick a key and a scale in the top bar and the keybed lights up every note in it: major and minor, the seven modes, the pentatonics, blues and whole tone. Improvise without a wrong note in sight.
Glide and wheels
Glide works polyphonically, on every note or only when you play legato. The pitch-bend and mod wheels respond to the mouse and to your controller.
One tempo for all
The LFOs, the arpeggiator and the delay all follow one clock, from 20 to 300 BPM, at divisions from 1/32 up to four bars.
It never stutters
Load a preset, turn every knob at once, open the settings mid-phrase: the sound carries on. Play past sixteen notes and the oldest one bows out without a click.
Let an AI agent play along
Turn on Remote control in the settings and SONORA becomes an MCP server. Claude, or any agent that speaks the Model Context Protocol, can play chords and melodies, turn any knob by name, set the tempo, and load and save presets, while the panel follows every move.
- Off until you switch it on, and only this Mac can connect until you allow the network.
- Other computers always need a token, and SONORA makes one for you.
- In the standalone app. The plugins leave it out.
03 · Presets
250 presets,
voiced by Re:Axis.
Re:Axis made every factory sound on SONORA itself. There are pads, basses, leads, keys, choirs, arps, rhythms, drums and effects, all ready when the app opens, and any of them is a good place to start pulling a patch apart.
I wanted each sound to feel like I'd patched it on an old poly late at night, slightly unstable and warm, alive under your hands. Nothing got between the idea and the sound, because everything I needed was right there on the panel.
Re:Axis
Sound designer, SONORA's factory presets ·
Listen on Bandcamp ↗
04 · Interface
Hand-crafted.
Everything at hand.
The whole instrument fits on one panel, so you never flip pages or dig through menus, and each control stays where your hand expects to find it. Every knob, meter and display is drawn for SONORA alone.
- Oscillators, filters and envelopes show what they're doing while you turn them.
- The modulation matrix, envelopes, LFOs and the effects rack sit together in a tabbed strip in the middle of the panel.
- A meter in the top bar shows how many voices are playing and how hard you're pushing your Mac.
Set up in a minute
Choose an output and a MIDI source and start playing. You can teach any knob to follow any controller, and the mapping saves itself as you go. If a note gets stuck, one click on Panic silences every voice.
05 · Under the hood
The warmth of analog,
stage by stage.
SONORA is tuned to act like analog circuitry: wide and a bit unruly, but never harsh. Follow a note through it, from the first oscillator cycle to the end of the reverb tail.
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Three oscillators, stacked wide
Each one is analog or digital. Analog plays sine, triangle, saw and square; digital plays one of 32 wavetables, from drawbar organs, vowels, reed and brass to bells, hard sync and folds. All of them are band-limited, so the high notes stay free of digital fizz. Stack up to five detuned copies of each and spread them across the stereo field for the thick, drifting sound of an old polysynth.
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Noise, white or pink
Every voice has a noise source you can send to either filter. Use it for breath and air, or for percussion.
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Two filters you can sweep
Two filters run side by side, each with its own envelope and six shapes, from warm and round to thin and nasal. Turn the cutoff as hard and fast as you like and they stay stable.
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Movement everywhere
Each voice has four envelopes, and two LFOs follow the tempo. A sixteen-slot matrix sends them to pitch, level, pan, cutoff or resonance.
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A soft clip, not a hard wall
After the amp, the mix goes through a smooth soft clip. Push a dense chord hard and it gets warmer instead of breaking up.
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Five effects, in signal order
A saturator warms the mix first, then come chorus, delay and reverb, and a lo-fi at the end bounces the lot to worn tape. The delay can run free, lock to the tempo or ping-pong between the speakers. Switch each one on from the bar above the keys.
06 · Who makes it
No borrowed engine.
No samples.
SONORA is made by Oryon Audio, and we wrote it from scratch: every oscillator, filter, envelope and effect is our own code, and so is the panel around them. That's what lets us tune each stage by ear, and keep the sound steady under your hands.
- Every sound is generated live, from the first cycle to the last echo.
- The factory presets were voiced on SONORA itself, by Re:Axis.
- Nothing to download beyond the app: no sample libraries, no content packs.
07 · Requirements
Made for the Mac.
It runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel and needs nothing else installed. To uninstall, drag the app to the Trash.
- Operating system
- macOS 12 Monterey or later
- Processor
- Universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel
- Audio
- Any CoreAudio output device, at the device's own sample rate
- MIDI
- Optional. Any CoreMIDI keyboard or controller works, with velocity, sustain, pitch bend and the mod wheel
- Play without a controller
- A three-octave keybed for the mouse or the computer keyboard
- Formats
- Standalone app · VST3, Audio Unit and CLAP plugins
- Remote control
- Optional, in the standalone app. An MCP server over HTTP for AI agents, on this Mac or, with a token, your network
08 · FAQ
Questions.
How much will SONORA cost?
We haven't set the price yet. The waiting list will hear it before anyone else.
When is it out?
When the beta has had enough hands on it. We're letting the waiting list in first, a few at a time, and we'll email you when it's your turn.
Does it run in my DAW?
Yes. SONORA is a standalone app and a VST3, Audio Unit and CLAP plugin, so you can play it on its own or load it in any Mac host that takes those formats.
Do I need a MIDI keyboard?
No. Play the three-octave keybed with the mouse or your computer keyboard. Any MIDI keyboard or controller works too, and you can teach any knob to follow any control on it.
Can an AI agent play SONORA?
Yes. Switch on Remote control in the standalone app's settings and SONORA runs an MCP server. Add it to Claude Code or any MCP client and ask it to play a melody, shape a sound or save a preset. It listens only to this Mac unless you allow your network, and then it asks for a token.
How does the beta work?
We send invitations from the waiting list in small groups. You get the app and the plugins, and we'd love to hear what you find.
Is there a Windows version?
No. SONORA is made for the Mac and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel.
Get into the beta
We're letting the waiting list into the beta first, a few at a time. Join, and we'll email you when it's your turn.