Sonara.

For macOS

Design the room
before you build it.

Sonara is a Mac app for planning studios and live setups. Draw the room, place the gear, wire it, plan the patchbays and treat the acoustics, all on one plan that checks itself.

Every cable is validated for fit and level. Every panel is checked against where the sound actually lands. The shopping list falls out of the drawing.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store
The Sonara plan view: a studio drawn to scale with the gear placed, cable runs shown, first reflections traced from each monitor to the walls, and the inspector listing every connection

One plan.Everything the room needs.

The floor plan, the wiring, the patchbays and the acoustics are the same document. Change one and the others answer.

Wire

The wiring view: gear as blocks with their ports down the sides, cables colour-coded by signal, arranged so signal flows left to right

Drag an output to an input. Sonara checks the connector, the gender and the signal level, tells you when you need a pad or a DI, and refuses the connections that damage gear. The diagram lays itself out from the cabling.

Patch

The patchbay designer: the room's sources and destinations counted, the number of bays needed, and every channel assigned with its normal shown

Count the room's I/O and see how many bays it really needs. Assign every point, read the normals off the design, and the channel schedule and cable runs come out for free.

Treat

The acoustics view: decay time per octave band against target, room modes, reflections to fix, and a worst-first list of what to do about them

Room modes, reverberation per band and first reflections plotted on the walls, with a worst-first list of what to do. Place absorbers, traps and clouds and watch the numbers move.

See it

The 3D room view: the room as drawn, treatment on the walls and in the corners, the gear where it stands, reflections traced through the space

The room as drawn, with the treatment on the walls and the gear where it stands, so what the numbers say and what the room looks like are the same thing.

Design your own absorber

The absorber designer: a corner trap footprint drawn against the two walls it sits in, with the room's reflection points marked so a wing can reach one

Draw the footprint of a trap to the shape of the corner, give it a fill and a thickness, and it joins the library for this room with its absorption worked out from the material.

Buy

The cable schedule: every run grouped by cable type with its estimated length, ready to order

A cable schedule with lengths, a parts list for the patchbays and a treatment list, all from the same drawing. Fix the plan and the list fixes itself. No spreadsheet.

Plan

Draw the room to scale. Place desks, racks, stands and seating, mark the doors, windows and power outlets, hang screens and speakers on mounts. Everything is in millimetres and everything knows how big it is.

Power

Mark the outlets where they are and see which racks can live there, how many sockets are free and what the room draws.