Ask a person. You'll get one.

What to include

Anything you can tell us about the state the app was in saves a round trip:

• The Sonara version, from Sonara › About Sonara, and your macOS version.
• What you were doing, what you expected, and what happened instead.
• If a particular project is involved, attach the .sonara file. It is plain JSON describing your room, gear and wiring, and it is only ever used to reproduce what you are seeing.

Bug reports and feature requests go to the same address. There is no public tracker yet; when there is, this page will point at it.

Asking for gear

Sonara's equipment library is data, published separately from the app, so a piece of gear can be added without waiting for a release, and the app picks up a new library on its own within a day. If something you own is missing, ask for it and include a link to the manufacturer's page or spec sheet. What we need to model a unit is its dimensions, its rack units if it is rack gear, its weight, its power draw, and the connectors on it with what each one carries.

Acoustic treatment is the same, with one condition: absorption coefficients have to come from the manufacturer's own published measurements, per octave band. We do not estimate them and we do not fill in gaps with plausible numbers. Where a product has no published data, it can still be added as a generic construction, and the entry says as much.

Getting started

• The welcome window opens the demo studio: a finished room with gear placed, wiring, patchbays and treatment on it. It is the fastest way to see what the app does before drawing your own.
• Rooms are drawn in millimetres, gear comes from the library, and wiring is checked as you make it. Nothing needs to be complete for the acoustics or the cable schedule to have something to say.
• Sonara keeps its equipment library up to date by itself, at most once a day, and applies a new one at the next launch.

Requirements

macOS 15 Sequoia or later. Sonara is a document-based Mac app: your projects are ordinary files you can keep, copy and back up wherever you like.

Privacy and terms

What the app stores and sends is set out on the privacy page; the licence is on the terms page.

Last updated 9 September 2026 · sonara@andon.dev