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Life & fun · November 3, 2026

Sonari

A hand-gesture instrument and MIDI controller for Mac

Sonari launched on November 3, 2026 with 70 votes, #38 of 690 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Lift a hand and a note rises with it. Open your fingers and the sound opens with them. Sonari turns the way you move into music, with nothing to hold and nothing to learn first.

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. 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. 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:…from playsonari.com

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