About Sonaurelis
Built to be believed.
Sonaurelis makes display-first studio processors under a single design standard. The standard is strict because the promise is simple: what you see is what the plugin is doing.
The floor
Truthful, then assistive
The suite’s first rule is a hard one: every moving pixel traces to real telemetry from the plugin’s own DSP. Nothing data-shaped may be fake — no decorative spectra, no idle animations imitating signal, no meter that renders without being wired. If a reading is unavailable, the display shows its calibrated scale at rest.
Above that floor, each plugin earns one assistive behavior — the compressor’s energy histogram behind its threshold, the EQ’s live spectrum behind its curve, the delay’s stability marker — computed locally, from your signal, on your machine.
The shape
One screen, one drawer
There are no page tabs anywhere in the suite. Each plugin is a single screen whose hero display is the product, with eight controls by default and an expert drawer holding the rest. Progressive disclosure, not feature burial: the full parameter set stays live for automation and presets whether you ever open the drawer or not.
The material
Obsidian, cut twice
The suite is drawn in flattened obsidian with exactly two depth levels — the surface, and wells cut into it: the hero display, every value chip, every meter rail. No stacked cards, no drop shadows on things that aren’t moving, no decoration pretending to be structure. Gold belongs to the brand — the lockup, the focus ring, the preset name — and never carries data. Each plugin carries exactly one accent of its own:
- Gravitywell Compressor
- Starveil Reverb
- Timewake Delay
- Emberlight Saturation
- Luster EQ
The signature
One knob, drawn in layers
The champagne-collared ceramic knob is the suite’s single material signature — recessed well, calibrated rail, luminous value arc, collar, ceramic body, accent indicator. Every layer is drawn by code, never a filmstrip, so every state stays crisp at any size: hover lifts it 7 %, dragging lights the chip live, keyboard focus rings it in gold.
Knob states — Sonaurelis Visual Standard v2.0 states board
Typography
Numerals that hold still
Two families, self-hosted: Space Grotesk for titles, always tracked uppercase, and Inter for everything else — both under the SIL Open Font License. One hard rule sits above the ramp: every value readout uses tabular lining numerals. A number must not change width as its digits change — meters don’t wobble, chips don’t reflow, and your eye learns exactly where the decimal lives.
Accessibility is part of the same standard, not a patch: full keyboard traversal with a visible gold focus ring, AA-verified contrast for every token pair, 44-pixel hit targets, and Reduced Motion support that keeps every measurement while dropping every flourish.
Type ramp specimen — Sonaurelis Visual Standard v2.0
The promise
Nothing leaves your studio
No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry, no runtime networking — ever. Assistive features are local DSP. The plugins cannot phone home because there is nothing in them that phones.
This site is built the same way: static pages, self-hosted fonts and images, no trackers, no cookies, no analytics, no requests to anyone else’s server. You can verify that claim from your browser’s network panel — we like it when people check. The whole policy fits on one small page.
Status
Where things stand
All five plugins are in development for macOS as AU and VST3. The interface imagery on this site consists of reference renders from the frozen Sonaurelis Visual Standard v2.0 — the contract the shipping plugins are built against. No release date has been announced, and this site will not promise one until it is real.
Questions
Asked honestly, answered honestly
When do the plugins release?
No date has been announced. The journal will say it the moment it is true — this site does not do teasers.
What will they cost?
$119 per plugin, or $349 for the suite of five — perpetual licenses, stated plainly on the pricing page. Launch windows may be gentler, honestly and with an end date.
Which platforms and formats?
macOS, as AU and VST3, with a “Sonaurelis” manufacturer folder in Logic. Nothing else has been announced.
Windows?
Not announced. We would rather say nothing than promise something we have not built.
Do the plugins phone home?
Never. No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry, no runtime networking — assistive features are computed locally from your signal.
Why does the imagery say “reference render”?
The interfaces shown are renders from the frozen Sonaurelis Visual Standard v2.0 — the contract the shipping plugins are built against. As each plugin ships, its renders are replaced with real captures.