Journal

Notes from development.

Short, true, and dated. This is where announcements happen — nothing is teased here that is not real.

2026-08-09

Pricing, decided early and in public

The plugins will be $119 each, or $349 for the suite of five. Perpetual licenses — no subscription, ever. Your license will be a file that validates on your machine: no activation server, no account, no dongle.

We are publishing prices before anything can be bought because we would rather be checkable than mysterious. If a launch window is discounted, it will be real, time-boxed, and end when we said it would.

2026-08-09

The visual standard is frozen

Today the Sonaurelis Visual Standard reached v2.0 and froze — checksummed, versioned, and binding for every plugin in the suite. It locks the things that make five products feel like one line: the placement grid, the obsidian material system, the champagne-collared knob, the type ramp, the motion grammar, and the rule above all of them — every moving pixel traces to real telemetry.

The interface imagery on this site comes from that standard’s reference renders. As each plugin ships, its renders will be replaced with captures of the real thing — that swap will be announced here, not quietly.

Next: Gravitywell, the compressor, builds first against the frozen standard.