Professional music technology
Technology for better musical preparation.
Sonatium develops professional tools for musicians, ensembles, educators and production teams—helping people organise their work, develop their skills and arrive ready to perform.
This week — Riverside, Autumn Run
A representative view of how a production's material is organised in Dep Station.
Flagship product
The digital rehearsal room for prepared performances.
Dep Station brings songs, parts, charts, tracks, lyrics, notes, videos and rehearsal materials into one structured environment. Musical directors and administrators organise the production; musicians receive exactly what they need to practise and track their own readiness.
The goal is not simply to store files. It is to help every musician arrive prepared, confident and ready to rehearse or perform.
Production
Riverside — Autumn Run
- Overture Reed 1 — Clarinet/Sax Ready
- Act I, No. 4 — “Better Than This” Reed 1 — Clarinet/Sax In progress
- Act I, No. 7 — Reprise Reed 1 — Clarinet/Sax Needs attention
- Act II, No. 2 — “The Long Way Round” Reed 1 — Clarinet/Sax Not started
Materials attached
Chart (PDF), reference track, conductor notes, rehearsal video
Your private note
“Watch the key change at bar 64 — confirm with MD.”
Built for real ensembles
Wherever musicians have to prepare together.
Theatre productions
Keep cast, band, charts, tracks and rehearsal updates aligned across a changing production.
Orchestras and ensembles
Distribute parts and reference materials while keeping musicians clear about what requires preparation.
Bands and session teams
Give every player the correct versions, charts, recordings and notes before the rehearsal or session.
Cruise and recurring entertainment
Maintain changing repertoire, line-ups and role-specific materials across repeated performances.
Schools and academies
Organise ensemble material and help students understand what they need to prepare.
Worship and community organisations
Keep rotating teams aligned around songs, arrangements, keys, parts and rehearsal notes.
The portfolio
One company. A connected field of musical work.
Sonatium products address different parts of the same process: developing musical skill, preparing people and material, supporting rehearsal, and managing modern production work.
Performance
Dep Station
Available nowRehearsal materials and performance readiness for musicians, ensembles and production teams.
Explore Dep StationEducation
Music Skills Lab
In developmentTeacher-augmented diagnostic and practice software for developing core music skills, beginning with Grade 1 piano.
Read about Music Skills LabByeBye B Flat
Method in developmentA beginner trumpet method that teaches standard B♭ trumpet through concert-pitch reading from the first lesson.
Read about ByeBye B FlatProduction
AudioBlitz
Developing programmePractical teaching for digital audio workstations, particularly Ableton Live.
View AudioBlitzAbleCommand
Desktop product in developmentA local command centre for scanning, organising, diagnosing and maintaining large Ableton Live project libraries.
View AbleCommandPerformance
- Dep Station
Education
- Music Skills Lab
- ByeBye B Flat
Production
- AudioBlitz
- AbleCommand
One company, organised around the work that happens before a performance.
Philosophy
Built around the work musicians actually do.
Sonatium begins with real musical workflows: learning a part, preparing a production, identifying a weakness, organising a repertoire or maintaining years of creative work. The technology is there to make those processes clearer—not to replace musical judgement.
Preparation over administration
Organise information around the next rehearsal, lesson, session or performance.
Human judgement remains central
Software can identify patterns and organise evidence; musicians and teachers provide interpretation.
Professional clarity
Every product should reduce uncertainty and help people understand what they need to do next.
Major developing platform
Detailed evidence. Teacher judgement. Better-directed practice.
Music Skills Lab is a multi-tenant music education platform for teachers, tutors, schools, academies and learners. Beginning with Grade 1 piano, it combines theory, aural, reading, writing, sight-reading, scales, rhythm and performance tasks with MIDI-first analysis.
The platform can estimate note accuracy, timing, hesitation, rushing, pulse instability and repeated mistakes. It produces diagnostic evidence and draft recommendations, while teachers review, edit and add judgement on phrasing, interpretation, confidence and readiness.
Read about Music Skills Lab- 01 Student performs A theory, aural, reading or performance task is completed
- 02 MIDI and task evidence Notes, timing and task responses are captured
- 03 Diagnostic estimates Accuracy, hesitation, rushing and pulse patterns are estimated
- 04 Teacher review The teacher checks, edits and adds musical judgement
- 05 Focused practice The student receives clear, teacher-approved next steps
Production
Practical tools for the production side of music-making.
AudioBlitz
Practical digital audio workstation teaching focused on understanding workflows, completing real projects and using Ableton Live with confidence.
View AudioBlitzAbleCommand
A local desktop command centre for indexing Ableton projects, identifying the latest sets, reviewing project size and version, and developing safe library-maintenance tools.
View AbleCommand- Riverside Remix — v14 Active Projects 412 MB Live 12.1 Ready
- Client Demo — Aug batch Client Work 1.8 GB Live 11.3 Version check
- Ambient Sketch 07 Sketches 88 MB Live 12.1 Ready
- Old Session — 2019 Archive 3.2 GB Live 9.7 Missing samples
Concert C
Written and sounding pitch match from the first lesson.
Specialist method
A more direct first route into trumpet.
ByeBye B Flat teaches beginners to play a standard B♭ trumpet while reading concert-pitch music. Students learn the fingerings that produce the written concert notes, allowing them to play from the same material as pianists, guitarists, singers and many modern bands.
Traditional transposed notation remains a valuable skill and can be introduced later when a player needs it. The initial aim is simply to reduce unnecessary complexity and get beginners making music sooner.
Read about ByeBye B FlatMake every rehearsal count.
Bring repertoire, parts, reference material and personal preparation into one structured rehearsal environment.