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Data Map: Data Sonification Extension for Ableton Live

DATA MAP

Audio and MIDI Sonification Dashboard

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Data Map is an Ableton Live Extension that turns real-world data into music directly inside Live. Right-click a track or a clip, choose a source from weather and the environment to finance, health, and the web, and Data Map writes the result as a new MIDI clip, a new audio clip, or a transformation of material you already have. Every result lands on a new clip, so your original is never overwritten. The audio path has no notes anywhere in it, by design. Melody and harmony are what the MIDI side already does well, so audio is built for tone and texture instead. It is also why every audio control glides between data points by default: with no note boundaries to hide it, a value jumping instantly from one data point to the next is the most common way a render sounds broken.


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BUILT-IN DATA NAVIGATION

  • Translate data into MIDI: generate a new MIDI clip from a track header or a Session clip slot
  • Transform MIDI with data: reshape an existing MIDI clip, or every clip in an Arrangement time selection
  • Transform multiple MIDI clips with data: process several Session clips with the same settings in one run
  • Translate data into audio: render new audio, or transform an existing audio clip, in the Arrangement
  • Place MIDI in Session or the Arrangement, and audio in the Arrangement or its take lanes
  • Scale Aware follows Live's own current scale and root note
  • Reselect changes the source or series without losing your settings

GENERATING AND TRANSFORMING AUDIO

  • Generate: a Carrier with up to 16 detuned voices, a Modulator with AM, FM, PM, and ring modulation, and a Noise generator, every control data-drivable
  • Transform an existing clip with six algorithms: Grain Sort, Slit Scan, Freeze, Zipper, Repitch, and Retrograde (or None)
  • Filter, Amplitude, Gate, Pan, Width, Normalize, fades, and Oversample on every render
  • Every control glides between data points by default
  • Up to 128 beats per clip, with several variations rendered to take lanes in one pass when an algorithm includes randomness
  • Clips are placed unwarped, rendered at exactly the right length for your tempo
GENERATING MIDI

  • A time range slider that zooms in, zooms out, and slides along the data in one gesture
  • Pitch, Velocity, Length, Chance, Rate, and Gate follow the data or hold a fixed value
  • Voices 2 to 8 add harmony above each note, fixed or data-driven
  • Euclidean and Count rhythm generators, with Reset to pull a long rhythm back to the bar
  • Sample and Offset thin the data and rotate its starting point
  • Unique mutes repeated pitches; Legato joins them into sustained notes


TRANSFORMING MIDI

  • Never adds a note, never moves one in time, and never touches the source clip
  • A note the data removes is muted rather than deleted, so the clip's original shape stays visible
  • Pitch, Velocity, and Length move relative to what you wrote, so a crescendo stays a crescendo
  • A chord is read as one event, so it is reshaped as a whole rather than pulled apart
  • Read the data at each note's position in the clip, or in note order
  • Gate decides where the data applies; notes outside it pass through exactly as written

DATA INPUT

  • 39 sources across 12 categories, including weather, environment, finance, economics, social, health, and web
  • Four offline sources: Spreadsheet, Numbers, Image, and Text
  • A world map with place search for every location-based source
  • Station, site, and buoy fields that only step to stations reporting the series you chose
  • NASA JPL Horizons planetary motion, seen from the Sun or from Earth, retrograde loops included
  • Biodiversity counts normalized by taxonomic class, so recording effort is not mistaken for abundance


Requires:
Internet for most data sources.
Ableton Live Suite 12.4.x.
Not available in Live Standard, Intro, or Lite.
Tool Tip Annotated
Learn all you need to know directly in Live - just click the [?] icon in the Extension and hover your mouse over any parameter.
Scale Aware
Natively integrated with Live 12's scale and key.
Already comes included in:
Sonification Bundle · Ultra Bundle