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SONIFICATION TOOLS

Turn Data Into Music for Live 10 & 11

What if you could transform raw data into music, modulation, effects, or even audio?
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Not on Live 12 yet? This legacy edition sonifies data only: it offers no text, image, or video modes, and it will not be updated going forward. However, it works with Live 10 and 11.  Only purchase this version if you’re not yet on Live 12. After purchase, you’ll be able to deduct this value from the full list price when you’re finally ready for the Live 12 Sonification Bundle.


A collection of unique creative devices, Sonification Tools were designed by Ableton Certified Trainer Noah Pred to allow access to new musical ideas via real-world data sets. Just manually type or simply copy and paste raw numeric data into the text entry field of all four devices to generate corresponding MIDI patterns with Data MIDI or Dataforge, modulation sequences with Data Mod, or spectral filtration, wavefolding distortion, impulse convolution and even exported audio waveforms with Data FX.

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Data can be typed in manually, randomly generated, or copied and pasted from any text, website, Google Sheet, CSV, Excel file, or basically anywhere to embody a string of numbers as change over time. Then select and loop the data as you like, with the lowest data value automatically corresponding to your lowest allowed output, and the highest data point automatically corresponding to your specified upper output limit — be it note pitch, velocity, length, or modulation. Data MIDI and Data Mod allow you to trigger data at any factored or fractional metrical base rate with optional cycle reset for a wide variety of rhythmic patterns. Offset delay and swing further enhance MIDI output timing. You can also trigger data at a millisecond rate for more abstracted results, or via arbitrary note input.

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A variety of trigger modes allow you to engage with Data MIDI’s output in a variety of ways, all of which can be constrained via 69 scales in any key, set locally, via Live 12’s scale and key, or via the included Global Hub utility. Better yet, you can expand or contract the range of data pitch, velocity, or length output in real time to dynamically express the data in highly musical ways. Data MIDI and Data Mod can also be Gated to only output MIDI above or below a certain threshold for more rhythmically complex output.

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Not sure what data to use? Sites like Our World In Data are a great place to start. You can also type in personally meaningful numbers — or an arbitrary string of data can also be randomized from scratch within each device to easily generate infinite sequences, patterns, and tones. A groundbreaking set of tools for artists and producers, Sonification Tools allow you to embed real-world phenomena into your creative process — and express those phenomena as uniquely as you wish, giving them a voice through your music, and inspiring newly meaningful approaches in the process.



NEW IN VERSION 1.2:

  • Includes all-new MIDI Tool Generator based on Data MIDI: Dataforge — to sonify data to MIDI notes directly in Live 12’s MIDI Clip note editor
  • New version of Data Mod takes advantage of Live 12’s new modulation option (with legacy backwards-compatible version still included)
  • Improved GUI
  • Performance enhancements

NEW IN VERSION 1.1:

  • New Data Loop Start point shift parameter when working with shortened Data Loop Lengths
  • Improved GUI
  • Performance enhancements

Info View Annotated
Learn all you need to know directly in Live - just open the Info View and hover your mouse over any parameter.

Scale Aware
Natively integrated with Live 12's scale and key for seamless workflow.

Theme Adaptive
Device colors automatically adapt to your preferred Live theme.

Optimized for Push
All parameters ready and available in Push.


Requires: Ableton Live 10.1.x running Max for Live 8.6.x on Mac or PC (new Data Mod and Dataforge MIDI Tool require Live 12).

Includes: Data MIDI, Data Mod, Data Mod Legacy, and Data FX Max for Live devices, Dataforge Max for Live MIDI Tool Generator, Utility Boost, manual.