The data-driven suite arrives as a cross-platform plug-in bundle with AU/CLAP/VST3 formats, plus an Ableton Live Extension.
Manifest Audio has released Sonification Tools v3 for $199, on sale for $169 until 1 November, 2026. A ground-up rebuild of their data-driven Max for Live suite as VST3, AU and CLAP plug-ins for macOS, Windows, and Linux, the bundle contains a dedicated sequencing MIDI effect in Data Path, a four-oscillator sonification synthesizer in Data Synth, and a parallel-processing multi-effect in Data FX - alongside Data Map, a new Ableton Live Extension, and Data Tap Pro: a free upgrade to the full version of their new OSC-generating iOS companion app.
The core premise is consistent: pick a data set - whether a city’s rainfall, a currency's price, or even the magnitude of recent asteroid visits - and each tool puts the numbers to a different musical use. Data is chosen through a shared selector that cascades from Type to Source to Series, drawing on providers including NASA, NOAA, Our World in Data, Wikipedia, and more.
Offline sources use spreadsheets, images, text, video files, audio files, or hand-drawn shapes as data, while a Math category offers 47 algorithms, from chaotic maps to strange attractors, with every control available for automation.
Data Synth ($99/$79 on launch sale) is a 16-voice, MPE-enabled instrument whose oscillators read data as a single subtractive waveform cycle, or additively, as a harmonic spectrum. Four independent data slots feed four oscillators, each with their own cross-modulation option. These same four data slots can also be used to drive four LFOs, which combine with four envelopes, per-note randomization, and extensive modulation routing - along with a built-in sequencer that turns those same data sets into patterns or arpeggios in any scale or tuning.
Data FX ($69/$49 on launch sale) applies the idea to real-time audio processing. Seven data-driven effect types, including convolution, granulation, a multi-tap delay, spectral filtration, wavefolding distortion, a resonator bank, and spectral morphing, take their shape from the data, backed by eight customizable modulators - including LFOs also shaped by the same data. They also include four slots for conventional global effects, controlled by those same data-driven LFOs.
Data FX using data sets to drive a Convolution reverb, a Resonator bank, a Spectral Filter and a Multi-Tap delay.
Data Path ($49/39 on launch sale) is a MIDI effect that reads data as a sequence, mapping pitch, velocity, note length, probability and rhythm, with Euclidean patterning, multiple chord voices, and MPE. Its Process mode flips the concept: rather than generating notes, data reshapes what you play. It can also send the data out as OSC and MIDI CC. Data Synth contains a very similar sequencer - but if you want to sequence other instruments with data, that's what Data Path is for.
Finally, Data Map ($39/$29 on launch sale) brings sonification directly into Live: right-click a track or clip