Manifest Audio has upgraded their Sonification Tools to version 2.0. This suite of Max for Live devices is designed to transform all forms of data into sound: whether working with numbers, text, images, video, or real-time OSC streams.
The bundle now comes with the all-new Data Synth – a Max for Live instrument that transforms numeric data, text, or image files into unique synthesis oscillators. From melodic textures to abstract soundscapes, Data Synth expands the boundaries of creative expression with an 8-voice polyphonic Max for Live sonification synthesizer. It offers data, text, and image conversion, frequency modulation, dedicated sub oscillator and noise modulation, four envelopes, two LFOs, a modulation matrix and more.
Manifest Audio Sonification Tools 2.0
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It’s easy to use – simply type or simply copy and paste any string of numbers in Data mode, use natural language in Text mode, or drag and drop JPG, PNG, or TIFF images in Image mode on all four devices. Harness your selected data source to generate corresponding MIDI patterns with Data MIDI, modulation sequences with Data Mod, spectral filtration, wavefolding distortion, impulse convolution or even exported audio waveforms with Data FX — or unique synthesis oscillators (and LFOs) with Data Synth.
With Data MIDI or Data Mod, you can select and loop your input data, with the lowest data value automatically corresponding to your lowest allowed output, and the highest data automatically corresponding to your specified upper output limit. Data MIDI and Data Mod also allow you to trigger data at any multiplied metrical base rate, with optional cycle reset as well as Euclidean sequencing for a wide variety of rhythmic patterns, with offset delay and swing further enhancing note timing. You can also trigger data at a millisecond rate — or via arbitrary MIDI pattern input. Data MIDI and Data Mod can also harness MP4 or MOV video files, real-time camera input, or raw OSC data.
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, or via the included Global Hub utility. Better yet, you can expand or contract the range of note pitch, velocity, or length output in real time to dynamically express your selected data source in highly musical ways.
Sonification Tools allow you to embed real-world phenomena in your creative process…
Adding another twist, data can also be randomized to easily generate a wide variety of patterns and tone from scratch. Data MIDI and Data Mod can also be Gated to only produce MIDI above or below a certain threshold for more rhythmically complex output. And with Live 12, you can use our MIDI Tool Generators Dataforge to sonify data or Typewriter to sonify text directly in your MIDI clips, with the bulk of Data MIDI’s settings on offer.
PreSonus Quantum HD 2 Audio Interface Review
The PreSonus HD 2 computer audio interface came in for a long term test and we employed four evaluators to test it out in their respective project studios – their comments in quotes below. The new HD2 is part of a complete revamping of PreSonus’ audio interface range and is complemented by the ES 2, ES 4 and HD 8.
Sonification Tools Enhancements:
- Text and Image sonification modes in all devices
- Video file, Camera, and OSC sonification modes in Data MIDI & Data Mod
- Euclidean sequencing options in Data MIDI & Data Mod
- Data FX can now Invert, Reverse, Scramble, and Bias a data set – with improved Spectral Filtration
- Generate data with or without decimals
- Apply exponential data skewing
- Comes with Dataforge and Typewriter MIDI Tool Generators
- And of course, the all new Data Synth: transform Data, Text, or Image into the core oscillator of an advanced 8-voice polysynth
