Ajinomatrix makes history and releases MP6.app — a free universal converter for sensory data with a full Studio

Ajinomatrix has reached an important milestone in the development of the MP6 sensory data standard. Plus - 17,000+ views later, the experimental MP6 ecosystem has expanded from its first public converter into a seven-tool Studio for capturing, converting, viewing, validating, playing, comparing and reporting sensory data.

We are pleased to announce the first public release of MP6.app, a set of tools featuring a free online converter designed to help food, beverage, sensory science, product development, and consumer research professionals transform existing sensory datasets into the emerging MP6 format.

MP6 — short for Multi-Perception 6 — is Ajinomatrix’s evolving framework for structuring sensory information across the full human experience: taste, smell, sight, touch, sound, and a sixth psychosensory/intuitive layer. The ambition behind MP6 is simple but far-reaching: to make sensory data more portable, comparable, reusable, and interoperable across laboratories, product teams, recipe systems, consumer panels, and AI-assisted innovation platforms.

With this first release, MP6.app allowed users to take existing sensory data — including Excel-based panel files, CSV exports, and heterogeneous “sheet piles” — and begin translating them into a structured .mp6 file. This was a first practical step toward a wider sensory data standardization ecosystem.

The tools are currently offered for free so that professionals, researchers, developers, and early adopters can experiment with the format, test workflows, and help shape the next stage of the standard.

👉 Try the  ⁠MP6 Studio portal or go directly to the  ⁠MP6 Converter.

Why this matters — ⁠MP6.org

The objective is not simply to create another sensory file format.

It is to establish an interoperability layer through which sensory information can progressively be:

captured → standardized → visualized → validated → played through time → compared → reported → used to support decisions.

That distinction has become much clearer since the original MP6 release.

Seven operational tools, one sensory workflow

The public MP6 Studio now brings together seven specialized applications:

• ⁠MP6 Converter — transforms existing Excel, CSV and sensory datasets toward MP6-compatible structures.

• ⁠MP6 Recorder — captures sensory observations during an experience and supports their transformation into dynamic sensory information.

• ⁠MP6 Viewer — opens and visually inspects MP6 files.

• ⁠MP6 Validator — checks MP6 files for structural validity and compatibility.

• ⁠MP6 Timeline Player — represents sensory experience through time rather than reducing it to a static score. Aroma, taste, texture, sight, sound and psychosensory response can evolve as a sensory sequence.

• ⁠MP6 Compare — compares two MP6 experiences through overlaid sensory profiles, dimension-level differences and attribute-level deltas.

• ⁠MP6 Report Generator — transforms structured MP6 information into human-readable material for researchers, product teams, collaborators and clients.

All seven tools are accessible through one experimental portal:

👉 ⁠Explore the complete MP6 Studio - mp6.org

The tools remain experimental and the MP6 specification continues to evolve. Their purpose is precisely to make the emerging standard testable rather than leaving it confined to specifications and presentations.

Why sensory interoperability matters

Food and beverage organizations generate enormous amounts of sensory information, but much of it remains fragmented across spreadsheets, panel systems, proprietary databases, reports, laboratory templates and consumer-research platforms.

The resulting problem is larger than file management.

When sensory information cannot move easily between systems, it becomes difficult to reuse historical evaluations, compare product iterations, connect formulation or recipe changes with perceived experience, communicate results consistently across teams, or prepare structured sensory information for computational and AI-assisted analysis.

MP6 explores whether a common compatibility layer can reduce that fragmentation.

A sensory evaluation should not necessarily terminate as a spreadsheet or PDF.

It can become structured information that other tools can read, compare, visualize and process.

From static scores to sensory timelines

One of the most important developments since the original announcement has been the  ⁠MP6 Timeline Player.

Sensory experience is temporal.

Chocolate melts. Aroma develops. Acidity emerges. Texture changes. Aftertaste persists. Music, environment and visual context can also evolve during the experience.

Reducing such an experience to a single static score necessarily removes information.

The Player therefore explores another possibility: treating sensory perception as something that can be played through time.

A short walkthrough is available for mobile visitors, while the full interactive experience is particularly suited to desktop exploration.

👉 ⁠Try the MP6 Timeline Player

From individual tools toward a sensory technology stack

MP6 is also increasingly becoming one component of a broader Ajinomatrix architecture.

The emerging technological direction connects complementary layers including MP6 for sensory representation, JRF for recipe/process interoperability, SRS for sensory relationship structures, and higher-level modelling and orchestration research.

The long-term objective is a machine-readable continuum between:

what was made → how it was made → how it was perceived → how two versions differ → what can be learned from those differences → what decision should follow.

This is where sensory digitization potentially becomes considerably more useful than digitizing tasting notes alone.

An open invitation to experiment

MP6 remains an evolving experimental standard, and that is precisely why Ajinomatrix is making working implementations publicly accessible.

We invite sensory scientists, flavourists, food technologists, chefs, product developers, consumer researchers, data engineers, AI researchers and industrial innovation teams to test the Studio and challenge the approach.

Useful feedback includes difficult datasets, unusual sensory methodologies, interoperability requirements, temporal sensory cases and industrial workflows that current tools do not adequately represent.

👉 ⁠Explore MP6 Studio - mp6.org

For organizations investigating sensory digitization, product comparison, R&D workflows or an industrial MP6 application, Ajinomatrix also offers a first professional project-fit consultation.

👉 ⁠Discuss an MP6 / sensory project with Ajinomatrix

MP6 began publicly as a converter.

It is becoming an experimental operating environment for sensory data.

And this is still an early stage.

For sensory scientists, flavourists and food innovation teams: would this help explain panel results or product experience to clients and R&D teams? See here, we may be able to help!