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SessionBand Original Positive Reviews

Exquisite App! Love it ...Great app for anyone who writes their own music or especially for people like myself who don't know music theory or play an instrument. I am a songwriter and producer and the way I get my ideas out is to hire musicians and hum the idea out or play a basic melody on a keyboard for them to understand where I want to go with the song. This Amazing app lets you arrange & write out that the idea you have in your head without knowing the correct chords or key to the song. All I had to do is pick the key I want the song to be in,scroll thru different chords and arrange them and that idea I had in my head came to LIFE. I pray you guys will come out with a new update which offers more chords to choose from and have an option to add drum loops to your song and maybe some different instruments like strings and either guitar or piano as well. Until then I will wait patiently for more Blessings to come my way. GOD Bless....Sean "TheMystro"Version: 2.1

Promising (but not how you think)I like the app. It has its limitations, true, but overall a fun app to play with and a handy jam-along/improv/practice tool. HOWEVER: For all of you hoping for Audiobus support- good luck. I'd love to see it as well, but way back when I first got the app (before the genre specific ones), I emailed the dev, asking if they would/could make a universal version. You see, I bought the entire IAP bundle for my iPad and didn't want to have to buy it again for my iPhone. The answer I received indicated that there was a universal app in the works. It failed to mention that the universal app would be an entirely different app altogether. I still don't have the IAP's on my phone, which is irritating, because the two apps (iPad and iPhone) are identical in content. If you want to work on the same project on both devices and are using an IAP, be prepared to pay for the same thing twice. Given that experience and the fact that they have the newer, AB compatible versions, I'd be surprised (but happy) to see that AB support arrive for this particular incarnation, regardless of the devs promises. Other than that, I do enjoy throwing a progression together and just noodling over it with guitar or synth..SongsInMyHeadVersion: 2.1

Best tool for great chord progressionActually, I kind of prefer this version of SessionBand over the other versions. I like the fact that I can lay down one chord progression and then try it in a variety of styles quickly. No there is not Audiobus support, but it is not too hard to export a session to a track and then import into some other app. My biggest wish for all of these apps is a more usable way to edit chord progressions. But it is certainly good enough to use..Pien75Version: 2.1

I love itThis app rocks! I have all the collections they offer and they are radio ready sounds. This is my new go to app for creating tracks on the fly and they sound great. The studio players that are on the loops are top's. This is a dream come true please keep making updates and adding new collections. I would love to know how much studio time went into cutting the loops they just sound excellent. I love the work flow of the app. I created 5 tracks in the past week and they sound better than most tracks I have produced over the past 25 years lol. Keep up the good work.. Hats off to the players they are tone daddy's..Ripit70Version: 2.1

Super cool, super easy!!Behold the future of writing great songs, collaborating with the VERY TOP British session musicians without leaving the crib!! I really can’t believe how great these tracks sound, how solid the grooves are, how creative the ideas are, how MANY options you have at your fingertips. If you’re in a slump and need inspiration, look no further than Sessionband. Need live musicians to make your programmed tracks feel AMAZING? You’re in the right place..MemphissaxoVersion: 2.5.3

Fun after you learn itGotta say that I like the potential with this app to come up with chord progressions and song ideas but it was a real pain to get the hang of making it do what I wanted. I spent a couple of hours or more building a chord progression but this invoked many curse words during the learning. Still, for $2.99, I think it's a pretty neat app but it's much harder to use than GarageBand..Rick57Version: 2.1

For writing with chordsWhen I write songs, I usually just put some chords down and figure out a melody from there or vice versa. For this writing style, this app (and the other sessionband apps) is awesome! Put the chords down and you can loop it over and over as you figure out the melody. Switch styles with a few taps to get a different feel..Joner356Version: 2.1

Good for Trying IdeasI use it when I’m trying to create ideas quickly. It helps me get a sense of flow, and what chords progressions work best. It’s most helpful when I try the progressions in the other versions and compare the different variations..Cbknox-satxVersion: 2.9

Great sketching tool.I’ve been using SessionBand for sketching some ideas for an audiobook score that I’m working on for an upcoming Audiobook written by a 5-time Grammy winning Musician. It has been invaluable for developing interesting chord changes and grooves. If you write Music, you should definitely use SessionBand apps!.DawelschVersion: 2.5.3

NICE SUPPORT &AUDIO BUS IS ON THE WAYGreat app, one of my favorites. Nice playing from all the musicians and flawless loops . Song building is nice. Fills very good. Could use more chords though. Overall, now hat I was told that AUDIO BUS will be added in the next update, that makes me very happy. Thank you SESSION BAND PEOPLE. Shalom always to you all. Nebben.Rabbi NebVersion: 2.1

Great startThis app has the potential to be a truly great app. With the addition of audiobuss, midi export and a few other minor tweaks as indicated in other reviews this should become the foot app for many songwriters and backing track composers..OrganEyeZrVersion: 2.1

Wow!The more I get to know this app the better. Top rate. Congratulations and thanks for bundling them at a discount. Very intuitive too. Easy to use..Dr. MoratoVersion: 2.5.3

SessionbandGreat app, hours of fun. Add a couple of new features such as melody line, new chords, with tempo and style change during song and five star all the way.Galahad1957Version: 2.1

.mid export issueWill there be a MIDI file extension on the export sharing coming soon on an update so to help enjoy this software fully musically speaking ?.CdtuneVersion: 2.9

Love it!This gives me the rapid songwriter fun of my old Yamaha PSR500 auto arranger keyboard! More Pop and Dance Styles please!.RTMNVersion: 2.1

Great educational toolI use this app mostly to expand my improvisational skills. Best app out there for this purpose!.Rudy SarzoVersion: 2.1

Get your Song juices flowing with these apps!They sound so beautiful! Imagine you trying to record all these amazing instruments in your studio or even paying for musicians to record for you in a real studio? Well, this is where Session Band truly shines. It is in the effort, quality and inexpensive alternative to doing the above. You can literally record a track and get inspired to make a whole song out of it. Or you can use Audio bus, and chop it up into your DAW, like Cubasis or Auria and loop it, and do other amazing things with the audio. Your imagination is really the limit. I contacted the developer and they are working on fixing the timing issue when exporting and other fixes. I appreciate their support for this apps and although it is audio, and the file size might be bigger than we wish, the sound is superb! People need to understand that the when you change the speed of audio no matter how good the shifting is, the quality will degrade. So, having that in mind, I don't complain about the sound changing when changing the speed of the song. But if you use it as is, and build your song at the actual speed stated, then you're good to go. Perhaps in the future, the iPad will allow for better time stretching technology but for now, this is what we have and personally, I'm really grateful for the ability to take these amazing recording Musicians with me in my personal bag and record with them at any time, any place and let all my songs come to life playing along with amazing musicians. The very best! Thank you for the continued support to these apps and looking forward to what is coming! MM4C.Musikman4ChristVersion: 2.1

GreatVery high quality backing track jam along song creator. Please add some more rock backings. Highly recomended..NamratiugVersion: 2.1

This is exactly what I had frantically looking for!Best music creation app for iOS ever for us mere mortals with no music education..SeslavaVersion: 2.1

Pretty goodI do like session band but when I export a track to Cubasis it lags. I does not stay with metronome. So I can’t use it..GdmcvayVersion: 2.5.3

Good bitI hope an update because this app has a good potential. Need more variety of chords, D/F# for example, pre count, others rhythms ... Please update it!!!.AfinkadoVersion: 2.1

Great accompaniment appHaving so much fun with it. That's what a practicing musician could ever ask for..NbirdirVersion: 2.1

It's okay...Good app. Fun to play with, but only 7 chord variations? Seriously? Not very usable in the real world. I wouldn't have bought it if I knew about that limitation..@udi0geekVersion: 2.1

SessionBand for iPadA great app for the common man! The common man who wants to use GREAT pieces of music to create music almost effortlessly !!!!!.SoCal Kevin BVersion: 2.1

Great app for all musiciansI love this app, great tool for songwriter and musicians This is like a band in a box User friendly is right up my alley Looking forward to new releases You guys are my hero Thank you so much for the work you do for us.RighteousgritsVersion: 2.1

LinkI have all of these. I like them a lot except I wish they had ableton link then I would LOVE them..OymeitVersion: 2.3

Masshound1Cool app, could be cooler with AUDIOBUS, Four stars for now I will give it five when Audiobus is compatible..Masshound1Version: 2.1

Needs AudioBus support!Still a nice app, but 4 stars until they implement AudioBus..FusionartsVersion: 2.1

BeautifulGreat Pro recordings, need more!.Wakeupusa44Version: 2.1

Put the Band on the Bus!This app would get 5 stars if it had audiobus support..MADDCARLTONVersion: 2.1

Great Concept, but Very LimitedWhile I respect the fact that this is a cool little app and acknowledge that each audio track is of high quality, it is still very limited in what you can do with creating a song. 80,000 royalty free sound samples in one little app sounds amazing, and just what non-instrument playing songwriters could hope for in an app. However, this is a bit misleading. These sound samples are confined to different musical styles, and to my limited knowledge of using the app, means that once you choose and apply a particular style, you are stuck using ONLY the sound samples created in the style’s demo. What does this mean for the songwriter? Basically, if you would write ten songs with ten entirely different chord progressions using the same demo and style (Alternative 1 demo in the Rock style, for example) you would essentially have ten songs using the same rhythm guitar parts, drums beats, bass lines, etc., which would make ten songs sound oddly similar. Even your verses, B-sections, and choruses will have the same rhythmic approach, regardless of the options to add one of three drums fills per chord. My question is, “why, why, why not allow the songwriter to choose ANY sound sample among the 80,000 to be applied to a track?” This is why I gave it 3 stars. I would love for the makers of the SessionBand line to prove me wrong. In fact, I’ve emailed them twice, yet no reply. Still, this app would work great for songwriter’s tool to get the basis of the song progression down as a rhythm demo guide for their ideas. Then an actual band or a better sequencing program could turn their basic layout into something they could release as a finished song..Jaime VenderaVersion: 2.3

What a mixed bag!So many pros and some serious cons here. On the good side, really nice loops for creating or inspiring grooves. Good variety (some of which I could do without), very fine musicianship. I do a lot of my writing on a PSR3000 arranger keyboard, and this is a workable (though not playable) sketch version of that philosophy. Just enter the chords, decide how long each lasts, and you can then sample those changes in a wide variety of styles and substyles. It’s inexpensive; I paid $2.99, and the same again for the “Complete Bundle.” Cons? Oh yes. Editing is a chore. You start from the beginning of the song each time you hit play. Why not establish a start point? How hard could that be? You can’t even start and stop while in edit mode. It is possible, fortunately, to insert chords within the structure, a good thing. Here’s what needs all kinds of work. Downloading the Complete Bundle is a Herculean task. You wind up having to download each of the (MANY!) packs individually. Yes, each blues style, each rock style, the next rock style, on and on. Worse, you can do only two at a time, it takes a while, and amazingly will not download in the background! So you wind up having to hover over the whole process. It’s been several hours for me and I’m still not done. Sorry - that’s lousy coding. Yes, these are large, audio files. But musicianship isn’t all there is to a usable app. It’s a bargain for what it is, esp. in view of some of the other subgroups being 2-3x the price, something that could also use work. So pros and cons, good stuff and bad, three stars. I’ll up it when they change some of the deficits, including the download ordeal..Bobbo924Version: 2.1

Missing variationsSessionband has great potential, but until there is an update that adds variations to the styles, it is pretty much useless in completing a song. Fills are not enough. It would be nice also to have hybrid styles. To mix and match styles would greatly improve this product. I like this app, just not complete. Hopefully future updates will address these issues..Mgmg4871Version: 1.0

Just Buy It!First of all if you write songs, think you might want to, dreaming about it, fixin' to, etc...You NEED this app. It is not perfect, but it is the most useful app I have for making quick demos for my songs that are easily transformed into many different musical styles. It has been a tool that has modernized many of my old songs and given my ideas for new ones. Whether professional, amateur, or just starting...this is easy...useful...and you won't regret buying in my opinion..FranklySpeakingNowVersion: 1.0

Very usefulI like this app more every time I use it. I have 5-6 core apps for composition and this is one of them. Not quite as flexible as Garage Band, but its not meant to be Garage Band. I consider it a kind of advanced scratch pad for exploring ideas and hearing them with some arrangement ideas that I hadnt considered yet. I then go from here to Garage Band, then to Auria. I find it, as the title says, very useful..Tad BanyonVersion: 1.0

Please work on your codeIll give it an A for cool sounds and innovation. Ill give it a C for cooperating with the user. Many glitches. Such as: When you export to audioclip, it sends the whole mix even if you mute certain channels. Like I turned down and muted the drums. It exports them anyway. Also, when you set the looping arrows and listen to part of the arrangement, it starts playing the last place you stopped even though you hit the rewind arrow. Then it begins playing from your loop arrow and the GUI does not match the sound. Also, when you type in words on the text bar. When your done the scroll feature freezes and you have to hit play to break it loose. It also need a scroll marker on the scroll bar to show your relative position in the project. Also need pinch zoom function ala garage band. Very hard to see where you are in the song..Mark DeckardVersion: 2.1

Good for meFor an instrumentalist, this is great. I guess it could be a scratch pad for songwriting, but it's really nice to jam with. It's nice to put in a nice 1-4-5 bluegrass loop and practice licks or improv. It's worth it to me for that alone. I teach guitar and this will come in handy for playing over chords. It could use some more jazz variations though..Real person #5465LVersion: 1.0

Clip lengthThey only thing I am having trouble doing is shortening and lengthening clips.LaceylovesalexVersion: 2.5.3

Thé best!Always the best in the world… Nicolas.Nicolachos007Version: 2.9

Full screen mode update is terribleAudio distortion issues resolved after I updated iPhone operating system. Update was done by inexperienced programmers. Bottom portion with tiny buttons is about 1/3 of display. Chord blocks and text are now annoyingly small. No one probably reviewed the results. Same poor design of display on acoustic and piano apps. App display layout not what is showing in advertisements of displays. Audio distorted since before recent update (on recent iPhone with latest OS).Pete BlkVersion: 2.9

Very goodI enjoy the good cross section of styles... The versatility of this app exceeds that of the other family apps, for my purposes. - Customer service is great. Developers are very active and attentive..Rbloch66Version: 2.1

Absolutely love this app!I've been having a great time composing music bits for use in training videos, for intros, etc. i just wish i had an iPad with more capacity to download all the available extras!!.Nomad411Version: 2.1

Fun Ap for Creating Chord Changes in Different Styles.Lots of great styles across different genres. Electronic, guitar, bass and drums all really well done. Strings and Piano sounded synthesized. Hope to see real acoustic classical instruments in future loops. Great customer support for an issue I had..Lechuan8Version: 1.0

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SessionBand Original Negative Reviews

Waste of money until ....I love the concept but until they do a LOT more to it, I wish I had my money back. Cannot use the different pkgs together either. Extremely limited in control. As is, nothing more than a jam toy. Pick your chords? That's it? Get real! Tons of potential if they cared about more than cramming out limited releases to make more money Not buying another thing from this company until they get serious!.DannyD01Version: 2.1

Don’t waste your money.I got this as a way to create backing tracks for practicing. I wish there were a way to return this and get my money back. Here’s what’s wrong: 1) Only one sample per style, so no variation in music created 2) Styles are lame sounding 3) User interface is difficult to figure out. I mean, touching on the right side of a chord bubble thing to add a chord? Who thought of that? Here’s what’s right: 1) Absolutely nothing. Just buy iReal Pro instead..TenorialVersion: 2.7

Another crappy app.Another crappy, not even free, "freemium" music app from the app store. Awful, non-intuitive interface, buggy controls and all around annoying app. Don't any of these companies test their stuff before releasing? What a waste of 3 bucks..YeehawlVersion: 2.1

Not worth itThe app crashes every time I edit a chord. Not worth all of the money. I enjoy working much better with Capture Duo for audio or my Ableton Live and Logic. On the ipad: Chord Poly Pad for chord input or Chordbot. For beats get Imaschine, beatmaker2 and to add to the mix check out fruity loops..AdelphipastorVersion: 2.1

Terrible....kept on crashing since installedI wasn't able to add more than 1 chord and the app started to crash.....deleted the app, reinstalled twice... kept on crashing...deleted for good!!!!!! DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME..P3PPPVersion: 2.1

Crashes Each TimeThe app crashes each and every time I try to save a chord progression..PhilsterphilVersion: 2.1

What Happened?Stalls and crashes on an iPad 2 with iOS 9.3.5. Reinstall didn't fix it. Used to work great..TimexVersion: 2.4

Disappointed!!!!This particular app is not Audiobus compatible!!!! Beware!!! I don't know why when all the others are...so I felt I was ripped off!.Maq580Version: 2.1

Workflow isn't greatDoesn't feel intuitive, workflow is kinda clumsy as best..StrizbizVersion: 2.1

Abominable UIThe UI on this thing is absolutely frustrating and made me want to stab someone 🔪 Try ANY other app..Typo_kignVersion: 2.1

Needs developmentThis is too basic for songwriter outside of "beat"....the chord choices lack enough polyphony choices...I do contemporary jazz....improv over Latin, pop, R&B and so on...I was looking for something to create complex chords/pads for songwriting...this just too elementary to be helpful....disappointed so far...if updates and packs have more choices and complex chords...then maybe?...I won't hold my breath...not a pro tool so far....GeewhizpatVersion: 1.0

Sessionband is really great!,,,,!!But still lack of connection with your other apps!! You need to improve file share system ! For example, if I made chord session in original version.... But I should make same chord session or need to use desktop computer to export acoustic1 or piano or country sessionband. but I dont have personal computer . Do you hear me?? So you need to improve file share system. Every app need to use same chord session(already made) If I made song chord in original band... then.also..it recomendered...another sessionband app can use this song chord session in my ipad. Today apple opened their file system through file apps. We can select files in documents apps. So you need to improve file system like this.... Sb files can be saved in documents file folder. And through this, we can download sb files to any apps you sold to us. I, m not good at english . I,m foreighner... I dont english in my daily life.... so I dont convince my english sentence is correct or not. But I hope you can understand my wording... Thank you for these apps!, good luck!!!.MA0022f4c4b765Version: 2.3

Good loops, BAD UI..Absolutely worst, un-intuitive, User Interface! Like HOLD loop until it turns green (not blue, or red with the "X") just green... THAT Means copy - I think.. Then tap 20 times at the next measure until it says, not with double arrows >>-<< PASTE HERE ! Oh NOW you are using Text Prompts? Or try something simple like moving the play head to the 8th bar .. huh? No sorry, this always plays from the beginning. Ok?.maybe a good user manual, something more than a 7 frame kid's slide show that, you guessed it, must be played from the beginning every time. Save your money and memory (750 MB) come back a few versions later....MontazsVersion: 2.1

CrashesThis update cannot run, says Loading then quits, restarted ipad mini , same thing, please update.SHuSHLVersion: 2.0

Didn't like it..Huge files...average sounds. Not updated since 2013! Stay away..Geani66Version: 2.1

It does not on stallI had the same problem, it will not install on my Ipad 2. I down loaded the rock app at that works fine. This app hangs when it tries to install..Numberboy23Version: 2.1

Does not installTried 3 times to install this app - all failed.Francster99Version: 2.1

Come on...Really?...That's it?Is that all you get for 6 bucks? I can't even imagine what the 5 upgrade might do!!! Come on guys...Refund please!.Rvan07Version: 1.0

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