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Sessions is the performance-oriented plug-in host that puts all your virtual instruments and effects at your fingertips. With powerful features and a streamlined workflow, musicians can enjoy ultimate freedom to explore, create, play and perform without a DAW.
Refreshingly straightforward, Sessions is designed to keep you ‘in the moment’ however you make music. Thanks to the fluid drag-and-drop interface and innovations like the Always-On Recorder, producers, songwriters and sound designers can quickly experiment with new ideas and jump-start the creative process.
For live players, Sessions has everything you need for an impromptu jam or a professional stage performance including MIDI layers and splits, flexible audio mixing, seamless sound switching, backing tracks, MIDI control, Ableton Link support and so much more!
Sessions takes advantage of the unique strengths of Mac and iPad while delivering the same innovative feature set and ease-of-use on both platforms. Sessions is a Universal Purchase that includes both the Mac and iPad apps with no subscriptions and no in-app purchases.
KEY FEATURES
* Fully featured live Mixer with Input, Instrument and Aux Channels, Side Chains, Sends and hardware routing
* Highly efficient multi-threaded audio engine for hosting AUv2 and AUv3 Instrument and Audio Effect Plug-ins
* MIDI layers, splits, filters and transposition
* Twelve Scenes with independent Mixers and seamless switching and layering
* Cusomizable Plug-in Widgets for adjusting Plug-in parameters
* One Big Knob and sixteen Macros for one-knob control over multiple parameters
* External hardware MIDI control of Marcos, Scene switching and other app features
* Playback of backing tracks, stems and loops direct to the main output or routed via the Mixer
* Always-On Recorder continuously captures the last 15 minutes of audio output
* Direct-to-disk recording for unlimited duration recording
* User Patch Library for saving and recalling favorite Plug-in chains
* Ableton Link and External MIDI Clock sync
* Metronome with selectable tick sound
Promotional materials depict Sessions hosting Audio Units from third party manufacturers. These Audio Units are not included with Sessions and no endorsement from or affiliation with these manufacturers is implied. All trademarks from these manufacturers are property of their respective holders.
Sessions: Plug-In Host App Comments & Reviews
Sessions: Plug-In Host Positive Reviews
Rad.I've wanted an app like this for a long time, and I was so stoked when I finally found this one. The ability to experiment with plugins, including creating crazy signal chains without all the clutter of a DAW is fantastic. The ability to design awesome patches by chaining plugins and then favoriting them is also incredible. The fact that it not only gives you the ability to record, but prerecords for an extended period are absolutely brillialnt features. All of that said, there are a few features I would really love to see added. 1.) MIDI recording. Just going right along with audio. For those of us who love to stack synths and layer sounds, or for the times that you happen upon an excellent riff or groove, with spot on improvisational performance, but you would like to try it with different synths/patches or whatever. It seems like this would be a relatively easy feature to add, and it would take this app to another level. Particularly if you could route the MIDI pre or post, in case you're using an arpegiator app or something in your signal chain. 2.) The ability to either export signal chains to DAW, run Sessions as a plugin in a DAW (achieving basically the same effect) and/or connect Sessions to a softsampler in a DAW to capture an awesome signal chain you have come up with in Sessions without having to go through and recreate it to be able to use it in a production. So yeah, this app is awesome, and totally worth acquiring, but it could get even better with a few additions. Thanks so much to the developers for making this rad app..Version: 1.2
Exactly what I was looking for!Excellent App in every respect. It works (for me at least) flawlessly, and to be honest, there are very few apps I can say that about. It is straight forward, does what it is made for and keeps it at that which is perfect. It doesn’t need any bells and whistles added because the plug ins which you already have are the bells and whistles. It presents them in an organized way too. Leave the music creation apps for when you need them. This app is in a category by itself. Thanks Devs, very well done!.Version: 2.3
Has potential but there’s a big bugI downloaded this app recently and immediately started testing it and using it. It works as advertised, and it is very user friendly, to my surprise. This is perhaps one of the easiest interfaces out there to understand. However, the page where you can activate a sound or pin sounds (to continue to play the sound regardless of main sound being played) seems to be memory intensive, and when switching sounds within that page I get audio drops vs experiencing seamless transitions consistently. I have the latest iPad m5, with 12 gigs of ram, so I’m sure that minor coding on the development side can fix this..Version: 5.1
MainStage (Lite) for iOSLess powerful than Camelot and keystage (no backing tracks, sending midi to your lights, displaying lyrics, etc) and not the infinite routing of AUM/apematrix. But it’s by far the most apple design, and requires only one tutorial vid instead of 10. Roadmap promises midi generator, etc, support, better performance, and more. I’m happy to support it now because it’s what I prefer to use and the fastest to get going when I just want to play. Though, unexpectedly, jumping between this and AUM has made me better at both..Version: 3.4
Great AU host from a very responsive company.I had been a happy Sessions user for a few months when I upgraded to a M4 Pro based Mac. This revealed a very odd bug with some more recent Arturia plug-ins. I reported the issue to Open Planet Software. Within a week (and some back and forth discussing various scenarios and signing me up for Test Flight), they provided me a beta release that fixed the issue. A few days later, this version was released to the Mac App Store. Incredibly impressive customer support..Version: 5.3
My pallette for experimentationI was a beta tester for this app and could not review it until iOS 26 became released for real. Now that it has, I could say that this is a great app for just having fun experimenting with sounds and plug-ins. I have used it constantly both on my iPad and my desktop. I highly recommend this app. It’s very stable and a lot of fun..Version: 4.0
Excellent Plug-in HostReally great plugin host for when you don’t feel like opening an entire session in your DAW to noodle around. Very intuitive, and extremely nice that it will still record your playing, so you don’t forget that really sick thing you just came up with..Version: 5.2
Real DealThis is IOS’s alternative to my macbook pro Mainstage For live performance this is the real deal. Easy to navigate. It’s solid, doesn’t drop apps, maintains patches, layers patches nicely. It’s a dream come true. Thank you!.Version: 3.4
AmazingGreat for quick fun playing. Find some of the best moments fooling around nice being able to save last 15min. I would love midi recording too. It’s near perfect!.Version: 1.3
The OneIncredible and intuitive with a really good philosophy behind it…I basically only run this app on my laptop…looking forward to midi plugins.Version: 7.0
The only host I trust for live electronic showsThis app handles external midi clock better than any app available. Perform with confidence!.Version: 5.3
EXCELLENT! LOVE THIS APP.A solid intuitive virtual instrument plug-in host to help experiment with different virtual instruments. Using on MacOS and iPadOS..Version: 5.4
The new Must Have music app!What can I say. This app is so good. Music making on an iPad has always been an unorganized mess. Sessions Pro finally gives me the organization of my instruments and FX in a neat and tidy little package. It may not sound like much, but having EASY access to all my sounds leaves my brain free to focus on music making. When I first set things up I had a few questions and the developer responded in less than 24 hours and set me straight. A great app by great people..Version: 9.3
Midi fx?Wanna use Atom Piano Roll 2….Version: 3.0
My go to for live performanceI find it to be very intuitive, a nice alternative, stable and it’s constantly being updated with new features. You will not be disappointed..Version: 9.3
Changes the way you think about making music with your computer in a really good wayAnd it’s tight and minimal and the devs are workin real hard and a one time purchase and it rocks.Version: 9.2
Love itThis app just keeps getting better and better. Bring on the MIDI recording..Version: 9.1
The Best All Around Session Mixer on iOS (Universal too!)I’ll list some things as of 9.1 that this app has that arent common for other more popular mixers on iPad - Multithreaded (MultiCore) - Backing Tracks - Scenes for transitions - MIDIFX - Custom Widgets for Plugins - Automate any exposed parameter - Macro Knobs for Transit like automation for multiple parameters single or multiple - Always on recording (Audio, hopefully MIDI one day) - Universal (iPad, Mac) All of this for cheaper than the more popular mixer on this platform. Just get it. You wont be disappointed..Version: 9.1
Promising!I never leave reviews for anything but i really do see the potential for this app. The scene function is interesting, and if only it can assign midi commands to select per channel rather than only assignable to next and previous scenes, this could replace my current workflow for gigging.Version: 3.1
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