Sessions Pro: Create & Perform

Name: Sessions Pro: Create & Perform
Price: 19.99 USD
Rating: 4.9 (24 reviews)
Author: Open Planet Software

Control Centre & Plug-in Host

$19.99

24 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

Open Planet Software
Language

EN
English
Size

20.7
MB

Sessions Pro is a flexible control centre and plug-in host for creating and performing music. With a streamlined design, ultra low latency and performer-friendly features, it’s the ‘Grand Central’ hub that brings everything together for live players and DAW-less creators. Key features * Connect instruments and microphones and shape your sound with Audio FX plug-ins. * Play Virtual Instruments with layers and splits from your MIDI keyboards and controllers. * Get creative with arpeggiators, sequencers and other MIDI generator plug-ins. * Mix everything in the pro-grade mixer, complete with sends, auxes and side chains. * Control critical plug-in parameters with beautiful, configurable widgets. * Switch and blend twelve independent Scenes with seamless, natural transitions. * Set up single-knob, multi-parameter Macros for flexible and dynamic control. * Use external MIDI controllers and pedals to switch Scenes, adjust Macros and more. * Play pre-recorded backing tracks, stems and loops. Route straight to the main output or through the mixer for further processing. * Stay in time with other apps and devices using Ableton Link and MIDI Clock. * Continuous, automatic background recording so you can playback and save whatever you’ve played in the last 15 minutes at any time. * Traditional ‘direct-to-disk’ recording for unlimited duration recording. * Practice with the built-in metronome. * Find plug-ins fast by searching or favouriting. Hide unwanted plug-ins in the Plug-in Manager. * Keep a library of your favourite Patches and plug-in combinations. * Quickly load and save entire Projects with all Scene, Macro, Clock and Backing Track data. * Rock solid timing and reliability with a custom built high performance, low latency, multithreaded audio engine that includes plug-in delay compensation and sample accurate MIDI timing. Sessions Pro is available as a one-time purchase that includes both the Mac and iPad apps. A free trial is available from https://www.openplanetsoftware.com/sessions/ Promotional materials depict Sessions Pro hosting Audio Units from third party manufacturers. These Audio Units are not included with Sessions Pro and no endorsement from or affiliation with these manufacturers is implied. All trademarks from these manufacturers are property of their respective holders.

Ratings & Reviews

4.9

out of 5

24 Ratings

Rad.
11/12/2024
Scott..?
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.
Rad.
11/12/2024
Scott..?

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.
Exactly what I was looking for!
06/24/2025
Double nope
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!
Exactly what I was looking for!
06/24/2025
Double nope

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!
Has potential but there’s a big bug
12/08/2025
iospoweruserz
I 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.
Has potential but there’s a big bug
12/08/2025
iospoweruserz

I 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.
MainStage (Lite) for iOS
08/23/2025
iOSjjap
Less 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.
MainStage (Lite) for iOS
08/23/2025
iOSjjap

Less 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.

Sessions Pro 9.1 includes the following improvements: * Adds a Pre / Post Instrument option when routing MIDI data between Channel Strips. This allows MIDI generating Instrument plug-ins to be used in a similar way to MIDI FX plug-ins. * Fixes an issue with stuck notes when bypassing some MIDI FX plug-ins. * Fixes an audio artefact heard when switching Scenes containing certain plug-ins. Sessions Pro will never interrupt you to ask for a review - we don’t like being interrupted either! However, App Store ratings and reviews are important, so if you are enjoying Sessions Pro and have a spare minute, we’d be delighted if you could leave a rating or review on the App Store. Thanks!

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Seller: Open Planet Software Limited
Size: 20.7 MB
Category: Music
Compatibility: Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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