Sessions

Sessions is the band's shelf of tapes: every practice and every show, with its recordings, uploaded by any member of the account and there for every member to hear and download. Find it in the account menu at the top right, under Projects.

Sessions and recordings

A session is one practice or one show. It has a kind (Practice or Show), the day it starts, a place and notes, and a name of its own if you give it one ("Battle of the Bands"); without a name it is called after its place and day ("The Elbow Room · Oct 18, 2026"). A session's recordings are the audio files of that evening, each with its own title, day and notes, in the order they were made. A recording can carry an input source ("Kevin's phone", "Room mic"), so recordings of one performance from several devices stay told apart: set it for a batch as you upload, or on a recording's Edit; it shows by the title and goes into the download's name. A recording of one song can be tied to that song on its Edit: the row links to the song, and the song's page lists its session recordings under Demos. A show that runs past midnight is still one session: its recordings may be of the day it starts or the day after, never further.

Uploading

Pick one or more audio files: a phone's voice memo, a recorder's WAV, a board mix from the venue, in any of the formats a demo accepts, up to 2 GB a file. Each file is dated by its own clock (the recorder's, not the upload's) and goes into the session of that day, or the day before's if that is where the evening started, or into a new session of that day named after the place you typed. To put files somewhere particular, choose the session first. An MP3 of each recording renders in the background for playing and for the session's download; the row says "MP3 rendering…" until it is there. Everyone else in the account gets a notification.

Recording in the app

Record a session on the Sessions page opens a recorder with one job: the room, in stereo, from your device's microphone or a line in. Pick the input (and the device, if you have more than one), press Record, play the set, press Stop. Hear it back, give it a title (it starts as "Practice 7:42 PM"), choose the session or let today's day decide, name the input source, and Save to sessions: it uploads like any other recording and the MP3 and waveform follow. Recordings are compressed unless you tick Lossless, which makes much larger files. Low cut rolls off everything under 80 Hz on the way in (60 or 120 if you prefer, or Off), which takes the rumble and handling noise out of a room recording; your choice is remembered. Keep the page open while it records; a phone records only with the screen on.

Listening

The player at the top plays a session's recordings in order: press Play all on a session, or the play button on any recording, and use the arrows for the previous and next one. Space plays and pauses, Home goes back to the start. To practice one part, drag across the playing recording's waveform to select it and press Loop (or L): it plays round until you press Loop again; with nothing selected, Loop repeats the whole recording, and Escape clears the selection. Download MP3s on a session saves every rendered MP3 of it in one zip, numbered in order; each recording's menu has its own MP3 and the original file, named after the recording's title ("Battle of the Bands set 2" saves as battle-of-the-bands-set-2.mp3).

Waveforms and comments

Every recording has a comments button at the end of its row, with the count. It opens the recording's waveform, with the playhead once it plays, and its comments underneath; the recording that is playing has it open already. Click the waveform to jump there. To leave a comment at a spot, ⌘-click (Ctrl-click) or right-click the waveform and choose Comment here: the position is filled in, as time, and you add a title and what you heard. The pencil by the comments heading leaves a comment about the recording in general, and the Playhead button in the form takes the position from where the recording is playing. A comment with a position shows as a bubble on the waveform; Go to on it jumps there. You can edit your own comments; you or an admin can delete them. Everyone else in the account gets a notification, and its link opens the recording.

The waveform is drawn on the server when the MP3 renders, so a long recording costs the phone nothing; a recording says "The waveform is on its way…" until it is there.

Chat

Each session has a chat of its own: press Chat in the session's header. It works as a song's chat (see Chat): messages in time order, Enter sends, your own can be edited or deleted, a time like 1:23 in a message is a link that jumps the player there, and a dot on the button marks messages you have not seen. Everyone in the account can read and write, and gets a notification.

Search

The search field beside the Practice and Show filter narrows the list as you type: a session stays when its name, place, notes, kind or day match, or when any of its recordings does, by title, file name, notes, who uploaded it, its day, or the words of a comment on it. A session found through a recording shows only the recordings that matched.

Sharing one recording

Sessions are for members, but one recording can go further: choose Share… in a recording's menu and make a viewing link. Whoever opens it hears that recording on a page of its own, with the waveform and the downloads, and nothing else of the band's sessions. Links can expire, be limited to a number of uses, and be revoked; Open its page shows you the page they land on.

Sorting recordings into sessions

Two sessions on one day, an acoustic set in the afternoon and the show at night, say: choose New session on this day… in a session's menu, name it, then open each recording's Edit and pick the session from the list, which offers the sessions of the recording's day and the day before, or New session… to make one right there. A session's Edit changes its name, kind, day, place and notes; Delete session removes it with every recording in it.

Sessions belong to the account, not to a project or a song: a practice covers the whole set. Keep the notes for what was played, what worked and what to fix next time.