SessionCodex is a cross-DAW session library for working audio engineers. It catalogs every session on your machine — Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, REAPER, Reason, Studio One, GarageBand — and gives you one search, one project view, and one place to find anything you've ever printed.
It exists because every working engineer I know has the same problem. Sessions accumulate across years and across DAWs. They live on whatever drive was plugged in that week, in whatever folder structure made sense at the time. When a client calls back two years after the fact and asks for the stems, the answer is somewhere between "give me a minute" and "give me a day." That's the gap SessionCodex fills.
It doesn't move your sessions. It doesn't convert them. It doesn't ask you to migrate your library into a proprietary database or sync everything to a cloud you don't own. SessionCodex reads each DAW's native format in place, builds a unified index, and writes a small sidecar file — plain JSON — alongside each session. Move drives, swap machines, hand a project to another engineer: the catalog goes with the work.
Right now SessionCodex is in invite-only beta. Beta testers get the current macOS build, a private feedback channel directly to me, and visibility into what's coming next. The features that ship are the features I use every day. The features on the roadmap are the ones I'm building next, because I need them next.
Quick note about me: I'm Derek. I've been engineering records for over a decade. SessionCodex started as the spreadsheet I kept on my second monitor — the one I'd update when I remembered and forget when I didn't. Then a script. Then a few scripts. Then the realization that the tool I wanted didn't exist, and the DAW vendors had no reason to build it. I run DTX Audio in California; SessionCodex happens nights and weekends.
If you're a working producer or engineer with a serious session library and you want to help shape what ships, I'd like to hear from you. Beta is capped and reviewed by hand, but every request gets read.
Thanks for being here. More notes as the beta develops.
— Derek