Five features, focused. SessionCodex is built around what working engineers actually need from a session library, not what a feature checklist would suggest.
SessionCodex reads each DAW's native session format directly — Pro Tools (.ptx), Ableton Live (.als), Logic Pro (.logicx packages), REAPER (.rpp), Reason (.reason), Studio One (.song), and GarageBand (.band). No conversion, no proprietary wrapper, no second copy on disk.
Sessions stay where the DAW saves them. SessionCodex indexes them in place — title, artist, project, DAW, timestamps, custom attributes — and presents the whole catalog as one search, one list, one library.
Cross-DAW means the catalog is unified, not that the sessions are. A Logic project doesn't become a Pro Tools project. It stays a Logic project — SessionCodex just knows it exists alongside everything else.
SessionCodex connects to Pro Tools through PTSL (Pro Tools Scripting Language — Avid's official gRPC interface for session inspection). It reads session metadata, track inventory, markers, and edit data without opening the session in Pro Tools.
That means you can search every Pro Tools session on your library by track name, marker label, or plug-in chain — and SessionCodex will tell you which session has the answer, without launching Pro Tools to find it.
Requires Pro Tools 2023.6 or later.
Search across your entire library by title, artist, project, DAW, or any custom attribute you choose to track. Results return in milliseconds even on libraries with thousands of sessions.
Fuzzy match handles typos and partial recall — type "cobalt" and find "Cobalt Lake — full mix" without remembering the full title. Type "rs" and filter to every Reason session you own.
Search runs entirely on your machine. The index lives next to your library, not in a cloud service.
Sessions belong to projects. Projects move through phases — writing, tracking, editing, mixing, mastering, delivery — and SessionCodex tracks where each project actually is.
Projects can span multiple DAWs. A record that starts in Logic for writing, moves to Pro Tools for tracking and mixing, and ends up with a mastering engineer on Studio One is still one project, one row in your dashboard.
Calibrated to the way records actually get made — not a generic Kanban board with arbitrary columns.
Every session SessionCodex knows about gets a small sidecar
file — plain JSON, readable in any text editor — written
into a .dtxaudio/
folder alongside the session itself.
The term sidecar is borrowed from the side-mounted passenger compartments of early motorcycles. Same idea: it travels next to the thing it belongs to. Move drives, swap machines, hand work to a collaborator — the catalog goes with the session because it lives where the session lives.
No cloud lock-in. No proprietary database. No subscription required for the core product.
Beta is invite-only and capped. If you're a working producer or engineer with a serious session library, we'd like to hear from you.
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