Pro Tools. Ableton Live. Logic Pro. REAPER. Reason. Studio One. GarageBand. One searchable library on your machine — built by a working audio engineer.
SessionCodex catalogs every session in your library — across every DAW you work in. It reads each session's native format, indexes the metadata you actually need, and gives you a single search across all of it.
Your sessions stay where they are. Nothing is moved, copied, or modified. The catalog lives on your machine and travels with your sessions when they travel.
It's the layer that sits over your library. Not a replacement, not a translator, not another folder system to maintain. Just an index that knows what you've made and where to find it.
SessionCodex scans the folders where your DAWs already save sessions. It doesn't move anything; it builds a catalog of what's there, what DAW it came from, and what project it belongs to.
Find any session by title, artist, project, DAW, or any attribute you care to track. Group sessions into projects that span multiple DAWs and follow the phases records actually move through.
SessionCodex writes a small sidecar file alongside your sessions. When you move to a new machine, plug in a new drive, or hand a project to another engineer, the catalog travels with the work.
Five features committed for the first release. Everything below is what will be in your hands on day one.
One unified view across Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, REAPER, Reason, Studio One, and GarageBand. SessionCodex reads each DAW's native session format and catalogs sessions by type, artist, album, and project. Sessions stay where your DAW expects them — nothing is moved or modified.
Live connection to Pro Tools via PTSL (Pro Tools Scripting Language — Avid's official gRPC interface for session inspection). SessionCodex reads session metadata, track inventory, markers, and edit data without opening the session in Pro Tools.
Find any session across your entire library by title, artist, project, DAW, or attribute. Results return in milliseconds even on libraries with thousands of sessions.
Sessions belong to projects. Projects move through phases — writing, tracking, editing, mixing, mastering, delivery — and SessionCodex tracks where each project actually is. Calibrated to how records get made, not generic project-management buckets.
Your library lives on your machine. A sidecar file (a small metadata file that travels alongside the session, named for the side-mounted passenger compartments of early motorcycles) records what SessionCodex knows about each session. Move drives, swap machines, hand work to a collaborator — the catalog goes with it. No cloud lock-in. No subscription required for the core product.
Derek Teaderman has been engineering records for over a decade. SessionCodex started as the spreadsheet he kept on his second monitor — the one he'd update when he remembered to and forget when he didn't.
It became the script he wrote to scan his Pro Tools sessions. Then the script that scanned his Ableton projects. Then the realization that the tool he wanted didn't exist, and the DAW vendors had no reason to build it.
Three years later, SessionCodex is the working tool he uses every day at DTX Audio. The features that ship are the features he relies on. The features on the roadmap are the ones he's building next, because he needs them next.
This is not a venture-funded startup. It is one engineer building the tool he wished he had, with the discipline of someone whose own work is on the line. If a release breaks, Derek loses sessions before you do.
The catalog lives on your drive. Every session SessionCodex knows about gets a small sidecar file — plain JSON, readable in any text editor — written alongside the session itself. The metadata never leaves your sessions, and your sessions never leave your machine.
Move drives. Switch rooms. Hand a project to another engineer. The catalog goes with the work, because it lives in the same place the work lives. No cloud account required. No subscription required. No proprietary format you can't escape.
When SessionCloud ships, it'll be optional, additive, and a feature you turn on — never a subscription you pay to keep your own data.
Beta access is free for invited testers. At launch, SessionCodex ships with the pricing below — no recurring fees for the core product.
One-time payment. All launch features included. One year of updates. Use on up to two of your own machines. No subscription. No expiration. The version you buy keeps working.
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.