Common questions below. If you don't find an answer, get in touch directly.
No. SessionCodex never moves, copies, or modifies your session files.
It reads them in place, builds an index, and writes a small sidecar
file (plain JSON) into a .dtxaudio/ folder alongside
each session.
Your DAW projects stay exactly where your DAW saves them. The catalog sits over your library — it doesn't reorganize it.
Mostly, yes. SessionCodex reads each DAW's native session format directly — it doesn't need the DAW installed to catalog sessions made in that DAW.
The one exception is Pro Tools deep integration, which uses PTSL (Avid's gRPC interface) for live session inspection. That feature requires Pro Tools 2023.6 or later to be installed and running. File-level scanning of Pro Tools sessions still works without it.
Yes. The Perpetual License covers up to two of your own machines. Move drives, swap rooms, hand work to your laptop for a session away from the studio — the catalog travels with the work, because it lives in the sidecar files next to the sessions.
Yes. SessionCodex is local-first. Your library lives on your machine, the index lives on your machine, and search runs entirely locally. No internet connection is required to scan, search, organize, or open sessions.
Every session SessionCodex knows about has a sidecar file written next to it — plain JSON, readable in any text editor. If SessionCodex disappeared tomorrow, your sessions wouldn't be affected, and the metadata next to them would still be there in a format anyone can parse.
No proprietary database, no cloud account, no lock-in.
Not at launch. SessionCodex v1 is macOS-only. A Windows version isn't on the near-term roadmap — the engineering effort to reach feature parity (especially around PTSL and Logic packaging) is significant, and the audience we're starting with is heavily Mac-based.
If demand changes that calculus, we'll revisit.
The Mac App Store sandbox restricts the kind of cross-DAW file access SessionCodex depends on. It needs to read sessions wherever your DAWs save them — and write sidecar files alongside those sessions — without per-folder prompts breaking the experience.
Selling directly is what makes the feature set possible. See the pricing page for the longer version.
The beta is free for invited testers. At launch, SessionCodex will be sold directly — one-time payment, no subscription for the core product. There isn't a perpetual free tier planned.
Yes, within 14 days of purchase. Email support@sessioncodex.com and we'll refund your license — no questions asked.
If SessionCodex doesn't earn its place in your workflow within two weeks, it isn't going to.
Derek Teaderman, working under DTX Audio in California. Day job: AV engineering for the City of Dublin. Nights and weekends: SessionCodex.
The features that ship are the features Derek uses every day. The features on the roadmap are the ones he's building next, because he needs them next. Not a venture-funded startup — one engineer building the tool he wished he had.