Sessions Pro will be released on Tuesday, June 16 2026.

What is Sessions Pro?

Available for Mac and iPad, Sessions Pro is a flexible control centre and plug-in host for creating and performing music. With a streamlined design, ultra low latency and performer-friendly features, it’s the ‘Grand Central’ hub that brings everything together for live players and DAW-less creators.

Guitarists and keyboard players will appreciate stage-ready features like MIDI layers and splits, seamless sound switching, backing tracks and MIDI controller support.

In the studio, producers and creators can experiment with new ideas using MIDI FX with flexible MIDI routing, Ableton Link support and automatic, continuous recording so no spark of inspiration is ever lost again.

Key features

• Connect instruments and microphones and shape your sound with Audio FX plug-ins.
• Play Virtual Instruments with layers and splits from your MIDI keyboards and controllers.
• Get creative with arpeggiators, sequencers and other MIDI generator plug-ins.
• Mix everything in the pro-grade mixer, complete with sends, auxes and side chains.
• Control critical plug-in parameters with beautiful, configurable Widgets.
• Switch and blend twelve independent Scenes with seamless, natural transitions.
• Set up single-knob, multi-parameter Macros for flexible and dynamic control.
• Use external MIDI controllers and pedals to switch Scenes, adjust Macros and more.
• Play pre-recorded backing tracks, stems and loops. Route straight to the main output or through the mixer for further processing.
• Stay in time with other apps and devices using Ableton Link and MIDI Clock.
• Continuous, automatic background recording so you can playback and save whatever you’ve played in the last 15 minutes at any time.
• Traditional ‘direct-to-disk’ recording for unlimited duration recording.
• Practice with the built-in metronome.
• Find plug-ins fast by searching or favouriting. Hide unwanted plug-ins in the Plug-in Manager.
• Keep a library of your favourite Patches and plug-in combinations.
• Quickly load and save entire Projects with all Scene, Macro, Clock and Backing Track data.
• Rock solid timing and reliability with a custom built high performance, low latency, multithreaded audio engine that includes plug-in delay compensation and sample accurate MIDI timing.

What’s new in the latest update?

Support for MIDI FX Audio Units (such as arpeggiators and sequencers) and flexible MIDI routing between Instrument Channel Strips. The UI has also been updated with the Liquid Glass look when running on iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 Tahoe.

To reflect the increase in functionality added since the original v1.0 released in 2024, Sessions is now called Sessions Pro.

Price and Availability

• Available on the App Store as a one-time purchase of $19.99 that includes both the Mac and iPad apps.
• Updates are always free for existing users.
• A free trial is available on the Sessions Pro website and via Apple’s TestFlight.
• Requires a Mac running macOS 15.6 or later or an iPad running iPadOS 18.6 or later.

Videos

Two Minute Tour

Using MIDI FX Plug-ins

Using Plug-in Widgets

More ‘how-to’ videos coming soon!

Links

Sessions Pro

https://www.openplanetsoftware.com/sessions

Open Planet Software

https://www.openplanetsoftware.com

Press Contact

Gordon Murrison

gordon [at] openplanetsoftware [dot] com

Developer Quote

Gordon Murrison, developer of Sessions Pro said “Sessions Pro is an evolution of the original Sessions app released for Mac in 2024. Since then we’ve brought the app to iPad, added features like a multi-threaded audio engine, Session Mix performer’s view, backing track playback and flexible file-based projects as well many smaller but equally important refinements like plug-in latency compensation, plug-in side chains and countless workflow improvements. Sessions Pro represents the biggest leap yet with the additional of MIDI FX plugin support and flexible MIDI routing, opening new possibilities for DAW-less creators to make music with arpeggiators, sequencers and other MIDI generator Audio Units. I hope you all enjoy Sessions Pro as much as the team have enjoyed building it.”

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