SessionBand for iPad

The SessionBand for iPad is now available for $0.99 for iPad owners. The application is available in multiple languages: English, Bokmål, Norwegian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish. It is a whopper, weighing in at 694 MB, so make sure you have plenty of free space on your iOS device. The new SessionBand for iPad app version 1.0 has been updated on 2014-11-20. The Apple Store includes a very useful feature that will check if your device and iOS version are both compatible with the app. Most iPhone and iPad are compatible. Here is the app`s compatibility information: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Bottom Line: For more information about SessionBand for iPad check developer UK Music Apps Ltd`s website : http://sessionbandapp.com/

But still lack of connection with your other apps You need to improve file share system For example if I made chord session in original version But I should make same chord session or need to use desktop computer to export acoustic1 or piano or country sessionband but I dont have personal computer Do you hear me So you need to improve file share system Every app need to use same chord session already made If I made song chord in original band then also it recomendered another sessionband app can use this song chord session in my ipad Today apple opened their file system through file apps We can select files in documents apps So you need to improve file system like this Sb files can be saved in documents file folder And through this we can download sb files to any apps you sold to us I m not good at english I m foreighner I dont english in my daily life so I dont convince my english sentence is correct or not But I hope you can understand my wording Thank you for these apps good luck     Sessionband is really great Takujoa22

I have all of these I like them a lot except I wish they had ableton link then I would LOVE them             Link Oymeit

While I respect the fact that this is a cool little app and acknowledge that each audio track is of high quality it is still very limited in what you can do with creating a song 80 000 royalty free sound samples in one little app sounds amazing and just what non instrument playing songwriters could hope for in an app However this is a bit misleading These sound samples are confined to different musical styles and to my limited knowledge of using the app means that once you choose and apply a particular style you are stuck using ONLY the sound samples created in the style s demo What does this mean for the songwriter Basically if you would write ten songs with ten entirely different chord progressions using the same demo and style Alternative 1 demo in the Rock style for example you would essentially have ten songs using the same rhythm guitar parts drums beats bass lines etc which would make ten songs sound oddly similar Even your verses B sections and choruses will have the same rhythmic approach regardless of the options to add one of three drums fills per chord My question is why why why not allow the songwriter to choose ANY sound sample among the 80 000 to be applied to a track This is why I gave it 3 stars I would love for the makers of the SessionBand line to prove me wrong In fact I ve emailed them twice yet no reply Still this app would work great for songwriter s tool to get the basis of the song progression down as a rhythm demo guide for their ideas Then an actual band or a better sequencing program could turn their basic layout into something they could release as a finished song             Great Concept but Very Limited Jaime Vendera

Y5 There is no way that I can give this app a 5 star BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE TO DOWNLOAD SONGS AND IT TAKES SO LONG I was happy to see this finally get and update but the thing I wanted most was for you guys to make it like your other apps     Still have to download the songs NimbusClouds

I wasn t able to add more than 1 chord and the app started to crash deleted the app reinstalled twice kept on crashing deleted for good DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME     Terrible kept on crashing since installed P3PPP

The app crashes each and every time I try to save a chord progression         Crashes Each Time Philsterphil

This particular app is not Audiobus compatible Beware I don t know why when all the others are so I felt I was ripped off     Disappointed maq580

Another crappy not even free freemium music app from the app store Awful non intuitive interface buggy controls and all around annoying app Don t any of these companies test their stuff before releasing What a waste of 3 bucks     Another crappy app Yeehawl

I hope an update because this app has a good potential Need more variety of chords D F for example pre count others rhythms Please update it             Good bit Afinkado

The UI on this thing is absolutely frustrating and made me want to stab someone Try ANY other app     Abominable UI typo_kign

Doesn t feel intuitive workflow is kinda clumsy as best         Workflow isn t great Strizbiz

They sound so beautiful Imagine you trying to record all these amazing instruments in your studio or even paying for musicians to record for you in a real studio Well this is where Session Band truly shines It is in the effort quality and inexpensive alternative to doing the above You can literally record a track and get inspired to make a whole song out of it Or you can use Audio bus and chop it up into your DAW like Cubasis or Auria and loop it and do other amazing things with the audio Your imagination is really the limit I contacted the developer and they are working on fixing the timing issue when exporting and other fixes I appreciate their support for this apps and although it is audio and the file size might be bigger than we wish the sound is superb People need to understand that the when you change the speed of audio no matter how good the shifting is the quality will degrade So having that in mind I don t complain about the sound changing when changing the speed of the song But if you use it as is and build your song at the actual speed stated then you re good to go Perhaps in the future the iPad will allow for better time stretching technology but for now this is what we have and personally I m really grateful for the ability to take these amazing recording Musicians with me in my personal bag and record with them at any time any place and let all my songs come to life playing along with amazing musicians The very best Thank you for the continued support to these apps and looking forward to what is coming MM4C                     Get your Song juices flowing with these apps Musikman4Christ

So many pros and some serious cons here On the good side really nice loops for creating or inspiring grooves Good variety some of which I could do without very fine musicianship I do a lot of my writing on a PSR3000 arranger keyboard and this is a workable though not playable sketch version of that philosophy Just enter the chords decide how long each lasts and you can then sample those changes in a wide variety of styles and substyles It s inexpensive I paid 2 99 and the same again for the Complete Bundle Cons Oh yes Editing is a chore You start from the beginning of the song each time you hit play Why not establish a start point How hard could that be You can t even start and stop while in edit mode It is possible fortunately to insert chords within the structure a good thing Here s what needs all kinds of work Downloading the Complete Bundle is a Herculean task You wind up having to download each of the MANY packs individually Yes each blues style each rock style the next rock style on and on Worse you can do only two at a time it takes a while and amazingly will not download in the background So you wind up having to hover over the whole process It s been several hours for me and I m still not done Sorry that s lousy coding Yes these are large audio files But musicianship isn t all there is to a usable app It s a bargain for what it is esp in view of some of the other subgroups being 2 3x the price something that could also use work So pros and cons good stuff and bad three stars I ll up it when they change some of the deficits including the download ordeal             What a mixed bag Bobbo924

The app crashes every time I edit a chord Not worth all of the money I enjoy working much better with Capture Duo for audio or my Ableton Live and Logic On the ipad Chord Poly Pad for chord input or Chordbot For beats get Imaschine beatmaker2 and to add to the mix check out fruity loops     Not worth it adelphipastor

Gotta say that I like the potential with this app to come up with chord progressions and song ideas but it was a real pain to get the hang of making it do what I wanted I spent a couple of hours or more building a chord progression but this invoked many curse words during the learning Still for 2 99 I think it s a pretty neat app but it s much harder to use than GarageBand                 Fun after you learn it Rick57

Gotta say that I like the potential with this app to come up with chord progressions and song ideas but it was a real pain to get the hang of making it do what I wanted I spent a couple of hours or more building a chord progression but this invoked many curse words during the learning Still for 2 99 I think it s a pretty neat app but it s much harder to use than GarageBand                 Fun after you learn it Rick57

I love the concept but until they do a LOT more to it I wish I had my money back Cannot use the different pkgs together either Extremely limited in control As is nothing more than a jam toy Pick your chords That s it Get real Tons of potential if they cared about more than cramming out limited releases to make more money Not buying another thing from this company until they get serious         Waste of money until DannyD01

Actually I kind of prefer this version of SessionBand over the other versions I like the fact that I can lay down one chord progression and then try it in a variety of styles quickly No there is not Audiobus support but it is not too hard to export a session to a track and then import into some other app My biggest wish for all of these apps is a more usable way to edit chord progressions But it is certainly good enough to use                 Best tool for great chord progression pien75

Great app for anyone who writes their own music or especially for people like myself who don t know music theory or play an instrument I am a songwriter and producer and the way I get my ideas out is to hire musicians and hum the idea out or play a basic melody on a keyboard for them to understand where I want to go with the song This Amazing app lets you arrange write out that the idea you have in your head without knowing the correct chords or key to the song All I had to do is pick the key I want the song to be in scroll thru different chords and arrange them and that idea I had in my head came to LIFE I pray you guys will come out with a new update which offers more chords to choose from and have an option to add drum loops to your song and maybe some different instruments like strings and either guitar or piano as well Until then I will wait patiently for more Blessings to come my way GOD Bless                 Exquisite App Love it Sean "TheMystro"

This gives me the rapid songwriter fun of my old Yamaha PSR500 auto arranger keyboard More Pop and Dance Styles please                 Love it RTMN

This app rocks I have all the collections they offer and they are radio ready sounds This is my new go to app for creating tracks on the fly and they sound great The studio players that are on the loops are top s This is a dream come true please keep making updates and adding new collections I would love to know how much studio time went into cutting the loops they just sound excellent I love the work flow of the app I created 5 tracks in the past week and they sound better than most tracks I have produced over the past 25 years lol Keep up the good work Hats off to the players they are tone daddy s                     I love it Ripit70

Still a nice app but 4 stars until they implement AudioBus                 Needs AudioBus support Fusionarts

Absolutely worst un intuitive User Interface Like HOLD loop until it turns green not blue or red with the X just green THAT Means copy I think Then tap 20 times at the next measure until it says not with double arrows PASTE HERE Oh NOW you are using Text Prompts Or try something simple like moving the play head to the 8th bar huh No sorry this always plays from the beginning Ok maybe a good user manual something more than a 7 frame kid s slide show that you guessed it must be played from the beginning every time Save your money and memory 750 MB come back a few versions later         Good loops BAD UI RedMontage

I like the app It has its limitations true but overall a fun app to play with and a handy jam along improv practice tool HOWEVER For all of you hoping for Audiobus support good luck I d love to see it as well but way back when I first got the app before the genre specific ones I emailed the dev asking if they would could make a universal version You see I bought the entire IAP bundle for my iPad and didn t want to have to buy it again for my iPhone The answer I received indicated that there was a universal app in the works It failed to mention that the universal app would be an entirely different app altogether I still don t have the IAP s on my phone which is irritating because the two apps iPad and iPhone are identical in content If you want to work on the same project on both devices and are using an IAP be prepared to pay for the same thing twice Given that experience and the fact that they have the newer AB compatible versions I d be surprised but happy to see that AB support arrive for this particular incarnation regardless of the devs promises Other than that I do enjoy throwing a progression together and just noodling over it with guitar or synth             Promising but not how you think SongsInMyHead

I love this app great tool for songwriter and musicians This is like a band in a box User friendly is right up my alley Looking forward to new releases You guys are my hero Thank you so much for the work you do for us                     Great app for all musicians Righteousgrits

When I write songs I usually just put some chords down and figure out a melody from there or vice versa For this writing style this app and the other sessionband apps is awesome Put the chords down and you can loop it over and over as you figure out the melody Switch styles with a few taps to get a different feel                     For writing with chords Joner356

I use this app mostly to expand my improvisational skills Best app out there for this purpose                     Great educational tool Rudy Sarzo

Good app Fun to play with but only 7 chord variations Seriously Not very usable in the real world I wouldn t have bought it if I knew about that limitation             It s okay @udi0geek

Ill give it an A for cool sounds and innovation Ill give it a C for cooperating with the user Many glitches Such as When you export to audioclip it sends the whole mix even if you mute certain channels Like I turned down and muted the drums It exports them anyway Also when you set the looping arrows and listen to part of the arrangement it starts playing the last place you stopped even though you hit the rewind arrow Then it begins playing from your loop arrow and the GUI does not match the sound Also when you type in words on the text bar When your done the scroll feature freezes and you have to hit play to break it loose It also need a scroll marker on the scroll bar to show your relative position in the project Also need pinch zoom function ala garage band Very hard to see where you are in the song             Please work on your code Mark Deckard

Great app one of my favorites Nice playing from all the musicians and flawless loops Song building is nice Fills very good Could use more chords though Overall now hat I was told that AUDIO BUS will be added in the next update that makes me very happy Thank you SESSION BAND PEOPLE Shalom always to you all Nebben                 NICE SUPPORT AUDIO BUS IS ON THE WAY Rabbi Neb

Great app hours of fun Add a couple of new features such as melody line new chords with tempo and style change during song and five star all the way                 Sessionband Galahad1957

a great app for the common man The common man who wants to use GREAT pieces of music to create music almost effortlessly                     SessionBand for iPad SoCal Kevin B

This app would get 5 stars if it had audiobus support                 Put the Band on the Bus MADDCARLTON

Very high quality backing track jam along song creator Please add some more rock backings Highly recomended                     Great Namratiug

Having so much fun with it That s what a practicing musician could ever ask for                     Great accompaniment app Nbirdir

Best music creation app for iOS ever for us mere mortals with no music education                     This is exactly what I had frantically looking for seslava

This app has the potential to be a truly great app With the addition of audiobuss midi export and a few other minor tweaks as indicated in other reviews this should become the foot app for many songwriters and backing track composers                 Great start OrganEyeZr

Great Pro recordings need more                     Beautiful wakeupusa44

Cool app could be cooler with AUDIOBUS Four stars for now I will give it five when Audiobus is compatible                 Masshound1 Masshound1

I like this app more every time I use it I have 5 6 core apps for composition and this is one of them Not quite as flexible as Garage Band but its not meant to be Garage Band I consider it a kind of advanced scratch pad for exploring ideas and hearing them with some arrangement ideas that I hadnt considered yet I then go from here to Garage Band then to Auria I find it as the title says very useful                     Very useful Tad Banyon

For an instrumentalist this is great I guess it could be a scratch pad for songwriting but it s really nice to jam with It s nice to put in a nice 1 4 5 bluegrass loop and practice licks or improv It s worth it to me for that alone I teach guitar and this will come in handy for playing over chords It could use some more jazz variations though                     Good for me Real person #5465L

Sessionband has great potential but until there is an update that adds variations to the styles it is pretty much useless in completing a song Fills are not enough It would be nice also to have hybrid styles To mix and match styles would greatly improve this product I like this app just not complete Hopefully future updates will address these issues             Missing variations Mgmg4871

First of all if you write songs think you might want to dreaming about it fixin to etc You NEED this app It is not perfect but it is the most useful app I have for making quick demos for my songs that are easily transformed into many different musical styles It has been a tool that has modernized many of my old songs and given my ideas for new ones Whether professional amateur or just starting this is easy useful and you won t regret buying in my opinion                     Just Buy It FranklySpeakingNow

I tend to see the forest fire instead of the trees so when I first got this I got it with the idea that it was going to be lacking just about everything I want or need and so after finally getting it to install the iPad had to be rebooted not the app s fault I tried it out and was struck by the quality of the sounds Our band doesn t have a guitar player we play classic rock and some low level progressive rock so I was really interested to see how this would help us with a few songs that really needed guitar it rocked the Casbah Okay too much distortion but still About the people behind this program I have seen nothing but professionalism and overwhelming courtesy from them and my numerous whines and moans have been met with kindness I feel this needs midi so I can use it live as a arrangement type soundsource and it needs a few bugs worked out but this is still in its infancy so a little patience is called for by me I think there are great things ahead for this About some of the styles I bought the bundle at 11 99 argh and can t see ever using a lot of them some of them seem stylistically voiced wrong but the future is bright Why 5 stars when it s not perfect Because like me we re a work in progress and I react better to constructive criticism than insults or put downs We ll do better give us time                     Why 5 stars at this point bb1b1b1b1b1b1b1

This is too basic for songwriter outside of beat the chord choices lack enough polyphony choices I do contemporary jazz improv over Latin pop R B and so on I was looking for something to create complex chords pads for songwriting this just too elementary to be helpful disappointed so far if updates and packs have more choices and complex chords then maybe I won t hold my breath not a pro tool so far         Needs development Geewhizpat