A question, a bug, or feedback.

Ableton Live is fully supported today. FL Studio, Logic Pro, REAPER, Studio One, Bitwig Studio, Cubase, Pro Tools, Reason and GarageBand are in beta. Opening a project and previewing bounces works for any DAW; reading tempo, key and plugins depends on what each format stores. See the full format table.

Yes. Sessions reads .als files from any era of Live, every set gets cataloged, opens in your Live, and works with ratings, tags, statuses, bounce previews and demo tracking regardless of which version wrote it. Tempo, plugins, track counts and session files read back through old versions too. The one exception is the song key, which needs a set saved in Live 12. Earlier versions of Live simply never stored a project key, so there's nothing in the file to read. Open an old set in Live 12 and save it and the key appears like any other.

Not to use Sessions. The app never asks you to sign in, and it works the same whether you're online or not. Buying is where an account comes in: you sign in or create one on the way to checkout, and your license is tied to it, so you can look your key up again, free up a machine you no longer use and re-download the installers yourself instead of emailing us. Unlocking the app takes whichever you prefer: sign in once from Settings and your license arrives by itself, or paste the key and never sign in at all. The optional Cloud + A&R subscription works exactly the same way, and your cloud backup is opened by that subscription key, on the web as well. A key bought before accounts existed keeps working for good, and you can attach it to an account whenever you feel like it.

No. Scanning is read-only. Sessions never moves, renames or deletes a project unless you explicitly ask it to, and those actions go to the Recycle Bin, never a permanent delete.

Nowhere. Sessions runs entirely on your computer, with no account, no telemetry, and nothing about your music leaving it. There is one deliberate exception, and it is opt-in: the Sessions Cloud + A&R add-on. If you subscribe and ask it to research a label or to find labels for a genre, that name or genre is sent to our server, which looks it up using Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, so the name or genre is passed to Anthropic for the search and nothing identifying you goes with it. Nothing else travels with it: not your projects, not your notes, not the rest of your book. Sessions Cloud backup carries the folders you choose (projects, samples, presets, bounces). Your backup travels over an encrypted connection and is stored encrypted, but we hold the keys, so the service can read what you back up: that is what makes browsing your backup, downloading a file and sending someone a link possible at all. It does not run until you subscribe and choose folders. Once you have, it keeps itself current as you work, unless you switch automatic backups off in Settings.