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SessionBand on sale again
I just noticed the SessionBand apps are on sale for $0.99 each. Good opportunity, if you like what they do. For example https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sessionband-original/id580135085.
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The Country version is surprisingly good... it's not trad country but very smooth pop bordering on jazz like progressions. The "Acoustic 2" has a great array of guitar strumming and picking patterns for folk/pop song writing: James Taylor finger style to Cat Stephens chordal strumming.
I like Sessionband a lot, I have many, but it seems they changed the the sales scheme, now the app is free but you have to buy IAP to have the content and in the IAP price I have not seen any offers
Do you have BOTH acoustic versions, @McD?
If so is one better than the other????
(These apps are huge! Trying to conserve space... 🤗)
What is the actual point of these apps? Only thing I can think of is backing for practice jamming.
I own them all... and all the IAP's (which are prominent in their latest releases as an effective business model... free with additional content for a lot more).
As a general rule the more recent product is going to have better production values... study the release history and go for the latest app if you're only going to spend $1.
But remember, Apple will hold the product for you to download and utilize when you need it so I tend to have 75% of my SessionBand apps deleted due to space but I can get any of them in a few minutes and make something or better yet... grab an audio stem for a project and just et it roll off the disk again.
So, at $1 each I'd spend $5-10 selecting the genres you think you'd use but be advised you can pull out drums, chords, bass lines as distinct recordings/loop-able as song fodder.
It I made demo's for singer's I'd be using these apps and making studio quality demos
for the cost of the iPad, a mixing DAW and a handful of these apps. You can be the songwriter and give a singer a backing track for them to co-write a tune over in a style they
like. They are better than building tracks by hand or using erzatz apps to fake musicianship and should just a little bit off.
They have audio demos of all their products to help you determine if the styles are interesting to you for song writing or the players useful for you to set up new progressions
in the app and generate studio demo sessions fast.
The recording quality is really good and will pass as a collection of musicians playing clever
studio parts and you get enough sample styles to work with an artist to select just the right feeling for a project.
It's better than Band in a Box at a fraction of the price... they have a business model that can lead to hundreds of dollars to get everything you need to sound "real".
They are also great if you want to silence one of the parts and practice with a real band sound on any instrument... there's a click track. Compare your playing to the pros and what ideas they come up with compared to yours.
@jassy i May be wrong, but at the .99 sale price, you get the whole app in whatever “style” you buy. I have gotten a couple outright free in the same complete format. They do have “free” versions like the funk version that comes limited and you need IAP’s to unlock it. Usually those have an * after the buy/get button. I bought all of the versions that are .99 right now and they all appear to be the full versions like the ukelele and Jazz 2 that I got free a while back. In the full versions, if there are additional IAP’s, I don’t need them because there are plenty styles without expansion. For my use, I sample individual individual instruments, chop them up and rearrange them so effectively the 10 to 20 styles in the app can be made into unlimited melodies. I love it because I set the chord progression so unlike sampling vinyl, I know exactly the notes/chords, bpm I’m working with out of the gate. For a buck, this is an incredible resource. Unlimited sample packs for $1 with drums and multiple instruments I can isolate played by incredible musicians and recorded pristinely? Sold! Only drawback is app size like @McD said, but I offload them as soon as I’m done sampling.
Glad you mentioned Band in a box, because that's what I was wondering, it was a DAW I was strongly considering getting. I used a website similar to it called jamstudio, it was free at the time but is now subscription based, and it comes with a new daw called ignite, which also looks unique and interesting.
My only problem with session band is that it looks like you cant swap out instruments for others, I was told to export the instruments into garageband. Is this something that audiobus is capable of? Are you exporting the actual instruments, or just the loop stems?
Band in a Box is way ahead but it costs to collect the styles, the soloists and keep up with the
constant stream of product updates. I gave up after about $200 and moved over to IOS to control my music software spend.
Export as MIDI? or Export Audio stems?
I just use the app as is to generate backing tracks for my guitar practice. It plays back in AUM
and I can record the backing track and the guitar mixed together. I think it's good for musicians that want to practice tunes/progressions and for song writers to generate backing tracks for their vocal demos.
Even the Country product has pretty hip players and progressions. That's where I found "Dock of the Bay" for an easy blues style.
Sessionband uses audio loops. So, no you can’t swap out instruments. Also, it is real players. It sounds much better than Band in a Box’s non-RealTraks option and I think it sounds better than the BIAB RealTraks but has more limited options. The players they use are top-notch. Fun to jam against.
For practice, I more frequently use iReal whose sounds are not great but has a broader chord selection and has more friendly editing.
I am not sure if the guy meant as midi or audio stems, but can either be done through audiobus? The only way I can figure to do it is to mute all but your desired instrument and just export that loop into garage band, then rinse and repeat with other instruments you want.
Yeah I have agree with both of you with biab, the one thing that puts me off is that they rob you blind, the more they come out with, they would really be better off offering subscription tiers for unlimited access to new content, as well as providing an online platform with unlimited storage to accommodate the constant flow of content.
Anyways someone was saying on this thread that they got some os the sessionband apps for free or cheap, how can I do that?
They periodically have sales.
@LaceyHayward You need to wait for a sale. Just sign up at appsliced and sign up for sales on those apps. It's a great service. I think it put me on a random mailing list, but I unsubscribed from that, and smooth sailing.