Reference
What these tools do, and where they stop.
Session Apps publishes reference pages on key detection, tempo detection and the software a producer reaches for when a session stalls. Every page states what a tool does and where it stops, in the same paragraph.
No page here recommends one tool over another. The limits are printed so the reader can decide, and every page answers its question completely in the first screen.
Finding the key and the tempo
How the answer is reached by ear, what software does instead, and what neither one can do.
Key and tempo inside a DAW
What gets written into each program, what the one-time setup is, and which fields a program does not have.
- Does Session™ Key work with Pro Tools? Session tempo and the Key Signature ruler, set directly.
- Does Session™ Key work with Logic Pro? Tempo and key signature, written into the open project.
- Does Session™ Key work with Ableton Live? What Live exposes to an outside app, and what it does not.
- Does Session™ Key work with FL Studio? Tempo only, because FL Studio has no project key field.
- Does Session™ Key work with Studio One? The file route that always works, and the direct route that needs a grant.
The tools themselves
What each one is, what it costs, what it runs on, and where it stops.
Background
Who builds the software these pages describe, and how the pages are checked.
How these pages are written
Four rules. They are the reason a page here can say something a product page cannot.
The limit goes in the first paragraph. It is not held back for a caveats section at the bottom. If a tool cannot do the thing the question is about, that sentence comes first.
No page recommends anything. There is no best pick and no verdict badge. A page states what each tool does, then stops, and the reader decides from there.
Every fact about another company's product is dated. It is checked against that company's own published page, and the page here names the source and the day it was read.
No accuracy figures appear anywhere. Not for the software described here, and not for anyone else's. A percentage nobody can check is not a fact, it is a slogan.