0.16.0

Sign in, and your membership follows. Members can research labels from any computer they sign into, your backup folders finally ride your backups, and a day of fixes lands with them.

Added

• Your membership travels with you. Sign in on any computer and label research works there: no key to paste, nothing left behind when you sign out. Pro already roamed this way; now the membership does too. Activating a key is still the way to make a machine yours for good, and the account panel now offers exactly that when it applies
• Copy your plugin list. Library > Plugins gains a Copy list button: your whole plugin inventory as clean text, ready to paste into an AI chat when you are troubleshooting or into a forum post. It always copies everything you own, never just the filtered view on screen
• A peek at genre detection. A quiet Detect genre button now sits in the player row and explains what is coming: genre detection built on university research that runs on your own computer, so your music is never sent to an online AI

Changed

• Your backup folders ride your backups. The Vault and the USB copy now carry every DAW's backup folders, Live's Backup and Pro Tools' Session File Backups included. A backup is a past state nothing can remake once the current file is the damaged one, so treating them as disposable was wrong, and it stopped

Fixed

• Pro Tools' automatic backups stopped appearing as projects. Its per-session backup folder was surfacing as a project row holding nothing but backup copies. It is skipped now, the way Live's Backup folder always was; a leftover dimmed row clears itself on the next rescan
• Open menus stopped hiding behind the rating flame's glow. A status or BPM menu opened in a row lit by the flame could paint underneath the rows below it
• The sidebar fits its own floor. With Pro and the membership both on, the member label could push the Settings gear clean off the sidebar at its narrowest width. The label now sheds its prefix when space runs out, and the help door moved up beside the logo

Full history: https://saltadosessions.com/changelog

0.15.0

Detangling, one folder at a time. The organizer learns to walk you through it, help is built into the app, and the project you are reading stays put while you scroll.

Added

• Detangle one at a time. When several songs are saved into one project folder, Sessions can already split them apart in one go. Now there is a walkthrough that takes one folder at a time: see the songs it holds, open any of them in Ableton first, detangle that folder, listen to the result, and undo just that one if it is not right. Entirely at your own pace, and stopping halfway loses nothing
• See why a folder is flagged. Every tangled folder can be opened up to show the songs inside it and how Sessions decided they are different songs, down to how much of their samples they share. Select all and deselect all landed on the list too
• Some tangles are on purpose. A sketches folder is allowed to be a pile. Mark a folder as intentional and it stops being flagged, for good, even if you rename it; bringing it back is one click. Free for everyone
• Help, where you are. A help door sits beside the Settings gear: answers about the product from its own documentation, and the road to a real person at support. The same assistant answers on the website, and what you type in its send-a-message tab now actually reaches us

Changed

• The project name stays put while you scroll. With a project open, its name bar now freezes under the column headers while the details scroll underneath, so you always know whose devices and samples you are reading. Asked for by a customer on day one, built the same day
• Grid view details are a window of their own. Clicking a card opens the project in a pop-up instead of reshaping the grid around it
• Settings says Local backup. The backup row is named for what it is, so it stops reading like a twin of the Vault

Full history: https://saltadosessions.com/changelog

0.14.2

A shorter first run. Setting up now asks two questions instead of five, and previews stop getting stuck on the wrong side of a licence.

Changed

• Setting up is two screens. The walkthrough asks where your projects are and where your bounces land, and that is all. The sample and plugin folders it found are simply used: the old screen recommended leaving all of them ticked, so it was asking a question it had already answered. Nothing was dropped, and the same folders are editable any time in Settings
• Less to read on the way in. The bounce tip before the scan, the explainer about naming a bounce, and the Windows page about permissions Windows never asks for are all gone. The scan now walks itself into the results instead of waiting for a click
• The bounces question says you can just carry on. A bounce kept in a project's own folder is always found, whichever folder you pick, and the screen now says so instead of framing it as a choice between the two

Fixed

• Previews unlock the moment you sign in. An open project panel used to keep selling you Pro after Pro was already on, and clicking away and back was the only way out. Signing out was worse: the audio kept playing while everything else had re-locked. Both directions now follow the licence straight away
• A first install stops offering to keep a setup you do not have. The welcome screen showed a "Close (keep current setup)" button on a brand new install, where there is nothing yet to keep. It now appears only when you re-run setup from Settings

Full history: https://saltadosessions.com/changelog

0.14.1

Three things 0.14.0 got wrong. A small release, all fixes.

Fixed

• Updating no longer asks you to delete your own desktop shortcut. After 0.14.0 installed itself, Windows could ask whether you wanted to delete the Sessions shortcut, saying the file it pointed at had been changed or moved. The app opened anyway, so the only thing that question could achieve was talking you into throwing away a working shortcut. An update now leaves your shortcuts pointing cleanly at the version it just installed. It still never adds a shortcut you did not ask for, and never removes one you did
• Previews say they are a Pro feature instead of looking broken. Without a licence, pressing play on a bounce reported that no supported source could be found, which reads like a damaged file rather than a locked feature. It now says what it actually is, on rows, on cards, on the Planner board and on a release's tracklist
• A downloaded update can be installed from where you asked for it. Checking for updates in Settings used to point you at a small chip in the sidebar and stop talking. The Restart button now appears on the same card you pressed Check on, and an update that finished downloading in the background is waiting there the next time you open it

Full history: https://saltadosessions.com/changelog

0.14.0

Make it yours, and a calmer first five minutes. Pick your own colours, give every collection its own look, and stop being left staring at nothing while the app starts.

Added

• Your own colours. Pick a background, a text colour and an accent, and everything else is worked out from those three: every shade, every chip, the waveform, the meters. Save the ones you like and switch between them
• A look per collection. Each collection can wear its own colours, so you can tell at a glance which one you are in
• Sign in with Google without leaving the app. The browser shows Google's own sign-in and nothing else, and the answer comes straight back. No page of ours opens, so nothing of ours is left signed in on a machine you walk away from
• Somewhere to put your key. Buying Pro now tells you where the key goes instead of leaving you to find it. It can wait until later if you are busy

Changed

• Untangling a folder finishes the job. When Sessions splits a folder that turned out to hold several songs, each song now comes out with copies of the samples it actually uses, arranged the way Live expects, instead of leaving you to run Collect All on every one of them. Nothing is deleted: the samples are copied, so the folder you started with still holds everything it did before
• The licence agreement describes what the app really does. It used to say Sessions never modifies your projects. That stopped being true once Organize, Gather, Import and the per-project file actions arrived, all of which move, rename or bin files when you ask them to. The wording now matches the software

Fixed

• Setup no longer looks frozen. Finishing the installer with "Run Sessions" ticked could sit at "(Not Responding)" for about fifteen seconds on a fresh install while Windows scanned the new file. The installer now steps out of the way, and the app puts a window on screen while it starts rather than nothing at all
• The installed app can be made as narrow as it was built to be. The compact layouts, down to the icon rail, had only ever been reachable in development, so the window would not fit beside a docked DAW
• On a Mac, the setup wizard now explains what the system is about to ask for, before the permission prompts appear rather than after
• On a Mac, the app says Trash instead of Recycle Bin. It had been sending Mac users to look for a folder their desktop has never had
• Three badges were too faint to read against some themes. They now hold their contrast wherever they land

0.13.1

The rating sits straight. A small fix to the flame that replaced the rating stars in 0.13.0.

Fixed
The rating flame looked like it leaned to one side. It is centred on its own measured balance point now, so it sits square in the column at every size.

0.13.0

Your library, your way. See your projects as a list or as cover art, choose which columns show and in what order, and paint the whole app in colours you picked yourself.

New

• Cards, or a list. Switch the projects table between the list you know and a grid of cover art. Until a project has artwork, its card shows its own waveform in your accent colour.
• Cover art on your projects. Drop a cover into a project folder and the app finds it, or pick one yourself from the row menu. It shows on the row and on the card, and a rescan never overwrites a picture you chose.
• Choose your columns. Hide the ones you never read and drag the rest into the order you want. Your choice travels in your backup.
• Your own colours. A theme built from three picks, background, text and accent, with everything else worked out from them so nothing ends up unreadable. Type a hex code from a brand sheet, save palettes by name and load them back.
• An Account section in Settings. Sign in, see the address you are signed in as, and sign out, without leaving the app.

Fixed

• On a Mac, the Open tag never appeared. An open plugin window counted as an open set, which both invented sets that matched nothing and hid the real answer. The app reads document windows only now, across every copy of Live you have running.
• The problem report can say why the Open tag is missing: whether permission was given, whether Live's log could be read, and how many open sets matched a project. Counts and one folder path, never a set name.
• Picking colours no longer lags. Dragging in the colour picker used to repaint the whole window on every twitch of the mouse.
• The bounce dropdown behaves like a menu instead of pushing the panel around.

Changed

• Settings opens over your work. It used to replace the page, so closing it lost your scroll position, the project you had open, your search and your filters. It is a panel now, and everything is where you left it.
• The player scrubs the way you expect: grab the waveform anywhere and drag.
• The rating is a flame that grows with the rank, in place of five stars.
• On a Mac, nothing is asked about Live until after first-run setup, and the app explains what it wants to read before macOS asks.
• Settings has its own Updates section on installed copies.

0.12.0

Releases, and a real meter. Group finished tracks into singles, EPs and albums, and audition your bounces against a metering console that would not look out of place in a mastering suite.

New

• Releases. A new page that groups your tracks into singles, EPs and albums, with tracklist order, total running time and how much of the release is actually ready. A song can sit on a single and the album at once. Viewing is free; building releases is Pro.
• Studio-grade metering while you listen. Momentary, short-term and integrated loudness, true peak with per-channel clip lights, stereo correlation for the whole mix and the low end alone, a goniometer, and a loudness history strip. Cycle simple and full views from the transport, and choose which meters show in Settings.
• Plugins say what they are. Third-party plugins in a project now carry their kind (synth, EQ, compressor and so on) from a shipped catalog of 489 researched plugins, instead of reading Uncategorized.
• The library knows more of your work. Saved MIDI patterns and clips get their own tab, presets saved from inside plugins (FabFilter, Serum, Vital, Native Instruments and more) are catalogued, and a new filter separates what you made from factory content and packs.
• Sending gets a desk. Submissions is two panes now: your ready tracks on a rail, and each track's send history, a shortlist of labels you mean to try, and suggestions drawn from your label book beside it.
• The stick carries the app. On the go can copy the Windows and Mac installers onto the drive beside your library, so any studio computer can open it. The folder picker gained sections with one-click check-all.
• Sign in by scanning. Point your phone at a QR code to approve a guest sign-in on the desktop, and pick how long the visit lasts: five minutes to a full day, or until you sign out. A guest visit from an account that owns Pro brings Pro along for the visit, without spending an activation.

Fixed

• Bounces kept in folders are found. A bounce filed in a subfolder of the project (Bounces, Renders, or a name of your own, which you can now teach the app in Settings) was invisible to previews. The app looks inside now, and a stem folder's files never assign themselves as the preview.
• The Largest text size no longer makes the app taller than the window, and menus, tooltips and the first-run tour open where their buttons actually are at every text size.
• The first-run tour survives scrolling: the spotlight moves to a row that is on screen instead of collapsing when the highlighted row scrolled away.
• On the free tier, previewing a bounce said the audio file could not be decoded. That was the Pro gate, not your file, and it now says so plainly with a working upgrade link.

Changed

• The setup wizard states on every screen that it only reads your files, and the two opt-in exceptions say exactly what they write.
• Settings gained update controls: check for updates on demand, or turn automatic checking off.
• The app asks once, at first run, whether it may offer a Send button when something goes wrong. Nothing is ever sent on its own; every report is a click you make.
• On a Mac, the permission prompt for reading which set is open in Live now names exactly what is read and why.

Installing on Windows

Windows may show a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen the first time you run the installer. That is SmartScreen reacting to a new publisher rather than to anything wrong with the file. Click More info, then Run anyway.

Full history: https://saltadosessions.com/changelog
Website: https://saltadosessions.com

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