Who operates this site, and what it publishes.
sessionapps.com publishes reference pages on key detection, tempo detection and the software a producer reaches for when a session stalls. It is operated by Capiscana, Inc., which publishes Session™ Key and Session Cards™, so it is not an independent source on those two products. Every page that describes them states that on the page itself, above the point where it says anything good.
The short version
- Who operates it
- Capiscana, Inc., an Illinois corporation. It publishes Session™ Key and Session Cards™, two of the products written about here.
- What it publishes
- Reference pages on finding the key and the tempo of a piece of music, on what a DAW does and does not accept from an outside app, and on what individual tools do.
- What it does not do
- It does not test, benchmark, rate or recommend anything, and it carries no reviews, no star scores and no author byline.
- Where it stops
- It is not independent, it publishes no accuracy figure for any product, and it does not assert anything about another company that is not on that company's own published page.
Why the ownership is at the top
The category this site sits in has a standing problem: the page that answers the question is the page selling the answer, and from a distance an honest one and a dishonest one look identical. A reader who cannot tell them apart discounts both, which is the correct response to the evidence available to them.
The only thing that changes that is information a selling page will not print. So the ownership goes in the first paragraph rather than in small type at the bottom, and the limits of each product go in the first paragraph of its page. Neither of those is a courtesy. They are the two facts that make the rest of a page worth reading.
The four rules every page follows
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.
How a fact gets onto a page
A statement about another company's product is written from that company's own published page, and the page here names the source and the date it was read. Nothing about another company is asserted timelessly, because a product page can change the week after.
Where a company's own pages contradict each other, the disagreement is reported as a disagreement rather than resolved in whichever direction happens to be convenient. Where a number is not published, the page says it is not published, and no estimate is substituted for it.
Statements about Session™ Key and Session Cards™ come from the shipped product and its own published pages, on the same terms and with the same dates. The limits of those two products are printed at the same length and in the same register as any other.
Where it stops
- It is not independent. The operator publishes two of the products described here. Nothing on this site claims otherwise, and no page describes the site as neutral about its own products.
- It does not test anything. There are no benchmarks, no trials and no measurements run for these pages. A claim here is a published fact with a date on it, or it is not on the page.
- It does not recommend. No best pick, no editor's choice, no verdict badge. A reader who wants to be told what to buy will not find that here.
- It carries no reviews or ratings. No star scores, no testimonials, no awards, no user counts, and no author persona or editorial board.
- It publishes no accuracy figure. Not for Session™ Key, not for a competing tool, and not quoted from a third party, because a percentage whose test is unpublished cannot be checked by anyone reading it.
- It is not complete. The site covers the questions it can answer from a checkable source. A question with no such source available does not get a page rather than getting a vague one.
Common questions
Who runs sessionapps.com?
Capiscana, Inc., an Illinois corporation, which also publishes Session™ Key and Session Cards™. That is stated in the footer of every page and in the first paragraph of every page that describes either product.
Is this site independent of the products it covers?
No. Two of the products described here are published by the company that operates the site. The site does not claim independence, and the pages about those two products carry their limits in the same place and at the same length as every other page.
Does this site test the tools it describes?
No. Nothing here is benchmarked, trialed or measured. Every statement about a product comes from that product's own published page, named and dated, or from the shipped build.
Why is there no accuracy percentage anywhere?
An accuracy figure means nothing until the test material, the counting rule and the correct answers are published. Changing only the counting rule moves the number more than changing the software does, so an unpublished percentage is not a result that can be checked.
Which tool does this site recommend?
None. No page here picks a winner or carries a verdict badge. Each page states what a tool does, what it costs and where it stops, and the decision stays with the reader.