Sessions, studios & buildings

What it is

A session is a time-boxed event where your team comes together to work on music — in a physical studio, online, or both. Think of it like a rehearsal or recording day: you set a date, invite people, attach the tracks you plan to work on, and everything that happens in that session stays collected in one place.

Studios are the bookable spaces where sessions happen. A studio has rates, equipment lists, photos, and contact info. Multiple studios can live in the same building — for example, a recording complex with rooms A, B, and C.

Using it

Schedule a session. From your team's Sessions page, click New session, give it a title, set the start (and optionally end) time, and add a goal or inspiration note. Sessions in the future start as scheduled; sessions with a start time in the past start as active immediately.

Add tracks. Attach the tracks your team will work on. Each track link appears in the session's song list with optional notes. You can also link the session to an album.

Scan your sessions at a glance. The Sessions list shows a compact card per session: status, date/time, location, and a footer with the linked track covers, the linked album, and the avatars of everyone taking part — so you can recognise a session without opening it. The Studios view lists the studios you've worked in; each one has a New session button that opens the create form with that studio pre-selected.

Invite people. Search for team members or type any email address. Invitees get an email with a link to join. You can set a role per participant (engineer, producer, collaborator, etc.). Accepted participants see the session in their personal Sessions feed.

Record during the session. Use the in-browser recorder to capture audio directly. Each recording is saved to R2 storage and attached to the session. Add named markers while recording ("chorus hook" at 1:42) to tag moments you want to come back to.

Analyse a recording. After a recording is saved you can request an AI analysis: the audio is transcribed, then a summary, timeline sections, and notable highlights are extracted. The analysis lives alongside the recording.

Share a session. Generate a share token to send a read-only view of the session to someone outside your team — they see the /session/[shareToken] public page.

Studios (as a studio owner). If you run a recording studio you can list it on Aden by creating a studio organisation. Add your studio's details (rates, equipment, location), group rooms under a building, and mark them as public and available. Artists can then link their sessions to your studio when booking.