Yoga Teachers
Pre-build a class arc and move through it hands-free, from a calm full-screen player.
By Yin & Sound
Mandala Sessions
Music and Ambient Player that flows with you and your sessions.
Mandala Sessions puts the music and ambience of a whole class in your hands. Layer drones, bowls, melody and your own recordings into one evolving bed, then shape it live as the room shifts — lift the energy, settle into stillness, hold a moment longer. Lay out a full session in advance and move through it hands-free.
Built with JUCE 8 for macOS 11+ · currently version 0.1 (early access)
The idea
Most loopers are built around a click, bars and a grid. This one isn’t. Every loop is its own free length, crossfading seamlessly — so drones, bowls and breath evolve forever, without a seam.
No tempo, bars or metronome
Seamless, click-free crossfades
Layers drift — it never repeats
Up to 10 living loops
The app
A calm surface for live,
A calm surface for live,
evolving sound
Your loops become concentric rings around a single play button, each one breathing with the audio. Build the sound on the left, shape any layer on the right, and perform the whole thing with a tap.
The Mandala · performance view
Made by practitioners
Built by sound healers
Built by sound healers
and yoga teachers
It came out of a need to be more expressive — audio and music wise. To have full control over an ambient bed, and the freedom to weave musical elements and backing tracks into every session.
So who’s it for?
Sound Healers
Layer bowls, gongs, drones and voice into a living, seamless bed you shape in real time.
Live-Music Performers
A performance surface for slow music — octave stacks, reversed textures, generative harmony.
Ambient Sessions
Long-form beds for meditation, breathwork and ceremony — fifteen minutes to well past an hour.
… and anyone shaping long, living sound.
One session, three views
Build it, perform it,
Build it, perform it,
lay out the whole session
The building view
A vertical list of loops — each with its name, a live waveform, a volume fader, and record-arm, play, mute and solo. Where you stack and shape the sound.
The performance view
Your loops become concentric rings around a central play button. Drag a ring to set its volume, drag the orbiting dot to scrub. Each ring breathes with the audio — made to be looked at in a quiet room.
The session builder
The whole class or ceremony as a row of connected blocks, with a flowing path between them and the total running time always in view.
Per-track sound design
Shape every loop
One recording becomes a deep sub-drone or a shimmering octave layer — without ever touching a grid.
⅛× to 4×
Play a loop from an eighth-speed up to four times, continuously, with one-tap octave presets. Pitch follows speed — no time-stretch, no artefacts.
Backwards, seamlessly
Flip any loop to play in reverse in real time, with a seam-aware crossfade so it still loops without a click.
It breathes
A slow, biased random walk in volume — not an LFO, never periodic. It behaves like weather, rain easing in and out, making a static loop feel alive.
The signature effect
Cosmic Harmony
A generative processor that turns any track into an evolving harmonic world. Instead of a constant wash, it speaks in phrases — sitting quietly, then a cluster of pitched echoes swells in, drifts across the stereo field, and fades, like a far-off voice answering itself.
7 independent streams
Arpeggiated, conversational phrases — never a static chord.
Organic, not digital
Micro-detuning, vibrato, ~1-in-5 voices in reverse, a 14-second breathing filter.
A modulated plate reverb
Studio-grade Dattorro plate — time, pre-delay, damping, diffuse, mod, mix.
Choose your harmonics
−octave, −5th, −3rd, +3rd, +5th, +octave, +2 octaves.
+ Noise Gate
+ Your own VST3 plugins
Chain: VST3 → Gate → Cosmic Harmony
The session builder
Teach a whole class,
Teach a whole class,
hands-free
Lay out your session as timed blocks — each a self-contained mini-composition with its own loops and effects. Set each one’s length in minutes, drag to reorder, and move through them with a single tap while you teach. It ships with a six-block starter session:
The Sequence · the whole session at a glance
Everything else
Made for long-form audio
Live recording
Record from any input, arm and punch in across multiple tracks. Empty tracks cost nothing — memory allocates on first record.
Import your audio
WAV, AIFF, FLAC and Ogg. Files over five minutes stream from disk, so hour-long sources never fill your RAM.
Seamless loops
An equal-power crossfade at the seam — forward or reversed, even on disk-streamed files. Trim a loop without losing the take.
Per-track fades
Click-free fade-in and fade-out envelopes on every loop, plus volume, pan, mute and solo.
VST3 host
Drop your own plugins into each track’s insert chain. Built-in plugin manager, auto-scan and a blacklist for copy-protected plugins.
Cached waveforms
Waveform thumbnails are cached to disk, so re-importing the same file is instant.
Projects
Save every block, track, parameter and plugin to a single project file, and pick up exactly where you left off.
Robust by design
A real-time-safe engine, a master limiter on the output, and audio that survives switching device mid-session.
Keyboard shortcuts
Space to play, R to record, number keys to fire loops — perform without reaching for the mouse.
Look & feel
Three themes, fully drawn by hand
Every knob, slider and meter is custom-drawn — no generic widgets — set in Cormorant Garamond and rendered on the GPU for a quiet, Retina-smooth surface.
Console
Candlelit indigo-aubergine temple, brass accents. The default.
Tape
A warm vintage tape-machine palette.
Paper
The light theme — warm beige and dark ink.
Under the hood
The spec sheet
Platform
macOS 11+ standalone app · built with JUCE 8 · GPU (OpenGL) rendering
Loops
Up to 10 per block (3 visible by default)
Blocks
Unlimited · 6-block starter session · 1–240 min each
Crossfade
0–10 s, equal-power and seamless (default 1.5 s)
Speed
⅛×–4× with octave presets · pitch follows speed
Cosmic Harmony
7 harmonics · intensity / density / spread · modulated Dattorro plate reverb · filter · optional trails
Gate
Threshold −85…0 dB · release 1 ms–1 s · soft or hard
Plugins
Per-track VST3 insert chain · auto-scan · floating editors
Import formats
WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Ogg · long files stream from disk
Output
Master limiter (−3 dB, 120 ms release) keeps stacked layers clean
Projects
Single project file · preferences persist
On the horizon
Coming soon
01
Expansion packs
Curated sessions, source loops — bowls, gongs, field recordings, pads — and effect presets.
02
More session templates
Starter sessions across more traditions of practice.
03
More effects
New reverb and effect types beyond the current plate.
04
Mobile & tablet
iOS, iPad and Android versions, so the practice travels with you.
At launch
Two ways to own it
Mandala Sessions is in early access today. When it launches, you’ll choose the model that fits how you work — both come with the app and the core audio packs.
Buy the app
Own your copy outright, with the basic audio packs to get you started.
- The full app, yours to keep
- The basic audio packs included
- Expansion packs purchased separately, as they release
- Free updates within the version
Pricing announced at launch
Subscribe yearly
Everything, always — every expansion pack included for as long as you subscribe.
- The full app
- The basic audio packs included
- Every expansion pack free — including new releases
- All updates as they land
Pricing announced at launch
Early access
Come and play
Mandala Sessions is in early access (version 0.1) for macOS. Tell us about your practice and we’ll be in touch when your build is ready.