Open the DAW project converter, drop your project folder, press Convert and pick a DAW. You get a zip with a project for that DAW and every sample it uses: an .als for Ableton Live, an .flp for FL Studio, a .logicx for Logic Pro, an .rpp for REAPER, a .dawproject for Bitwig, Studio One and Cubase, or a MIDI file for anything else. Tracks, clips, notes, audio, tempo changes, markers, groups, sends and automation come along as far as the other DAW can hold them.

It is free, needs no account, and the project never leaves your browser.

To only look inside a project, its tempo, plugins and samples, see how to open a DAW project without the DAW.

Can you open an FL Studio project in Ableton?

Not directly. Ableton Live cannot read an .flp, FL Studio cannot read an .als, and Logic Pro reads neither. Each DAW saves projects in its own format, and none of them imports another's. Until now the only way across was to export every track as audio stems and rebuild the song by hand: the notes, the arrangement and the mixer were gone.

A converter reads the project file, which describes the whole song (every track, clip, note, sample, plugin and fader move), and writes the same song in the other DAW's format. The result opens in the other DAW as an editable project: MIDI stays MIDI, so you can still change the notes.

Which DAWs can you convert between?

Convert from: FL Studio (.flp), Ableton Live (.als, Live 8 to 12), Logic Pro (the .logicx project), Pro Tools (.ptx, .ptf), Studio One (.song), REAPER (.rpp), DAWproject (from Bitwig, Studio One or Cubase), Renoise, LMMS, Hydrogen, MIDI files and tracker modules (.mod, .xm, .it, .s3m).

Convert to: Ableton Live (.als, opens in Live 11 and later), FL Studio (.flp, opens in FL Studio 20 and later), Logic Pro (.logicx), REAPER (.rpp), DAWproject (.dawproject) for Bitwig, Studio One and Cubase, or a MIDI file for any DAW.

Every source converts to every target. A Cubase or Bitwig project converts once you export it as a DAWproject (in Cubase, File > Export > DAWproject; in Bitwig, File > Export DAWproject). A GarageBand project opens in Logic Pro: save it there and convert the .logicx.

What comes along when you convert?

The notes, clips, audio, tempo and tempo changes, time signature changes, markers, track names and colours, and each track's volume, pan and mute always come along. Samples come along in the zip when you drop the project folder. Samplers become the other DAW's own sampler: a Simpler in Live, a Sampler channel in FL Studio, ReaSamplOmatic5000 in REAPER. Logic Pro and DAWproject get an audio track beside the notes, playing each hit.

The mixer goes as far as the other DAW can hold it:

Plugins keep their settings, and automation covers volume, pan and the plugins' knobs. Where a DAW has no groups, each group's level folds into its tracks and its sends stay behind. FL Studio gets groups and returns as mixer inserts with the same routing, and a MIDI file carries volume and pan as CC 7 and CC 10. MIDI controllers and pitch bend reach every DAW except FL Studio, and audio fades every DAW except FL Studio and MIDI.

"With their settings" means the plugin opens with the sound it had: a Serum patch or a Pro-Q curve converts with the project, not only the plugin's name. You still need the plugin installed in the other DAW.

How do FL Studio patterns become Ableton clips?

The DAWs organise a song differently, so the converter translates the way each one works:

• FL Studio patterns placed on the playlist become clips on each instrument's track in Ableton, Logic or REAPER. Going the other way, Ableton clips become FL patterns on the playlist.
• Patterns not on the playlist and Ableton's Session View are clips kept off the timeline. Ableton Live and DAWproject keep them in their clip slots, and FL Studio keeps their notes as patterns. Logic Pro, REAPER and MIDI have no clip view, so those clips play after the arrangement, scene after scene, with a marker naming each scene.
• FL Studio's mixer inserts become tracks, groups and returns: an insert several channels route to becomes a group, an insert they send to becomes a return. Ableton group tracks and return tracks become FL inserts with the same routing.
• Automation clips in FL Studio become automation on the track or plugin they move, and the other way around.

What doesn't come along?

• Each DAW's own effects and instruments, like EQ Eight, Operator, Fruity Limiter or Sytrus. They only exist inside their own DAW. Their notes still play, and the zip's Conversion notes.txt says which device to replace on which track.
• Third-party plugins into FL Studio and Logic Pro. The notes are there, and Conversion notes.txt names which plugin to load on which track.
• Sidechains and MIDI routing between tracks. Set them up again in the other DAW.
• The same note doubled on one key at the same moment (two stacked FL patterns, for example) plays once in a MIDI file or a REAPER item, which hold one note per key at a time. The notes name the track.

Everything the other DAW can't hold is listed in Conversion notes.txt, track by track, with what to do about it. Read it before you start mixing.

How to convert a project to another DAW

1. Open the DAW project converter, at tools.aden.space/daw or daw.aden.space. You do not need an account.
2. Press Open a folder and pick the project's folder, so the samples come along. For Logic Pro, pick the .logicx project itself.
3. If Add missing samples shows a number, add the folders those samples are in.
4. Press Convert and pick a DAW.
5. Unzip the download and open the project inside it.
6. Read Conversion notes.txt and replace the devices it names.

Samples outside the project folder, in a sample pack or your downloads, are the ones that go missing. Gather them into the project first: File > Collect All and Save in Ableton Live, File > Export > Zipped loop package in FL Studio, or see the guides to back up an FL Studio, Ableton Live, Logic Pro or REAPER project.

Pro Tools sessions don't save their tempo. Name the session with it ("Hook 92bpm") before you convert, or set the tempo after.

How it was tested

The converter was checked on 2,900 real projects: open-source parser test files for every format, and public projects people shared on GitHub (Ableton Live sets, FL Studio beats, REAPER songs, Logic Pro projects with UAD, FabFilter and Spire plugins). Every project was converted to every DAW and read back to compare the notes, audio, tempo, markers and mixer. Plugin settings come back byte for byte. None of them made a conversion fail.

Before you release a converted mix, listen through it in the other DAW. The sound of the DAW's own devices and anything Conversion notes.txt names will differ until you replace them.

FAQ

Can I convert an FL Studio project to Ableton Live for free?

Yes. Drop the FL Studio project folder on the DAW project converter at tools.aden.space/daw, press Convert and pick Ableton Live. You get an .als with every channel, pattern, note, sample and automation clip, and your VST and AU plugins with their settings. It is free, needs no account and runs in your browser.

Can I convert an Ableton project to FL Studio?

Yes. Convert the Live set to FL Studio and you get an .flp that opens in FL Studio 20 and later. Clips become patterns on the playlist, group and return tracks become mixer inserts with the same routing, and Session View clips become patterns. Third-party plugins don't load in the FL Studio project yet: Conversion notes.txt says which to load on which channel.

How do I move a Logic Pro project to another DAW?

Open the .logicx project in the DAW project converter, press Convert and pick Ableton Live, FL Studio, REAPER or DAWproject. Tracks, regions, audio, tempo, markers, channel strip levels, auxes and AU plugins come along. Logic's own plugins, like Alchemy or Channel EQ, only exist in Logic, so the notes list which to replace.

Do my plugins and automation transfer?

Third-party VST2, VST3 and AU plugins transfer with their settings into Ableton Live, REAPER and DAWproject, along with volume, pan and plugin automation. Each DAW's own devices stay behind, and Conversion notes.txt names each one. You need the same plugins installed in the other DAW.

Is my project uploaded?

No. The project is read and converted in your browser and never leaves your device. The zip is made on your computer.

What if my DAW isn't on the list?

Export a DAWproject or a MIDI file from it and convert that. Cubase, Bitwig and Studio One export DAWproject, and every DAW exports MIDI, which keeps the notes, tempo, controllers and the volume and pan of each track.