FL Studio project to Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubase or Studio One
None of these programs opens an .flp, and FL Studio has no export to their project formats. What
they all import is MIDI, with the tempo, and audio files. This tool turns the FL Studio project
into exactly that, so the song can carry on in the DAW you use now.
How to do it
- Upload the
.flpfile, or a.zipof the project with its samples. - Download the MIDI file of the song: one track per channel of the channel rack, every note in place, with the tempo and its automation, the time signature and the markers.
- Import it into a new project:
- Ableton Live: drag the
.midfile into Arrangement View; each channel arrives on a MIDI track of its own. - Logic Pro: File > Import > MIDI File, and let Logic take the tempo from it.
- Cubase and Studio One: File > Import > MIDI File (or drag it in), with its tempo track.
- Ableton Live: drag the
- Load an instrument on each track. The channel list tells you which plug-in or sample every channel used in FL Studio.
Audio clips and samples
Vocals, loops and other audio clips are not part of a MIDI file. Upload a ZIP with the samples and open the REAPER project packed with them to see where each audio clip sits and how it is cut, or use the playlist list (Excel or CSV), which gives every clip's start, length and offset in bars and seconds. Each pattern is also available as a MIDI file of its own, for loops and clip-based work.
Good to know
Plug-in settings stay in FL Studio. Steps from the step sequencer become sixteenth notes, slide notes become plain notes, and patterns that are not in the playlist are still in the per-pattern MIDI files.
More about what this tool reads and writes: FL Studio Project Converter (FLP to MIDI and REAPER).