FL Studio project to REAPER
REAPER imports MIDI files, but a MIDI file loses the audio clips, the mixer and the colours. Upload
the .flp here and you get a REAPER project (.RPP) with the arrangement rebuilt: the pattern
clips as MIDI items, the audio clips as audio items, at the positions they have in FL Studio's
playlist.
How to do it
- Upload the
.flpfile. For the audio, upload a.zipof the project with its samples (a zipped loop package from File > Export > Project data files works). - With a ZIP, download the REAPER project packed with its samples, unpack it and open the
.RPP. Without one, save the.RPPand point REAPER at the samples when it asks. - Load your instruments on the MIDI tracks.
What the project holds
- One track per channel of the channel rack, with its name, colour, volume, pan and mute (or one per playlist track, if you choose that layout, each audio clip then at its channel's volume and pan).
- Every pattern clip as a MIDI item named after the pattern, cut where the clip is cut, in FL Studio's own timebase.
- Audio clips with their start offset, length and fades. Samples FL Studio stretches to the tempo are stretched the same way when they were uploaded; plain clips play at the pitch of their root note, as in FL Studio.
- With the samples uploaded, the notes of sampler channels (drums and one-shots) also as audio items on a track of their own, so the beat plays straight away.
- Mixer inserts as bus tracks with their names, volume, pan and routing; the channels send to their insert as in FL Studio.
- The tempo with its automation, the time signature changes, the markers and the playlist loop.
- The plug-ins of every channel and insert, and the project comments, in the project notes.
What to set up again
Plug-ins and their settings, automation other than the tempo, and effects. Channel and mixer volumes are set relative to FL Studio's default level, not to the decibel: check the balance by ear.
More about what this tool reads and writes: FL Studio Project Converter (FLP to MIDI and REAPER).