Ableton Live project to WAV

Drop an .als to get a WAV, or select a file. It opens in the studio, ready to export.

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How to get a WAV out of an Ableton Live project

You need audio out of a Live set (for a mixer, a collaborator on another DAW, an archive), and Live is not in front of you. The set is a document that arranges sound it does not contain. With the Project folder, its recordings come along; without it, what is left is the writing. Either way the arrangement is played here and written to WAV.

  1. Drop your .als: The set is read on our server, where its arrangement and MIDI clips come out. No account is needed to open it. Have the Project folder? Choose it instead, and the recordings and samples its audio clips play come with it.
  2. It renders by itself: The studio opens on the arrangement and starts the WAV straight away: MIDI tracks on stand-ins picked from their names, rendered on our server from a General MIDI sound set; audio clips from the folder as recorded.
  3. Download the WAV: One file of the whole arrangement lands in your downloads. Your first three a month need no account; a free account gives you 120. For stems, 32-bit float or a loop range, use File → Export audio….

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Questions about the Ableton Live project to WAV converter?

We have answers.

Can I convert an .als to WAV without Ableton Live?

Yes, drop it here. MIDI clips are played on stand-in instruments and audio clips from the Project folder play as recorded. Your Live devices and plugins are not in the file, so it is the arrangement, not your mix.

Is it free? Do I need an account?

Your first three WAVs a month need no account, and opening the set needs none at all. A free account raises the renders to 120 a month.

Can I get stems?

Yes, for the tracks that carry audio: File → Export audio… → Stems writes each as its own WAV in a zip, lined up from zero. Stand-in tracks come out in the mix only.

What bit depth and sample rate is the WAV?

16-bit at 48 kHz when everything playing is a stand-in, 24-bit when your recordings are in the mix; File → Export audio… offers 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit float at 44.1 or 48 kHz.

Why are some of my tracks silent?

They are audio clips whose files were not in what you dropped. Run File → Collect All and Save in Live, then choose the Project folder or a zip of it.

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  • Audio clips, and the Project folder that carries them

    A Live set points at its audio by path: recordings in the Project folder's Samples/Recorded, imports in Samples/Imported, and anything dragged in from elsewhere on the disk. Drop the .als alone and those clips have nothing to play; the studio says how many are missing rather than handing you a quiet file. Choose the Project folder, or drop a zip of it, and each clip plays from your copy, at its position and under its track name. Live's File → Collect All and Save copies every file a set uses into its Project folder first. Run it before you zip, or what lives outside the folder stays behind.

  • Bit depth, and why it depends on what is playing

    When every track is a stand-in, the WAV comes from our server at 16-bit, 48 kHz; the General MIDI samples are 16-bit, so a deeper file would add nothing under them. When recordings from the Project folder are in the mix, it is written in your browser at 24-bit. File → Export audio… writes 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit float at 44.1 or 48 kHz, and Stems writes one WAV per track that has audio, all starting at zero; a stand-in track is in the mix, not in the zip.

  • What a set keeps, and what it does not

    An .als is a gzipped XML document: tracks, clips, the notes inside each MIDI clip, the tempo, locators, mixer levels. What makes Live sound like your set (Operator patches, racks, Max devices, third-party plugins) is device state that only Live runs, and nothing here loads it. So the MIDI clips are played by stand-ins picked from their track names, the audio clips play as recorded, and Live's warping, automation lanes, sends and device chains are not rendered. It is the arrangement, heard; your Live mix comes out of Live's own Export Audio/Video.

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