FL Studio project to MIDI

Drop an .flp to get its MIDI, or select a file. It opens in the studio, ready to export.

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How to get the MIDI out of an FL Studio project

FL Studio does not keep your notes on the timeline. It keeps them in patterns, and the playlist decides where those patterns play, so the same sixteen notes can be four bars in three different places. Exporting MIDI has to combine the two, or you get the loops without the song.

  1. Add your .flp: The project file itself. FL keeps its own auto-backups in a `backup` folder next to it. Those are ignored, so the copy you are working on is the one that gets read.
  2. It is read here, in the browser: Channels, patterns, playlist clips and the tempo are parsed on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to do it.
  3. Take the MIDI: The arrangement opens in the studio and downloads as one Standard MIDI file: a named track per channel-rack instrument, so the kick and the snare stay apart.

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Questions about the FL Studio project to MIDI converter?

We have answers.

Do I need an account?

No. An .flp is read in your browser, so the conversion works signed out and the project is not uploaded.

What happens to audio clips?

They are not MIDI, so they are not in the MIDI file. Sampler channels and audio in the playlist carry no notes to write.

Which FL versions?

The reader targets the modern .flp layout and checks itself against the file header. An older or unusual dialect fails that check and falls back to the import service rather than exporting something wrong.

Does it keep my tempo?

Yes, the project tempo is read from the file and the exported MIDI carries it.

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  • A pattern used three times is three sets of notes

    This is the part a naive export gets wrong. In an .flp the notes belong to a pattern, and a playlist clip is a placement of that pattern, with its own position, its own length, and the ability to crop or repeat what is inside it. Reading the patterns alone gives you every loop stacked at bar one. Reading the playlist alone gives you empty clips. The arrangement only exists when the two are combined, which is what happens here: each clip contributes its pattern's notes at its own position, and a note that falls past the end of the clip it sits in is not played, so it is not written.

  • Patterns the playlist never plays are kept

    Plenty of FL projects are a channel rack full of patterns and a playlist that only uses some of them, or none. Those patterns are still yours, so they are not dropped: each one is laid out after the arrangement ends, one after another on bar lines, where you can find it and use it.

  • Muted clips are not part of the song

    A muted playlist clip is a decision you already made. It is left out of the MIDI, so what you get back matches what you hear when you press play rather than every idea the project has ever held.

  • When the file cannot be read, it says so

    FL's file format is a stream of events, and a reader that mis-sizes one event will happily re-synchronise a few bytes later and produce confident nonsense: a real project once reported a tempo of 252,572 BPM that way. The header records the channel count independently of that stream, which makes it an honest cross-check: when the two disagree, this refuses to guess and hands the file to the import service instead of giving you a wrong arrangement.

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