Studio One to Ableton

Studio One → Ableton. Drop a Studio One .song song and get a native Ableton Live .als project — the real session rebuilt, not bounced to stems.

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Private and completely free
Local conversions never leave your browser; uploaded sessions are encrypted and yours to delete anytime. 3 conversions a month free — no account.

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§ What transfers

What comes across

Every track, clip and note — rebuilt natively in Ableton, not flattened to stems.

Tracks Arrangement MIDI Audio clips Sample files Track levels Markers Tempo & sig full maps Sends Plugin chains 3rd-party, with state Pro EQ as EQ Eight Automation not yet
§ Honesty

Told straight, never silently dropped

Tracks with their names, volume, pan and mute; audio events with their files traveling in the song folder; MIDI notes; the tempo and time-signature maps — every change, even a song with a thousand of them; markers; and sends. Third-party VST and AU plugins arrive as the same plugin with their saved state. Pro EQ becomes Live’s EQ Eight with its settings; Studio One’s other built-in effects and instruments arrive by name only, and the report lists each one. Automation isn’t promised on this pair yet. Nothing is silently dropped — every conversion comes with a report of what changed.

§ Privacy

Your music stays yours

Local conversions stay right in your browser — your session never leaves your computer, nothing uploaded, nothing stored. Uploaded sessions move over an encrypted connection into your own private space, with access only you control, and yours to delete anytime.

§ Questions

Studio One to Ableton — common questions

Can Ableton Live open a Studio One .song file?

Not as a native Ableton project — Doseedo converts it: upload your .song — or zip the whole song folder (the .song with its Media/) so the audio travels with it — and it rebuilds the song as a native Ableton Live .als project you can open and keep working in.

What do I upload from Studio One?

The .song — Studio One (renamed Fender Studio Pro in version 8) saves a song as a .song file in a song folder with its audio in Media/. Zip the whole song folder so the audio travels with it; a bare .song converts the arrangement, MIDI and mixer, but its audio stays behind on your disk.

How do I export or transfer a Studio One project to Ableton Live?

People describe the same job five ways — export Studio One to Ableton Live, import a .song into Ableton Live, transfer the project, open a Studio One project in Ableton Live — and none of it needs stems. Upload the .song and it converts to a native Ableton Live .als project with tracks, MIDI, audio and the tempo map intact.

What carries over from Studio One to Ableton?

Tracks with their names, volume, pan and mute; audio events with their files traveling in the song folder; MIDI notes; the tempo and time-signature maps — every change, even a song with a thousand of them; markers; and sends. Third-party VST and AU plugins arrive as the same plugin with their saved state. Pro EQ becomes Live’s EQ Eight with its settings; Studio One’s other built-in effects and instruments arrive by name only, and the report lists each one. Automation isn’t promised on this pair yet.

Do my plugins transfer from Studio One to Ableton?

Third-party VST and AU plugins arrive as the same plugin with their saved state. Pro EQ becomes Live’s EQ Eight with its settings; Studio One’s other built-in effects and instruments arrive by name only, and the report lists each one. Nothing is faked: whatever doesn’t cross the Studio One–Ableton boundary is named in the conversion report.

Is my project private?

Your project is uploaded over an encrypted connection into your own private space, converted, and is yours to delete anytime.

How many conversions are free?

3 conversions a month with no account; a free account gets 120 credits a month and Pro 2,000 (a conversion is 1 credit), every plan at full fidelity. No watermark, cancel in one click. One conversion is one project translated one direction; a round-trip is two.

Converting the other way? Ableton to Studio One →
More directions: Studio One to Logic  ·  Studio One to FL Studio  ·  Studio One to REAPER  ·  Studio One to Pro Tools  ·  Logic to Ableton