Studio One project to MIDI

Drop a .song 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 a Studio One project

Studio One hands MIDI out a part at a time — drag an instrument part to the desktop and you get one .mid per part, named after the part. This takes the .song and gives you the arrangement as it plays: every instrument track's parts, at their positions, on one named track each, in one file.

  1. Add your .song: The song file itself. Studio One keeps earlier saves in a History folder beside it; those are ignored, so the one you are working on is the one that gets read.
  2. It is read in your browser: A .song is a zip of XML, with each instrument part's notes in a small binary file inside it. All of it is read on your machine — nothing is uploaded, and no account is needed.
  3. Take the MIDI: The song opens in the studio and downloads as one Standard MIDI file, at the song's tempo.

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Questions about the Studio One project to MIDI converter?

We have answers.

Do I need an account?

No. A .song is read in your browser, so the conversion works signed out and the song is not uploaded.

Do my track names survive?

Yes. Each instrument track becomes a named track in the MIDI file, with every one of its parts on it.

What about audio tracks and plugins?

Audio tracks are recordings and carry no notes. Instruments, inserts and the console stay in Studio One — a MIDI file is the performance, not the sound.

Can it convert a Studio One song to Logic or Ableton?

Yes, on the project converter: a .song converts to a native Logic, Ableton, FL Studio, Pro Tools, REAPER or Cubase project with its tracks, console, sends and parts. This page is the quick path when the MIDI is all you need.

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  • A part is a window on its notes

    An instrument part in Studio One does not own its notes outright. The notes belong to a performance, in beats from the performance's start, and the part shows a window of that performance at a position on the track: trim the part's left edge and the notes before it are still there, just not played. That is read here the way Studio One plays it — a note outside the part's window is not written, and one that runs past the end of the part is cut where the part ends. Transpose on the part is applied; a muted part is left out.

  • Take layers: the one that plays

    A track with takes keeps every layer in the file. Only the active layer is the arrangement, so only its parts are read — the comp you hear, not every take under it.

  • Tempo changes, and events locked to time

    The song's tempo map is read whole, holds and ramps, and every note is placed through it, so a part after a tempo change lands where Studio One plays it. Parts locked to seconds rather than bars (time-locked events) are placed the same way. The file carries the song's starting tempo.

  • Which versions

    Songs saved by Studio One 3.3 through 7, and Fender Studio Pro 8, read here: versions 3.3 and earlier wrote parts as XML, 3.5 and later as a compact binary, and both are read. Audio tracks hold recordings, not notes, so they are not in the MIDI file.

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