Convert a whole project from one DAW to another
Steps: still in Logic Pro Wave: arrived in Ableton Live
DawSwap converts the whole project, so the other person opens a real one in their own DAW: tracks, notes, audio, tempo, markers, mixer, sends and automation. Anything that can't cross is named.
Everything that makes it a project.
Before anything is written, DawSwap reads the project and shows what will carry. This is one example.
- Tracks 109of 109 CarriesRendered: 5 Logic instruments played in Logic
- Audio clips 1,196of 1,211 Needs you: 2 audio files are missingTheir 15 clips wait until you find them
- Notes 6,538of 6,538 Carries
- Mixer, sends and buses 14buses Changes12 return tracks; 2 of Logic's 14 buses become groups
- Plug-ins 120of 136 Carries: 16 stay the same plug-inChanges: 104 become Live's own16 left out
- Automation 30of 32 lanes 2 lanes left out
Example project: Night Drive v7, 124 BPM, Logic Pro to Ableton Live. Names and numbers are example data.
Every loss has a name.
Five labels cover everything a conversion can do to your project. You see them before you convert and again in the report.
- Carries
- Arrives as it was.
- Changes
- Arrives in the other DAW's own form. A bus becomes a group; a stock effect becomes theirs.
- Rendered
- A Logic instrument with no match is played in Logic, and the audio is brought across.
- Needs you
- Something only you can settle, like a missing audio file. Asked before converting.
- Left out
- Can't be written to the other DAW. Named, with where it was, so you can replace it.
Watch one cross.
Night Drive v7, from Logic Pro to Ableton Live.
Four steps, one window.
Drop a project
Drag it in from Finder or File Explorer, or choose it.
See what will carry
The plan is worked out before anything is written.
Convert
DawSwap writes a real project for the other DAW.
Open it there
With a report of anything to check, most audible first.
Between the DAWs people actually use.
- Logic Pro
- Ableton Live
- Pro Tools
- FL Studio
- REAPER
- Studio One and Bitwigas DAWproject
Converted on your own Mac or PC, in the app.
Fair questions.
Do I need both DAWs installed?
No. DawSwap reads the project file itself. The one exception: Logic instruments with no match are played in Logic, so Logic needs to be open for that step. Whoever opens the result needs their own DAW, and nothing else.
What happens to my plug-ins?
Stock effects become the other DAW's own where there is a match. Third-party plug-ins that exist on both sides stay the same plug-in. Anything else is left out and named, and its track keeps its notes and audio.
Is this stems?
No. The other person opens a project with tracks, clips, notes, mixer and automation in place. Audio is only rendered where nothing else can carry the sound.
What does it cost?
Pricing isn't set yet. People on the beta list hear first.
Hand it over as a project.
Made by JoeyTheGent, maker of GentSampler and GentBass.