Open DAWproject files in your browser
The open format for taking a song from one DAW to another, with its tracks, notes, audio and plugins. Open one right here as its arrangement and hear its notes. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your project opens as its arrangement: the tracks down the left in their colors, and their clips along the bars with their notes drawn small and the waves of their audio, under the tempo and markers.
- Every track and clip • Zoom from the whole song to a beat
- Plugins and samples • A tab each, missing samples marked
- Play • The notes in General MIDI sounds, Audacity's own mix
- Export • Save as MIDI, WAV, MP3 or CSV
About DAWproject
Bitwig and PreSonus published DAWproject in 2023 as an open format, under the MIT licence, so a song could move between DAWs as more than stems and MIDI. Bitwig Studio, Studio One and Cubase save and open it.
A DAWproject is a ZIP: project.xml holds the tracks and their channels, devices and plugins with their states, the clips of the arrangement and the launcher with their notes, audio and automation, the tempo, time signature and markers, and metadata.xml the title, artist and genre. The audio files and the plugins' states go inside, or are named by their path.
Filepeek reads it in your browser. Tracks open in their colors with their clips along the bars, notes drawn small and the waves of the audio inside, with the markers above. Plugins lists each device with its maker and format, VST2, VST3, CLAP or AU, or the DAW's own, Samples which audio files it uses and whether they're inside, and Play plays the notes with General MIDI instruments picked by each track's name. Export saves the notes as MIDI and the lists as CSV.
DAWproject exchange file
.dawproject
Format
- MIME type
- application/zip
- Made by
- Bitwig and PreSonus
- Released
- 2023
Inside the file
- Holds
- Tracks, clips, notes and plugins
- Audio
- Inside the ZIP, or named by path
- Saved by
- Bitwig Studio, Studio One and Cubase
- Format
- A ZIP of XML, an open spec
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens DAWproject 1.0 files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open DAWproject
- WindowsBitwig Studio, Studio One and Cubase, each paid
- MacBitwig Studio, Studio One and Cubase, each paid
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I open a DAWproject file?
Drop it on this page or press Peek a DAWproject. It opens as its arrangement in your browser, on Windows, a Mac, an iPhone or Android, with nothing to install.
Which apps make DAWproject files?
Bitwig Studio, Studio One and Cubase save and open them, so a song started in one can go on in another with its tracks, notes, audio and plugins' settings.
Why doesn't it sound like the song?
A DAWproject holds the notes and the plugins' settings, not the plugins themselves. Filepeek plays the notes with General MIDI instruments picked by each track's name, so you hear the parts and their timing. Audio clips stay silent.
How do I get the MIDI out of a DAWproject?
Open it, choose Export, then Save the notes as MIDI. Each track's clips become a track of notes, with the tempo and the markers.