The big list below indicates which file formats that Awave Studio can read and/or write. The listed file extension is the one most commonly used - but usually the program can correctly determine the file format even if the file extension is wrong. The following symbols are used in the table:

R	Indicates support for Reading a format.
W	Indicates support for Writing a format.
	Indicates that the format can be auto-detected - even with the wrong extension.
	Indicates that you can save waveforms to this format.
	Indicates that you can save instruments to this format.
	Indicates that you can save collections to this format.
	Indicates that you can save MIDI songs to this format.
CD	Indicates that the synth uses a proprietary CD-ROM format.
FD	Indicates that the synth uses a proprietary floppy-disk format.
S	Indicates that the format may use a 'Synthesis model' other than wavetable synthesis.
*	Indicates that a free 3rd party add-on may be needed for reading and/or writing certain compressed data formats (click on the format extension to get more info).

Note: Some synthesizers use disk formats and file systems that are not recognized by Windows - but the program can still read many of them by communicating directly with the hardware. For more on this, see the List of special I/O formats!

Note: You can also save MIDI songs and/or tracks to any format with the symbol in list below - in this case, the program will automatically render a recording from the note data!

Note: Also supports are several formats using other synthesis models, more specifically Phase modulation synthesis (a.k.a. Yamaha FM-synthesis), and an Additive synthesis hybrid (a.k.a. Roland LA-synthesis). Such file formats are marked with S in the list.

Ext.	R/W	Format description
32	R	Raw Yamaha DX7 32-voice data. S
3G2	R+W	3GPP 'project 2' file format. *
3GP	R+W	3GPP file format. *
404	R+W	Muon DS404 bank files.
404	R+W	Muon DS404 patch files.
669	R	669 modules.
AAC	R+W	MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADTS container format). *
AAC	R	MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADIF container format). *
AAC	R	MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format ('raw' format). *
AIFC	R	Compressed Audio Interchange File Format.
AIF	R+W	Audio Interchange File Format.
AIFF	R+W	Audio Interchange File Format.
AIS	R	Velvet Studio instruments.
AKAI	R	AKAI S-series floppy disk image files.
AKP	R+W	AKAI S-5000/S-6000 programs.
ALAW	R+W	G.711 A-law european telephony format.
ALW	R+W	G.711 A-law european telephony format.
AMR	R+W	MIME 'AMR file storage' format.
AMS	R	Extreme Tracker modules.
AMS	R	Velvet Studio modules.
APE	R+W	Monkey Audio losslessly compressed files.
APEX	R+W	AVM Sample Studio bank files.
ARL	R+W	Aureal 'Aspen' bank files.
ASE	R	Velvet Studio samples.
ASF	R	ActiveMovie streaming format.
ATAK??	R+W	Soundscape Audio-Take files.
AU	R+W	Sun/NeXT/DEC audio files.
AVI	R	Microsoft Audio Video Interleave files.
AVR	R	Audio Visual Research sound file.
BN4	R	Yamaha DX21 / DX27 / DX100 voice SysEx dumps. S
BNK	R	Yamaha DX21 / DX27 / DX100 voice SysEx dumps. S
BNK	R	Yamaha DX11 / TX81z voice SysEx dumps. S
BNK	R	Ad Lib banks. S
BWF	R	Broadcast wave files.
C01	R	Typhoon wave files.
CAF	R+W	Apple CoreAudio file format.
CAFF	R+W	Apple CoreAudio file format.
CDA	R	Audio CD tracks. CD
CDR	R	Audio CD compatible raw data.
CMF	R	Creative Labs music files. S
COD	R+W	3GPP 'AMR interface format 2'.
DCM	R	DCM modules.
DEWF	R	SoundCap/SoundEdit instruments
DIG	R	Digilink format.
DIG	R	Sound Designer I files.
DLP	R	DirectMusic Producer DLS files.
DLS	R+W	DownLoadable Sounds level 1.
DLS	R+W	DownLoadable Sounds level 2/2+/2++.
DLS	R+W	Mobile DLS files minimal / full feature set.
DMF	R	Delusion/XTracker digital music format.
DR8	R+W	FXpansion DR-008 drumkits.
DRO	R	DOSBox Raw OPL format.
DSF	R	Delusion/XTracker sample format.
DSM	R	Digital Sound Module format.
DSS	R	Olympus DSS files. *
DTM	R	DigiTrekker modules.
DWD	R+W	DiamondWare digitized files.
DX7	R	Yamaha DX7 voice SysEx dumps. S
DX7	R	Raw Yamaha DX7 32-voice data. S
EDA	R	Ensoniq ASR-10 disk image. FD CD
EDE	R	Ensoniq EPS disk image. FD CD
EDK	R	Ensoniq KT disk image.
EDM	R	Ensoniq Mirage disk image.
EDQ	R	Ensoniq SQ1/SQ2/KS32 disk image.
EDV	R	Ensoniq VFX-SD disk image.
EFA	R	Ensoniq ASR-10 instrument files. FD CD
EFE	R+W	Ensoniq EPS instrument files. FD CD
EFK	R	Ensoniq KT instrument files.
EFQ	R	Ensoniq SQ1/SQ2/KS32 instrument files.
EFS	R	Ensoniq SQ80 instrument files.
EFV	R	Ensoniq VFX-SD instrument files.
EMB	R	Everest embedded bank files.
EMD	R	ABT extended modules.
EMY	R+W	EMelody Ericsson mobile ring-tone format.
ESPS	R	ESPS audio files.
EUI	R	Ensoniq EPS family compacted disk image.
EXS	R+W	Logic EXS24 instruments.
F2R	R	Farandoyle linear module format.
F3R	R	Farandoyle blocked linear module format.
F32	R+W	Floating point raw 32-bit IEEE data.
F64	R+W	Floating point raw 64-bit IEEE data.
FAR	R	Farandoyle module.
FFF	R+W	Gravis UltraSound PnP bank files.
FLAC	R+W	Free lossless audio codec files. *
FNK	R	FunkTracker modules.
FSB	R	FMOD SoundSystem sound banks.
FSM	R	Farandoyle sample format.
FZB	R+W	Casio FZ-1 bank dump format.
FZF	R+W	Casio FZ-1 full dump format.
FZV	R+W	Casio FZ-1 voice dump format.
G721	R+W	G.721 4-bit (32 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G723	R+W	G.723 3/5-bit ADPCM format data.
G723-3	R+W	G.723 3-bit (24 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G723-5	R+W	G.723 5-bit (40 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G726	R+W	G.726 2/3/4/5-bit ADPCM format data.
G726-2	R+W	G.726 2-bit (16 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G726-3	R+W	G.726 3-bit (24 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G726-4	R+W	G.726 4-bit (32 kbps) ADPCM format data.
G726-5	R+W	G.726 5-bit (40 kbps) ADPCM format data.
GDM	R	Bells, Whistles, Sound Boards modules.
GI!	R	GigaStudio/GigaSampler files - Split over multiple CD-ROM's.
GIG	R+W	GigaStudio/GigaSampler files - Normal.
GIG	R+W	GigaStudio/GigaSampler files - Compressed.
GKH	R	Ensoniq EPS family disk image files. FD CD
GSM	R+W	Raw GSM 06.10 audio streasm.
GSM	R+W	Raw 'byte aligned' GSM 06.10 audio streams.
GSM	R+W	US Robotics voice modems GSM w.o. header (VoiceGuide, RapidComm).
GSM	R+W	US Robotics voice modems GSM w. header (QuickLink).
HCOM	R	Sound Tools HCOM format.
IBK	R	Creative Labs FM banks. S
IFF	R+W	Interchange file format.
IMF	R	id Software Music Format (560 Hz).
IMY	R+W	iMelody mobile phone ring-tone format.
INI	R+W	Gravis UltraSound.ini bank setup.
INI	R	IBM MWave DSP synthesizer bank setup (MWSYNTH.INI).
INRS	R	INRS-Telecommunications audio files.
INS	R	Ensoniq EPS family instrument files.
INS	R	Ad Lib instruments. S
INS	R+W	Sample Cell II Mac instruments.
INS	R+W	Sample Cell II PC instruments.
INS	W	Cakewalk instrument definition files.
IST	R	Digitrakker instruments.
IT	R	Impulse Tracker modules.
ITI	R+W	Impulse Tracker instruments.
ITS	R+W	Impulse Tracker samples.
K25	R	Kurzweil K2500 files. CD
K26	R	Kurzweil K2600 files. CD
KAWAI12	R+W	KAWAI R50/R50E/R50III/R100 ROM-dump.
KFT	R	Korg T-series waves.
KIT	R+W	Native Instruments Batter v1 drum-kit files.
KMP	R+W	Korg Triton keymap file.
KMP	R+W	Korg Trinity keymap file.
KMP	R+W	Korg M3 keymap file.
KR1	R+W	Kurzweil K2000/K2500/K2600 split files. CD
KRZ	R+W	Kurzweil K2000 files (also K2500 & K2600). CD
KSC	R+W	Korg Triton script files.
KSC	R+W	Korg Trinity script files.
KSC	R+W	Korg M3 script files.
KSF	R+W	Korg Triton sample files.
KSF	R+W	Korg Trinity sample files.
KSF	R+W	Korg M3 sample files.
M4A	R+W	iTunes MPEG-4 audio format. *
M4R	R+W	iPhone ring-tone. *
MAP	R+W	Native Instruments Reaktor wavetable files - Embedded waves.
MAP	R+W	Native Instruments Reaktor wavetable files - Linked waves.
MAT	R+W	Matlab variables binary files.
MAUD	R	MAUD sample format.
MDL	R	Digitrakker modules.
MED	R	OctaMED modules.
MID	R+W	Standard MIDI files.
MID	R	Roland D-50 patch SysEx dumps. S
MID	R	Roland MT-32 (and compatibles) timbre SysEx dumps. S
MID	R	Yamaha DX7 voice SysEx dumps. S
MID	R	Yamaha DX7s / DX7II / DX200 voice SysEx dumps. S
MID	R	Yamaha DX21 / DX27 / DX100 voice SysEx dumps. S
MID	R	Yamaha DX11 / TX81z voice SysEx dumps. S
MKA	R	Matroska audio file.
MKV	R	Matroska video file.
MLD	R	MFi/MFi2 songs a.k.a. i-Melody a.k.a. Melody Format for i-Mode.
MLS	R	Miles Sound System compressed DLS file.
MMF	R	SMAF songs, 'Synthetic Music Mobile Application Format'. S
MOD	R	Module files.
MOV	R	Apple QuickTime movie format. *
MP1	R	MPEG audio streams, layer I.
MP2	R+W	MPEG audio streams, layer II. *
MP3	R+W	MPEG audio streams, layer III. *
MP4	R+W	MPEG-4 base media file format. *
MPA	R	MPEG audio streams, layer I, II, 'II½' or III.
MPC	R+W	Musepack audio compression.
MPEG	R	MPEG system streams, audio+video.
MPG	R	MPEG system streams, audio+video.
MSS	R+W	Miles Sound System DLS 1 + XMI file.
MT2	R	MadTracker 2 modules.
MTI	R+W	MadTracker 2 instruments.
MTM	R	MultiTracker modules.
MUS	R	Doom/Heretic music files.
MUS	R+W	Musifile MPEG Layer II audio stream.
MUS10	R	Mus10 audio files.
MWS	W	IBM MWave DSP synth instrument extracts.
NIST	R+W	NIST Sphere files.
NVF	R+W	Creative Labs Nomad voice files.
O01	R	Typhoon voice files.
OGG	R+W	Vorbis Ogg streams. *
OKT	R	Oktalyzer modules.
OSP	R+W	Orion Sampler programs.
OUT	R	Roland S-5xx series floppy image (S-50,S-51,S-330,W-30,S-500,S-550). CD FD
OUT	R	Roland S-7xx series floppy image (S-70,S-700,S-750,S-760,S-770,S-772). CD FD
P	R	AKAI S900/S950 programs. CD
P	R+W	AKAI S1000/S1100/S01 programs. CD
P	R+W	AKAI S3000/S3200/S2000/S2800 programs. CD
PAC	R	SB Studio II package files.
PAF	R+W	Ensoniq PARIS audio files.
PAT	R+W	Gravis Ultrasound GF1 patch files.
PBF	R+W	Turtle Beach Pinnacle bank files.
PCG	R+W	Korg Triton bank files.
PCG	R	Korg Triton LE bank files.
PCG	R+W	Korg Trinity bank files.
PCM	R	OKI MSM6376 synth chip PCM format.
PGM	R+W	AKAI MPC-1000 drum set files + .WAV files.
PGM	R+W	AKAI MPC-2000XL drum set files + .WAV files.
PGM	R+W	AKAI MPC-2000 drum set files + .SND files.
PGM	R+W	AKAI MPC-3000 drum set files + .SND files.
PLM	R	DisorderTracker2 modules.
PLS	R	DisorderTracker2 samples.
PPF	R	Turtle Beach Pinnacle program files.
PRG	R+W	WAVmaker program.
PSB	R	Turtle Beach Pinnacle sound banks.
PSION	R	PSION a-law files.
PSM	R	Protracker Studio modules.
PTM	R	Poly Tracker modules.
RA	W	RealAudio files. *
RAW	R	Signed 8-bit PCM data.
RAW	R	Rdos Raw OPL capture format.
RIF	R	Rockwell ADPCM format (Hotfax/Quicklink).
RMI	R+W	RIFF-MIDI files.
ROCKWELL	R+W	Rockwell 2/3/4-bit ADPCM data.
ROCKWELL-2	R+W	Rockwell 2-bit ADPCM data.
ROCKWELL-3	R+W	Rockwell 3-bit ADPCM data.
ROCKWELL-4	R+W	Rockwell 4-bit ADPCM data.
ROM	R	Roland MT-32 / CM32L / LAPC-1 control and PCM ROM dumps. S
S	R+W	AKAI S900/950 samples.
S	R+W	AKAI S1000/S1100/S01 samples. CD
S	R+W	AKAI S3000/S3200/S2000/S2800 samples. CD
S1A	R	Yamaha EX5 'all' format.
S1M	R+W	Yamaha EX5 'waveforms' format.
S1V	R+W	Yamaha EX5 'voices' format.
S3I	R+W	ScreamTracker v3 instruments.
S3M	R	ScreamTracker v3 modules.
S3P	R+W	AKAI MESA II/PC S-series program.
SAM	R	Signed 8-bit PCM files.
SB	R+W	Signed byte (8-bit) data.
SBI	R	Creative Labs FM Instrument. S
SBK	R+W	EMU SoundFont v1.x banks.
SC2	R+W	Sample Cell II PC/Mac instruments.
SD	R+W	Sound Designer I files.
SD2	R+W	Sound Designer II flattened files.
SD2	R+W	Sound Designer II data forks.
SDK	R	Roland S-5xx series floppy disk image (S-50, S-51, S-330, W-30, S-500, S-550). CD FD
SDK	R	Roland S-7xx series floppy disk image (S-70, S-700, S-750, S-760, S-770, S-772). CD FD
SDS	R+W	MIDI Sample Dump Standard dump files.
SDW	R	Signed dword (32-bit) data.
SDX	R	MIDI Sample Dump Standard dumps compacted by SDX.
SEQ	R+W	Sony Playstation MIDI sequences.
SF	R+W	IRCAM / MTU SoundFile format.
SF2	R+W	EMU SoundFont v2.x banks.
SF2PACK	R	MIDI Converter Studio packed Sound Font.
SFARK	R	Melody Machine Compressed SoundFonts. *
SFD	R	SoundStage sound data file.
SFI	R	SoundStage sound info file.
SFR	R	Sonic Foundry sample resource files.
SFZ	R+W	rgc:audio SFZ v1 instruments.
SFZ	R	Cakewalk SFZ v2 instruments.
SHN	R+W	Shorten lossless compression.
SMD	R	J-Phone / SmdEd mobile songs.
SMP	R	Samplevision files.
SMP	R	Ad Lib Gold samples.
SMP	R+W	Avalon samples.
SND	R+W	Unsigned 8-bit PCM data (W as .UB).
SND	R+W	AKAI MPC-60/2000/2000XL/3000 sample files.
SNDR	R	Sounder sound files.
SNDT	R	SndTools sound files.
SOU	R	SB Studio II sound files.
SPD	R	Speech data files.
SPL	R	Digitrakker samples.
SPPACK	R+W	SPPack sound sample.
STM	R	ScreamTracker v2 modules.
STS	R+W	Creamware STS-series sampler programs.
SVQ	R	Roland sequencer files.
SVX	R	Interchange file format.
SW	R+W	Signed word (16-bit) data.
SXT	R+W	Propellerheads Reason NN-XT format.
SYX	R	Roland D-50 patch SysEx dumps. S
SYX	R	Roland MT-32 (and compatibles) timbre SysEx dumps. S
SYX	R	Yamaha DX7 voice SysEx dumps. S
SYX	R	Yamaha DX7s / DX7II / DX200 voice SysEx dumps. S
SYX	R	Yamaha DX21 / DX27 / DX100 voice SysEx dumps. S
SYX	R	Yamaha DX11 / TX81z voice SysEx dumps. S
SYW	R+W	Yamaha SY-series wave files.
TVD	R	Yamaha Tyros 2 custom drum voice file.
TVN	R+W	Yamaha Tyros 2 custom voice file.
TXT	W	Ascii text parameter descriptions.
TXT	R+W	Ascii text formatted audio data.
TXT	R+W	RTTTL / Nokring mobile ring-tone format.
TXT	R+W	Steinberg LM-4 banks.
TXW	R+W	Yamaha TX16W wave files.
U255LAW	R+W	Exponential 8-bit format.
UAX	R	Unreal Tournament audio packages.
UB	R+W	Unsigned byte (8-bit) data.
UDW	R	Unsigned dword (32-bit) data.
UMX	R	Unreal Tournament music package.
ULAW	R+W	G.711 mu-law US telephony format.
ULT	R	UltraTracker modules.
ULW	R+W	G.711 mu-law US telephony format.
UNI	R	MikMod 'UniMod' format.
UVD	R+W	Yamaha Tyros 3 custom drum voice file.
UVN	R+W	Yamaha Tyros 3 custom voice file.
UW	R+W	Unsigned word (16-bit) data.
UWF	R	UltraTracker wave files.
V8	R	Covox 8-bit audio.
VAB	R+W	Sony Playstation / PS2 bank files.
VAG	R+W	Sony Playstation / PS2 compressed sound files.
VAP	R+W	Annotated speech files.
VM1	R	Panasonic voice file.
VOC	R+W	Creative Labs 'newer style' sound files.
VOC	R+W	Creative Labs 'older style' sound files.
VOX	R+W	Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files.
VOX	R	Talking Technology Incorporated files.
VOX-6K	R+W	Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files (6000 Hz).
VOX-8K	R+W	Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files (8000 Hz).
VSB	R+W	Virtual Sampler Bank file.
W??	R+W	Yamaha TX16W wave files.
W??	R+W	Yamaha SY-series wave files.
W2A	R	Yamaha Motif 'all' format.
W2V	R+W	Yamaha Motif 'voices' format.
W2W	R+W	Yamaha Motif 'waveforms' format.
W7A	R	Yamaha Motif ES 'all' format.
W7V	R+W	Yamaha Motif ES 'voices' format.
W7W	R+W	Yamaha Motif ES 'waveforms' format.
W64	R+W	Sonic Foundry Wave-64 format.
WAV	R+W	Microsoft wave format.
WAV	R	Broadcast wave format (EBU BWF).
WA!	R+W	GigaStudio/GigaSampler compressed wave files.
WFB	R+W	Turtle Beach WaveFront bank format.
WFD	R+W	Turtle Beach WaveFront drum set format.
WFP	R+W	Turtle Beach WaveFront program format.
WLF	R	id Software Music Format (700 Hz).
WMA	R+W	Windows Media Audio 4. *
WMA	R+W	Windows Media Audio 9 CBR. *
WMA	R+W	Windows Media Audio 9 ABR. *
WMA	R+W	Windows Media Audio 9 VBR. *
WMA	R+W	Windows Media Audio 9 Voice. *
WMA	R+W	Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless. *
WMA	R+W	Windows Media Audio 9 Pro CBR/ABR/VBR. *
WMV	R	Windows Media Video file.
WRF	R+W	Westacott WinRanX instrument files.
WRK	R	CakeWalk work files.
WUSIKSND	R+W	Wusikstation sound file.
WUSIKPACK	R	Wusikstation pack file.
WV	R+W	WavPack losslessly compressed files.
X0A	R	Yamaha Motif XS 'all' format.
X0V	R+W	Yamaha Motif XS 'voices' format.
X0W	R+W	Yamaha Motif XS 'waveforms' format.
X3A	R	Yamaha Motif XF 'all' format.
X3V	R+W	Yamaha Motif XF 'voices' format.
X3W	R+W	Yamaha Motif XF 'waveforms' format.
XI	R+W	FastTracker 2 instruments.
XM	R	FastTracker 2 extended modules.
XMI	R+W	Miles Sound System extended MIDI files.
YADPCM	R+W	Raw Yamaha 4-bit ADPCM format data.
???	R	Yamaha A3000 sample files.
*	R	Unrecognized file types (prompts user to supply info). ()