Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HSB file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert HSB to another file type
To convert HSB sound banks to another format, you need Steinberg HALion or other Audio software.
Convert a file to HSB
To convert other file formats to the "Sampler Sound Archive" file type, you need software like Steinberg HALion or a similar tool.
About HSB files
An .HSB file is a proprietary HALion Sound Bank archive created by Steinberg Media Technologies. It packages multi-sampled audio, instrument layers, routing configurations, and synthesis presets into a single large container used by the HALion VST sampler. The primary disadvantage of the .HSB format is its closed architecture. These files often exceed several gigabytes in size, require a paid software license to open, and cannot be browsed natively by Windows or macOS. You cannot load them directly into DAWs like Ableton Live or FL Studio without installing the specific HALion plugin. Users frequently need to convert .HSB files to extract the raw WAV or FLAC audio samples, or to migrate the instrument mapping logic to more universally accepted formats like SFZ or SF2 (SoundFont). Be aware that converting proprietary sampler formats usually results in the loss of complex synthesis parameters, such as custom LFOs and proprietary filter envelopes, leaving you with only the raw, static audio layers. This file format is notoriously difficult to open or convert because only the original software can properly decode the archived data structure. Standard online converters will fail to process it. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your HSB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert HSB file to HEX, RGB, CMYK, MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF or OPUS, you can use Steinberg HALion or similar software from the "Virtual Instrument Sound Bank" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to HSB, try Steinberg HALion or another comparable tool in the "Virtual Instrument Sound Bank" category.
The HSB Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HSB converter.