Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your OBW file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert OBW to another file type
To convert your OBW file to another format, you need Superior Drummer 3 or other Audio software.
Convert a file to OBW
To convert other file formats to the "Sample Bank" file type, you need software like Superior Drummer 3 or a similar tool.
About OBW files
The .OBW file extension serves as the high-fidelity container for drum samples within Toontrack Superior Drummer. These files are essentially massive audio banks, often formatted using the RIFF structure (similar to WAV), but optimized specifically for the Toontrack playback engine. Users typically encounter friction because these are not standard audio files; you cannot drop an .OBW into VLC Media Player or a standard DAW track to listen to it. The files are proprietary, often encrypted or chunked in a way that only the Superior Drummer VST/Standalone software can decode to trigger specific velocity layers and microphone channels. Consequently, they are useless without the expensive parent software license. For production workflows requiring these sounds in other samplers (like Native Instruments Kontakt), the only reliable conversion method is to load the library within Superior Drummer and use the internal "Bounce" or "Export" feature to render the audio to WAV or AIFF. Direct file conversion is rarely successful due to the complex multi-channel mapping and proprietary headers.
Convert.Guru analyzes your OBW file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted SOUNDSTATS, DAT, TCI, XSB, RFL and WAV files.
FAQ
If you want to convert OBW file to WAV, MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use Superior Drummer 3 or similar software from the "Drum Sample Library" 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 OBW, try Superior Drummer 3 or another comparable tool in the "Drum Sample Library" category.
The OBW 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 OBW converter.