Bitwig is the Best DAW 2024

[@dwaynelford1]

Polarity is a true gift to the bitwig community. Thanks for all you do. ❤

[@EsoVieTH]

He’s a gift to the music production community as a whole imo. The fact that the videos are unedited and a lot of the techniques seem to be ideas he gets while recording is just astonishing. Polarity is the bitwig community personified.

[@PolarityMusic]

[@chimpana]

I think he's my favourite German. And i like German people.

[@Eavsounds]

Serious boss level happening over here. Amazing!

[@slarcraft]

Nice! Your videos are boosting my Bitwig a lot.

[@PolarityMusic]

Thank you! Then my videos have achieved their goal!

[@kalifrn]

thank you man! great video 🙏🏼

[@ilyandilymusic]

Dude, these are all incredible. These are the types of channels/videos that make me want to jump into the DAW and get to exploring. Great stuff, thank you!

[@smolgumball]

Love the build-it-up-yourself approach here. One thing I've been wanting to mention for a while now is that your videos often have harsh clipping in them. This seems super odd, especially given your attention to detail and focus on sound design. It'd be lovely if you could try keeping a Peak Limiter on the master bus or something.

[@PolarityMusic]

Yeah, that's always been a cause for comments. I've tried everything, from levelers to limiters. There's always something. Either people find it too quiet or too loud. Since my videos are very improvised, I never know what's going to happen next. And I don't do any editing, so I try to keep everything as optimal as possible. In OBS, I have various limiters on the channels. But I can try putting a limiter on the master. I've done it often but sometimes forget. And if I've already recorded for 20 minutes, I don't just start over because it distorts a bit. But I've noted it down for next time.

[@irvingnovelo4569]

Thank you for keeping the videos coming! i aprecciate a lot! always interesting stuff !

[@PolarityMusic]

Thanks! im kinda inspired and motivated atm! more vids soon! 💪

[@ImaplanetJupiteeeerr]

Reeeally cool videos recently, like always. So much inspiration! ❤️

[@BorisBarroso]

Wow so many possibilities, thanks for sharing.

[@AGZT94]

Can you make a video where you demonstrate progressive house leads in the grid or making serum patches?

[@PolarityMusic]

Noted!

[@hip_hopwar8844]

Bitwig is king❤

[@DonutShoes]

Great video! Lots for me to explore now. The only thing I think this guide is missing is the idea of adding more Operators by adding more LFOs that modulate the Phase of the first modulator, or modulating the sampler in parallel.

[@PolarityMusic]

Yeah, unfortunately, that occurred to me too late. But I discussed that in detail in my powersynth video, so I linked to it at the end of the video. But yes, I could have teased that in the video. That's what happens when you improvise videos :D

[@Luckyrrul]

My answer to the title of the video: Absolutely 🍷😎👌🏽

[@turntheknob]

Black magic!!! Thanks for all the content you share!

[@peterkoval]

Polarity is the goat. Great explanation.

[@PolarityMusic]

thanks peter 🥰

[@artysanmobile]

The original FM keyboard still does it the best, and has been doing so since 1957. That’s right, the Hammond B3.

[@CuriousPassenger]

Excuse me, what? FM on Hammond since 1957?

[@West1Think]

Brilliant !

[@CarlyonProduction]

For me it’s bitwig and reaper now. They both do very different things and are kings in their class. I absolutely love bitwig though. So damn good.

[@PolarityMusic]

reaper is cheap and feature rich!

[@CarlyonProduction]

@@PolarityMusic when I’m making house music it’s bitwig every time! It’s getting better and better. Love it. However when the project involves lots of audio / vocals I go with reaper as the editing and mixing is insane!!

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

i love this DAW

[@thepedalpress]

These are great tutorials. Every step along the way I wanted to save a preset of the various stages. I could, but not with the Valhalla reverb or other effects. Can anyone tell this newbie how to save not just, say, an FM Synth via Sampler preset, but to have it associated with the entire string of effects? Thus far I've been able to select all devices and save them into a group which nestles the entirety into an Instrument Layer. Perhaps this is the answer? thank you

[@PolarityMusic]

Most instruments have FX boxes where you can insert FX chains. This is the correct way to save presets for instruments with all the effects.

[@trollingisasport]

My favorite FM vst right now is Korg Opsix

[@porkroll-egg-and-cheese]

Love it, thank you :)

[@gossipboynyc9625-VN]

How about for acoustical arrangements and acoustic live performance? Like pianos and vocals, or bands? The feedback modulation instrument design is excellent. The modulator is super sick.

[@mudi2000a]

Nice tutorial! I wonder why Bitwig didn’t add a Phase input to the sample oscillator unlike all the others.

[@PolarityMusic]

Because it would probably work the same way internally, but this way, you can control two things with one button. It would be nonsense to have two buttons that do the same thing just to call one button speed and the other phase. That's what I imagine 😅 But honestly, I have no idea.

[@Beatelephant]

So much fun!

[@gossipboynyc9625-VN]

This is science (and fun), hmm, not music (kidding) - until arranged obviously

[@annoonna4878]

einfach nice i love it

[@eren3390]

I want to switch from FL either to Ableton or Bitwig. Still unsure :(

[@AGZT94]

Go for BITWIG …I was skeptical at first but it is so much fun. However I use studio one as my main Daw but also work on BW. I’ve tried most of the Daws and personally it’s a killer combo BW with S1.

[@StefanSauer]

+1 for bitwig, you can just download and try in in demo mode

[@yajrobot]

FL btw has some cool stuff, unless you're heavily into sound design, then Bitwig it is, there is much more usasbility regading audio editing, bouncing in audio from midi etc is much better implemented in bitwig than in Ableton, worked in Ableton for 4 years, didn't ever regret switching.

[@PolarityMusic]

I've noticed that many FL Studio users are switching to Bitwig atm. But yeah, as others have said, just download the demo version and see if it pulls you in! 💪

[@eren3390]

thanks everyone for the suggestions, will demo bitwig today :)

[@sfisodlamini54]

The 1 thing preventing me from full transitioning to bitwig is proper vertical zooming like other daws and differenct color schemes, bitwig to me currently feels claustrophobic, feature for feature its king.

[@lackLUFSter]

if you'd ever be down to revisit step sequencing in the grid that would be awesome. I've been trying to remake Ableton's arpeggiator in the note grid but can't figure out how to imitate the "distance" parameter

[@PolarityMusic]

Oh man, replicating existing devices 100% always causes trouble. I'd have to check what the parameter in Ableton does, then maybe I can answer that for you. 🥰

[@jonasharp3]

Didn’t know you were a bitwig user tbh. You make some pretty neat tunes.

[@ohcibi]

Bitwig is King because Polarity is a Bitwig User and therefore makes videos about Bitwig.

[@iqnill]

Beautiful work, truly! I use both Live and Bitwig and I believe that most Live users use it just like people use Word - "Everybody uses it" and "My grandfather loved it, so it must be good"... Live seems so dated and clumsy comparing to BW. The only chance for Live is to be re-coded and re-designed for the 21st century.

[@jonasharp3]

Live was made in the 21st century, though. It’s got some rough spots but it’s still quite forward thinking compared to many audio workstations. Honestly the things I would do to have groove pool, and abletons sampler/simpler in Bitwig, can’t be said on here.

[@iqnill]

@@jonasharp3 The ability to non destructively adjust the humanise and randomise in BW is pretty bloody good. What’s in Live’s sampler that you miss? Personally I cannot believe how limited the modulation options can are Live. Cannot beat Bitwig’s endless modulators available in every synth and FX, including external plugins. That and the Grids beat Live blue and purple. I created some generative rigs in Bitwig and tried to recreate them in Live… yeah… goooood luck.

[@jonasharp3]

@@iqnill yeah I mean I’m a Bitwig user so I don’t really need any convincing of why it’s good, I’m just saying that live is also a perfectly capable daw, and that I don’t think it needs to be fully rebuilt. What I miss specifically are the warp modes being directly in the sampler, and the ease of slicing. Bitwig can work around those things, but it is a bunch of extra steps. Doesn’t really matter though cause global modulators ensure I won’t be opening ableton any time soon.

[@iqnill]

@@jonasharp3 I'm not trying to convince you at all. Interesting observation on the sampler, although I never felt the need to use warp in the sampler, but I can see the point. Wen I have to use Live I really feel like I'm using Word... there's something clunky and clumsy about it. Keep catching myself shocked by the inability to edit audio like in Bitwing - inside a clip. And the modulators in Live... geeezzz... once something is assigned you cannot change the original value on the knob... blah blah blah. By "rewriting" I mean re-coding. It seems to have reached the top of it's potential - look at V12, the only new features are MIDI gimmicks, clearly the - already resources hungry - code cannot cope with audio editing. 12 is a pre-burial make up ;)

[@DyspotikOriginal]

Best DAW of all time you mean 😁

[@GeorgeLocke]

Is there a way to highpass or "DC block" a modulation signal?

[@BeatMax2023]

I think this can be done in the grid. Just route the modulation signal thru a hipass filter and then connect the output of the hipass filter to a modulator out. Use this modulator out to control/modulate the target you want.

[@GeorgeLocke]

@@BeatMax2023 i wish there were a "grid modulator"...

[@BeatMax2023]

​@@GeorgeLockeYou can try it with a workaround by modulating a DC-Offset with the grid and then use the DC-Offset to control the synth you want to modulate.

[@casadefruit3173]

Hey man please try to make rominimal style micro house in bitwig will love it ❤️❤️

[@PolarityMusic]

I have to look up what that even is and what exactly defines the style! :D But once I know, I'll make a video, promise!

[@casadefruit3173]

@@PolarityMusic Thanks man will love to see you do it in bitwig❤️

[@lackLUFSter]

let him cook

[@sandmyn]

❤ it

[@michail_777]

Hi and thanks for the video. I have a question. I saw that Ableton has a tool that can create an MIDI file from an audio file. I know that you can make an audio file from MIDI in Bitwig. Is there an option in Bitwig to create a MIDI file with notes from an audio file? Have a great day.

[@PolarityMusic]

no, but you can use this free tool: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5TGfGugoLarZrs

[@alelondon23]

great video, but I feel you are "abusing" the features. from the start ... using a sampler to generate a sinewave, an LFO modulating at a freq that makes it a HFO... the aliasing got nasty! and the LPF became necessary. And let's not measure how much cpu you are using for something that would take much less with the right tools (and sound better!)

[@PolarityMusic]

which tool can FM two long samples?

[@alelondon23]

@@PolarityMusic fadedinstruments.com/slimer-fm/

[@LagoLhn]

Best is subjective. Call me when Bitwig builds a proper hardware controller that rivals Push 3 standalone.

[@harry2house536]

Another Ableton “blind follower” asking for options that only Live manage 😒

[@LagoLhn]

@@harry2house536 Not at all. Immediacy matters. Bitwig is a solid DAW- but to be considered ‘best’ the DAW workflow must be addressed as a core consideration. If small 3 person shops can come up with standalone groove boxes don’t tell us Bitwig can’t evolve into tailored hardware.

[@alfa156c]

Daumen 281

[@jasonburgero]

Video got 606 likes

[@OrangeNash]

Tried Bitwig a few years ago. For me, a DAW is judged by it's outputs, not it's inputs. The results. And in that month trial, all I ended with was a set of "interesting" noises! And even now, if I look up Bitwig YT videos, them music being made (the output) generally sounds kind of ... odd. Strange sounds chopped together and not "listenable" in conventional sense. As if its' the DAW for experimental art projects by technicians, rather than music people actually like to listen to.

[@PolarityMusic]

maybe you dont know what good music is?

[@codexstudios]

That might be the dumbest thing I've seen anyone say about a DAW. Ever.

[@radolfosan]

geiler Sch...! 👍🤭😉

[@PolarityMusic]

💪

[@solarsound744]

without Polarity I would have dumped Bitwig long ago

[@citadelo5ricks]

Love this, really glad you have it in the Grid. One small request, stop adding reverb, it confuses the sound.

[@PolarityMusic]

hey, but i love reverb 😅

[@citadelo5ricks]

@@PolarityMusic Too much of a good thing :-)

[@citadelo5ricks]

@@PolarityMusic Love confuses judgement.

[@PolarityMusic]

next time, more reverb just for you :D

[@citadelo5ricks]

@@PolarityMusicI LOVE REVERB!!

[@matthiasvonmah]

it makes no sense not being on bitwig

[@bonafontciel]

Still the Arranger has an ugly background color. How can it be the best ?