Modern Workflows, New Possibilities: An Introduction to Bitwig Studio

[@beattherapydotcom]

25:12 That help window is perhaps the best one I've ever seen in any music program. Genius! 🎧💙👍

[@NickMcC]

This is absolutely incredible. I'm a long time Pro Tools and Logic user -- I'm finding these creature comforts and musician-forward ideas just out of this world. Not to mention the conveniences it offers. When it was scanning my plugins, it found a plugin I demoed forever ago and never bought. I guess an iLok popup showed up on a different display, so it gave me a little notification letting me know that the scan was taking too long and that I should look for a popup somewhere. Like wat. What dev has actually thought through that enough to think to do that? Not to mention: having a centralized notification center? Um, YES. The plugin sandboxing concept is revolutionary all by itself. The devs' thoughtfulness and consideration for the end-user brings me more joy than anything has in a long time. It's genuinely heartwarming. Now please give us GUI theme editing and I'll name my next child "Bitwig". :)

[@williamthomasmi10]

Around 8:30, the bounced hats sound fairly different than the midi hats, which is due to the clip stretching happening, shown in the panel on the left, the box that says "stretch," for those wondering. Bitwig can default to raw if you prefer (I sure do)

[@justfunbits2350]

Great - best "crash" course on essential functions for sound design in a wonderfully paced demo .

[@shitmandood]

Excellent demo! I've had Bitwig for 3 years now and it's strange how I've developed some tunnel vision on the feature set. It really helps to see a fresh overview of the product to add to my own perspective and experience with this great tool.

[@ZephB]

A great innovative DAW and it's even available on Linux! Really great

[@gavinpeters9531]

This video was perfect for me. I've been thinking about trying bitwig for a while but needed 1) an overview, and 2) an idea of the deeper features. Excited to jump in now

[@idesel]

Thinking of switching from FL to this. I downloaded the demo and busy playing around with it and watching tutorials. Will do the rent-to-own on Splice if it wins me over.

[@sergemo4607]

Man, I am starting to think I should get this Bitwig thingy. Wow the things you can do with this modular environment is incredible. I have most Daws but this one I have not seen before. The possibilities seem to be endless.

[@KnzoVortex]

Bitwig is game changing.

[@MrStupidHead]

Yeah. You should. The last thing i wanted to do was change my daw. Bitwig is a very solid piece of sw too by the way. It just feels tight.

[@Beatsmithdotorg]

Thanks Bitwig, I became a musician because of you all! Thank you so much!!

[@AcousticBruce]

Wow! What an incredible DAW!

[@tommigronlund714]

Just tried this out yesterday and bought it after seeing few videos and playing around a while. Brilliant DAW and after years in Reason and Cubase this feels so fresh and cool to play around with - the whole thing is one massive sound design tool. Keep up the good work, can't wait for the 4.0 to come out.

[@Gifthoarse]

I need more training with this guy. He simplifies everything.

[@HarryAdee]

You're great man. The way you talk made people new to this program feels at home. I never thought Bitwig is a monster until I watch this video.

[@sergenity]

audio to midi\chord assistant\ options to color interface\Happ new year Bitwig❤

[@kvitekp]

BitWig 5.1 is amazing! The blend between launch pad and arranger is superb, and studio integration including sound design features are truly unique and paradigm changing. Most of all -- all this deepness is implemented with such a clarity and elegance! Bitwig native devices are vast and super hight quality and reflect its truly modular natire. The only thing I found missing is a device that could be called "MIDI Instrument" -- similar to "HW instrument", but it returns MIDI instead of audio --- this is for seamless integration of all those hardware MIDI devices like sequencers and arps, think NDLR for example.

[@atmodiver]

with love from Eupatory!Amazing daw!

[@Robert_Babicz]

very interesting...

[@bharumusic]

What you did @ 1:33 was enough to sell me on Bitwig moving over from Ableton 🙏🏾

[@nkozi]

Everytime Dave does a video I can tell he used to be a Professor.

[@tatv2316]

fantastic intro! so much love goes into the details in bitwig, that is outstanding. please more of these tutorials, very inspiring!

[@redbirdsaraceno]

The only reason i prefer using ableton and fl studio is because they both have the capture midi note recall feature that fl calls dump score log . If bitwig had that feature I would be using it a lot more often than just every now and then like i do, but without that feature for me personally bitwig is behind fl and ableton as i actually use the midi recall feature to make a lot of songs with and that is a mandatory feature in a daw for me at this point .

[@Zettoman]

HOLEEE SHEET I THOUGHT ONLY LOGIC HAD THAT THING. goddamit. making samples in live just got a lot more interesting.

[@HammyHavoc]

Do you mean retrospective record/"Capture" in Live?

[@redbirdsaraceno]

@@HammyHavoc yeah ableton calls it midi capture pr capture midi , not retrospective record. either way same premies as what i commented .

[@futur_sunds]

@@Zettoman wait Logic has the midi recall thing??? I’ve been using it for years and didn’t know about this

[@Zettoman]

@@futur_sunds i saw armin use it in his masterclass. no ideea what version. but its nice

[@ssadams]

I am just trying bitwig for the first time and this wideo is a great start for me!

[@pinkpalace-yx2ew]

makes the most amazing sound ever “i probably wouldnt want to make a synth sound out of this aha” 😂😂🔥🔥🔥

[@WARDISWARD]

Better fix the feedback routing in the grid , currently is dependent on audio buffer size ,which is still a few milliseconds but this is high enough to introduce charmonic content This means you can't build phasers with a +/- feedback set to full 100 a ( all pass filters in serial ) in the grid since there will always be a delay time introduced in the feedabck patch due to this limitation Or even certain fm algoritms where two operators exist in a feedback loop , again bitwig introduces it's minimum delay and thus will introduce harmonic contentthat should not be there . Same for karplus strong synthesis , which is a tuned delay line where delay in the feedback loop defines the pitch (controlled by midi ) , adding a low pass filter in the feedback loop to tame the harmonic content (aka as damping ) ..but once again not possible in bitwig because you guessed it : it adds a few milliseconds into the ffedback loop It's not a substitute for reaktor or even max msp ge , since all of these can have 1 unit sample feedback loops . One of the biggest flaws of bitwig grid , I am aware that most people either don't care or know about it , but I think it worth mentioning

[@KnzoVortex]

@@jesussaddle you gotta admit though, feedback is one of the most rudimentary and essential components of modular exploration and the fact that we don’t have it it’s a fairly large limitation especially when other daws with less power do. Whatever effort they would have to put in to developing it in the grid or outside of it would be absolutely worth it in my view, even if it took a while.

[@oshinenajarian]

Hot damn. Amazing work guys. You got a new recruit.

[@cryptout]

I've been struggling with bitwig audio editing but this video clears it all up. Thanks!

[@Jakkzter1]

Mid / Side was awesome :)

[@TMeier]

I'm fascinated by Bitwig, and love the ways it opens itself to creative uses. It baffles me that it forces the user into a stereo-only routing model. I'd love to use all of the tools of the grid for quad performances. Until then I have to piece things together with VCV and other modular software, but it's nowhere near as elegant. Here's hoping for Bitwig 5!

[@BursaProduction]

This is insane!!! so good for generating ides. Start to loving this workflow! Woow!!

[@johndeskin9429]

I wish you guys would all just come together and make the total Beast DAW,

[@KnzoVortex]

No DAW could ever serve everyone, as musicians can wildly vary in their process, but as far as I’m concerned Bitwig doing almost everything right for creative electronic musicians.

[@PikeBishop1]

Bitwig with Reason Rack Plugin for sound design and creation, Studio One for arranging, mixing and mastering.

[@johndeskin9429]

@@PikeBishop1 Then your missing out on some really great Logic Pro features, oh and Ableton they have been killing it lately I just hate the look.

[@mouthfulofmoths]

wow, great video. gonna give bitwig a try now!

[@user-jo2dm4gi1o]

Спасибо,очень крутая програмуля)

[@djjoanrodriguez]

Thanks for the great video.

[@atheerhanna]

when will BITWIG have step recording implemented ???? .. very basic and essential feature to any DAW .. also when will BITWIG improve the mixer section .. very wide channels that wastes screen real estate .. that becomes hard to navigate left and right when you have lots of channels ?? .... same for track width in scene view .. track width could be set to be reduced further such that we can stack MORE tracks in one screen .. IF YOU WANT BITWIG TO TAKE OVER CUBSE .. please enhance the layout such that one would be able to work with LOTS of tracks with ease .. I have BITWIG and been hoping to see it adapting to large track count ..

[@pandaantonline390]

Wym

[@fireandsound]

Excellent video, thanks for all the great ideas.

[@stannavi3557]

Great video! I would want to see live performance side of Bitwig with artists reviews and tutorials.

[@maysiro]

Thank you for sharing this tutorial

[@MrMallum]

Are you considering releasing any performance based hardware to integrate with Bitwig? I’ve been using my Akai Fire with a script but it’s not perfect….

[@roccothamanoidis]

So well thought out. Congrats to the developer!

[@kraenk12]

There’s a reason they are the ones who invented Ableton Live.

[@Artek604]

​@@kraenk12 They've not invented Live, they worked at Ableton and became frustrated... Although Claes (main Bitwig's architect coder) created Live's Multiband Compressor and OTT preset and - on his own - Surge VST :)

[@GrootsieTheDog]

I use hardware synths but this DAW is very tempting. It’s incred what I could do with this tool but I prefer interacting with Instruments more so than computer screens.

[@llgmusic]

It's so powerful

[@tenchakras764]

Incredible software -

[@BeatMax2023]

Thanks for sharing!

[@gobertoangela9591]

Bitwig, If you could just go ahead and ad video playback support that would be great! :)

[@annly666]

i like that its more visual and color coded than the ableton. im gonna try this cos ableton is too hard to use/see for me.

[@TheRabidCabbage]

I only just learned Bitwig was a real contender yesterday. Though I've seen and heard the name many times. the name "Bitwig" always gave me the vibe of a cheapy £29.99 baby DAW, like the kind that come free with super low-grade consumer hardware. I wonder how many others dismiss it completely just because of it's silly name. FL Studio is still trying to prove it's not a toy, despite changing it's name from "Fruity-loops" 18 years ago. Naming is very important in the DAW industry it seems. You want to sound as "Pro" as possible. Even if someone isn't very smart, they still want to pretend they are and be proud to tell people they use software. Just don't rename it to "BW Studio" lol.

[@NathanChisholm041]

The names fine! Nothing wrong with it!

[@thegroove2000]

I have come over from Ableton and will not be going back. Bitiwg just is so fulfilling for me.

[@mousehouse4617]

17:20 Has Bitwig got 'Bagpuss' tucked away in it's DNA somewhere?!!

[@TerenceKearns]

Awesome video. I learned a lot.

[@mikefisher84]

Ok ok I get it now :) Great video Dave!

[@dogpile5902]

Pls resizable faders, ARA compatibility, single midi file export. Over all Great & Precise.

[@briancase6180]

Nice, thanks.

[@25adbond]

Awesome vid

[@TheBigLou13]

over 10 years on the clock with FL - still very happy, tendency: upwards - but that *mpe* and *grid* stuff (3:17) seriously piques my interest in designing sounds with bitwig

[@TheBigLou13]

can you automate every parameter in the chain for every note separately? Or does that (3:17) only work for pitch?

[@The_Mercian]

Bitwig gives me the horn!

[@notsure1135]

My wife doesn’t give me the ‘orn…

[@ramdevgehlot4317]

plz launch next version

[@bigdap100]

The Grid?? 🤯🤯 Really, y’all knew about this all along and no one told me...I would’ve bought the Crossgrade back when they had the sale...I’m pissed!!!😡

[@lupiyorro]

¡Thanks!

[@cla.pmusic]

Tem futuro promissor , esta trazendo um pouco do ACID PRO , um pouco FL STUDIO , um Pouco das melhores daws de escrita rapida

[@JahsonThaProducer]

Good teaching...I need a tutorial for vocal recording on bitwig 8

[@TerenceKearns]

best daw

[@jfilbert]

Interesting =}

[@thabeachmaster324]

In the beginning of the video why is scene one scene 2 etc listed in the middle as well as being on the top, next to drums and movers, instead of sound clips there are scene labels for an instrument. There .... a little confused here?

[@MarcTelesha]

Can I get more Live Performance love for clip launching for scenes AKA I can have a song that will go from verse to chorus and bridge but I can improvise if I want to. Right now there is no scene launching for next action.

[@heathrezabek]

Marc Telesha I'm not sure if this is more the kind of thing you're looking for but it's worth a look. Moving between clips with some randomness and some predestination, depending. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWq1lWCjaJyGhac

[@scotteglasel6077]

When will bigwig add Atmos objects?

[@stephenroldan5107]

The best

[@asdfkjhlk34]

nice

[@st33Npuist]

Is this Ableton Live 24?

[@PetrGladkikh]

I wonder which approaches to automation connection were considered? I understand that it is not shown explicitly to reduce clutter, but when I started I found it extremely frustrating. I click on automation source, then click on a target ant nothing happens. Did I make a connection? Which connections are there? Hey. Bitwig folks can you tell what I did wrong here? You should, really. I did forget to drag the modulation amount. In your presentation you did not even mention it, assuming viewers will figure it out themselves. There are many things in bitwig that are not intuitively obvious until you know them. But I am afraid that the developers are not even aware of it. Dragging plugins into FX or NOTE button of the source plugin to allow connecting automation is pretty convoluted. You can do it once you know what is happening. Allowing to connect automation by drag&drop would be a lot more intuitive. Also it would help that in automation connection mode, lines or arrows would show which connections are already there (those lines can be half transparent).

[@khukhjim8189]

❤️

[@messer21]

Wish Bitwig would make a controller

[@RileyGein]

Which Presonus motorized mixer is that? Definitely in the market for something similar and already have a PreSonus Studio 192

[@gertumlauf5471]

Faderport

[@musicnasa666]

your are like outa space....need to upgrade....need the newest version! which full versions are available..?

[@4akat]

the slow burn is that bitwig is a native linux application

[@thegroove2000]

So can an effect chain be applied per note?

[@Artek604]

Yes, using FX Selector in round-robin mode for example.

[@NathanChisholm041]

Whens micro pitch coming to third party vsts mate?

[@bitwig]

If the VST can do MPE, then you're all set!

[@NathanChisholm041]

@@bitwig Unfortunatly most VSTS dont! Nevermind maybe some day.

[@T-i-n-o]

Macht bitte Tutorials auch auf Deutsch bitte!

[@Mainaa2]

👍

[@edm_pversatile1350]

What is this guys name? Does he have his own KZbin channel?

[@WarrenPostma]

Need to improve your activation system's stability.

[@kisho2679]

does Bitwig have somethink like "Ableton Link"?

[@bitwig]

Yes.

[@kisho2679]

@@bitwig thx. how set up (engage) this functionaliy in Bitwig to connect to other hardware devices?

[@bitwig]

@@kisho2679 have a look in the Dashboard > Settings > Synchronization. You can read more here: www.bitwig.com/userguide/latest/the_dashboard/

[@JasonMyersRVA]

That dropping the pitch on a single note is cool but it never works when I try it. I’m sure it will work most of the time if your using bitwig instruments but don’t even think of trying this with your favorite vst

[@kraenk12]

Not all instruments support this function, that’s the only reason.

[@Artek604]

The VST needs to support MPE and you need to make sure MPE is enabled both in Bitwig and in the VST.

[@KnzoVortex]

It only works with MPE capable instruments, so if it doesn’t have this, it won’t work. Surge is a great free 3rd party synth which has MPE capabilities, and to get it to work you must one select “MPE enable” in the synth, and two select trust plug-in in the MPE settings for the synth in the inspector panel. I’m pretty sure most MPE capable since work with a Bitwig in a similar fashion.

[@politesociety]

If your vst is multitimbral, try sending each note on a different midi channel. That's the hardware workaround for MPE.

[@otisrichardson881]

Bitwig should just do like Reaper, and get rid of track types. It really doesn't make any sense. It should be all about whatever data is available for whatever devices (midi/audio signals). Hybrid tracks are actually just a convolution of something that should already be simpler.

[@Artek604]

What's the *practical* difference? In Bitwig, when you drag instrument onto an Audio Track it gets converted to Hybrid, same when you drag a sample on Instrument Track.

[@KnzoVortex]

Honestly the difference is pretty ineffectual in practice, the visual distinctions between the two track types really only lets you know if that track holds audio, midi, or both, as as soon as you put audio on a midi track or vice versa, the track converts to hybrid.

[@enterthevortex5883]

Fundamentals are still missing, to name just a small few, all the time stretch algo rhythms not present in their sampler, better management of mouse tools, better piano roll ergonomics, as well as the arranger ergonomics. This copy paste business for implementing clip or midi notes is something you expect from Microsoft's excel back in 1995. FL Studio has the best ergonomics of all the daws please study their piano roll and arranger , specially their use of mouse wheels and modifier keys. A proper vertical and horizontal zoom using mouse wheel plus modifiers. You guys have a thousand ways to zoom in and out, all of them work flow killers and annoying. All of these things sound small and minute but it is the little, tiny inconveniences that pile up big and make any software feel stiff, cumbersome and unpleasant to work on. I love the advance and complex features and technology brought to Bitwig so far but your average user isn't looking to do complex modular things at least not all the time. They are looking to do complex things with just the basics and if those basics aren't polished, if they are full of workflow speed bumps and counter intuitive interactives, then, they'll right away look else where and Bitwig becomes a specialist's daw but not an all arounder. I feel like Bitwig will eventually get there. I think the program is special but until then I will not upgrade until the meat and potatoes are taken care of. I am not the only one that feels this way.

[@atetraxx]

It's the little tiny conveniences that pile up and make the software feel flexible, intuitive and pleasant to work on. Fixed it for you. You typed a lot of words but only said you didn't like that the piano roll zoomed in vertically and horizontally lol It honestly just sounds like you aren't used to it. I'm so so so so much more efficient in bitwig because of the quality of life conveniences than any other daw. Bitwig can do advanced things sure but they also have focused on a much more fluid workflow in general. Most users of bitwig feel this way. Don't try to use bitwig as a different daw, use it as bitwig.

[@kris_lx]

It's funny how almost all Bitwig video's are about sound design, while it's still lacking many basic DAW features.

[@iutisteli4726]

Not true. All I'd say it lacks is audio comping and AU plugins. Other than that, it is superior to any other DAW.

[@kraenk12]

What does it miss other than comping? So you just disregard the fact it does a lot of stuff the others don’t?

[@Artek604]

You can also look at it differently - all those other DAWs lack basic sound design features. Not everyone makes orchestral scores or tracks rock bands. For a lot of people Bitwig's DAW features are more than enough, although obviously we'd love to get comping, retrospective recording, native pitch correction tools & ARA, chord track / harmonic editing, video playback.

[@kris_lx]

@@Artek604 Shouldn't you be on KVR creating another pointless thread? 😜

[@Artek604]

@Vic LTD Any other argument than "more stable" you'd use I'd consider valid, but not this. Lol! :D

[@alexex5513]

This guy sounds like he’s talking to 3 year olds…?

[@marcustoshiba2437]

>>> Propaganda destroys greedy people. The program is anachronistic, old DOS style. It is very heavy on quad-core processors. It does not use the super fast memory of graphics cards. Prices from space. This means that the company has a small manager. I do not recommend this program to musicians ! I recommend clear thinking ! Greetings from Poland

[@pixelwash9707]

Nice overview, but I find his presentation style and tone REALLY annoying, sort of condescending.