5 Things I WISH I Knew When First Getting Into Bitwig

[@tomelwich49]

20 years of Cakewalk, 4 years of Live...looks like Im learning Bitwig now. Thanks Dash

[@frequency_sequencer]

i love bitwig's delay going above 100 percent

[@philharmonicAI]

dragging the note-divider down splits/syncs it to beat/tempo - 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 .. yes Bitwig is an awesome beast

[@georobv]

I read some years ago that Bitwig's team was originally part of Ableton's development team. I think the plugin's UI at the bottom being the same was already a big hint. So it makes sense that it can import Ableton files. But it's amazing how far ahead of Ableton it got today.

[@tigermanni]

yes the good coders at ableton made their own thing :)

[@sub-jec-tiv]

The fact that it’s less than HALF the price of Ableton just makes me love them even more.

[@joyemojiiboy]

You don't believe it but Bitwig has the ability to load Fl project files.

[@SoundmanCH]

Bitwig is so much beyond my own capabilities, but as such it will always surprise and motivate me to learn more about it. Best DAW ever. Great video!

[@weaponofvoice]

I hear so much about Ableton that I wonder if I’m missing out by sticking with Logic but BitWig seems to be even more up with the best ways to make electronic music. Thanks for this video.

[@jonasharp3]

I’ve used logic for a number of years, and it’s honestly remained really competitive, with the last few years of updates. Bitwig and ableton both have 30 day full suit trials so I recommend you check those out. In my humble opinion, Bitwig is the best environment for sound design, resampling, and doing weird modular shit, also great hardware integration, but logic’s midi is light years ahead, and also has video support, score editing, and special mixing, which makes it a lot more suitable for traditional composition, film scoring, and debatably mixing. It really depends on your needs.

[@weaponofvoice]

@@jonasharp3thank you.

[@pixelwash9707]

​@@jonasharp3 Bitwig's strong interop functions allow you to use (free) Touchdesigner pretty seamlessly to work with video within Btiwig, I'm curious about what you are missing in midi in Btiwig that you can do in Ableton: the modulation & grid functionality allow you do everything Ableton can do with midi and more I think. The one thing missing in Bitwig is the support by the Max scripting environment, but perhaps Bitwig could replace the Max environment with its own built in functionality eventually, especially if they create a way of easily "packaging" combinations of Grid and various Bitwig functions into easily loaded "modules" with a UI.

[@olliepsy]

This Ctrl+Enter I never knew about, really nice tip man :)

[@idanmashta]

The best production channel in KZbin history period.

[@BorisBarroso]

Really cool the trick where you have used the drum rack for chords. Bitwig is soo flexible the DAW feels like an instrument where you can be creative

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Like a modular instrument, too. It’s an organic ‘living’ system! Very cool.

[@MoonWalkersbin]

but lack some essential DAW functions.

[@BorisBarroso]

@@MoonWalkersbin Yes it's not a DAW for all and it's also making innovation like the new .DAW format and CLAP plugins, this will pay off in some time.

[@nukykam]

Ikr it’s the best

[@pnutbuttajellee1394]

You just helped me increase my Bitwig character XP level to 82!

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Bitwig is the best DAW if you’re making anything glitchy/IDM. It’s crazy how next-level it is when it comes to sample manipulation

[@rorz999]

I'd say for that purpose it's second only to Renoise. Renoise's Redux VST inside of Bitwig is the best of both worlds though

[@ChanCarnix]

Just watched and didn't know about Bitwig's ability to open ableton files. I'm still shocked after learning it also opens fl studio flp files ( again, with that caveat of not being able to open "native" generators or fx, but it's still crazy it opens them at all )

[@DashGlitch]

damn didn't know about FL too! thanks

[@DigitalAura]

WOW, your project really sounds like Vibrasphere!

[@GhostShapedSidewalk]

I didn't see anyone acknowledge that Sandstorm reference, so I guess I will. Well played.

[@divisionmonarchy]

I didn’t know the operators could do that with audio too. Fantastic video!

[@DashGlitch]

Thanks! Yea when I figured it out it was a game changer :D

[@reklawk]

So glad you did this vid. I'm at that point where I'm just switching from Ableton. Damn, there's some really cool stuff here in Bitwig.

[@SenfSenferson]

Man i love this DAW Best Audio Playground ever!

[@csabagodor9445]

+1 thing in the 'Loop Operators' so in the looperator :) topic: the 'Expand' generator function. (To access this function, right-click on one of the clips in the Clip Launcher where operators have been used. and can be found in the context menu) I stumbled upon this feature entirely by accident, from the manual: "... The Expand function takes any Launcher clip and supports printing out two, twenty, or however many cycles of the original as a new clip (with all possible Operators removed and printed as permanent events). And unlike "bounce" functions, Expand outputs the same kind of clip you started with - note clips remain note clips, audio clips remain event-based audio. This lets you see all the nested patterns and relationships that Operators can bring to a "simple" loop, or even start a precise edit without the randomness.,. etc." good stuff

[@endonyxoneaudio8644]

wait what.... 30 seconds in and you blew my mind allready... and i have been using Bitwig for 4 or 5 years allready... how the hell did i not know that function hahaha

[@johnnyblueeyes4859]

Thanks for the very clear information. I'm giving up on Ableton since the new updates.

[@DashGlitch]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MrSonicAlchemy]

Another super informative and massively helpful video! Thanks Dash!

[@sternhagel23]

...bitwig can import ableton projects? That was the last thing I needed to know to check iout, thanks!

[@DashGlitch]

Yes

[@zakaroonetwork777]

please keep the Bitwig tutorials coming

[@va941]

Heeeyy Dash! How about a mixing(mixing in bitwig) tutorial?😊

[@BorisBarroso]

Yeahh. I have been using the Loudsplit and Transientsplit devices a lot for mixing and has given me great results.

[@delhibill]

Downloaded. A keeper for sure.

[@jean-baptiste9230]

Thanks the last chord setup in drum machine is quite confusing but i have been looking for a way to trigger custom chords with a single note, will try…

[@novasiox3831]

You Sir, are a fucking legend 🙂

[@chitlun]

Some top shelf stuff here man! That drum machine/chord trick is excellent, cheers. ✌️

[@kohlenstoffeinheit6913]

Thx Glitch for this very very useful tipps, especially Operator!.

[@stefanhansen5882]

That was awesome! Thanks a lot!

[@buckycore]

The operators alone is what makes Bitwig so magical. Oh, the wild and weirdo hi-hat patterns I've made. Plus, i love being able to create an entire 4/8 bar pattern in just one clip.

[@danm3570]

I just started using xfer cthulhu chord generator for the first time (usually I just use the arp) and immediately made one of my trance tracks sound amazing

[@edwardmacnab354]

looks like a quick route to insanity , and no, Insanity is NOT another DAW

[@bestdisco1979]

Brilliant,,cheers.

[@20710348]

The inversion of a chord is determined by which note is the lowest in the chord. How exactly you space the chord, e.g. root, root +3st, root +7st vs. root, root+7st,root+15st, is called voicing.

[@DashGlitch]

bro you literally always remind me of this and yet I still forget

[@20710348]

@@DashGlitch, well I need a purpose to serve hahaha

[@adamarmstrong9408]

Great vid Dash 👌 im learning so much

[@loopingleo]

I‘m only here because Ableton doesn’t work really great anymore with my m1 MacBook. I cannot believe what they let this happen to Ableton within the last 1-2 years. I guess I will give Bitwig a try…

[@DashGlitch]

check my last video, posted 2 days ago, I am doing a challenge to give away 3 copies of bitwig, it's also currently 50% off because 10 year bday :D

[@kenmoreclassic]

Best DAW ever

[@Jamusictv]

This is a great video ! Thanks for this.

[@DashGlitch]

Thank you! much appreciated

[@Beatsbasteln]

i was always one of the biggest haters against the fact that bitwig's minimum track height is still quite large to keep the overview in big projects. but knowing now that you can just look at certain groups exclusively makes me feel much better about it. on top of that you don't need as many tracks in bitwig as you need in cubase anyway, because in cubase you need group tracks, not just for grouping tracks, but also for setting up parallel processing of a single track and that can really visually accumulate throughout a project

[@RishPanjeetJr]

I wish I knew what a pain in the butt it’d be to switch from Reason to Bitwig in terms of my audio interface, a MOTU M4. Once I can finally hear my guitar/vox, I can’t get the audio to playback in the DAW (even though I see it). That ate up about 2hrs of my night.

[@MrChrisanova]

Great one .. thx again Dash for your education as every week ;-) I just tried the presets .. they are awesome and are very useful for everybody who stuck with music theory stuff.. Thx for your work on it.

[@DashGlitch]

Glad you like them!

[@jaderington]

Good one . Just as I've been trying to learn shortcuts. Nightmare

[@alfa156c]

I will do the wave trick , not the midi trick . operator . It is no operator to see at Wave . I must see the Video again . No mode brings the operator in sight . raw or elastic or cycles or stretch or . What is the Hack for the trick . I have my wave piece , give him a double klick and on the left is the parnell , but without operator . HELP bitwig5

[@michaelm5926]

Are there any other videos about trackers? You had one with renoise, very exciting. are you planning something like this in the direction of tracker? Or is it too niche.. Thanks!

[@DashGlitch]

Check my streams with dirtywave m8 :)

[@allancerf9038]

Dude Dash - good video; it's getting late so I'll have to finish watching later. I'm switching in 6 days to Bitwig because as a professional, Ableton's unbearable, urgent and "we can't reproduce them" bugs have finally got me out of there - after ten years. Reliability is why I'm switching - not cool features. Please note Bitwig CANNOT open all Ableton audio files, there are a huge amount it cannot (without being bounced) and if that's a deal-maker for anyone don't switch. Below is what Bitwig wrote me. And bouncing first is not an option - it took me 2 hours to bounce all the files I needed from Ableton for use in my first Bitwig lesson in six days. Why? Because if you have a file called 'Dash' in an Ableton project, Bitwig will probably need EVERY one of the Dash files. "Dash-1D#3" Dash-2 D#4- etc. Anyway, here's what Bitwig wrote me, quote: "The problem is that Ableton made the strange decision to copyprotect some of their sample libraries by encrypting the samples but still given them a standard aiff or wav file extension name - even while those encrypted files are not actually readable samples anymore and only Ableton Live itself can read this file and decrypt it."

[@DashGlitch]

Gotta love intrusive DRM even after paying for the content, most of the factory sample content in Live is pretty rubbish for my personal taste so I never thought of even trying that tbh. DAWs are out here collaborating on the DAWproject so that you can seamlessly switch, meanwhile Ableton over here copy-protecting wav samples, that's a let-down for sure! It might be quicker to create stems and real-time resample into audio tracks lol?

[@DashGlitch]

Just after typing the above I realized that that probably breaches the user license agreement, so "I DO NOT CONDONE IT" and do at own risk, but yea any intrusive DRM like that is asking to be transgressed

[@rhinoskin7550]

Do you like it more than Cubase? I am only about 100 hours into Cubase, total, ever. Lol Bitwig looks very clear to use... Although, I like the challenge of Cubase, I am not able to really create anything, just stimulate my intellectual side haha

[@DashGlitch]

Yea it's lightyears ahead! Super creative and user-friendly

[@diablefernal]

@dasglitch could u explain how you did that glassy lead in the back it’s killer !

[@DashGlitch]

do you mean the arpeggiator in the operators example?

[@diablefernal]

@@DashGlitch Nope the track with phase plant purple colour.

[@DashGlitch]

Oh yes, that's the arp I mentioned. It's an arp with random on the filter/decay iirc, the main character comes from automating the FX slowly into the break (delay + reverb)

[@sternenherz]

Not sooo fond of the Chord/Scale system in Bitwig. Little less mathematician-approach, little more composer-style approach would be awesome. Thinking of Scaler2 here as an example of how things look a little more appealing/meaningful to a composer, compared to little device chains with note numbers having to be typed in, haha. (+ scale being visible in piano roll / chord tracks, those are good tools for composers, e.g. in Cubase). Edit: Sorry forgot to mention: thanks for the video - nice hint with the operators!! 😊

[@DashGlitch]

Get a preset of the chain ;) its on my patreon btw

[@degstep9968]

LETSGOOOOOO

[@alfa156c]

exactly

[@dirska2]

Using the drum machine for applying different MIDI Fx on different notes seem overly complicated to me. Why not just taking note Fx layers for that and applying a note filter in each layer? Does the same job, seems much faster to me and you could even model something like keygroups with that approach.

[@DashGlitch]

I think you missed the part about it being visible on the piano roll. Do whatever you want on the channel itself, but the key takeaway is you can create custom tags for your notes with the drum rack.

[@raavanhitech]

I'm not a bitwig user......... Yet

[@frankenfrank9553]

Thanks for sharing your wisdom and knowledge 🍆🌊

[@Projektor_music]

1. Their refund policy (gottem LMAO!)

[@markderv]

Tips greatly appreciated!