Every Bitwig Modulator Explained and Ranked on a Tierlist

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[@TildeSounds]

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[@Chi_Mecha]

While I agree that we want a quick wavetable editor for Bitwig, it is also important to mention that the wavetable LFO can import shapes you made in other editors, like for example Phase Plant or Vital.

[@TildeSounds]

@@Chi_Mecha yeah thats true, but in practice thats way too much of a hassle when all you want is an lfo

[@Chi_Mecha]

@@TildeSounds Very true, this makes me not want to use it a lot, which is admittedly a bit of shame, because the options are sometimes quite powerful

[@TildeSounds]

@@Chi_Mecha yeah i think theres a lot of untapped potential there that could be acessed with a simple editor, kinda like the curves one

[@BorisBarroso]

Wavetable LFO can also be used as an FM modulator if you set it to pitch and modulate the volume

[@humanprogram]

Found this really useful! One nice thing for wavetables LFO is that Biteig’s wavetable collection has a handful of utility modulator wavetables like Lorenz chaotic modulation, so that adds a dimension to it for me.

[@TildeSounds]

neat i should try those, thanks for the tip

[@BeatMax2023]

Thanks for sharing! Very helpful :)

[@michail_777]

Thank you, very interesting and informative.

[@2latuile]

First thx for this video, it's always nice to have a comprehensive overview of this topic. Now I (of course xD) have to slightly disagree with you on the ranking... Classic LFO: I'm still rather new to bitwig (1.5y, coming from a hardware setup) but to me it is my default go-to LFO, because of all the features it packs and the flexibility they provide where other LFOs are much more specialised. Wavetable LFO: some other comments alreay state my points about it, I personally like it a lot to build evolving, "textured" ambiant noise backgrounds. Parseq8: being able to have each step address a different parameter allows for variations you could hardly get from most other modulators and create very interesting rythmic patterns out of a single source (think of stuff like the Moog DFAM), specially when paired with other modulators.

[@TildeSounds]

Yeah parseq does have some pretty uniue usecases for sure

[@Beatsbasteln]

i didn't know the globals one yet but it would have been super useful many times when working with massive feedback delays. gotta say tho, it would make more sense to me if global's playback modulator was just a feature of delay+ directly, as it's definitely only really needed in delay or reverb contexts. this is definitely much more of an actual delay parameter than delay+'s post filter knobs. they always feel a bit redundant to me because i usually load an EQ somewhere after delay+ anyway, but for more complex curves

[@TildeSounds]

@@Beatsbasteln yeah i only found out about the globals recently. As you say theyre great for anything thatll refuse to shut up when you hit pause

[@bexiexz]

brilliant!!!

[@GodelsPrison]

Great video. For me the math mod is S-tier, it has many uses but I frequently use it in conjunction with macros and lfos as a depth modulator for stack spread.

[@TildeSounds]

Makes a lot of sense yeah, i can imagine that if i was more into making presets or generative patches i'd use it a lot more.

[@schubertludwig]

I made it that far, but I also don’t want to do timestamps for this. xD Thanks for your thoughts on these, certainly inspires me to play with the Audio Rate (4:35) modulator again!

[@TildeSounds]

Haha very fair. Audio rate is a fun one, its usecases arent obvious but its good to have.

[@GeorgeLocke]

We need a "PureData for bitwig" to do midi manipulation, eg converting poly pressure to cc selected by note number

[@TildeSounds]

sounds like sth the grid could do

[@GeorgeLocke]

@@TildeSounds good point. It's just that the way to get modulation out of the grid into an instrument feels clunky to me. If you think about it, it is a lot like the old LFO Modulation container. I wish there were a "modulation grid" that could fit into a modulator slot.

[@TildeSounds]

@@GeorgeLocke fair yeah. i tend to do this by just placing what i want to modulate into the grids post fx. maybe a bit of a workaround, but works fine