Getting Around in The Grid [Bitwig Studio]

[@fts4life]

That little "Modulator Out" module takes things to another level. Absolutely anything is possible. So far this looks like the best software modular synthesis environment there is, amazing work.

[@dawvideokanal7369]

... but where is a sample player?

[@fts4life]

DAW Video Kanal in the Oscillator section you’ll find the Sampler module

[@geeshta]

Depends on what you call "best". Reaktor is much more powerful in that you can go to a much lower level DSP... but it may be harder to use and require more DSP and programming knowledge.

[@fts4life]

@@Moreslaw called it.

[@10314347]

This is revolutionary to be integrated right into a DAW like this. I'm sold.

[@WouterStudioHD]

It has been done quite often actually. Ableton has Max, and Tracktion Waveform has Racks. Bitwig has the best one right now tho.

[@zebbleganubi723]

reason is another one. pretty much the whole DAW was built around the idea

[@CuriousPassenger]

@@WouterStudioHD max is not as appealing (way more powerful tho) and I was scared by its learning curve. In grid one can build his own devices very quicky

[@KNHSynths]

I bought V 1.0 for the "modular", I was among the first ones, I have the badges (first week of release customer, v 1.0). I was waiting for so long time.. Sometimes I thought it will never come... And now it's here... incredible! And nice. And well designed. This night playing with Beta 1 will be looooonnng ! :-)

[@KNHSynths]

@Trapikal Nation The piano roll and all Midi functions are far from those in Cubase for example. Presets are cool but I'm not using them a lot but it can help of course. I'll prefer to get a good piano roll, that can display scales for examples.

[@RubenDax]

I can't believe how much the Bitwig team manages to pull off in regards to development. Heroic.

[@plusheldergod]

Wow! This is the most significant DAW innovation since Reason came out in 2001. Combining the wired grid (a la Reaktor) with full DAW integration and wireless expression and modulation controls changes the game by integrating sound design with actual instrument design. Well done!

[@bmlu1832]

Endless possibilities with simplicity. This is spectacular! Also i am very happy because i saw sampler.

[@dliciouscrabmeat6355]

I absolutely love Poly Grid. Makes me feel like I'll probably never have to buy another software synth in my life. There are a few little things that aren't as intuitive as they seem, but after watching this one video, those things became easy for me. (I couldn't figure out how to use the mixer module until seeing it done here.)

[@bitwig]

That's great to hear!

[@KutAnimus]

I am so excited that I'm running around in circles. Modular circles of course.

[@hypnoz123]

game changer to have this built into the DAW. Excellent work Bitwig!

[@MagicCvstle]

It's here!! Awesome guys. Love the interface improvements as well!

[@aikighost]

This is the push I needed to finally switch to Bitwig, as soon as this comes out of beta I will be buying a licence.

[@SteveTodorov]

Absolutely agree! If they also keep the Linux support, I'm definitely buying a license!!!

[@angca1]

@@SteveTodorov For those who want to escape Microsoft Windows, who tries to appropriate your computer gradually since Windows 10...

[@aster6000]

This is cool and all, but can we have track freeze, video playback and other basic features before we break the synth world continuum with The Grid?

[@HansBaier]

The user interface design is awesome. Thumbs up!

[@bitwig]

Cheers, we're glad you like it!

[@louiswarynski9039]

All the good ideas (replace modules with the same types, connection breaking, pre-patched keyboard inputs, enveloppes containing VCAs, etc...) are actually from Clavia Nord Modular Editor. I'm not saying this to criticize, but because I love it ! Well done.

[@pierbover]

Finally! I've been waiting for this since Bitwig was announced year and years ago.

[@DjangoFlaherty]

Stereo and polyphonic! I love how Bitwig embraces all the things we love about digital, instead of copying analogue signal paths like some of their competitors. Reason made their own plugin format and they're still using monophonic pitch bend for example. It's daft!

[@loach711]

this reminds me of hundreds of hours of my life slipping away

[@arstarkus]

HERE WE GO! Can't wait till VCV makes a VST version, that will be an ultimate modular rabbit hole :)

[@espenfarstad1697]

Check out VeeSeeVST

[@fabriziof5466]

Waiting for piano rolls improvements to upgrade. Notes stretching is a must!!!! I need a good daw for composing, more than for sound design at the moment. However Bitwig is so mature in so little time!!! They deserve big success. I think they will sell a lot to the new generation of musicians.

[@woulg]

Holy fuck! This is so incredible, I am blown away. Such care and attention for the design and usability! Wow. I am so so so excited and inspired by this.

[@Gnade]

Yaaaay! Bitwig is the best daw in the whole world!!!

[@thisisprisma]

I agree!

[@JaSumMakedonec]

Everyone agrees

[@danieldemayo6209]

Gabriel Macedo almost! I always looked at it as a big instrument + being a daw.....and now that’s x10. All we need now is some better editing functions....better tools for drawling automation like studio one and they should also steal their comping system....then it will be the best! Haha

[@KutAnimus]

@Daniel DeMayoI think I've read somewhere (can't exactly remember) that the devs will focus on the more "traditional" DAW features after this. This will most likely include workflow enhancement features you mentioned.

[@carstenherbst2934]

i Love Bitwig, but it is NOT the best DAW ! Maybe this is correct for fans of Electro Music, but i miss a Chordtrack for example. Also Bitwig is very Genre Specific. for example i have never seen any Orchstral Track made with Bitwig !

[@wakerhouse]

The grid makes fun and I also like the little GUI improvements very much. Keep it up 👍😁😍

[@toiminen73]

This is what I call "Only your imagination is the limit"

[@Jakkzter1]

The grid is actually really fun :)

[@_azurejake]

Modular synthesis made easy this is actually making me want to switch DAW's and from what I hear Bitwig just keeps getting better.

[@marcodiprima6931]

Amazing! Thanks for your hard work.

[@sablesanctum]

Bitwig is s gift beyond the beyond.

[@Ytsssss364]

just upgraded my plan - thank you Bitwig!

[@HansBaier]

That's some very nice UI design

[@lordbachus]

Hope you will expand on this. Can't wait to see wavetable oscilators , phase shifting filters and more and more and more..

[@amadeuspaulussen]

This is so freaking awesome! ✨🌟

[@TeotiGraphix]

Tight and crisp, pretty easy to make some powerful synths with this thing.

[@smmgempire2207]

Yes! We are so excited It’s finally here.

[@daryx.langdale]

I love updates. just get home from work and like...i just have this insane modular thing now. wish my hardware would just evolve randomly whilst I'm at work.

[@NathanChisholm041]

So when you get home your Korg volca is now a Novation Summit? lol

[@StudyingVStudying]

Thanks Bitwig!! for sure this is going to be the DAW of the future!! just have some questions. Any chances we can see the features Ableton capture, simpler(slice, sample chop) and logic comp/flex pitch for easy vocal/instrument recording?? recording with capture is so easy and intuitive no more recording buttons, just play... a device like Ableton simpler for chopping instruments/vocal samples would be so nice and the logic comp/flex pitch so finally stop opening logic just to record the vocals. Almost forgot, will akai force have compatibility with bitwig? sorry for so many questions, you guys are the best anyway

[@bci3937]

Finally, Bitwig morphs to a standalone independently unique DAW, with the GRID.

[@kuretaxyz]

So much attention to detail! This is awesome!

[@bjonthedaily1897]

Looks fantastic guys. Going to be picking up a copy before the end of the month.

[@joesayle2213]

Such a great addition abd it sounds great

[@Rekuvent]

im totally and fully in Cockos Reaper - but big respect for Bitwig team for this one.. very nice design and options

[@lushlow]

Anybody happen to know where I can find 'The Grid documentation' mentioned 10:50 ?

[@umrasangus]

I'm so in love with this aaaa

[@madvbecity1418]

It's just amazing! Thank you Bitwig, love it!!

[@igorverissimo607]

very nice! it reminds me of Reactable! very simple

[@michail_777]

Hi and thank you. As a novice grid user I would like to ask you to change some 'details. The thing about the grid is that you connect blue to blue/red/yellow. Therefore, at first it is not clear how to connect everything correctly. I mean that the red output can be connected to the blue input and vice versa. So it would be cool if the user pulled out the “cable”, and the devices would already light up the input to which it can be connected.I understand what you explained in the video. But sometimes nothing happens at all when connecting. So it can get confusing very quickly. It may be a matter of habit, though.

[@neru-]

-This is madness ! -No... This... is... BITWIIIIIIIIIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aleksnull]

wtf

[@chirpsounds]

wow, nice work, guys

[@renichbon]

Oh! The power!

[@bugeats]

This is brilliant work. Now I just need to figure out how to make it work outside of the 12-tone equal temperament that the rest of your system is locked in to.

[@subobjectclassifier7170]

currently working on this... will post a link here if successful

[@bugeats]

Great! Yeah it’s probably fairly easy to do other equal temperaments, but that’s useless to me personally. It’s the full on tuning maps with just ratios and dynamic lattices that are hard. At the very minimum I wish Bitwig supported MIDI Tuning Standard.

[@subobjectclassifier7170]

​@@bugeats I've found that 53-ET works exceptionally well in practice as a kind of "universal master scale", from which any interval occurring naturally within any authentic world-music tradition can be found within 2 cents or less. This is because dividing an octave into 53 equal parts results in an interval of 22.6415 cents (subsequently called the "Holdrian comma", where 1200 cents / 53 ≈ 22.6415 cents). This synthetic interval falls midway between the Syntonic comma (21.51 cents) and the Pythagorean comma (23.46 cents), the pair of naturally-arising commas so intrinsic to tuning systems and theory. Now in "Just Intonation", when any tone of a JI-scale needs to be made a bit sharper or flatter to keep in tune with a shifting tonic reference, it is incremented (decremented) by the value of a Syntonic comma. Adjusting by anything less would be heard as a detuning of the original pitch, and not a functioning change into an adjacent JI tuned value. Thus an octave divided into 53 commas lines up precisely with the smallest increment of change expected within any naturally-functioning (i.e. "just") intonation system, thus enabling a very close approximation to be made to any "natural" scale simply by selecting some subset of the 53-ET (Universal) scale.

[@NathanChisholm041]

Cheers for the update now ive got more than enough to keep me inspired when making my music.

[@zipnone1996]

Very exciting

[@TaoStein]

Wow, it's like a version of Max for Live that actually works !

[@thepedalpress]

And you can save it as a preset by right clicking to the right of your devices and selecting "Save to Library."

[@marcusonic6480]

My excitement for this is also modular - excitement for each feature is separate. When you connect everything, I believe you could call this Happiness. So pumped for this release. Can't wait to make my own patches and making tracks with it - much less can I wait to release them. If these modules can be MIDI-controlled... that'd be quite something alright (I'm talking faders and knobs). Oh... on a side note, how high are the chances for custom themes in the 3.x series of releases?

[@genyszhemavibracija]

They can be mapped already to Controllers or Keys, also to Macros and Remote Controls.

[@blazedflemingo7828]

Just started using this, its awesome!!!

[@Dyallo1988]

We need more tutorials on this! What about the effects grid? And what about Vsts? And is there an approximate release date?

[@genyszhemavibracija]

You can already check few FX Grid presets that are released with this beta, try the "show help" in inspector after selecting modules, try also the changes in parameters right from this "help" window.

[@pnyda1994]

Awesome work, Bitwig! If Bitwig 3 have modular synthesis in its core, what's the reason of having traditional ableton-like devices too? Is there any roadmap to deprecate these?

[@bitwig]

Not sure what you mean by "ableton-like devices", but the Bitwig Studio device family is healthy and growing.

[@RichardFaulty]

wow!!! amazing UI !!!

[@psy237]

I have one suggestion regarding adding grid tools/devices to the grid for people who know those devices/tools by name (and have a large screen resolution). Instead of having to move the mouse to the top left area every time to get to the "search" box, it would be really cool to find the search box directly inside the right-click context menu (the one that pops up when you right click into grids empty space). You could also show the right click context menu automatically by dragging out a spaghetti line from a grid tool and let go of it in the empty grid space where you want the next tool to be placed. If you then select from the context menu a tool, or search for one and add it, it auto connects with the device you drew the spaghetti from (spaghetti is of course the connection line between two grid-tools) ;) I enjoyed this straight forward behavior in 3D tools when putting together material node trees and similar stuff. It's highly efficient and is fun as well to work with ;) On a 4K and higher resolution display that is really neat! Absolutely fantastic software btw!! Love to play with bitwig more than I enjoyed Logic back in the day and that says alot ;) Amazing and fun software!

[@plackCrack]

New at this got the trial followed the video but no sound coming from poly grid?? What am I doing wrong?

[@DommageCollateral]

wie die auf das programm ausrasten :D 2.4 has just been released, and it already delivered a bunch of new features :D and version 3..now words...just awesome

[@bitwig]

We like features!

[@DommageCollateral]

@@bitwig thnk you for the perfect daw!

[@zakaroonetwork777]

its Not Letting me drop in Moduals. There is a Circle with a Cross on the Pointer. When I try to drag in a new module...

[@mrkyeokabe]

fantastic

[@LaymensLament]

great video!

[@csederqvist]

Hmm... And I just spent lots of $$ on Voltage Modular... Different kinds of beasts though, but this looks really nice and simple compared with every other "modular" software synth. Even simpler than Complex-1. 🤘

[@BrunoFinger]

"Spaghetti Monster" I just love that

[@Goettel]

Is there a tutorial on recording the Grid into Bitwig itself? A multitracked modular is pretty much why I would want Bitwig.

[@bitwig]

Hi propoetide, we don't have a tutorial on that at the moment. However, The Grid works as any other virtual instrument in Bitwig Studio, and you can record, bounce, or export your sounds very easily.

[@0e0]

this is why i bought this...killer!

[@ClaudeYoung]

This is amazing!!!

[@DaKingof]

Please add a midi out capability and audio in routing from other channels. I'd like to use other channels to modulate things and also be able to export midi at a certain point and use that to possibly modulate or trigger other devices(like creating an audio to midi grid instance). Everything else is mint

[@CarlyonProduction]

There is already and audio in and audio sidechain module

[@DaKingof]

Ahh, you're right about the audio side-chain. But there is still no way for me to get midi out and into the chain. I'd like to sing a melody and build an audio to midi device inside of grid to accomplish turning my voice into a synth part or w/e else I may desire.

[@DaKingof]

@@CarlyonProduction there is pitch out and CV out but I think that's only to control external devices. I can't get midi out. :(

[@awb503]

MIDI out would be the completion it needs - feels like a small step forward and all the hard work is already done. Hope it comes soon

[@Tortuosit]

I CAME. Studio One guy here. But I want Bitwig so much. Now is the time....

[@JussiTuukkanen]

Thank you

[@osands]

Nice job guys!

[@devincory9695]

Hey, I would love to see something like Fruity Waveshaper on here.

[@KnzoVortex]

Oh Waveshaper would definitely be nuts

[@rebazkh85]

Is there wavetables oscillator, custom LFO shapes just like serum and built-in melodyne? Please answer

[@bitwig]

Yes, kindof and afraid not.

[@rebazkh85]

It's beta, there's still room for improvement.

[@sake_dev]

Quite cool! :)

[@randyyoung5919]

Am I the only bw fan not so excited ...how about some improvements for the linear tracker ie stuff for not only the synth/midi users for once?

[@alkali836]

If anyone is interested in this modular workflow, there is a free standalone Eurorack emulator called VCV Rack to get started with (or just use Bitwig if you have it, it looks incredible)

[@reedcrisis]

shift+drag would feel more intuitive for dragging multiple out cables at the same time.

[@andresmith2888]

Reed Crisis you can add that shortcut

[@profquad]

ok, right off the bat, can't open The Grid without opening a preset. How do I simply open the Grid?

[@delphisignal]

I love me some pwm.

[@kaeptn]

madness!

[@WARDISWARD]

If you guys would release this as a vst ....boy Oh boy

[@CarlyonProduction]

Dammit. I knew they would wait until May to get everyone who’s plan ran out in April to buy again. Dammit!

[@VirtualMark2]

The problem is that I've not yet heard a patch that sounds good.

[@HansBaier]

Yes, Reaktor sounds much better right out of the box, although it is not as user friendly. Maybe because of the zero delay feedback filters which supposedly sound more 'analog'.

[@KnzoVortex]

I’m sure you’ve just heard very few patches then.

[@mingyubang6905]

Why don't you support subtitles? It is difficult for users from other countries.

[@dieutoutpuissant8909]

Notice is include with The Grid ? lol

[@NH-gz2kh]

YES NOODLE FUN!

[@YombolMusic]

One edit vocal tune pleace... !!

[@Qagan]

experienced spaghetti monster

[@spr30]

Gamechanger as far as software modular workflow is concened

[@nomad1517]

doesn't FL studio kind of do this, what's the big difference?

[@bitwig]

The Grid is a module-level system to construct synthesizers, effects, and more. FL Studio Patcher is an environment to connect existing plug-ins to each other.

[@nomad1517]

@@bitwig But im also sure fl studio has its version of that too, although it might have been obsolete by now. Maybe im wrong.

[@No.0.o.0]

MODULATE EVERYTHING FOREVER

[@dojetunes]

I wish this was a plugin i would buy it anyway

[@sebaszwarc6028]

Geez, you changed the layout in 4.01. and it's always difficult to learn from past tutorials

[@jeremypcaulfield2474]

Falko !

[@YombolMusic]

Subtitulos por favor!

[@danieldemayo6209]

Take my money...

[@els1f]

Spaghetti monsters of the world unite!

[@andresmith2888]

We need more! Adding modular synth is a good enough reason for use to upgrade we demand more high quality sample and presets. We honestly need more preset to compete with Ableton. We need a fully updated plugin suit we need thing to simplify mixing that why Live won DAW of the year 2019.

[@bitwig]

Ok, anything else?

[@kingshowtiimemusic4413]

Trapikal Nation you are a bitwig genius! It’s definitely far ahead of the competition. I agree with you some more Trap or Dancehall, Afrobeats presets would be a big win.

[@kingshowtiimemusic4413]

Trapikal Nation you mentioned all the things I’m anticipating seeing updates for, scale highlight and more audio fx presets, export to mp3 is a major advantage for bitwig. This DAW is a game changer.

[@kingshowtiimemusic4413]

bitwig you guys are doing a great job you will be ahead of the curve as-long as you keep actively updating. This is every producers dream.