how to make Bitwig better?

Some "small" things that could improve Bitwig massively, imo. Nothing big, that changes Bitwig into something else. Just the small things. Let me know in the comments.
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[@stateazure]

I sent a feature request a long time ago now to Bitwig for an improved sampler with recording ability and/or a looper device something like Ableton has, or something like Audio Damage's ENSO which is just an incredible plugin and one of my favourites for making soundscapes. To have something like that which works inside the Grid would be absolutely huge! I'd really love them to focus on these things - recording, sampling, looping, granular improvements in the Sampler (or a full on granular synth/device), including maybe a device a bit like Monkey Audio Rewind, but also useable in the Grid. Great video as usual, awesome suggestions!

[@PolarityMusic]

🙏

[@wrxnglove]

creating granular buffer effects in the grid can feel limiting, its almost the only thing i use 3rd party stuff for

[@freshkidblaze]

I just need normalizing, and the ability to slice by beat divisions in the sampler.

[@PolarityMusic]

normalize, yes!

[@Marko-nx9eq]

Bitwig is a relatively young DAW that is progressing the fastest in the direction we like. My wishes are all yours, especially to add useful things when we edit the piano roll because it can be really tiring. My additional list: 1. Offline processing, 2. Multiple sidechain inputs, 3. MIDI preview for active instruments not some irritating sound, 4. Clip versions, 5. Append/Merge MIDI clips, 6. Mixer snapshots for different variations and tests, 7. Metering devices, 8. Better editor for drums programming and drawing.

[@audiunt]

Midi preview for the current selected track would be very user friendly

[@billB101]

I'll add: Resizable mixer faders Individually resizable tracks ( this drives me made when you have a large arrangement ) Select all following key command Ripple editing in the arrange window Slicing in the sampler Groove quantize, editor and DNA groove import ( this is an absolute must for dance music production as far as I'm concerned ) Better swing ( it's utterly dreadful ) Modulator presets And that's just off the top of my head. I'll probably add more as I think of them Apart from that Bitwig is a damn fine DAW :)

[@GodelsPrison]

Also regarding The Grid: I’d really like to see more keyboard-centric navigation controls to enable faster building of patches. Yes, I can use the “s” key to snap to the module search bar, but once I find the module I need I have to reach back for the mouse and grab and place it…would be much easier if I could use arrow keys, tab, shift, ctrl, etc. Focusing on these kinds of economy-of-motion features really would make using The Grid feel like playing a kind of super-instrument, which imo would be much more engaging.

[@Taranis_The_Third]

I really hope that devs will watch this video! Everything you said + Midi comping and retrospective recording would be so good.

[@GodelsPrison]

100% agree…rolling the recording module into the sampler makes a ton of sense.

[@iamerhach]

The only thing we want from the Bitwig team is more focus on the basic features that every DAW has in 2023.

[@anksuczka]

I like bitwig so much because it took all overcomplicated things from other daws and made them simple

[@audiunt]

Containers in the grid for grouping modules with save function of course so you can reuse them.

[@PolarityMusic]

grid in the grid? hell yea

[@GodelsPrison]

Yes! Sub-patches of commonly grouped modules that can be saved and recalled by hot keys would let me absolutely fly through patch construction.

[@tobimontana61]

As a logic user since the emagic days I just recently paid attention to bitwig and I’m quite impressed. I still prefer logic for mixing purposes but for Sounddesign and sketching out ideas bitwig is just so much fun. The only feature I can’t live without is midi capture. It seems so minor but once you are used to it it’s a complete game changer. My workaround is running logic simultaneously and pass the MIDI through via blue cat audios connector but I really hope they implement it pretty soon. Edit: And adding the possibility to use 3rd party plugins in the grid would be just insane!

[@paterfiets]

Have you ever looked at Birds Midi cap ? There is even a free version..

[@balrojmusic]

I've been waiting for the biwtig team to allow to modulate the random dice button in the step's modulator, this will drastically change my workflow with such a small upgrade.

[@nomad1517]

Bitwig needs to improve on more bread and butter features like the lines on the arrangement view. Better beginner education, I like Ableton's making music site. Bitwig is mostly dominated by advanced edm and idm. We need more song writing videos, like recording vocals and other genres. I also wish they made more videos on performing on stage with Bitwig and utilizing it with a surface pro. Because Bitwig is literally an instrument. Something to get a total beginner started and where to go from there, etc. I wish they added a tap tempo, it's hidden, which I don't understand. And instead of cap lock for key board, it should be something you can click, or hit cap lock. Automation needs a little more improvement. Touch control needs an update. That's about it for me. ❤

[@paulmichelon2176]

They should fix the latency problem in EQ+ too

[@OdoSendaidokai]

In the Piano roll VIM commands and regular expressions would be great ;) I sent some months ago a FR to Bitwig with portable Presets including the Modulators, that you can interchange between different devices and plugins or merge with other presets. Presets for Modulators would be great or at least default init modulator setting. A "seed" for the random Modultor would be as well very nice. You got my thumbs up.

[@PolarityMusic]

nice odo, ich seh wir verstehn uns

[@jumpstar9000]

integrating LISP would be nice too 😮 I wish I were kidding! 😂

[@OdoSendaidokai]

@@PolarityMusic absolut

[@paterfiets]

+1 for the sampler. Also a select scale option for the pitch quantiser in the grid and an option to turn of oversampling in the grid ...

[@lackLUFSter]

love all these ideas, specifically slice mode for sampler and defaults for modulators. Drives me insane how often I need to do the same thing repeatedly any time I make a new track (no default tracks), add new modulators (no default modulators) etc. sadly I doubt bitwig will ever do anything about it

[@PolarityMusic]

I think they will at some point, but it needs time i guess.

[@avgchoobafan]

One thing that is non essential but can be very cool is that projects in the project browser shows an audio snippet as a previsualization so people with multiple projects know what any project sounds like without opening it

[@Mrdjhappyman]

One of the main things I've wanted in the sampler was the option to have timestretch within the sampler itself, rather than having to relay on granular synthesis. Similar to how Simpler in ableton or the Sampler has in Studio One. I would have a party if they gave us that simple option :)

[@RoXx1811]

This. Also I miss transient slicing like in Logics Quick Sampler or Simpler. It allows you to automatically slice a sample you drop in on the transients it detects, maps them to MIDI notes and offers a sensitivity slider to customize. This was essential to my workflow and I miss it so, so much. There are also no real VST alternatives for this or at least none that work as good as the two I mentioned (VICE comes to mind but I don't like its workflow and UI).

[@mrcanisters]

Yep, would be good to have proper time stretch in the sampler

[@DonutShoes]

My feature wishlist is 1) Be able to save pre-wired groups of modules in the grid as 'prefabs' that I can drag into the grid from the Browser. 2) A note length dropdown (like the ones in Note FX devices) next to the Tempo that lets me set the tempo to compound meter or give any of those note lengths the beat per the tempo number

[@Don_Inkshot]

I really would like something like a snapshot manager by macro knob, as you said, or a fixed selector that could involve a kind of slewing or morphing between presets. It could also be great to have this implemented inside the grid for specific modules (for instance the Stoermelder plugins in VCV rack allow this for anything).

[@77advanced]

Switched from ableton so i need some minor things to complete my happiness), native tuner, native audio to midi tool, visual for fade in/fade out in sampler, resizable faders in mixer))

[@HalfGodHalfBeast]

agree - live looper grid module would be great

[@Emily_M81]

if anyone could make thoughtful suggestions for Bitwig, it'd be someone like you that knows it about as well as the devs themselves. Saving modulator presets, groups of modulators, etc would be🔥Right now we can add modulators to a Chain device and save that, so the capability is already there in that respect. Though you do still need to assign them. I just tested it, however, and you can add, say, a Polysynth to the Chain and then map modulators all over it, and save that, and then you can recall the Chain preset with a Polysynth with any of your usual modulators in place and ready to go.

[@PolarityMusic]

🥰

[@kimmolaine665]

Creating custom nodes (= groups?) in grid would be nice, and promoting some of the controls to the nodes UI, of course

[@dirthawk]

yes, give us the grid morphagene plz

[@stateazure]

If they gave us the ability to record, loop, better granular tools etc and make all this available in the Grid, we could very easily build out own Super Morphagene and much more

[@TuriaArt]

Thank you very much 👍❣️🌹

[@Andy-Kach]

I don't care about Grid so much. I like to test some VST in Bitwig, I like how fast it is and how automation works. But to work in this DAW seriously, I want to see: 1) Grid behind the clips in the arranger! 2) Midi comping! 3) Piano roll improvements (like in FL, not Ableton) 4) ARA2 for Melodyne integration (like in Studio One) 5) Video track 6) Groove Pools / swing presets

[@FredAlert]

Yes! The modulator preset would be great!

[@soundbeee]

Presets as modulators is an interesting idea, but that would require a new modulation mode. Currently modulations are additive, but that wouldn’t work for your suggestion since it would fall apart when modifying a parameter value manually. The new modulation kind would need to change the parameter value itself gradually to some specified target value. There are a lot of questions around this: Would regular additive modulations be applied on top of this? What if the loaded preset contains modulators? What if the existing preset contains modulators, would the application of the new preset modulation disable these modulations to make the new preset be applied correctly? How to represent these new kind of modulations in the UI, is the current blue ring usable for that? Where can the target value be set, and how to represent this in the inspector? What should happen if multiple such target-value modulations are applied to the same parameter? Should automation be applicable to the target values of this new modulation? Imho the idea is interesting, but it does not fit well with the current concepts. Maybe it would be much simpler conceptionally to have an easier way of using the instrument layer, e.g. a single-click feature to wrap the existing instrument in a layer, load the preset’s new instrument as second layer, add a modulator to morph between the two, and maybe a simpler or even automatic way to pull up modulators from the two different presets and duplicate the existing modulation targets to the other instrument similar to the drum machine‘s „Copy Value to All Layers“ function.

[@UweGranzowfilms]

Sehr gute Ideen - vielleicht werden ja einige Wünsche erhört! Nice Vid Rob! ;-)

[@emptyvesselnz]

Mike/JetJaguar and I have been discussing the modulator presets idea - a really important feature IMO, I almost never want the default state and very regularly would re-use the same or similar settings but have to dial them in EVERY time. I like your idea of loading a preset as a state /set of destinations and amounts in the modulator, fantastic concept but surely quite simple to execute? Some other great ideas in the video too! For sample creation I'd love a bit more freedom on the render settings - currently if I have a bunch of different length MIDI or audio items in the arranger and want to render them all at the same time I can't. So I use the old trick we've been using for years where I bounce what I want one by one then have the Bounce folder open in Finder/Explorer. It would only take something like Reaper's ability to bounce arranger "items" no matter what their length - perhaps with a setting to also capture any audio tail after the item because of fx. Currently I export a set of stems and have to edit them to correct length after, well currently I use another DAW for this functionality, which is fine but it'd be nice to stick in Bitwig for this where I'm often doing a lot of sound design for sample packs.

[@jonathanroseii905]

recording feature would be sick for sampler. Would be neat with a drag and drop clip feature as well.

[@eklorian]

Slicer in sampler. Offline processing. Highlighted mixer channel. Taller Faders. Default Tack Presets. Custom GUI for Grid Devices (aka ur own plugins). Scale mode in piano roll. All superficial and not necessary but would be welcome very much.

[@jenslehmann6363]

Sehr gute Ideen! Würde ich auch so nehmen 👌

[@revolve5995]

The Preset-on-Macro idea was cool but just use an XY device for that. Not everyone has the same default presets for their instruments/devices. It makes waaay more sense to just use XY devices.

[@TheDaniman888]

I agree with most of the points in this video - especially the sampler/recorder requests. Still waiting on subgroups/devices in The Grid, though. What's equal parts scary and equal parts amazing is that I find it harder to complain about missing features in Bitwig, because it's so rich in features and well designed. I guess soon I'll just have no other choice than to stop whining and start making music 😅😂

[@jumpstar9000]

Yah nice, it's coming together. Definitely agree with all of it. Unifying recording functionality into the sampler(s) would be awesome. It would also be great to have a way to provide a custom combiner that lets you define how things combine with what is already there with the incoming recording signal. The interval display on the piano roll would be very helpful as well. Could have magnetic regions too like snaps on sketchup. The preset modulator is something I requested from Bitwig a year or two ago, and at the time they said they would put it on the list, so if more people are interested we might get there. Totally agree about ignoring the FX stuff. All cool stuff anyway man. Nice video.

[@PolarityMusic]

yea good idea: magnetic interval snaps!

[@diogoquadros8874]

Hey brother :) great ideas! The persistence one would be a game changer imo or give the option to trigger randoms manually, basically the same. One other thing i would like they added is to be able to resize the clip and get the next take similar to how cubase does it, instead of having to copy the clip and select the next take

[@0e0]

recorder needs loads of love. deep control of the playback head

[@theRumbleChannel]

Agreed, Bitwig is awesome but there is always room for improvements :). I'm still in mourning because of the browser, but we have to accept and end when it's here I suppose. I agree with you list, but I would also love if they focused a little bit on the arranger. There's a lot in terms of UI improvements and little features known from other DAWs that they could implement. And proper Scenes in the clip launcher! Basically I would like a behavior like in Ableton. A proper drum editor would be nice as well 😊 Loop slicing in the sampler (not to multi sample but in place) ...

[@artisandro8298]

completely agree with arrangement UI. Also need more shortcuts! For example, the management of width and height for individual tracks isn’t as great as some other DAWs. Very limited. Also, in large projects, it can be difficult to get around. A zoom tool like logic would be awesome… Or, even better, a search function for tracks.

[@rubi9324]

For the random modulator part, I would love a single modulator/grid module that applies a random value to each of the modulated parameters. That would open endless possibilities combined with your "apply modulation" idea. Like you could make cpu friendly synth generators, compared to the current method which consists of having a grid instance containing a ton of "dice" modules connected to "modulator out" modules for each modulated parameter.

[@PolarityMusic]

so random mod but every target gets a differen value? yea that could be helpful, instead of attaching many modulators for each target

[@rubi9324]

@@PolarityMusic exactly

[@chris5375]

Scale and Chords function like in Cubase…….

[@armonic7956]

Like every other Daw you mean 🙌🏽 .. I agree piano needs some love for sure 🌊 come on Bitwig get this implemented

[@chris5375]

@@armonic7956 look at the latest FL Studio release for example, I think Ableton and Bitwig are a little bit behind the line……

[@angelite6027]

1- replace samples in the arranger viewer while holding shift for example 2- timeline scrubbing and a video player because its painful to sound design on a video using vidplay vst withouy scrubbing i mean cmon thats really basic stuff to have 3- slice eq typa eq module in the grid that necessary imo 4- a video player with all the necessary features for sound designers like frame rate change the entire project to match the clip and that can open and play a lot of the mainstream video formats 5- bitwig is awesome and whoever not using it is missing out a lot and losing so much time and creativity chances. 6- polarity that preset morph feature i told to a german friend a year or 2 ago 🤔 you seem sus to me, is it you? mhmmmm. love your stuff ❤

[@mrcanisters]

If they could do more for touch screen devices. I think ableton is better in some aspects, even tho bitwig is supposed to be touch friendly. Inability to long hold for right click menu means a mouse is necessary for a lot of stuff

[@Mitsumata]

I would like to have support for ARA2 and articulations, then Studio One would not be necessary.

[@colognialist1964]

Great.. like this Snapshot Idea... Could save a patch in current style with deactivated modulators!

[@jumpstar9000]

are we ready to talk about the fact we can't modulate space-time metrics yet. If we can't open up arbitrary wormholes when we press play, what are we even doing 🤷‍♂️

[@wrxnglove]

totally agree! beyond modulating space-time metrics, every possible inspector parameter should be modulatable imo. even looking at fm4 and the fact that you cant modulate the matrix. it seems so obvious to me that i wonder what keeps them from doing it.

[@jumpstar9000]

@wrxnglove i know right! Bitwig, I hope you are listening

[@circles79]

Presets for modulators would definitely be a big +1 from me

[@datashat]

Oh man I have a list a mile long..... I totally love Bitwig too but as a developer the urge to go into the code and fix some stuff is STRONG. I can't use anything else now, the only time I fire up Ableton is for warping music for remixing / DJing / etc, which is a mind-numbing nightmare for anything over 30 seconds long in Bitwig.

[@PolarityMusic]

same for me, i cant use something else, its just not possible :D

[@wrxnglove]

Ich hoffe auf ein Update für alte Plugins/Modules. Bspw ein Convolution+ (Synthesized IRs), Grain Volume Envelopes im Sampler und ein Wavetable Editor, Kontrolle über den Crossover bei Multiband Chains, erweitertes Metering uvm. Für einiges gibt es einen Workaround in der Grid, aber gerade bei älteren Modules ist noch viel Luft nach oben.

[@MattnUska]

Maybe this is possible but I haven’t figured it out. It would be nice if you could make the mutes softer for performance. There are a few eurorack modules that have LPG mutes and it’s really nice sounding.

[@corza5647]

The lack of modulation presets frustrates the crap out of me

[@PolarityMusic]

on simple modulators its okay, but on "curves" its a bit tedious

[@user-kx5fs9jy1g]

Oh man, I have a bunch, would love to see them implemented (and love your ideas Polarity). But also, if anyone reads through my list and has VST suggestions for any of these features that might be a good temporary solution. I would love to hear it! It's also possible I just don't know how to do something, so please let me know if any of these are possible already! -MIDI Comping -MIDI Capture (like Ablteon) -MIDI Step Recording (a bunch of DAWs call this something different, but basically a way so that when in the piano roll you can use a MIDI controller to input notes and chords in steps (based on the note length you have selected). It's especially great when you can use hotkeys and/or a midi controller to select and switch between the different note lengths, and a hotkey to leave a rest of the selected note length. -Video Support (for scoring) -More features for live looping (like automatic track switching, overdubbing, more midi mappable controls (or hotkeys) for the clip launcher and looping -Notation Integration (like Logic or Digital Performer) -You talked about this, but just some workflow improvements for the piano roll. I find it all to be a little clunky--like it just takes too many clicks to get around

[@user-kx5fs9jy1g]

I can't believe I forgot to include one of my biggest workflow annoyances: no ripple editing! I want: -Ripple Edit Tool -Ripple Delete -Ripple Trim Previous Edit (or clip end) to playhead -Ripple Trim Next Edit (or clip end) to playhead. I also would want the following functions (and the ability to add hotkeys for them): -ADD EDIT (CUT) TO ALL CLIPS/TRACKS AT PLAYHEAD -SELECT ALL CLIPS IN FRONT OF PLAYHEAD -SELECT ALL CLIPS BEHIND PLAYHEAD The option for scrub functionality (the ability to drag the playhead through audio and midi and hear the audio) Playback Speed (the ability to toggle faster or slower playback speeds)

[@manufacturingdissent666]

I just want to record from a mic to a track but havent been able to figure out inputs.

[@PolarityMusic]

select the mic as an audio input on the track. arm the track. press record. done :)

[@manufacturingdissent666]

@@PolarityMusic If only things where so easy, I dont see the Mic, I assume it's my soundcard, I dont see inputs in bitwigs audio settings, cant remember if i did it once, or if i just used audio recorded elsewhere, but if you can record on a track cant you put that into record or a sampler.

[@PolarityMusic]

sorry but i cant remote debug your audio system :) if you have a coundcard and use asio, you should be able to select the inputs in bitwig.

[@manufacturingdissent666]

Yeah I know of course you cant, I just thought it was something they where saving for later release, though i'm sure i've also watched vids on the subject, but I only have outputs...I'm still trying to find a good 24bit192 audio card @@PolarityMusic

[@manufacturingdissent666]

also you would think the motherboard audio would at least show up somewhere but i dont see it, maybe waspi thing isnt for me, even asio for is on but I think its my brain thats gone :)

[@revolve5995]

Bitwig devs, if you're reading this: For the love of God please add an optional HH:MM wall clock in the header or footer for fullscreen mode. Renoise has one and Mixxx has one.

[@PolarityMusic]

wat

[@revolve5995]

@@PolarityMusic It's to make it easier to stay in a flow state. I've been asking them to add an optional wall clock that appears in fullscreen mode that you can toggle on and off from the user preferences dialog for years now. I don't want to have to bring the taskbar up to tell what time it is. It might also be useful for some environments that want to lock a computer to just showing Bitwig at all times.

[@Petros_Michalakopoulos]

The only thing that is bothering me at the moment is that the bitwig browser is incredibly slow

[@BrentonWoods774]

I know what's missing: it's VIDEO SUPPORT

[@PolarityMusic]

at least to have a video playing in sync with the transport, yes

[@BrentonWoods774]

@@PolarityMusic I just want to be able to work on sound design for my motion graphics in Bitwig

[@PaulEubanks]

How is there not an invert Polarity button for each track in the mixer view?!

[@PolarityMusic]

Why should it? use the tool device for that.

[@PaulEubanks]

@@PolarityMusic Because it's a common task and inserting a tool device on every channel is a PITA?

[@DeepAmbientRhythmicKeys]

Desperate for scale mode like Ableton and FL. It's not all about sound design, some of us need simple ease of use workflow with correct musical key without pausing

[@womagrid]

The current situation with clip menu vs clip context menu is insane. At least put the reverse option in the context menu!

[@william2001a]

i only have one thing to say: •Device GRID🙏🏻 🎤

[@PolarityMusic]

boom

[@sternenherz]

Haha, classic Polarity, starting with features within the Grid :D I like the idea with showing intervals in the piano roll! Could be part of a piano-roll upgrade which adresses all of its weak points :) Also really nice the idea of feeding the Sampler on the fly! Sampler improvements for timestretch,slicing, and live-playback-capabilities for liveperformance would be awesome. (recording&immediately playing slices via midi is much too fiddle-y right now). Aside from what i said in my video (on my channel), i'll share what i would like in a future Bitwig here :D 1. Fix the broken Touchcontrol (10:37 to 14.45 in that video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX2npJupfdJ_j9E 2. Option to show Gridlines behind (within) Clips in the Arranger. 3. Playhead should stay visible, when Space, or Shift+Space is used! 4. Play from Cursor in the Editor! Clicking in the Editor should switch playhead position to that spot. 5. Scrubbing the Playhead should be possible. Ideally with a visual synchronization of Arrangement-Timeline and Detail-panel. 6. Further improve transient/onset detection! 7. Add a “one button” Audio Quantization based on slicing on onsets. 8. Add a secondary “one button” Audio Quantization based on warp-stretching. 9. Option to have a default tool! When switching from the Arranger to the Detailview while editing, and then coming back to the arranger, many people coming from other DAWs assume that instead of the last used tool, Bitwig switched back to the default (pointer) tool. This behavior should exist as option! 10. Seeing parameter values in automation lanes instead of percentage, as an option. A must for precise and informed automation. 11. Adding additional Post Recording Settings for a true Live-Looping Experience like Audio-Overdub and Midi-Track-Overdub. Explanation here: bitwish.top/t/looper-live-looping-functions/4610 12. Solve piano roll issues: - no more showing the wrong note-region (C7/8), - automatic zoom to fit for midi and audioclips, - see midi cc lanes in the normal detail view, - add custom preferences for detail view like note audition turned off/on or showing velocity and sustain pedal., - option to make doubleclick create notes based on grid-size 13. Option to adjust Loop length with a shortcut! +/- 1 bar. 14. Option to make Copy&paste and duplicate non-destructive. Right now, audio/midi clips which are in the way of pasted or duplicated Clips get destroyed/deleted forever. There should be the option to instead of destroying clips, they just get overlapped, while staying intact! 15. There should be a forth option in Bitwigs settings for "Default stretch mode", called "On using the stretch tool". Otherwise, a essential function of Bitwig (Alt+Drag) is rendered completely useless for Short samples, which for 99% of all producers have Strechmode=RAW turned on. 16. 15+ Years of Muscle Memory from Adobe Premiere, Audacity, Melodyne, Cubase, Ableton, Izotope RX, and many more Programs call for an option to make Shift+Mousewheel move the Arranger from left/right instead of up/down. On Windows. 17. Cue Markers get pushed into the wrong spot when changing Loopsize. When Loopsize is narrowed/lengthened again, the cue marker stays there and doesn’t follow! 18. “Activate/Deactivate” Plugin should be Midi-Assignable! The general shortcut for “activate/deactivate selected item/track” is not enough, as it is useless for quickly managing Latency and RAM usage of specific Plugins in a huge Liveset. 19. Show Peak levels in decibel in the normal mixer panel, not just in the Big Meters of the MIX View! The arranger needs to show peak levels in its mixer. 20. Option to change the colorization of the VU Meters. Right now they show red where there’s still -10db headroom. 21. Let users decide to show Arranger, Mixer Panel AND Device Panel at the same time. 4k Monitors could show everything with ease, and the constant panel-switching would stop forever. [No, a second screen doesn’t do the job. This is a feature request for one big monitor.] 22. Display/Interface-Scaling below 100% should be possible. 23. “Select Device” should be Midi-Assignable. Bitwigs viewfocus should follow the selection. 24. Vertical zoom of Tracks needs a shortcut+mousewheel action. 25. Mappings Panel needs a SCROLL BAR! 26. “Plugins crashed” and “Plugins Missing” must show WHICH ones! 27. Add a glue tool 28. Option for changing grid-strength and playhead-strength visually. 29. Drastically improve automation-editing, adding envelope shapes, removing the pudding-like-mouse-deceleration/acceleration of vertical movement, adding quick-editing tools like in Ableton and Cubase. 30. Add Audio-to-Midi, equally good or even better than in Ableton. Integrated in Bitwig, not as a grid-addon which works less precisely and/or without easy and fast drag&drop action. 31. Add CPU Meters in Tracks 32. Add Clip-Playback-Progress showing in the Track in addition to within the Clip! incredibly important for big Livesets! 33. Improve the Midi Scripts. It’s just incredibly sad that there’s no natively working bi-directional midi-script. (Minute 29:42 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX2npJupfdJ_j9E 34. ARA integration 35. Retrospective Audio Recording, together with optional intelligent quantization: Pulling the first recorded transient to fit perfectly on the “1”, for example. 36. Please give users additional API functions (especially for the OSC script): - Clip playback progress, or the length of each clip, so the clip playback progress can be calculated. - VU meter value in decibel, - VU peak hold level in decibel, - VU peak hold level reset function, - No longer separate FX tracks and normal tracks into banks. 37. Renaming anything in the interface shouldn’t need an ENTER to confirm it. 38. Option to set the automation fade time (currently 10ms, and unchangeable). 39. Everything else I mentioned in my video 😊

[@braynz4796]

I guess some of these features would be cool but they arent deal breakers to me. There is a video called "5 Reasons why i would love to switch to Bitwig 5, but CAN’T" by Sternenherz who talks about some really important things that is also keeping me from sticking with Bitwig full time to make my music. I was ready to ditch ableton but instead I just upgraded to live 11 while I wait for Bitwig to iron out many of these feature requests. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pX2npJupfdJ_j9E

[@superkeenaudio2095]

Haha , generic , very good sir :)

[@ricardogovela5239]

Hello Polarity ! .....i have a question maybe a little dumb but cant find the way for it. Its about bitwig mixer faders , lets say you are in mixing session and want to turn levels down at , how do you select many at the same time ?