Introducing Note Grid [Bitwig Studio 4.2]

[@Ivorforce]

I (too) requested this feature, and I'm already loving the possibilities this opens up! Absolutely stellar, thank you!

[@OCTO8R]

I am customer of 16-tracks version and have no possibility to enjoy all the features of Bitwig but I don't stop thanking Bitwig developers every day. Thank you, guys! 💜

[@NathanChisholm041]

Time to update buddy!

[@Thought-Forms]

The GOAT Daw

[@KrisTiasMusic]

No shit, I just finished my own VST to sort notes by pitch in different midi channels. And just a day later, bitwig comes around with Note Grid and renders my VST obsolete. :D Well, at least the experience programming this was awesome. I'm stoked to play around with 4.2 in a few hours.

[@GershyJazzy]

Oh, I’m sorry for that. I suppose your VST can still be used in other DAWs

[@infesticon]

Other daw users woud like this vst! speaking as a non bitwig user. Where do I get your vst?

[@jamesbeardwood2579]

id still be interested in this vst, and im not sure how to sort notes in the grid other than just separating the highest and lowest notes, for 3 note chords im not sure how to send the middle note to a seperate midi channel or midi effect, does anyone know if you can do this?

[@Beatsbasteln]

relatable

[@patchbaycowboy]

I would use this in ableton. Can you make it as au as well?

[@Tensor-An]

Are you programmers aliens or what. Bringing us a new way of making music to this world. I mean, what DAW is so powerful as this.

[@neneRijan]

But they refuse to create a single native tuner.

[@ЕтанДрешковка]

@@neneRijan there are plenty of 3rd Party Tuners (Free & Paid) available though. Ofc it would be nice to have one, but I suggest not expecting a native tuner anytime soon. I believe tuners are way down the to-do list of the BW devs

[@alemusicgirl]

the best daw of 2022 and further... getting better with every update

[@Ranga1.0]

I really love bitwig studio workflow. I'm a freelance music composer/producer and I'm not using the grid. So I'm a linear workflow guy rather than modular workflow. If bitwig can introduce a video player and some midi editor features that other DAWs has ,it will be a complete tool for music production.

[@superactivitylad]

Bitwig is fricken awesome.

[@redbirdsaraceno]

Did Bitwig finally add Midi Capture like both Ableton and FL Studio have ? Why don’t you have the highly used and requested basic feature yet ?

[@theRumbleChannel]

No way, this is epic!! Exactly what I was hoping for :)

[@kittycloudz813]

I love it, its so deep...but can Bitwig maybe make a live looper device , that sets tempo already 🌀

[@datashat]

Yesss! Was waiting for this :)

[@AlmerosMusicCode]

I just KNEW you must be a Bitwig user mr Datassette!

[@Artek604]

Looking much better than I anticipated! Great update - thank you!!! :)

[@kris_lx]

I noticed you're banned on KVR, what did you do?

[@Artek604]

@@kris_lx I deliberatly posted something I knew mods would find offensive. I wanted out, but it's not possible to delete the account, so I made suicide-by-mods ;) :D

[@kris_lx]

@@Artek604 My way to get out without being banned was to go to my profile settings and change my email address to something non-existent. This way my account was inactive because it had to be re-verified using the new email address, which is now impossible 😎

[@hip_hopwar8844]

Please bring ARA to Bitwig Studio for the next version, this can surprise everyone💣

[@JazJazgot]

Wow! This is extremely exctining! Now time for grid modulators :D

[@Artek604]

If they're indeed working on it, that's the only acceptable excuse for the lack of MSEG ;)

[@mikedurden]

There’s already lots of modulators in the Grid

[@Artek604]

@@mikedurden Yes, but the idea is to be able to build your own modulators in e.g. Mod Grid, that would be nested in modulator slots next to fixed-function modulators that we already have. That's probably towards the bottom of my wishlist, way below MIDI comping, retrospective recording, alias clips or properly working project navigation :)

[@JazJazgot]

@@mikedurden This was not about modulators in the grid, but about grid modulators. Using other words, this was about having ability to construct complex grid-like modulaors for any devices.

[@molekua]

@@Artek604 why did u get banned on kvr antic? xD

[@AnonymousFunctionNL]

This is so awesome! Finally, have been waiting for this since the release of The Grid!!! I wonder if there will be a device that separates out played notes for even more arpeggiator shenanigans.

[@wjoojoo]

YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Thank you bitwig! Will it be possible to handle note durations? I didn't notice anything about how note off is handled. This will be very relevant when using note grid output to trigger devices with a release envelope. Would the down edge on a pulse signal connected to the note out gate input trigger a note off? Also, can we get a tidal module in the next update that will trigger notes based on tidalcycles pattern expressions? j/k but this would be pretty cool IMO

[@vooku666]

you can handle note durations by manipulating the gate signal

[@wjoojoo]

That's kind of what I assumed but haven't actually had the time to experiment

[@T.H.W.O.T.H]

Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!!

[@NathanChisholm041]

Just updated to 4.2 cheers Bitwig!

[@Michael_H_Nielsen]

Does anyone know if note grid can be used to change one incoming midi note to another outgoing midi note?

[@Waldschwammerl]

Well done my friends!

[@contulsubito]

I would buy it, but unfortunately the theme of the program is difficult to bear in the long run.I use ableton live because its theme is much clearer. In addition it is much more compact.

[@darkjord5823]

Ew

[@meru_lpz]

Amazing update :')

[@jamesbeardwood2579]

is there a way to seperate all note signals, not just the highest and lowest? so if i play 3 notes i could transpose each of them seperately, i cant find a way to transpose just the middle note

[@alienformat9475]

bitwig~!

[@plackCrack]

Anyone know if this is available in the trial version?

[@kaojaicam]

So cool!!

[@ユーザー-p4k]

this! this is what bitwig 4 should've been. now the only thing missing is an audio-visual grid for maybe bitwig 5 (pls?) and then officially no other daw needs to exist

[@citizen4ourt7]

Brilliant 🤯

[@orpheuscreativeco9236]

"Don't wake the ferries" reminds me of Electro Plankton 😍

[@talentunenoding]

Finally!!!!

[@naputivlog]

when new piano roll ? TOP piano roll?

[@ItsPlanetE]

Can we get hot swap also!

[@thegroove2000]

Team could you implement multilane audio within each clip for layering please. I want to purchase bitwig but the lack of communication from youselves is putting me off.

[@hip_hopwar8844]

Fire Fire Fire ......👑👑❤

[@thegroove2000]

Anyone here knows how to convert a stereo sample to mono in bitwig even within the clip view?. It woul be kool if you could right click "convert to mono" option.

[@raygmusic556]

We need more presets for everything bitwig i have bitwig for like 8 months and havent even dented anything in this program going to take me 5 years to master it

[@odiroot]

We're still waiting for the better piano roll, Bitwig.

[@alemusicgirl]

you re waiting

[@happyduck1424]

Me too , me too

[@MikeCakaKaliYoungTv]

Facts

[@realtonaldrum]

Great! - Thought to myself that I need a better Arpeggiator.

[@tekm]

🔥🔥

[@bobfluencer]

why is pitch bend control/modulation missing? such an oversight?

[@mikedurden]

Have you actually used Bitwig? There are tons of pitch modulation possibilities

[@bobfluencer]

@@mikedurden I'm talking Midi Pitch Bend, that can be send to Hardware Synths / Software Synths

[@mikedurden]

It has been able to do that for years already

[@bobfluencer]

@@mikedurden really? I own Bitwig, there is Midi CC Device that you can hook up to Modulators, but no Pitch Bend.

[@mikedurden]

@@bobfluencer Have you tried experimenting with Micro-Pitch Expression editing in the piano roll? Or have you tried experimenting with the Micro-Pitch device?

[@Jimantronic]

Wow. great work you lot! :)

[@howtodostuff1244]

OK here's the thing!! I'm not sure what I like more, this new feature in Bitwig or the sensual and sexy voice of the commentator??? Is it just me? Thanks for this great and pleasant preview

[@pickyyeeter]

This presenter is trying to give a professional software demonstration, and somehow you made it about sex Don't do that - it's creepy

[@fuglsnef]

Yes!

[@GreyFortressVideos]

Effing Epic!

[@djelroy]

Great and so powerfull !! Now get midi capture and midi piano roll improved and we are all set :)

[@psysword]

It's great but where's the page re-sizing option to run like a real DAW? I need to see long throw DB values! Hello bigwig!!

[@kp8923]

Man, everywhere I go in any category of media there's just more people bitching. It's depressing.

[@kp8923]

Love the update btw.

[@hypnoz123]

DAW videos/posts are always like this, regardless of which DAW it is

[@mooseymoose]

And then meta-bitching! Weeee!

[@thegroove2000]

This update seems lacklustre. What about much added features to the arrange page?. Everything else seems to have been neglected in favour of the enviroment. Looking forward to the next updates.

[@BoopPOPO]

Ok nice but.. groove templates please

[@randyyoung5919]

Absolute insanity...why would anyone use any other DAW is beyond me

[@gravity00x]

because this daw is dogsgeet and lacks the most basic fundamentals. the devs rather add nonsense experimental garbage that serves the rando hobbyist rather than adding basic functionality so that people can actually make music and use the peogramm in a professional environment. dont get me wrong, polygrid etc are amazing but thats beyond the point. polygrid is not a daw. and the daw has not seen any reasonably good updates in a decade almost. just let me ask you, where is the collab over the internet feature that they advertised bitwig with in the first place? anyone seen it? there are so so many simple features that people need and if you go to the feature requesty forums you will find tonedeaf developers and a very upset and rather sad community.

[@McGyver008]

Funny. A bunch of information is missing completely. Where's a hint, that - in case I set Note Grid to 12 voices (the default setting) - each voice is using a separate pitch signal and ... how can I access the signals (because... if the orange pitch cords work with voice-individual values, the Grid devices perhaps make it similar with other values, too....?!? I could imagine, that there are multiple yellow (logical) signals available (one per voice), or perhaps all native equal colored cords (the original "native" colors: Yellow - Logical signals, Orange - Pitch signals, (Red - bipolar multi-purpose signals - unlikely, but... who knows....?), Light Blue - control signals like untyped Envelope Out or untyped LFO Signal out, or even purple for Phase Signals.... ?!?!? Interestingly orange cords necessarily are not only one cord, if the Grid is set to multiple voices, because orange cords can only contain positive float numbers in a fixed range (corresponding to the fixed pitch range inside the Grid), so how is it possible, that in the initial 12-voice-patch up to 12 notes can pass simultaneously one orange cord from Note In to Note Out - except there are 11 "hidden" cords ) one cord - (or variable) per voice, where each cord "transports" one pitch-value from In to Out ?!?!?!? Another question: Why the heck is there no concept to access such signals (which would be essential to build for instance an arpeggiator for arbitrary note sequences or even selections of notes from a "playing" chord? This is a question in general: Several times I guess, that some concepts inside Bitwig Studio are not really thoroughly thought, or in other words: Some existing concepts make a user think, someone wanted to solve a task, but halfway to the target he gave up searching.... Why? I don't know your attitudes, but ... in my job (technically based) I found, that one perhaps should go a way to its end instead of leaving partly realized concepts. Often this leads to complications in the future, sometimes even inconsistencies which overcomplicate future concepts. And.... sorry for that: I guess, several "solutions" in the Grid are such "dead ends", some of them even very basic concepts. Although this is criticism I hope you read it as "suggestion" for your work. All in all Bitwig Studio is very versatile and of course nothing will ever be perfect, but... as said: At least the seemingly partly solutions would really be m u c h more fun if realized much more thoroughly as they are at the moment. Good luck and keep up the good work.... To the "fans": This is not directed to you! It is NOT your task to judge my statements. You can work like you want - everyone does this anyway. And ... it is not new to me, that mainstream drilled people hate criticism, as they tend to imagine, that comments always must be a smooth talking without any improvement suggestion. Your mainstream dressage is extremely strong, I must admit... Realize, that any improvement suggested by users accelerates development often significantly and leads to solutions, which otherwise would need much longer to be realized (if at all). So instead of praising something to the skies it would help a developer much more to get concrete hints how and where to change things for better solutions in practice.

[@pickyyeeter]

You can't just post something to a public forum and then say the public isn't allowed to participate in the conversation. If you want to address the Bitwig staff directly, sent them an email. Posting on KZbin and saying that your opinion is above reproach comes off as very performative.

[@urigeheadmot1196]

holy balls

[@hip_hopwar8844]

😍😍😍😍😍😍👑👑👑👑👑👑

[@LandOfBits]

Omg

[@danemiller4852]

Thus is great! But I was really hoping for more devices for sound design. I'm dying for a native device in bitwig that has subtractive synthesis like abletons operator or serums wave tables.

[@alemusicgirl]

its already plenty of device for sound desing bro

[@danemiller4852]

@@alemusicgirl none for subtractve synthesis like my comment said

[@kp8923]

This comment doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Ableton's Operator is an FM synth... it's very, verrry similar to Bitwig's FM4. And then Polymer has a wavetable oscillator. What's missing?

[@robinsonwatt2429]

@@kp8923 pretty sure this guy is just baiting people, don't engage.

[@mikedurden]

Bitwig already has subtractive synthesis and wavetables

[@bwah9481]

seems like a lot of work

[@cyx01]

vor 0 Sekunden she kinda sounds like scarlett johansson 😄

[@soundsfromYYBY]

dope. but again no features for vocal mixng or recording, 1. built in pitch correction or ARA melodyne 2. detect chords and more

[@mikedurden]

I NEEDED THIS

[@soundsfromYYBY]

@@mikedurden 🤷🏿‍♂️👍🏿

[@tekalfb466]

My god how complicated this is ! I don't have time to dig into the grid ! I strated to regret my subscription. I don(t like how Bitwig turns, I would have prefer more live orientated features as more clip launch options ...i am a musician not preparing a mathematical logical PHD !

[@ЕтанДрешковка]

Well then I suggest going back to Live

[@frederice6853]

@@ЕтанДрешковка Live code is too old but this could be a solution

[@kris_lx]

Typical Bitwig update: more sound design stuff, but ignoring basic DAW features.

[@alemusicgirl]

because basic daw features already exists lol

[@tekalfb466]

@@alemusicgirl as Ableton live launch clips possibilities ?

[@alemusicgirl]

@@tekalfb466 use ableton if u prefer

[@tekalfb466]

@@alemusicgirl indeed until basic stuffs are implemented in bitwig.

[@nebroskitheraut6705]

@@alemusicgirl Hmmmmm a lot (retrospective recording, midi comping, MSEG, Darker theme, Proper midi export, etc.) is still missing though.

[@joro7656]

Seem very complex and I feel frustrated just watching the demo.. Sounds are wonderful but very confusing demonstration

[@No.0.o.0]

Im sure Nest is cool buttttttt

[@arrchie4732]

Are u kidding us? Is it music production or dumb programming? Don’t show this to musicians!) That’s sucks!

[@rano12321]

can programmers not be musicians? is there only one way to make music?