Let's build an... Ambient Set

Making ambient involves rethinking music, which helps us see our DAW and mixer in new ways. In this video, we'll make rhythms that are free, note sequences that are happily jumbled with clip blocks, random granular textures, drones that are moved by sound, and minutes-long automation that can touch the whole project. Let's walk thru a music-making process and see Bitwig's secret powers in action. 🌊🦸‍♀️
Contents:
0:00 Introduction
00:40 Trying a rhythmic synth that feels a little free
03:12 Ambient = Reverb, and Flanger+ with Convolution is better than another $450 guitar pedal
04:22 Sampler goes granular to find atmosphere from any audio file
06:56 Voice Stacking means randomized layers
14:44 Recording a linear musical line, then breaking it into smaller pieces
16:44 With next actions and clip blocks, arrangement logic comes to the clip launcher #indeterminism
21:51 One track can even hand out notes to other tracks, keeping only one playing at a time
24:52 Using modulators to change the sound of a track whenever another track is active
27:28 Getting rid of notes completely with a droning, always-active Polymer…
31:30 …and putting it on an FX track, so mixer sends are now doing phase modulation and PWM (duh)
36:32 Modulators and controls from the project-level can touch all tracks and elements
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[@fernandomanqueo9901]

Dave if youre reading this, I love your videos please continue to make them and showing us different ways to approach music

[@PriyanshuKumar-sp9gg]

43 minutes of dave is certainly one of the most pog moment in the history of music making.

[@14belowzero23]

I came away from this with about a dozen different new things I want to try. Thank you!

[@edwardikeguchi]

this is like the Bob Ross of music composition. I am feeling completely strung out. "Hello test tone".

[@paulchapman112]

These videos are Great! Please keep making them. They open up new worlds. So informative. Thanks.

[@cldbrbn6070]

Wait, what? Dragging notes into a new clip?!? I really love Bitwig

[@NakulKrishna]

Always redefining how to do things. Love this so much, makes mixing feel almost like exciting uncharted territory ripe for exploration. Awesome tutorials that you guys should try and do more often, can’t get enough of these.

[@Jimantronic]

Loved it! Whilst thoughtfully assembling a piece you created music that felt like the soundtrack to thoughtful assembly and creation 😊 I really appreciate that not only have you made these methods technically possible, but that you’re sharing these creative methodologies with us like this. Thanks Dave and the Bitwig team 🙏

[@danceswith7wolves]

Im gonna go listen to Boards of Canada and get inspired 😊

[@TaZerrHD]

Yesss this is gold thank you!

[@franksampedro5731]

The project level trigger, and putting an audio rate modulated synth in an FX track - incredible new ideas I had never considered before. Thanks!

[@LOOPFROGMUSIC]

I’m glad Dave is on the bitwig team. Such good videos

[@cooper6863]

You're blowing my mind

[@djjoanrodriguez]

very nice

[@frankwalders]

Loved your video, learned a lot! Only that FM4 arpeggio drives me insane! 😵‍💫😀

[@rayderrich]

This is music making on a whole new level, what a great demonstration.

[@Dpower]

Amazing! plz do more video like that, especially for ambient. Thx!

[@johnathanbeats]

Reminds me a lot of the group the postal service!

[@segfault-berlin]

Great tutorial shame I couldn't hear most of it over that God awful apegio that was louder than everything else

[@magicseadog8674]

haha making music is basically like that

[@ableenk]

Process is really interesting, but not the result. It'll be great to see actually huge and amazing-sounding projects in bitwig, still hard to find

[@arnoldnoosebomb918]

uh, I'm not finding the Voice Stack Modulator in my 5.1.9 -I only locate the Voice Control or Stack Spread when searching for voice. modulators. 7:29

[@jefferysaddoris]

Super cool. Is this possible with the Essentials version? I'm new to the whole Bigwig universe and am considering a jump from Reaper and Ableton.

[@RobertJamesonOfficial]

at 2:54, when I stretch the note to start before 1:1 and play the transport, it is not triggering because it's out of the playhead range... but this video shows it being played continuously... how do I do this??

[@user-ic8jq9sm8m]

make sure to open settings/behavior and at "resume playback" please enable "note chase"

[@averagebedroomproducer5008]

Needs a lot more reverb and delay lol. Shimmer that boy

[@ragnarroeck]

Possessed not by the spirit of Jazz, but Raymond Scott.

[@ImaplanetJupiteeeerr]

18:35 My empty clip rests have the START / LENGTH parametres greyed out for some reason, why? :( I cant find any answers anywhere, this sucks.

[@mjaa1307]

So what happend with the SEGMENT Clip at 41:05? It stopped, I don't get it

[@mjaa1307]

Hello, at 31:35 and so on, does the "tone" has to be active?

[@mjaa1307]

At 03:48 it sounds a little like the music of "Interstellar". I never thought of Soloing an FX track.

[@BrentonWoods774]

Awesome! Next, can you please build video features for Bitwig? You'll be legends.

[@sinx2247]

What’s the use case for video features ?

[@BrentonWoods774]

@@sinx2247 For me it's sound design for my 3D Motion Graphics work. Some may use it for TV & Film. I could go for Ableton or Pro Tools, which have those features since very long time ago, but... I like Bitwig, can't help it.

[@touarec]

​@@sinx2247Scoring, advertising and music videos for your own tracks. IIRC only Cubase currently has this functionality natively.

[@peterkoval]

i loved the creativity, but listening to that abrasive arp for so long was brutal. please consider the listener when creating these please.

[@pbrninja19]

Found the guy who's not a fan of Ec8or or Atari Teenage Riot

[@blackout2able]

when can we expect the "original" bitwig midi controller?

[@Beatsmithdotorg]

Thank you so much for making these videos. These videos, and Bitwig Studio, area really helping me evolve and grow as a musician.

[@TerenceKearns]

Casually dropping bombs on the other DAWs.

[@johnmishell234]

Please add a scale mode to your piano roll

[@jean-baptiste9230]

Please give us the best looper possible, give us a groove and note detector, give us a bitwig controller!

[@chewlay111]

Does Dave do 121’s? Cool vid

[@alm5966]

I wish i could use Bitwig but it's incompatible with my CPU. Bummer.

[@arnaudbentoo4105]

[@michail_777]

Hi. I would like to ask you to make a video lesson on how to work with audio channels. For beginners.Because there are lessons on the most complex modules, but just mute the sound of a third-party plugin, which simply transmits data to the instrument is not. I read in the documentation about routers, audio effects and so on, but how to work with them in the documentation does not say anything.That is, you have to sit for hours and experimentally figure out how this or that router or whatever works.And there are dozens of buttons and functions.So many combinations are required to come to a certain conclusion? I understand that those who have been working with Bitwig for a long time seems simple, but for those who start it's just .....Or could you suggest a video lesson not on notes and modules, but how to work with audio channels?And it would not be bad to make video lessons. Take one project and on its example show how all the tools and functions work.Let me give you an example, a lesson on modules. Some videos start with a screen full of modules, but how were they assembled from the beginning? What's the problem with numbering: this is the beginning, this is the middle, and this is the end.

[@Ecari]

Need to invite JPEGMafia. He uses Bitwig like no one else.

[@citadelo5ricks]

Thank god for auto closed caption and the mute button.

[@iinc6290]

This videos fine but(no hate) please dont play high pitched noises in a tutorial video like this for as long as that FM arpeggio goes on. Ear fatigue is real and high pitched noises are far more likely to annoy us as they repeat over and over and over.

[@contulsubito]

Bitwig certainly has many more logical improvements than any other DAW.But its theme makes it impractical, and as the project grows, it becomes more and more difficult to stay focused for creativity.His theme has many unused spaces.For this reason, I still stay with Ableton, even if it lags behind with improvements.When Bitwig will have a theme that help me for creativity, as Ableton does, or ProTools or Studio One, Bitwig will definitely become my main daw.

[@mjaa1307]

hello i dont understand what you mean by "theme" thanks.

[@NvidiaFuckYou]

i luv your voice so much ❤❤

[@SketchUPDCFurniture]

slow slow sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

[@anissbenthami]

Bitwig went too far from the competition

[@kenherbst9460]

What are you trying to say?

[@anissbenthami]

@@kenherbst9460 It's so much better

[@publika6883]

Yes, they lack most of the features that the competition has, and those features are what's stopping people from buying bitwig.

[@anissbenthami]

@@publika6883 Can you give me some examples?

[@kenherbst9460]

I'm curious what features you feel Bitwig is missing. I've got both Bitwig and Studio One and I'd like to learn both over time.@@publika6883