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This is the most basic of basic tutorials to teach someone who knows nothing about music production to getting sounds out of their speakers. There is a vast amount of information to cover that would take a lifetime, but every journey has to start somewhere!
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[@ScottGarman]

This is a great intro video for bitwig, I like the features you covered. One bit of feedback though is that if you increased the UI scaling factor (to say, 125%), it would make things a lot clearer to see, especially for folks that are new to this DAW. I found myself squinting at times to see what you were doing.

[@Alckemy]

Thanks for the feedback! I’ve heard this a few times and will be more mindful about approaching this stuff.

[@laupoke]

yup

[@SidelongSuggestive]

Absolutely incredible. Couldn't Imagine a better 30m introduction. As a beginner I've found a lot of DAWs I've tried are very unintuitive to use, but this seems to have a really straightforward UI. Can't wait to try it.

[@Alckemy]

Hope you love it! I really enjoy working in this environment

[@jasonfnorth]

Bro... I'm a FLS and Reason pro user... I just bought BitWig... and am absolutely blown away at how easy to use it is... the UI is stunning... thank you for your help with this video!

[@Alckemy]

Glad you like it! You can load fl projects in bitwig btw!

[@jasonfnorth]

@@Alckemy that’s amazing… so I can still use FL for certain special things… or migrate some projects… so excited to learn this platform… you rock man!

[@Alckemy]

@@jasonfnorth there may be some plug-in issues but everything else in the arrangement will be there:)

[@jasonfnorth]

@@Alckemy appreciate you bro! 😎

[@negazul1211]

After a few years complaining about Live, I finally made the switch, now I have to watch all of your videos !

[@Alckemy]

There’s a lot to sort through but I hope you found your daw home!

[@negazul1211]

@@Alckemy I know what I will mourn a lot. But for everything Bitwig has to offer, I bet it's worth it, we'll see in a few months !

[@Alckemy]

@@negazul1211 I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised if you can get over midi capture

[@negazul1211]

@@Alckemy I write a lot of automation so it won't be my major issue, but I love so much Live's precision for editing audio events, moving and glitching stuff, in Bitwig I have to get used to where do I put my pointer to make what I want quickly, but there's progress every day :D

[@datooch]

This is awesome. I’m just getting into electronic music and this helped tremendously. Looking forward to all your tutorials, beginner and advanced. Thank you for your time and sharing of knowledge!

[@Alckemy]

Yo thanks so much! I appreciate you watching

[@makerbotplanet]

Oh guy, you're great. Easy like Sunday morning. There is just sooooo much here, I've already bought the tool, now for a lifetime of experiments and building. I'm already up and running, I'm going to rewatch this dozens of times for months to come. Thanks ~

[@Alckemy]

Thanks! I’m glad it was easy to understand. I have a lot more tutorials on my channel that will keep expanding your skill set too. There’s an entire playlist for bitwig when you’re ready^

[@hhal9000]

Great video. yes more of the basics please as well as your advanced stuff. I recently got the 8 track version so am dipping into it though as a beginner I am still using Cakewalk which is where I started.

[@sebastianscharnagl3173]

I love your dancing with the mouse pointer 😄

[@brianngohofficial]

Thanks for the great vid. I'm new to bitwig and I'm excited to get started.

[@DMSBrian24]

Best DAW tutorial i've ever seen, lets you cover every single major usecase as a beginner, major props

[@Alckemy]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@watchandproduce]

Very helpful. Thank you. Will look at all your Bitwig videos over the next week. Out of all the DAWs I've tried Bitwig right away worked with my Akai MPK mini and also has support for my NI Maschine MK3, Arturia Keylab Essential and Akai MPC Live 2. Pretty amazing!

[@Alckemy]

Bitwig just vibed with me the first time I opened it too. It’s lovely and inspiring

[@AlanaAgapi]

Thank you so much for this video. Very clear and helpful! 🙏

[@Alckemy]

Thank you for watching!

[@johnkemp3592]

This is one of the best "getting started with..." videos I've seen on any subject. Some very basic information to get you going, some more advanced bits to whet your appetite to look deeper - using chaos for randomise velocity on the hats is golden - and a bit of a following along project so you get to the end feeling you've achieved something worth saving and looking at again later. Perfect! For myself I'm a long time user of Live but have had a few years hiatus from music and need to relearn a lot of it. Bitwig seems so much quicker than Live in workflow and it feels more like the whole program is an instrument to experiment - That's probably a bit unfair on Live - but I feel like I'll quickly achieve a lot more in Bitwig than I will in Live. For not much more than the cost of upgrading from 10 Suite to 12 Suite I can get a license for Studio so that's what I'll be doing. Thanks again for the great intro video - needless to say I've subscribed to the channel.

[@Alckemy]

thanks so much for watching! I really appreciate you taking the time to sit through it

[@fattahzeroual4006]

man thanks for help xx i'am learning very quick because of u , hello from morocco

[@Alckemy]

Cheers!

[@dr.gregoryf.maassen2637]

Excellent introduction. Thanks for sharing.

[@Alckemy]

Thanks for watching!

[@paulguy2545]

As a long-time user of Logic Pro, I have never gotten as far as I have done with other alternative DAWs as I have done with Bitwig, its just so much more intuitive (without the Manual) I’ve found than say Ableton was! As much as I still like Logic, I can still find it confusing at times and I get tired of its approach to things. It was Venus Theory (Cameron’s channel) where I first encountered Bitwig and gotten me curious! I appreciate your efforts in helping me understand this refreshing DAW! Thanks 👍

[@Alckemy]

Venus theory put me on to bitwig as well!

[@Makebelieve123]

@paulguy thats good to hear, im just taking the plunge today...how have you progressed in the past 4 months ? Enjoying it? Easier learning curve ? thanks

[@kungfubeatsbysifufilter9431]

Great job on this tutorial, should be part of Bitwig default package!

[@nomad1517]

Most people don't know this. But Bitwig is only a group of 30 people in Berlin. Not bad for such a small team.

[@Alckemy]

Small team but awesome people:)

[@petermican]

Great intro, thanks for sharing .... keep it coming ;-)

[@codexstudios]

I'm gonna be switching from logic pro x to bitwig very soon, so this video is perfect for me.

[@captnoplan3926]

This is a great intro for a noob like me. It's a great follow a long tutorial.

[@DeusNosSalvet]

the "weird scales and stuff" is the exact same scale as the other two. its keyboard, double key, and guitar fretboard layout. 4 Rows so E A D G stings on a bass

[@jimprior180762]

Yep, super useful. One or two places where you go a little too fast, but I just rewound a few seconds to see what you did. You're packing a lot of info in to some sections and I'm like whoah, how did you do that (trying to follow where your cursor was going, and guessing what key shortcuts you used), but I got there. I love the pulse feedback even in the browser menus which help you find the source bass kick to choose for input to the sidechain. I'm at a real early stage in evaluating which DAW I want to use. Started with Reaper for a while, then Ableton (got a Live Lite serial after buying a Zoom U-22 audio interface), but now finding Bitwig to be very intuitive. I have an older Novation SL25 MkII (uses Automap for VST plugins) which I've discovered will integrate really well with Bitwig DAW by using the DrivenByMoss midi controller extension (had to use v19.2.2, not the latest). Thanks for the lesson and I'll check out your other stuff!

[@eyehat3482]

You just gain another subscriber. Thank you.

[@Alckemy]

Thanks so much!

[@TonyThomas10000]

Awesome!

[@jaderington]

Brilliant. I've just came over from Ableton that I've not long ago grasped after using Cubase 20 years ago. I love Ableton, but Bitwig looked so cool as well. I just had to try it out. Also it was cheaper than upgrading from Ableton standard to the next jump up at £400. I didn't want the hassle of learning the basics again so this video was perfect for me. I certainly don't regret buying Bitwig. The possibilities are endless. I did a modular sounds last night and my Trax is well on the way. Your other videos will be very much appreciated as I am certainly no Wizz kid at sound design, by far. Many thanks 😊

[@Alckemy]

I’m glad you were able to follow along! Please feel free to ask any questions or see if I can direct you to a video I may have already covered

[@jaderington]

@@Alckemy Ahh , a nice reply too. I just watched your Phase plant video. I bought that a while back but I was reduced to preset tweaking eventually. You really are the dogs nuts. Music kit has changed from my old days of a struggling computer and a sampler with my Dj~ing skills. C19 lockdown dragged me back in and I went down with a bad case of G.A.S. From mpc x to a handful of high end hardware synths plus all the software thats out there for computers that cope now. My poor head is still spinning and I am a master of none. My end results are good thankfully. So glad I found your channel, you teach well and I am getting older now.

[@Alckemy]

@@jaderington hopefully with all your experience, you’ll be able to draw it all back once you get over some technical hurdles. All the information you’ve gathered is still relevant- it’s just the formulation that’s been streamlined :)

[@VeganCheeseburger]

Fantastic presentation

[@Alckemy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@EFFbriskethead]

i never watch tutorials but this one is to the point, thanks! like and a sub

[@Alckemy]

Thanks! I do my best not to waste your time

[@EFFbriskethead]

@@Alckemy it’s hard to do I have respect for y’all

[@parmasampa1]

Obrigado pelo conteúdo, adoro quando se explica de forma simples detalhes de Bitwig, e me faz apaixonar-ma ainda mais por essa daw. Fale um pouco sobre o como o Bitwig apresenta o Edit Painel no piano roll e a utilização de cor por Canal. Como utilizar essa função. Goastaria de saber se o Bitwig tem alguma ferramenta para manter as notas do piano roll numa escala harmônica pré-definida ( exemplo: Natural Menor, Cigana)

[@anyme3046]

Thanks Alckemy started my bitwig journey today even with the controversy. left a like

[@Alckemy]

thank you! controversy aside it’s an amazing and inspiring program

[@anyme3046]

@@Alckemy no you inspired me back into production thank you! Will become a member soon

[@danielfeatherstone674]

This only thing I miss from Ableton is Drum Buss and some of the repeaters and randomizers. Any equivalents to those for Bitwig?

[@regoat]

It's looking so easy when you do it 😮.

[@Alckemy]

It is! The most intuitive software I’ve used

[@JonaJonaw]

The thing where you click to play at 4:30, roughly could be usefull if you have a touchscreen. By the way I've never touched this software, I'm just trying to figure out if I want to give this a try. That's why I have no idea what to call that.

[@mikeopeka9900]

hello, i recently purchased bitwig 16 track. i needed to upgrade from audacity due to the fact audacity doesnt accept vitual instruments plugins, such as dmxis (light programmer plugin). my goal is to sync light shows (basic for now) with my cover band backing tracks. which i have learned how to do now. my question is, how do i make these projects (song backing tracks / light program tracks via midi) easily accessible for my drummer to start and or stop songs? obviously i need to run these projects thru bitwig in order to communicate via midi to the dmxis box, correct? any input is greatly appreciated!! thank you

[@perdaboy]

Great

[@aguztmar1378]

I’m just looking to replace Fl studio as secondary DAW ..Main DAW is Studio one but BITWIG has caught my attention!😅

[@NBSStudioMusic]

great great video! there is any way to group Fx channels? if I want to SC all of the FX, or filter the fx.....

[@Alckemy]

Technically yes. You can route every send effect either to itself or to another send now with the 4.3 update

[@memecoinmafia2732]

sick 👍👍

[@mortenkalland]

I need to learn how to map midi from the Drum Machine to different keys on my drumset. Do you have a video on that?

[@Alckemy]

Figure out what midi notes are triggering for each of your drums and then just drag the sample to the corresponding cell in the drum machine. Should be super simple

[@sjoervanderploeg4340]

I'm probably a total idiot at this arranger, but when I drag a clip from the browser into my MIDI track I can never get it to produce any sounds? For example I grab the 707 drumkit and drag a 707 HH onto the arranger. When I do this with a synth it works fine, even when I double click to make a clip in the arranger and then edit that it won't play anything!

[@rayderrich]

Great video, just got Bitwig, will keep learning. (I wish I thought about that discount before buying though)

[@Alckemy]

Hope you love it! Not sure if you were talking about my affiliate link or not but bitwig no longer offers that. They do however have periodic sales, so when it’s time to upgrade consider looking for their summer sale or Black Friday ^^

[@rayderrich]

I tested a second buy with your discount code which still works. Oh well, they got 40 Euro extra from me, I think it is worth it. Thanks again!

[@Alckemy]

@@rayderrichmy affiliate link still works but the discount shouldn’t be applied. Weird

[@rayderrich]

The discount was not applied through the link but after entering your affiliate name myself it did offer me 10% off.

[@Alckemy]

@@rayderrich huh. Neat, thanks god telling me!

[@kasimasi6747]

Revelation!

[@funkybrewer6298]

Hey man I'm giving Bitwig the trial to see if I want to move from Ableton or not. When I write music I always record my ideas live into created midi clips within session view and arrange later. In Bitwig there seems to be a push to record midi into arrangement. I can adapt to this and it wouldn't be a game changer. However, is it possible to create a clip in Bitwig, set the loop length and record live into that created clip? Whenever I try to do this the recording goes straight into arrangement and not the created midi clip.

[@Alckemy]

You have to hit record on one of the clip launcher slots, but yeah you can do that^

[@YouLikeToast]

also how do you make it repeat the same bar that you're working on ? instead of having to click to the beginning of the timeline every time to repeat

[@Alckemy]

Ctrl/CMD L after highlighting a section for looping :)

[@YouLikeToast]

@@Alckemy thanks again! I'm trying ubuntu instead of windows and bitwig is by far the most developed daw that ive tried on my system. I'll be watching lots of your vids! Thanks for the replies too! 🤠

[@geraldgoodiii6993]

Hahaha I made All the Ableton short cuts too. Just wish I could press TAB and switch main screen to session view And why can’t I press 0 to mute or deactivate something? And where is the little speaker that I can click mid midi sequence or audio clip (down at bottom of sceen .. in the editor .. and play from that point on? Is this possible? Jist some Ableton stuff I wish was in here

[@Alckemy]

Tab does switch to session view- it’s just on the same page as arranger together:) I have 0 to mute stuff, idk? Just click above on the sample editor timeline and it will play from there. It’s all there

[@YouLikeToast]

GREAT! but how do you do deplicate in the piano roll or in the timeline?

[@Alckemy]

Ctrl/cmd D after highlighting what you want

[@YouLikeToast]

@@Alckemy thank you very much!

[@truthbydesign5146]

very helpful tutorial, thank you! ... Only one small quibble -- Your high resolution makes it very difficult to read anything on 16 inch laptop screens.

[@Alckemy]

Thanks for watching! Try watching in 1080p

[@truthbydesign5146]

@@Alckemy I don't mean the resolution of the video itself but the interface scaling you had set when you captured it. It's just too small to be legible on mobile devices and laptops, at any playback resolution--especially for us older folks without perfect vision ;) Bitwig's channel has a good example of ideal interface scaling for tutorials.

[@Alckemy]

@@truthbydesign5146 oh gotcha. Yes i fixed it in future videos. ^^ sorry for the inconveniece

[@fredweather3366]

How tough would it be to redo this in a resolution we can actually see what you're doing? I have a 27" monitor and still can't read the description of one item on the screen.

[@Alckemy]

well. not too difficult, but this one is likely to stay just because it’s on the bitwig website. I can do some bite size stuff in the future and have since reconfigured my scaling to be more… suitable

[@vincecool72]

have no idea how the software works downloaded it and no sounds works at all lets see if the downloaded sound packs will work after i download something

[@Alckemy]

You have to do the first part of the video and set your output up.

[@6r0k3n5t3ps]

How funny is that.. I have used last 2 months trial version of bitwig.. And 4th april I have bought studio version.. 4th because that was last day free giving XO plugin with purchase.

[@Alckemy]

Hopefully a happy purchase!

[@6r0k3n5t3ps]

@@Alckemy I will just say that Midi Fighter Twister has better integration with bitwig than any script written for MFT under ableton .. and the funniest thing is the novation SL MK3 which was allegedly designed in close cooperation with ableton people .. has much.. much better integration with bitwig than with ableton..

[@pixelwash9707]

Love my Midi fighter twister. Makes practically all other hardware software controllers look a couple of generations out of date.

[@EdmundLabito]

Is there a way to quickly open instrument in the midi editor without closing or using extra steps?

[@Alckemy]

There’s a device menu on the left as well that will show all your plugins. You can open it from there anytime

[@Alckemy]

@@EdmundLabito I understood your question and answered it lol. There’s no keyboard shortcut to open the plug-in but what I was trying to tell you is there is a little box icon to the left in bitwigs inspector that will open the plug-in regardless of what view you’re in. No need to get to the device menu to access it

[@EdmundLabito]

@@Alckemy Sorry my reply was a mistake. I don't know how that happened.

[@wyldbylli4047]

Quick question. My audio setup does not have an audio output. Is this new? I see it in videos but not in the program. I can just select my interface. It works. I'm just wondering.

[@Alckemy]

I’m guessing you’re on windows. It could be whether or not you’re using wasapi/asio but I’m on mac so I’m not too sure

[@wyldbylli4047]

@@Alckemy yes windows. I am using my interface asio. But it only shows input device.

[@Alckemy]

@@wyldbylli4047 I’ll look into it!

[@jazzzfer]

My only gripe. Why can’t you resize the faders?? Mixing is hard with such small faders

[@Alckemy]

You can! Just extend the track size

[@jazzzfer]

@@Alckemy How? I can “show big meters” but I can’t seem to make the faders larger

[@rorz999]

​@@jazzzferthere's a button to toggle on/off big faders

[@fangan4770]

You can't read anything on your screen because the resolution is maximum small.

[@Alckemy]

Fixed in later videos, but the video was upscaled to 4k. you can zoom in

[@fangan4770]

​@@AlckemyThank mate. I watched it on the balcony with an old laptop (with crappy resolution) and didn't recognize anything :-) Thanks for the content.

[@Alckemy]

@@fangan4770 sure thing, sorry for the inconvenience!

[@TheRealWinsletFan]

How are you panning and zooming

[@Alckemy]

Track pad!

[@23gitarist]

Why Bitwig have no Stepsequrncer in Waveform 12 its so easy

[@Alckemy]

It does in the grid? And the piano roll is a step sequencer? Lol

[@xdvn1290]

Whats a "cordy keyboard", as opposed to "simple mouse + keyboard"?

[@Alckemy]

qwerty?

[@xdvn1290]

@@Alckemy yeah thats what I thought, but at 3:56 you say "lets say you dont have a (cordy) keyboard and all you have is just a mouse and keyboard", that led me to understand this "qwerty keyboard" was something different than 'just a keyboard"... then my search on google for "cordy", "coardy", "kordy" keyboards as it would be something amazing I don't know... haha

[@EdoardoMarcora]

I wish BW had retrospective record! ;)

[@Alckemy]

I wouldn’t mind it as well

[@user-dr1if4mt5d]

what version is this?

[@Alckemy]

I believe 4. Something

[@Journey_Awaits]

I opened it and had a shut down in 5 seconds like “why are there sliders if there’s nothing added WTF IS VOLUME2” I’m not really getting closer, I’m just dumb smh.

[@Alckemy]

Wait what, can you explain again like I’m 5

[@Journey_Awaits]

No, there are like 6 different sliders. Every sample opens the interface to an alien spaceship.

[@Alckemy]

@@Journey_Awaits directions unclear. Ended up Stuck in washing machine

[@Journey_Awaits]

It’s not as intuitive as I thought it would be. I assumed you’d be able to add in each note separately but you have play out the sequence as a live performance and it’s saved as a single audio block?

[@Alckemy]

@@Journey_Awaits no? Just double click to make a clip and fill it in the piano roll how you want.

[@aaroncoward]

Why yes, I "bought" bit wigs :) . jokes aside good video!

[@yungmentalproblems]

when I hold shift and press up it goes down!!!

[@yungmentalproblems]

the notes, they don't shift up, up does nothing

[@Alckemy]

That's a new one. are you on a beta version?

[@yungmentalproblems]

@@Alckemy i cracked it...

[@Alckemy]

@@yungmentalproblems well 🤷‍♂️ lol

[@yungmentalproblems]

@@Alckemy I'll just work around it

[@Mr.H_T]

🙏💚🎩🤹👻

[@majorpaiyne2124]

This is not a beginner tutorial. THIS doesn't even look anything like it does when you open it for the first time.

[@Alckemy]

You sure you downloaded the right program? Cause other than the scaling, yes it does

[@majorpaiyne2124]

@@Alckemy Ahhhh. Ok i see. Its all stretch out. I just downloaded Bitwig 5 and its a lot more scrunched up on mine than yours and the theme is very different in color. I retract my statement. Im sorry.

[@anthonytamez170]

is there a way to set it to when i hit space twice to restart my loop it starts at the beginning of the loop marker and not where i last clicked? hate that it restarts where the blue line is and not beginning

[@Alckemy]

if you click on the grey loop bar it’ll start from your loop but you have to tell it to start somewhere