Tightening Rhythms With Bitwig 'Preview Onsets' Button

[@suntanbear4763]

Just transitioning to Bitwig from Ableton and this is absolute gold dust. Many thanks for this tip.

[@heathrezabek]

This is the most usefully bizarre thing I've seen in some time. Please consider me patron #1 of your arts, sir.

Hehehe just saw this! Thanks again Heath :)

[@Artek604]

27:55 - you can mute several tracks at once by selecting them and clicking "M" in the Inspector

Kickass! Thank you for this mate :)

[@nothingmemorable486]

Thanks... Deffinitely learned something. I think an afternoon mucking about with loads of old recordings is in order.

[@zero72Alk]

Im new to bitwig. This greatly improves my creativity and workflow. Any more sample manipulation video’s in bitwig would be much appreciated. Thank you very much so far.

I'll be sure to have a think about some more videos on sample manipulation! Thanks for the suggestion Rodger :)

[@Jimantronic]

Cracking tip, thank you. Great to join you in the garden

[@derdugati7126]

I never thought of this technique, until i saw your teaching. I´m speechless but want to say a big thank you! Also i love to see, someone is actually making music (which sounding great to me) in a natural environment (for me, it is a technique itself, to get yourself out of comfort zone and try something totally new)! Keep it going =)

You are so welcome! I'm really glad you're enjoying the nature part of the videos too - it really makes it a lot more fun for me to make this videos when I can feel the wind in my hair and hear the sound of the birds while I mess about with the software :)

[@briancase6180]

Thanks, this is excellent! I promised myself about six months ago that I would learn what all those button on the inspector do, but I never followed through (I just change the mode to elastique pro and move on usually). I now see this is super useful and can be a big time saver and a big boost for exploration and creativity. I feel rather bad about my lack of curiosity now.....

[@marcelfrehse]

your tutorials lead me to buy Bitwig in the future!

[@IncorrectDisposal]

Cool technique....a great way to get more information into a track whilst maintaining space. That last loop you used, invoked a call/answer feel, when switching between un-processed and 'preview onset' because the source material is the same.

Glad you dug it hombre :) Very true - it's definitely cool to have a variation even within one clip of Preview Onset on, off and at a variety of rates. So many possibilities!

[@Beatelephant]

Thank you!

[@nakamomo493]

Lovely beats. Try selecting the audio event, hold alt and click-drag the mouse to slide the audio around. That provides a lot of timbral variation when you "gate" the clips like that.

This is genius! Thanks for the tip friend ❤️

[@briancase6180]

Wow, what a great tip.

[@dj-7154]

Some requests please: 1. Create Multi sampler Instrument Rack (e.g. synth, bass) *so you can select a different sound, great to audition sample* 2. Set up External Instrument using with Analog Synth Hardware e.g. Juno, Prophet etc. 3. The Swing Mode on Bitwig 4. Vocals and featured factory effects, appropriate ones (not enough videos about this online) 5. Bass and Synth Fattener with Factory Presets 6. Drum Tool Rack Sampler (similar to point 1 but with drum hits) If possible be great to see these, but you probably have other videos planned.

[@AiryckSterrett]

Fun tricks :) I found this by trying to find something similar to the "Transient Envelope" from Ableton Live. I'm currently trying to transition and finding replacements for things I used in Ableton. This is pretty close but has 3 "preset" lengths vs a slider from 0-100%. Would be cool if we could trigger an envelope with Onsets from an audio file. Anyway, Thanks for sharing!

[@jumpstar9000]

Hurrah!!! Great!

[@Artek604]

God, I need to start working more in audio. I'm 95% MIDI and I'm losing so much apparently :o Awesome work!

I just LOVE working with audio for how honest it is. Perhaps try when you're happy with pieces of MIDI, bouncing them to audio for further manipulation? You could always keep the MIDI on a deactivated track :)

[@Artek604]

@ Yeah, that's the plan :)

[@bci3937]

oh...we can choose multiple rates inside a clip...wow...i miss that feature...thanks

[@pbrninja19]

Thank you, that was very cool and helpful. I wonder, though, if you might be throwing away some precision when you use whatever the preview transients settings are -- that is, maybe you could do the same thing but with a gate, but define your own envelope? Maybe it'd have a tiny bit more snappiness? Dunno, I should go try it. Anyway, thanks.

[@maryaoa]

Why don't these options appear when I choose Audio Event... Are they no longer available in Bitwig? Edit: The stretch mode must be changed in order for them to appear

[@frankjager1647]

"Almost good enough for jazz." is the European equivalent to "Close enough for government work." we have here in the southern US.

[@twatmunro9563]

You're seducing me across to the dark side, video by video.