This Might Be Bitwig’s Strongest Feature...

[@Super-id7bq]

As someone who's worked with tons of DAWs - yes, Bitwig is in a league of its own when it comes to audio editing. Not just functionally but with most importantly with how fast and intuitive it is.

[@rano12321]

You definitely haven't used Reaper then.

[@ryanhursh6322]

I find it anything but intuitive. I’d argue it’s the weakest link compared to my experience using logic and then switching to Ableton. I then switched to Bitwig and was like no. It’s the thing that holds me back from using it.

[@MagicCvstle]

5 years with Bitwig and I learned something from this. Thanks man :)

[@Derpsman2021]

Is there much copyright problems uploading to KZbin?

[@milkyway8353]

Yup, getting frustrated with Ableton for some basic sample editing like the one you just showed in this video. Will give it a go. Thanks

[@HelicopterRidesForCommunists]

Just bought Bitwig Studio. Operators are sick and synergize really well with my Elektron gear.

[@Alckemy]

Sick, what do you have? I really want to try the analog heat +fx

[@HelicopterRidesForCommunists]

@@Alckemy Digitakt/Syntakt -> Overbridge-> Octatrack. I have been an Ableton Suite user for a while now and before that I was deep into Reason. I only recently looked into Bitwig and bought Studio that same night. How did I not know about this daw? Its great! And yeah Im interested in the Heat+FX too, but considering that I have the Octatrack Im not sure about it’s place in the setup.

[@pixelwash9707]

Thanks for highlighting this functionality in Bitwig, so many comparison DAW videos highlight the feature based shortcomings of BitWig's sampler versus other DAW samplers (and Kontakt), but I've not seen these creative audio editing workflows of the main Bitwig audio editing UI explained anywhere else. I've entered audio editing and electronic music creation starting as an accomplished pianist, and I'm looking at Bitwig with whole new eyes. I'd already bought it because I thought it was the best UI and functionality for creative electronic music, but this video has made me excited about exploring using it to creatively edit, and use for electronic music creation, raw piano performance recordings versus just the midi data.....

[@olliepsy]

I love how different we use operators & bitwig's features in general, even tho essentially in psytrance it comes to sampling and sample manipulation... always something new to learn from you alkemy, thanks !

[@macronencer]

Yep, this is impressive stuff - I was blown away when I found out about these features. Something that few people remark on when comparing Bitwig with Ableton is the UI design... Bitwig has more primary colours, better-differentiated controls, and feels "chunkier". Some people don't like that, but speaking as a 58-year-old with slowly deteriorating eyesight (probably in a small minority here, haha!) I really appreciate it. I've never used Ableton, but to me its interface looks way too fiddly and hard to see. For older eyes Bitwig is a joy to use.

[@Alckemy]

I’m not making any assumptions but I’m just going to say I’ve never seen ableton and Microsoft excel in the same room

[@macronencer]

@@Alckemy Oddly enough, I think Excel is AMAZING. I run my life on the thing and I wouldn't accept any substitute :)

[@dwaynecarroll6098]

You have great skill as a presenter and instructor! Looking forward to watching move of you excellent work.

[@fallenleaf24]

I got BitWig essentials purely for audio editing.. I use logic and I love logic. I’ve used it for many years. I like the look of it the layout everything but Biwig audio editing is spectacular and those operators are phenomenal.

[@buckycore]

I'm coming from Cubase, Studio one, reaper, Reason, Logic and FL Studio. And even just the basic Pitch and Formant feature is better than any plugin I've used..plus it's automatable in a snap.

[@igorsakataperez3452]

bitwig is the future

[@SkySplitterInk]

Great video! I would really really love to have something like groove pool, swing per track and audio quantize. This tactic could be great for audio quantize if the "make legato" function used time stretch to extend the regions to meet each other.

[@dtown5id]

Thank you for this. Always thought I was missing out on beats mode, this is like beats mode on steroids. Way more unique.

[@cillfore]

Sick video! I also just came from Ableton and operators was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a ton

[@buckycore]

Operators are more magical to me than even the modulation features. But they both equate to why Bitwig is so amazing and different (I also love the clip launcher and the random magic that can happen if you're doing it right)

[@johnwing8234]

Could you elaborate on this ? Specifically the clip launcher?

[@tigermanni]

Also the feature is so nice, that you can move the waveform in those tiny clips, just to exchange the clap with the kick that was before. This is just magic ❤

[@Alckemy]

Yesss it’s not the only dawg that can do it but I use that religiously

[@sugarskulldigital7769]

I just moved from Ableton to Bitwig, I'm still getting to grips with it, but this was super helpful.

[@dorn_beats]

Wow, the Operators make it a software Octatrack / Elektron Sequencer Magic thing... Thanks for the Video!

[@aerrowqueing]

I never bothered to look at the manual for audio events (I know, I know) so this video is a godsend,

[@TerekkiTerekki]

Great tips, and like ur laid back presentation style, subbed.

[@Alckemy]

Tired presentation exposed lol

[@illegalgiant_]

ok, i gotta say it. i tried bitwig as my first daw. i didnt get it. now ive been in ableton and im loving the stock stuff but dont always love the mangling of clips, loops etc. simpler is great but it doesnt always work like i think it will coming from an elektron box. this is extremely powerful man. im getting how stepping out of the ableton box could be.... amazing. cheers

[@TerenceKearns]

Yeah this topic badly needed to be covered. It's taken me a long time to come around to the BW way of doing audio in clips.

[@TheAlburp]

Great stuff man, keep em coming!

[@abletune]

Thanks for sharing. It's incredible, but I'm still missing the Grove extraction feature and the converting audio to MIDI and MIDI to audio funktions.🤓

[@totaled_camry]

I'm just gonna comment every time I rewatch this video LMAO. You got me started on Bitwig and there is still stuff that I forget until seeing this one again!

[@Alckemy]

I’m not mad at it lol

[@heartbeatbillionaire]

Would love a deep dive of Ableton simpler vs bitwig

[@Alckemy]

Look up my ableton vs bitwig video:)

[@razvanrusan9319]

just picked up bitwig! really cool video

[@Alckemy]

Welcome to the family

[@meanguitar]

There are some audio to midi plugins that fill in for the lack of audio to midi in bitwig. There's a realtime one on mac/windows that works well with guitar, but I use a midi guitar to get around the issue.

[@meanguitar]

Also the comping is a killer feature for vocalists, being able to construct a mixdown from tons of takes

[@Alckemy]

What midi guitar do you use?

[@meanguitar]

@@Alckemy I use the jamstik

[@gloomnoir]

Great stuff bro!

[@danlwarren]

I love tweaking this stuff, I just wish there was more flexibility in onset detection.

[@Alckemy]

That would actually be a sick alternative too. Great suggestion!

[@ElianaDAngelo]

Yeah I wish it worked like slicex where you have different sensitivities. Or even better a slider that shows in the onsets as adjustments are made in real time

[@danlwarren]

@@ElianaDAngelo That is EXACTLY what I want!

[@RoXx1811]

@@ElianaDAngelo YES. Sensitivity. And pleeease finally add this to the Sampler. I miss the transient slicing from Logics Quick Sampler \ Lives Simpler so much

[@billB101]

@@RoXx1811 Yeah, same here. Bitwig needs a slicing sampler for sure.

[@blenderfunny2384]

I swithed too after years and years... Love Bitwig

[@RishPanjeetJr]

Just bought an M2 Mac mini (256gb/16gb RAM) to replace my 2011 i7 Mac Mini server (16GB ram) I’m pretty sure I’m moving from reason to Bitwig. I’ve been using Reason since 2007 but have to pay for the Reason suite all over again since my current old computer can’t upgrade to the new version- straight from Propellerheads. I love synthesis, and think Bitwig will be more adventurous than Reason (although I’ll miss ReDrum and my established .wav library).

[@oshinenajarian]

Solid Alckemy!!!

[@autistikicecream]

I'm new to bitwig and always preferred midi over audio clips, but NOW it really makes sense! Already messing with a drum loop and it sounds fantastic and weird! Thank you for the video! It would be great to see more tips on working with audio in bitwig.

[@Alckemy]

I have a ton of videos in my catalog about audio editing in bitwig, just have to go find them:)

[@autistikicecream]

@@Alckemy yeah I've already watched the video about comping and saved a bunch to watch later. Amazing stuff!

[@andy-simmons]

This is awesome! Nice tips.

[@ri6thechameleon]

Coming from reason,cubase and ableton,this is crazy what i came to see..but i need alot more video like this to realize all the posibility about this daw..where can i see this?

[@Alckemy]

On my channel… or polarity, Alex Reid, tilde sounds, look up Chee’s bitwig video. Tons of resources out there for you^

[@mortenkalland]

In Studio One 6 we have right click and gain option on audio with points up and down if needed, how in Bitwig?

[@Alckemy]

You just drag the top of the waveform

[@ueberlicht_]

And you can record the actions you can´t automate within the audio editor with rolling sampler. insane.

[@TonyThomas10000]

Awesome instruction as usual!

[@Alckemy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@atetraxx]

i have fallen in love with bitwigs audio editing. I used to miss teh warp markers from ableton but i can do all of that with bitwig just a different way.

[@sebbosebbo9794]

bitwig have now warpmarker...?🤔🧐

[@darkjord5823]

​@@sebbosebbo9794 it has onsets that you can stretch. So yea. It works the same but is a bit different in a few ways. I actually prefer it

[@diay6556]

There is someway to play via midi keyboard the autoslices in a sample like Ableton do? I use a lot this function on Aableton´s but I wish to play it directly with not need to slice into multitrack or drumpad. Did you know some kined of trick to do that?

[@Alckemy]

Yes and no. You can chop a sample to multi slice but it is destructive in that it won’t find new samples for you

[@danemiller4852]

Bitwig 5.0 must be something massive... haven't heard anything about it in a long time.

[@Alckemy]

No clue what they’re up to!

[@worldofmuu]

Why is it when I slice in place I only end up with one audio event in the editor?

[@Alckemy]

You can slice in place on the timeline or on the audio event. If you want multiple audio events then select THAT inside the clip

[@dadaJunglist]

this video made me buy Bitwig

[@kevvinster]

This really reminds me of how Cubase works.

[@UnlovedZetsu]

It sucks the fact that I don't have cool features (Phaser+, Spectral, Operator, etc.) (version 4.1.6) 😢

[@Alckemy]

Thankfully every audio function aside from operators is still in tact!

[@Brother_Mouse_]

can you atuomate the tempo to individual audio clips? i tried with audio event but i'm not sure how to

[@Alckemy]

it's the other way around. you attach tempo automation to a clip

[@jeffreyjbyron]

Is there a way to automate the tempo of a clip? I want to gradually speed up an audio clip without touching the global tempo. Anyone know the best way in Bitwig?

[@avgust1ne424]

Check out Cableguys Timeshaper for that.

[@deanc2000]

Which Bitwig version is this?

[@Alckemy]

Any version I believe. And with 5.0 you can now audio quantize

[@partlysimpson5154]

Why Bitwig rubs more smoothly in ur Mac? I have m2 pro, but this seem to running more smooth lol, can you change settings for GUI to be more smooth in Bitwig

[@Alckemy]

No idea tbh lol

[@JoelLinus]

Why is bounce in place better than freezing?

[@Alckemy]

Great question! Freezing means you can’t make anymore changes to sound until it’s bounced. it also has a render time. bouncing leaves everything and is a quick print. you can print it and recycle the effects or bounce to a new track. in Ableton you either bounce the frozen track and lose your effect rack or duplicate the frozen track and bounce one. LSS it’s way more efficient

[@JoelLinus]

I see, so basically when using Ableton and freezing MIDI Tracks, you have to "unbounce", it to get back to the rack and change things, where you then have to re-freeze it again to get rid of the CPU Usage? Thanks for the fast reply, most KZbinrs I ask questions to don't really reply to any thing at all.@@Alckemy

[@dslabosky]

thanks for the video - what would you do if you wanted to link tracks such as ableton is able to do? I find no substitute for it in bitwig and it is very frustrating

[@Alckemy]

I’m not sure what you mean by link tracks tbh… like group them?>

[@dslabosky]

@@Alckemyin ableton it’s called “link tracks” . I think in Cubase it’s called group editing. Let’s say i have to similar audio track that I want to have the same editing, stretching etc. apply for both channels . Like a stereo guitar recording for example.

[@datooch]

Is it possible to record without a set tempo and then beat map it. Basically warping bar/beat grid to the audio without the audio moving?

[@Alckemy]

I think I understand your question, you’re talking about warping?

[@datooch]

@@Alckemy Say I want to record my natural performance, for example if I’m recording acoustic guitar. After I’ve recorded it is it possible to switch it to RAW to preserve the natural fluctuations in tempo and then map each beat or bar line in the audio editor. That way if I use any loops or make any MIDI parts they’ll follow the tempo of my acoustic guitar. I know all the DAWs have this. I believe Ableton calls it warp grid.

[@Alckemy]

@@datooch ah yes, definitely

[@saltykraut]

Great video

[@lawinter1949]

I don't think you can use the operator fade option in audio. I think that only works on midi.

[@Alckemy]

Thanks! I’ll go back and look at it to see

[@lawinter1949]

@@Alckemy Yeah I wish it worked with audio but I think that slider controls velocity and not gain. I think I have had to bounce in place and then use a fade for that. I don't actually use these features very much though. I work more in the midi realm in BItwig which is amazing with operators as well.

[@Alckemy]

You can just fade the audio event without having to bounce… so a middle ground? Lol

[@lawinter1949]

@@Alckemy AHA there you go! I knew there was piece I was missing. I'm sure I have mentioned this before but you should check out the latest update for Samplab. If used the right way it is an insane sound design tool. Kind of like a granular multisampled instrument that divides the samples by velocity layer.

[@lawinter1949]

Yeah that fade thing is pretty dang great!

[@andrewb2700]

Can u apply fx on each of the slices separately?

[@Alckemy]

you can apply time stretching, pitching, fades, warping, etc but you can’t apply third party vsts to individual audio events on a single clip. you’d have to pull them out to different tracks

[@andrewb2700]

@@Alckemy That's what I thought and there is no tempo mapping either which both S1 is capable of but everything else is better in Bitwig

[@Alckemy]

@@andrewb2700 you can map the tempo timing via inspector or automation of the clip itself

[@andrewb2700]

@@Alckemy as far as I know Bitwig tempo automation is only on the master track. When I do Remix in S1 I can match the original tempo of the song to the DAW without stretching the file itself that's what I mean.

[@Mordecore]

[ H E A V Y B R E A T H I N G ]

[@forsale313]

WOW. Thank for the Run thru of the features.

[@-adc]

At about 4 min in, I suddenly notice the folder "Side Chizzle"... and I'm dead.... XD. Pro level naming game, right there.

[@Bender4Fry]

Thanks :)

[@ilia7206]

BW Really Made Life Super Easier ✌🏻

[@avecronym]

I have only one word for you: Breakcore.

[@Alckemy]

tips hat*

[@3DaveO]

Good sized little tute, thanks. Do you have more like this about clip editor? Excellent work, 1 subsriptio vom mir! :)

[@Alckemy]

Not sure what you mean, this is the clip editor?

[@3DaveO]

@@AlckemySorry, I mean more videos about the clip editor, like stretch, comp-ing and the like.

[@Alckemy]

@@3DaveO ah yes I do. Plenty. “Advanced audio workflow with bitwig” and the clip launcher video still covers clip editing with audio. Also the art of operators covers all the chance and probability functions, etc

[@StuSiney]

amen

[@soundsfromYYBY]

Bitwig dope...but Detect Chords in studio! smh

[@Alckemy]

Do you mean scales in the piano roll?

[@soundsfromYYBY]

@@Alckemy watch a video about it

[@billB101]

Bitwig is so friggin powerful it's disgusting. The more I use this DAW the more I'm discovering audio production techniques that are off the charts. Interesting to note though, if I go back to Ableton now the timing just feels really sloppy to me.

[@Alckemy]

I still have to use ableton sometimes and there’s still some things I like it about it more for sure. Thanks so much for watching!

[@billB101]

@@Alckemy Same here, would love the simpler in Bitwig and I miss some of the M4L devices but Bitwig is now the DAW I'm opening most days for sure.

[@captain_crunk]

Bitwig is fantastic. I'm really excited to see it continue to evolve over time. I'd say audio editing capabilities are almost on par with Cubase (which imo is the most capable daw for audio editing, in part because the logical editor in Cubase is simply unrivaled), and that's saying a lot. The pace of development at Bitwig seems to indicate it will be as feature-rich as Cubase sooner than later...but only if Bitwig focuses on the right features. A few of Bitwig's previous updates left me wanting more 'meat and potatoes' development like proper vst multi out track routing (read: kontakt / maschine track routing without audioreceiver hacks) or multi sidechain routing. To be fair, I think Bitwig's workflow philosophy leans heavily towards enabling creativity and expressiveness rather than towards technical and clinical audio manipulation. Personally I like to build a track in Bitwig and then mix / master stems in Cubase. I'm confident though that Bitwig will eventually have feature parity with Cubase, so I can happily go back to using just one daw end to end.

[@Alckemy]

Unless you’re talking about something different, multitrack out is definitely possible in bitwig, as is multi side chain routing, am I missing something? Other than the offline editing with cubase, what else does it have that makes it stand out? Cubase is definitely known for mixing and mastering but I do think bitwig focuses more on the play side of things

[@captain_crunk]

@@Alckemy so multi out routing is possible, but it requires workarounds that are somewhat onerous to implement, and add a bit of clutter in the project window. Drums are a good example. Say I make a beat with a drum machine but I want to add a hi hat loop sample as well. If I wanted to filter the hats all together I'd want to route the loop sample to the same bus as the hats from the drum machine. Since the drum machine sums all the outputs on a single track, I would have to add an audio receiver on another track to split them out independently. Cubase treats each drum machine out as a real track, and I can route the audio anywhere I want without adding anything in the project window, and no duplicating automation that I may have already had on the original hi hat drum machine track. The same concept applies to multi in sidechaining. Bitwig only provides a single sidechain input, so adding additional inputs means more audio receivers and more tracks in the project window and so on. The logical editor is another thing that can make life a lot easier (after getting past a fairly steep learning curve). On top of that, I find that Cubase is more flexible when it comes to slicing and dicing loops and is generally a bit easier to work with because of a few small things like quickly having access to piano roll / audio editor tool selection with a right mouse click menu, and a couple of other minor things that add up to make working in Cubase super fast. But my love is Bitwig. I am way more inspired and motivated to create with Bitwig, and Cubase has been relegated to being more of a tool that use to polish up what I make in Bitwig.

[@Alckemy]

@@captain_crunk oh nah bro there’s a double arrow icon with multi out put compatibility that you can route the outs to without having to add the receivers. Regarding multi side chain just use one tool and then sidechain modulators to duck the volume. I just use a transient split on my kick and snare to send a click as the sidechain to kind of bypass all that anyway I’ll look into the logical editor though!

[@captain_crunk]

@@Alckemy I'm aware of the double arrow...the sub tracks are not routable in the same way that they are in Cubase. It's a pretty small thing for sure, but every once in a while having a real track for more complex routing options is necessary, and adding the workarounds can eat up a bit of time depending on the size of the composition. Not a huge deal, but sorta annoying when it happens. And to be fair, if I hadn't seen how Cubase does things I'd be perfectly happy with the workarounds because it is rather unusual and infrequent that I want to do this kind of thing. Sidechaining is the reverse situation. I have some more left field / ambient stuff that isn't really based on a regular drum beat type of trigger, so multi in is really handy in these situations. Of if I want to filter a bus track by multiple instruments in other sections for whatever reason, I have to manually group them on a separate track before I route to the sidechain input in the bus. Not a big deal again, but mildly annoying given I know how easy it is in Cubase. Other than that though, Bitwig is a dream. And I think as Bitwig matures these little things will eventually be added. At that point, in my opinion, Bitwig will be the king of all daws. Right now it's absolutely the king of creativity and is only lacking a few minor convenience things.