Unlock UNLIMITED Potential with Your Own Custom Synths | Bitwig Tutorial

[@Beatsbasteln]

bitwig's modulation system was my main reason for switching from cubase to bitwig after having used cubase for most of my entire life :)

[@AlexReidStudios]

I fell in love because of it. Is nice to have everything so simply present on the screen.

[@C1Nuke]

Me, from Ableton to Biwtig 🙌 *The difference is insane* - method of working in Bitwig is many times smoother, faster and more creative.

[@vraalten]

Very inspirational tutorial that I needed! Thank you very much! Keep up the great work! Bitwig is really on another level comparing to the more plain DAW’s, it is much more a very deep and flexible sonic playground! I love the endless possibilities it offers.

[@AlexReidStudios]

Thank you!! And great to read you are enjoying Bitwig :)

[@troycarpenter4355]

Great Video. I think there are not enough Bitwig sound design videos for the Bitwig Stock instruments & effects. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.

[@AlexReidStudios]

You're welcome :). I'm glad this video is useful and I'm preparing more!

[@Orangebritches]

Unlimited potential is correct… bitwig feels like a tool that will happily go as far as your creativity can take it

[@AlexReidStudios]

Oh yeah, I love the workflow of it and how well third party plugins adatp to it

[@soundfx68]

I'm glad you chose Minor in the Key Filter, so much more appealing... and that was a really minor comment.

[@AlexReidStudios]

Minor sounds darker haha. A minor response :)

[@magicseadog8674]

Becoming one of my fav channels. Love the Bitwig content great to get quick ideas.

[@AlexReidStudios]

Yoo thank you so much :)

[@raffaelesantabarbara1449]

Very useful info about stock plugins. Let’s kick it up a notch with the “mega” synths now 😬

[@Digitt6]

I saw you post this vid on a fb group the other day and went to look for it on KZbin now specifically. I really am considering using this type of thinking. Currently I'm finding the grid to be way too cpu intensive. The minute I add a second oscillator, it eats up so much cpu. I want to be able to have 3-4 oscillators each with a diff filter. Many 3rd party synths don't do that, and so I could just use serum and then group it and do multiple instances in parallel. But I keep feeling I'm not utilising bitwigs modulation power. It's such a shame the grid is a cpu hog. But another thing, personally I don't like using the built in fx in synths like serum, not that they're bad it's just a personal preference, I like using my own 3rd party reverbs etc. Even eq is such a big factor in sound design and I wanna carve my sound using Pro q3 rather than a little eq module inside serum or vital or sylenth. So I've decided to try experiment with the approach you have in this video. Unfortunately polymer also hogs cpu when I run it in parallel, but I forgot about polysynth which might be fine for my needs. I love the idea of building a device chain that is my synth, with the freedom of using any 3rd party fx and even synths (jp6k or dune or viper have such great sounding warmth but their interfaces feel limited to me), and just having bitwigs modulators to be creative and make lots of little quick articulations to breathe life into my sound. Its still a shame cos I love the grids interface. But the cpu is the issue. But thinking in the way you are, it made me realize how it's even more freedom to use the building block approach with devices because I get to use any 3rd party plugins anywhere. BTW I highly recommend a plugin by zeek called stfu. Its free and it is kinda like cable guys midishaper in that you can use it as an mseg for bitwig. You just assign it to an audio rate modulator in bitwig and then you have an mseg that can modulate anything! Bitwig needs it's own mseg modulator though. But until then this is great!

[@AlexReidStudios]

Thanks for commenting! I totally get you, and I think that was one of the reason I made this video, to show how the modular, building block approach is not Grid exclusive. I love how easy is to build synths here and polysynth is my favorite lol. Gonna try that plugin! thanks

[@GillamtheGreatest]

Its always interesting to see how different DAWs tackle similar processes. I think if i was being forced to switch from FL i would do bitwig or reaper.

[@AlexReidStudios]

On FL you got the patcher, another amazing environment, and I love the fact you can also build your own UI.

[@GillamtheGreatest]

@@AlexReidStudios yeah. like as prickly as some people can be about DAWs we are pretty well spoiled for choice these days. its wonderful how many options we have and how easy it is to try new things to see what works best for us

[@soundfx68]

I work in game audio (28 years so far) and do really specific audio only editing, using regions, region rendering with the name from the region, multichannel grouping and audio slipping, scripts for naming regions, spacing and arranging assets by size etc. It's invaluable for a certain work, workflow... but as for making music, being creative, that's all Bitwig, I love it.

[@AlexReidStudios]

@@soundfx68 great to see someone with a lot of experience just enjoying this newish DAW :)

[@joeyxl3456]

Great video!!!.

[@AlexReidStudios]

Thank you :)

[@renkaizaki4764]

You should complete that song

[@AlexReidStudios]

Hey thanks! I forgot I made that haha, definetly has potential

[@brianbergmusic5288]

Cinematic retro-wave vibes!

[@behranghakami2781]

Great video man but yeah we need more content regarding how to make mega synths in Bitwig!

[@AlexReidStudios]

I'm preparing more Bitwig videos :)

[@williamshaneblyth]

I'm in can you give us a link to the advanced video if yourve done it by now would help alot to find it cheers Alex your awesome incredibly useful

[@bleighhh]

Loving your drums. I am missing good aocustic drums. I have ez drummer but am on linux. Didnt make it work still

[@AlexReidStudios]

Thank you! Honestly I don't know which drums can work with Linux, sorry about that

[@philfazer]

Merci 👍

[@AlexReidStudios]

You're welcome :)

[@josipkokot8227]

Thank you I like 😊

[@AlexReidStudios]

Thanks for watching :)

[@nieuweabnormaal5869]

I have Bitwig, but it is so big in opportunities, do not know where to start.

[@AlexReidStudios]

Start simple! Using polysynth with a delay and a reverb to make simple sounds and then start adding other effects and modulations

[@terraminator4379]

i always start with a grand piano and baseline for chords, then add a drum sett. After that u can start replacing them with better sounds, and adding more stuff

[@DJSampha]

How I can Load Videos In Bitwig for Scoring ?

[@AlexReidStudios]

@@DJSampha I think you can't

[@DJSampha]

@@AlexReidStudios can I get refund form bitwig I just purchased bitwig yesterday ?

[@Nyhde]

Your narration sounds otherwise good, and I find your accent sympathetic, but there are a lot of mouth clicks in there and they're very distracting. Could be worth it getting rid of them in future videos

[@AlexReidStudios]

Hey thanks a lot for the advice, gonna process the vocal better :)

[@Beatsbasteln]

@@AlexReidStudios try pro-mb in expander mode with lookahead and izotope declick for that, if you don't wanna do it manually

[@vroteg]

Bitwig mod system is comprehensive but it also screams for long overdue workflow improvement. What buggers the most is inability to adjust actual parameter while mod assign arrow enabled. To fine tune modulation I have to move mouse all the way back to mod assign, click, move mouse back to parameter, adjust, move back to mod assign, click… I can go for days here. I emailed developers and said why not to make this possible via shift for example. Press shift and adjust actual parameter… etc. Unfortunately developers said that user request are not their priority. I don’t even use Bitwig native instruments except sampler just because of this workflow unfriendliness. I can get much further in a synth with less comprehensive bit more user friendly mod system. Audios!

[@AlexReidStudios]

I completely understand, but got used to it. Pigments has a nice way to be able to add modulation and change parameter at the same time. Also I tend to click on an empty part of the screen to stop the mapping, but that doesnt work either. Still, as I said, got used to it