Let’s have a thread dedicated to Bitwig. For me it’s my favorite DAW, because of its modular nature, yet it still retains almost all features I love from Ableton Live, like the clip launcher and easy sample manipulation.
Are you guys hyped for Bitwig 3.0? As if Bitwig 2 wasn’t modular enough already…
I had no idea Bitwig had any type of modular capabilities / interfaces at all. My spidey senses (aka testies) are kind of tingling from that video already. Will the demo of 2 do it any justice for a newb?
I’m hyped! Love BW for the modulators and working MPE integration - BW 2 is already great for that! Gonna renew my update plan for sure at some point when BW 3 is out.
@xNOiSEx: BW 2 demo is fully functional but without export/save afaik - the modular aspects in BW 2 are still mostly restricted to using modulators and the instrument and effect chains so far, somewhat similar to Live with M4L imho, but much better integrated.
I’ve never really dabbled with modular… would this be a good place to start and aid in learning how it all functions? I have a pretty good knowledge of how synths work fundamentally, just not how to plug a bazillion cables in a patch form to create what I want other than random experimental noise.
I think so, imho the Live+M4L/Bitwig workflow is pretty simple compared to full modular, the difference mostly being that you can use whatever synth you already know well and build on top of that, for instance adding another synth with a partly different effect chain to the first synth in an instrument rack, then adding LFO, sequencer, envelope followers or - in the case of BW! - expressive MPE modules as additional sources for modulaiton of parameters in the synths and your effect chainds. Of course, you can go crazy with parallel effect chains, modulating the crossfading between different effect chains or the crossover point of a frequency splitter separating between different effect chains with the timbre input of a seaboard/linnstrument, for instance. It’s great, simple, flexible and works without learning everything about how to connect basic modules to make a simple subtractive synth as a source for further mangling in the effect chains… but of course it’s not as flexible as a full modular environment.
I’m still on 2.3 I think at the moment, but I’m definitely going to restart my plan when 3 comes out.
Really wish there were some cheaper option. Not that it is an unfair price in general but it just isn’t something I would use frequently. Do most on my Ableton esque composing on iPad.
Same here. Bitwig 2.5 didn’t bring anything revolutionary to the table, but 3.0 looks like it’s gonna be a game changer.
I’d also love to have the advanced Elastique stretch algorithms in the sampler, like in Ableton, but I’m not sure if they will ever add that.