Timeline: 0:00 Introduction 0:13 Navigation 0:40 Using a table with Bitwig - Wacom Intous Pro 1:24 Keyboard Shortcuts 3:40 Mapping Controllers to different interface parameters (like device mute) of Bitwig Studio 4:35 Organization 4:42 Smart Collections 6:22 Favourites - Samples 7:05 Piano Roll - Quantization. The two separate (and different) quantize settings panels? 8:26 Note Expression graphs - Random chaos to your velocity. Great for hihats! 8:44 Ending
I know it’s been awhile since you posted this, however, GREAT FANTASTIC TUTE!! Ive watched them all, and now am sold on Bitwig! SUB’D, LIKED, and thanks!!!
Bitwig Workflow & Best Practise, Hot Tips - Bitwig Basics E10 - Best DAW 2019. In this video I walk you through my some tips and tricks to speed up your workflow in Bitwig Studio. These are best practise methods to really get you up to speed with Bitwig. Shortcuts, or short key commands to walk through the different views and panels are very important to understand. Key commands ensure a good flow and speed in any application. We also talk briefly about the piano roll and how the Quantize function actually works. It's not that obvious to a new user, but fear not! Please let me know what you think about these tips and if they helped you with your Bitwig experience. Thanks for watching, and thanks to all the new subscribers! Lova ya all! Cheers, Matt (aka Gelhein) Buy Bitwig Studio (affiliate link): ☀ @t 10% discount with Promo Code: C20F425E74
Aubrey McGee hi, no I am more restrictive on updating mac os after last time where apple decided to reduce support for nvidia gfx cards / cuda driver in Mojave. But I always update a Mac Book Pro 15” laptop. Though I might wait a few weeks. Looking forward ro try the sidecar with the iPad Pro 12”. Its a nice screen. Hope the touch will work nicely with Bitwig. Did you try it yet?
Hi Mattias, I using bitwig over my iPad. It works fine for one hour . Right now I got a big issue I can't control knobs and fader anymore. I can't drag and change the values of the fader and knobs .. everything else works good .. but this is a big issue .. do you know if this is a bug or did I something deactivated. I use astropad for iPad. In Ableton I have full control and no issues.
Great. All those ways to navigate with less popular input devices but the scroll bar and timeline are twitchy and the keyboard shortcuts don’t work consistently. You can tab into text fields, but not out. Nice professional video though.
Thanks, you are welcome! Glad u like the video production. Bitwig still need some work in these areas, like piano roll. But still, it’s very intuitive once you learn the shortcuts and navigating the areas.
Bitwig is really great, but a lot of little stuff about the browser bugs me. It feels like something they designed very early on before they really had their UI philosophy down.
I am using a yamaha mixer for my guitar and mic, but I am not able to make the guitar track an instrument track like midi and I am struggling to convert my laptop mic to a recording mic. Can anyone help me out or recommend any specific video(s)?
Hi Sohum. Audio Recording (guitar, mic etc.) that go via audio inputs should be set as audio tracks in Bitwig Studio. If on PC check the regular controls and see that you get audio input from the laptop mic. Be sure to set Bitwig settings to use the internal laptop audio interface for input ad Output.
Hi Yombol, good to hear your appreciation. Yeah I try to add subtitles to all shorter videos. If they are over 10-15 minutes (like live streams) I don't. But for the Bitwig Basics I think it's crucial. =) Glad you like it! Thanks, see you in the next live stream!
Hello Mattias. THanks for the vid. Iwanted to say that you explained how to use Collections , NOT Smart Collections. The Difference is simple. A Collection is like a folder full of references/pointers to other things/devices which you can manually add and remove. Its content only changes when you manally add/ remove stuff from it. Adding and removing can easily happen by rightclicking your collection and seting it as target, then whenever you click a start or unclick it ( next to a device in the browser) it will add/remove it from the current target collection. You can also of course drag and drop it like you do in your video. The Smartcollection is a list of everything that you have + a filter-rule that you define. That rule will be applied to the list of "everything" resulting in a smaller list which contains only elements that fit in the rule you defined. e.g a rule might be "tag=bass or tag="synth". Whenever you create a new alement and tag it bass or synth it would be "added" to the list automatically, becuase it is simply a filtered list.
I came here going to say, "hey, mention the middle mouse for navigation".... boom! ;) For me, it's a killer feature and one of the reasons I left Live with the scroll boxes. Navigating in Bitwig is FAST.
Yes it sure is fast to work and navigate in. That's what I wanted to present in this video. Though I still think the two separate quantise settings is weird and I guess many people will scratch their heads when they setup the grid view and when pressing Q, quantise is totally wacky. You need to press Alt-Q to setup the key command quantise setting. It doesn't make sense to me. They should both be set to the same grid setting so we don't have to set it up twice every time we want to have different grid settings. Thanks for writing!
no offense, great vid but you made the smart collection seem tedious,,,,i mean 4-5 clicks for a single fave reverb? there are far quicker ways , at least until those individual smart folders have multiple selections added to them ahem
YES, in the Bitwig browser you can right-click and select "remember selected filter sections when inserting". So you only do your setup once. Set and forget. Be happy! Thanks! 🎁👑😉
Hi Lena Play, I use a Canon Eos750D. You can see most of my gear at www.kit.com/gelhein I will do a video on my video setup soon to show the lighting, cameras etc. For B shots I use a Sony A58 or the iPhone 7 Pro which works well. Then I sync it all up with OBS and do cutting / editing in Final Cut Pro X / Blender3D / Apple Motion. Thanks for writing Lena, wish you a wonderful day!
Great video. I was looking for this. Mattias, quick question. Building new PC for music only. I like to run Bitwig and browser at the same time to watch tutorials. Do you think 16MB RAM would be enough to comfortably run both programs or should I get 32MB? I have 8 now and it's always full. (I do not use instrumentals in Bitwig, just mostly stock stuff).
Hi always go for as much RAM as possible. 16GB is fine if you don't add million of sample libs as the same time, but I would go 32GB.. Or go 16 you can always add more later. For stock 16GB is fine.
@@MattiasHolmgren Thanks. That helps a lot. Last question. 4 core cpu 4 threads or 4 core 8 threads? How Bitwig uses threads? 4 is OK or it's better to get 8 threads. (Ryzen 3200G or 3400G).
You only need to worry about the cores. The more the merrier. Threads refers to the virtual component which manages tasks. My experience is that Bitwig spreads nicely on cores. Multithreading is handled nicely. For third party plugins it depends on how the developer program and utilized to spread tasks on threads. I've coded multi thread tasks (AI) when I coded the iOS game Luminati. Without threading the fps would disrupt/freeze when AI was calculating. So it depends on the tasks if a developer choose to open a separate thread to a demanding task. Hope the info helps.
As a laptop user with no mouse I find the following useful: + - for zooming Cursor left and right for moving notes and clips in the edit pane, but not the arrangement view ( why Bitwig why?) Shift + Left / Right cursor keys for off grid nudges Alt + Left / Right keys for changing clip / note lengths
You can change contrast and such but the color scheme is pre-defined to work and look nicely as a whole. I don't mind because it looks gorgeous compared to ie Live. What would you like to change?
@@MattiasHolmgren I do like the orange, but the dirty brown colour I'm not a fan of. Hopefully in the future they give us the option of another theme of the option to change it. And also the option to give the clip the different colors in the arranger track instead of the whole track. This way it's easy on the eyes at night. Looking to switch from cakewalk to a more modern looking and stable DAW.
Any chance you can do a series on a single song? From setting up the template to composing, recording, mixing, and mastering beginning to end? Sometimes its hard to piece it all together in bits where one video may be logically after another, but its a different project and often theme.
Hi, yeah that would be quite the project and I’ve been thinking about it. The Bitwig Basics series is more of a ”getting to know the DAW functionalities” and I create suitable musical material for each event / occasion. I have a few composing videos but not a whole set of videos where I work on the same track in multiple episodes from start to finish (pre-production to final mastering and sending to streaming platform). I will sketch on such a series. Thanks for the suggestion.
Yeah there are always several roads to Rome. ;) Thanks for mentioning that. But I always just setup (create the folders I need) and drag / drop in one go to the different Smart Collections. General favourites you can just star mark without thinking of in what folder you currently are in. Whatever gets us there! ;) Happy to hear you enjoy these small Bitwig Studio tips. Hope to see you in the next stream Carl! Cheers, Matt
What's the purpose of having two separate grid settings? I feel like there should just be one. Extra menus and clicking seems unnecessary? Thanks for the tutorials btw! Really clearly explained.
Hi Delusi, yeah there's not that big a difference from the two Poly Grid and FX Grid. It seems it's all about the basic default layout. In the FX Grid you have audio input and output pre-setup. While in the Poly Grid you have a triangle osc and envelope pre-setup. But you can add audio-input in any Grid. ;) So it's just about the pre-defined setup. But of course it makes sense to boot up the Poly Grid if you are designing an instrument patch. And load up the FX Grid if you want to design audio processing unit. That said the Poly Grid also sports a NoteFX insert chain-slot, while the FX Grid have a pre-FX chain-slot. So that's the main difference between the two "Grids" which aside from this is basically the same. I'm not bothered by having them both, it's easy to just load up the Grid plugin you need for either creating an instrument or an FX device. Happy to hear you enjoy my videos. ;D
@@MattiasHolmgren Oh sorry I mean the midi note grid :) Unless I am misunderstanding you! I don't understand why you have to go into another grid menu to change quantise settings. Thanks!
@@DelusiUK Yes, to me it's silly too that's why I explain it in the video. Apparently they don't lock to the same setting. YOu have the quantize menu (Q) which can be different from the visual quantize. Which is just a sick miss...in my eyes.
It's easier to see what you refer to if you include a time-code like 08:11 in your questions. Tip of the day! ;D Thanks again for asking, and sorry for misunderstanding what you were talking about my friend!
I need 2 more shorcuts to be happy bitwig camper - for toggling VST synth window (current shortcut is laughable, we need solid one like in S1 or Cubase) and note merging (ctrl + j for some crazy reason only works on whole midi clips...should work on notes as well like in other daws). Btw. middle mouse navigating is a huge one...once you get used to it, there's no going back :)
Yeah I agree on the toggle, it should be improved for snappier workflow. But its just a tiny detail in all these other powerful workflow increments that helps us work fast in Bitwig Studio compared to the competition. ;) Thanks for writing Lukas!
Thanks for another portion of quick tips, Mattias! As I said for the previous episodes, even with most popular functions it's not unusual to miss something and know something new from tutorials :) My today additions are different tabs in the right side of the main window - used only Browser page from there, while Project and Plugin pages are also quite handy, and things related quantization. I use quantization quite often, also with modified parameters, but never noticed, there're two types of them. Side note to that I wanted to mention is that I actually don't like things related to grid in editor. For example, the most confusing thing for me is, how it's called officially, white selection area, which appears as you select notes. It's so often, that I try to resize a note and in fact resize this area. Or I want to resize one note, but it resizes a group of notes, just as this white area somehow survived my click on the blank area. And several other corner cases I can't now remember, but which try to spoil my joy using Bitwig :) I agree, it's apparently things to get used to and learn, I also agree, that the selection box is important for some of use cases, but, well, when the behaviour is conter-intuitive it's usually treated like usability flaw, rather than the user's flaw. Surely, DAW isn't type of programs, which one can do particularly easy and intuitive to use, but still… So yes, thanks again for revisiting all these little things, and all the power for the just started week to you!
Thanks Alexey! Yeah that ”white selection area” functionality takes some time to get used to. Its all about learning to select from the top of a track or at the bottom of the track. LOGIC also included a similar solution and the reason is to save us from using too many key commands just for editing. So it’s for a good reason but demands more from the user since you have to be sure to press the mouse in the correct area of the track. Thanks again for nice constructive feedback. Have a splendid start of your week Alexey. Here was had quite the storm today with thunder, lightning and crushing rain but it only lasted for a bit. Aside from that it was pool weather so I took the kids for a swim. Cheers, Matt
@@MattiasHolmgren Oh yes, indeed, with great power (and functionality) comes great responsibility (and complexity :)). Practice will win it all! Well, I hope) Oh, there's even nature special effects in your place! Sometimes I like to look at the thunderstorm from some safe place, it's so powerful! But yes, some storms now getting dangerous, whether it global warming or whatever. So it's nice, that it passed you so quickly) Weather for a swim is cool - we have a summer camp for kids based in the school next to my house, they apparently go to swimming pool every day, so pure luck for them! Very glad for you and kids enjoying your summer! So nice!
@@MattiasHolmgren Natürlich werde ich mir anschauen! Habe erst alles von 5 Jahren zum Nachholen. Übrigens schade, dass es nicht auf Deutsch ist. Als Pole kann ich nicht ganz nachvollziehen, warum ist die deutsche Sprache von Künstlern und Kulturschaffenden so unbeliebt. Gruß aus Gleiwitz! TITANARBEIT!
@@kasimasi6747 sagt du mir nicht du wuurst ge essen hast? My German is very fun and bad. haha. Sint daine staine noch blau? You can always activate translation on the videos. English is "unfortunately" the universal language.
Verstehe alles! Sind nicht mehr blau und die Wurst war lecker! Fine! I really thought you were German :) Pomyliłem się... przepraszam! :D Mit SAUERKRAUT!
That would definitely be a "defaults to - Any Device Type" for me too. ;) It's always a headache when you don't see plugins you are looking for. I hope they include such a "flag" and parameter so we can set this up as we want it to work. Thanks for the comment and excellent suggestion Ty!
big browser needs a slicker smaller UI in general...id actually be happy with just a single lil search box in the upper right corner of the default GUI heh...at least when I just wanna keep focus on my tracks n clips and not have an imposing square taking up 75% of the screen..how bout some transparency options at least?
Hi, you like the song? It's a song I composed called; Town of Newman, you can view that project and listen to the complete song in this video - th-cam.com/video/fs7qohRlJak/w-d-xo.html It's also available on my bandcamp - mattiasholmgren.bandcamp.com/track/town-of-newman and on my Spotify channel - Mattias Holmgren.
Awesome, it's a very fun song. With a few nods at Thomas Newman. ;) Glad you enjoy it. I have a few similar songs like; Icarienna, Beyond The Bright, Medvind, Fender Dreams.
@@happyduck1424 thanks, happy to hear you like Icarienna. Funny, it's about a year ago I wrote it 2019-06-07. Maybe time to do a walkthrough on the track. I do remember it was a Bitwig project.
Can you please make a video for different modulators of bitwig studio.
I did a video on modulation, but yes there's probably room for a video presenting and talking about each of the modulators. Thanks for the tip Rebaz!
@@_o_ that one was for you Cerebus! Never forget to WIGGLE THAT KNOB when you mix. ;)
Timeline:
0:00 Introduction
0:13 Navigation
0:40 Using a table with Bitwig - Wacom Intous Pro
1:24 Keyboard Shortcuts
3:40 Mapping Controllers to different interface parameters (like device mute) of Bitwig Studio
4:35 Organization
4:42 Smart Collections
6:22 Favourites - Samples
7:05 Piano Roll - Quantization. The two separate (and different) quantize settings panels?
8:26 Note Expression graphs - Random chaos to your velocity. Great for hihats!
8:44 Ending
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I know it’s been awhile since you posted this, however, GREAT FANTASTIC TUTE!! Ive watched them all, and now am sold on Bitwig! SUB’D, LIKED, and thanks!!!
Hey, that’s wonderful 🥳🥁👌 thanks, keep crushing
Bitwig Workflow & Best Practise, Hot Tips - Bitwig Basics E10 - Best DAW 2019. In this video I walk you through my some tips and tricks to speed up your workflow in Bitwig Studio. These are best practise methods to really get you up to speed with Bitwig.
Shortcuts, or short key commands to walk through the different views and panels are very important to understand. Key commands ensure a good flow and speed in any application.
We also talk briefly about the piano roll and how the Quantize function actually works. It's not that obvious to a new user, but fear not!
Please let me know what you think about these tips and if they helped you with your Bitwig experience.
Thanks for watching, and thanks to all the new subscribers!
Lova ya all!
Cheers,
Matt (aka Gelhein)
Buy Bitwig Studio (affiliate link):
☀ @t
10% discount with Promo Code: C20F425E74
Have you tried MacOS Catalina with an iPad and sidecar with Bitwig 3?
Aubrey McGee hi, no I am more restrictive on updating mac os after last time where apple decided to reduce support for nvidia gfx cards / cuda driver in Mojave. But I always update a Mac Book Pro 15” laptop. Though I might wait a few weeks. Looking forward ro try the sidecar with the iPad Pro 12”. Its a nice screen. Hope the touch will work nicely with Bitwig. Did you try it yet?
My personal MacBook Air is capped at High Sierra.
Hi Mattias, I using bitwig over my iPad. It works fine for one hour . Right now I got a big issue I can't control knobs and fader anymore. I can't drag and change the values of the fader and knobs .. everything else works good .. but this is a big issue .. do you know if this is a bug or did I something deactivated. I use astropad for iPad. In Ableton I have full control and no issues.
Hi Heinrich. Sorry, I have no clue to this issue regarding touch and Bitwig. Please email the support regarding your issues.
Great. All those ways to navigate with less popular input devices but the scroll bar and timeline are twitchy and the keyboard shortcuts don’t work consistently. You can tab into text fields, but not out. Nice professional video though.
Thanks, you are welcome! Glad u like the video production. Bitwig still need some work in these areas, like piano roll. But still, it’s very intuitive once you learn the shortcuts and navigating the areas.
There is a favourite tab in the side browser, you can toggle on the "collection" tab to make it visible.
Cool will check later today. Cheers Isra-el.
Bitwig is really great, but a lot of little stuff about the browser bugs me. It feels like something they designed very early on before they really had their UI philosophy down.
Send the Bitwig dev team a PM about any browser UI-suggestions. ; )
I am using a yamaha mixer for my guitar and mic, but I am not able to make the guitar track an instrument track like midi and I am struggling to convert my laptop mic to a recording mic. Can anyone help me out or recommend any specific video(s)?
Hi Sohum. Audio Recording (guitar, mic etc.) that go via audio inputs should be set as audio tracks in Bitwig Studio. If on PC check the regular controls and see that you get audio input from the laptop mic. Be sure to set Bitwig settings to use the internal laptop audio interface for input ad Output.
Thanks for subtitles... !! great video... Thank so much!!
Hi Yombol, good to hear your appreciation. Yeah I try to add subtitles to all shorter videos. If they are over 10-15 minutes (like live streams) I don't. But for the Bitwig Basics I think it's crucial. =) Glad you like it! Thanks, see you in the next live stream!
Background music in this video:
1. 0:00 - 0:15 Backlight
2. 0:17 - 5:00 Halftime Dojo
3. 5:00 - 8:42 Town of Newman
4. 8:42 - 9:11 Rytmica Demo
All music composed © copyright - Mattias Holmgren 2019.
Hello Mattias. THanks for the vid. Iwanted to say that you explained how to use Collections , NOT Smart Collections. The Difference is simple.
A Collection is like a folder full of references/pointers to other things/devices which you can manually add and remove. Its content only changes when you manally add/ remove stuff from it. Adding and removing can easily happen by rightclicking your collection and seting it as target, then whenever you click a start or unclick it ( next to a device in the browser) it will add/remove it from the current target collection. You can also of course drag and drop it like you do in your video.
The Smartcollection is a list of everything that you have + a filter-rule that you define. That rule will be applied to the list of "everything" resulting in a smaller list which contains only elements that fit in the rule you defined. e.g a rule might be "tag=bass or tag="synth". Whenever you create a new alement and tag it bass or synth it would be "added" to the list automatically, becuase it is simply a filtered list.
I came here going to say, "hey, mention the middle mouse for navigation".... boom! ;) For me, it's a killer feature and one of the reasons I left Live with the scroll boxes. Navigating in Bitwig is FAST.
Yes it sure is fast to work and navigate in. That's what I wanted to present in this video. Though I still think the two separate quantise settings is weird and I guess many people will scratch their heads when they setup the grid view and when pressing Q, quantise is totally wacky. You need to press Alt-Q to setup the key command quantise setting. It doesn't make sense to me. They should both be set to the same grid setting so we don't have to set it up twice every time we want to have different grid settings. Thanks for writing!
no offense, great vid but you made the smart collection seem tedious,,,,i mean 4-5 clicks for a single fave reverb? there are far quicker ways , at least until those individual smart folders have multiple selections added to them ahem
Can you set Any device type to be on permanently because those extra steps seem like a nusiance
YES, in the Bitwig browser you can right-click and select "remember selected filter sections when inserting". So you only do your setup once. Set and forget. Be happy! Thanks! 🎁👑😉
@@MattiasHolmgren cheers! Thanks for the tutorials!
Hello, can I ask the quiestion to you? What the camera do you use?
Hi Lena Play, I use a Canon Eos750D. You can see most of my gear at www.kit.com/gelhein I will do a video on my video setup soon to show the lighting, cameras etc. For B shots I use a Sony A58 or the iPhone 7 Pro which works well. Then I sync it all up with OBS and do cutting / editing in Final Cut Pro X / Blender3D / Apple Motion. Thanks for writing Lena, wish you a wonderful day!
@@MattiasHolmgren Thank you for answer! I like your videos and channel! Keep it up!
Thanks Lena, I appreciate the kind feedback! You can always join in on my Discord channel, discordapp.com/invite/fkDw4uu See ya!
Great video. I was looking for this. Mattias, quick question. Building new PC for music only. I like to run Bitwig and browser at the same time to watch tutorials. Do you think 16MB RAM would be enough to comfortably run both programs or should I get 32MB? I have 8 now and it's always full. (I do not use instrumentals in Bitwig, just mostly stock stuff).
Hi always go for as much RAM as possible. 16GB is fine if you don't add million of sample libs as the same time, but I would go 32GB.. Or go 16 you can always add more later.
For stock 16GB is fine.
@@MattiasHolmgren Thanks. That helps a lot. Last question. 4 core cpu 4 threads or 4 core 8 threads? How Bitwig uses threads? 4 is OK or it's better to get 8 threads. (Ryzen 3200G or 3400G).
You only need to worry about the cores. The more the merrier. Threads refers to the virtual component which manages tasks.
My experience is that Bitwig spreads nicely on cores. Multithreading is handled nicely. For third party plugins it depends on how the developer program and utilized to spread tasks on threads. I've coded multi thread tasks (AI) when I coded the iOS game Luminati. Without threading the fps would disrupt/freeze when AI was calculating. So it depends on the tasks if a developer choose to open a separate thread to a demanding task.
Hope the info helps.
@@MattiasHolmgren Thank you for answers. That helps a lot! :)
As a laptop user with no mouse I find the following useful:
+ - for zooming
Cursor left and right for moving notes and clips in the edit pane, but not the arrangement view ( why Bitwig why?)
Shift + Left / Right cursor keys for off grid nudges
Alt + Left / Right keys for changing clip / note lengths
Yeah, useful tips for people working without mouse or tablet. =)
Can we change any of the color themes in bitwig.
You can change contrast and such but the color scheme is pre-defined to work and look nicely as a whole. I don't mind because it looks gorgeous compared to ie Live. What would you like to change?
@@MattiasHolmgren I do like the orange, but the dirty brown colour I'm not a fan of. Hopefully in the future they give us the option of another theme of the option to change it.
And also the option to give the clip the different colors in the arranger track instead of the whole track. This way it's easy on the eyes at night.
Looking to switch from cakewalk to a more modern looking and stable DAW.
Any chance you can do a series on a single song? From setting up the template to composing, recording, mixing, and mastering beginning to end? Sometimes its hard to piece it all together in bits where one video may be logically after another, but its a different project and often theme.
Hi, yeah that would be quite the project and I’ve been thinking about it. The Bitwig Basics series is more of a ”getting to know the DAW functionalities” and I create suitable musical material for each event / occasion. I have a few composing videos but not a whole set of videos where I work on the same track in multiple episodes from start to finish (pre-production to final mastering and sending to streaming platform). I will sketch on such a series. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hi Matt, you don't need drag and drop your fav´s, just "star" it, when the Folder is active.
Cheers, and thank you for that overview. ;)
Yeah there are always several roads to Rome. ;) Thanks for mentioning that. But I always just setup (create the folders I need) and drag / drop in one go to the different Smart Collections. General favourites you can just star mark without thinking of in what folder you currently are in. Whatever gets us there! ;) Happy to hear you enjoy these small Bitwig Studio tips. Hope to see you in the next stream Carl! Cheers, Matt
What's the purpose of having two separate grid settings? I feel like there should just be one. Extra menus and clicking seems unnecessary?
Thanks for the tutorials btw! Really clearly explained.
Hi Delusi, yeah there's not that big a difference from the two Poly Grid and FX Grid. It seems it's all about the basic default layout. In the FX Grid you have audio input and output pre-setup. While in the Poly Grid you have a triangle osc and envelope pre-setup. But you can add audio-input in any Grid. ;) So it's just about the pre-defined setup. But of course it makes sense to boot up the Poly Grid if you are designing an instrument patch. And load up the FX Grid if you want to design audio processing unit.
That said the Poly Grid also sports a NoteFX insert chain-slot, while the FX Grid have a pre-FX chain-slot.
So that's the main difference between the two "Grids" which aside from this is basically the same.
I'm not bothered by having them both, it's easy to just load up the Grid plugin you need for either creating an instrument or an FX device.
Happy to hear you enjoy my videos. ;D
@@MattiasHolmgren Oh sorry I mean the midi note grid :) Unless I am misunderstanding you! I don't understand why you have to go into another grid menu to change quantise settings.
Thanks!
@@DelusiUK Yes, to me it's silly too that's why I explain it in the video. Apparently they don't lock to the same setting. YOu have the quantize menu (Q) which can be different from the visual quantize. Which is just a sick miss...in my eyes.
It's easier to see what you refer to if you include a time-code like 08:11 in your questions. Tip of the day! ;D Thanks again for asking, and sorry for misunderstanding what you were talking about my friend!
@@MattiasHolmgren wow, I think Delusi meant the "Grid" for arranging notes and clips, not "the grid". made me laugh. you both are right imho :D
I need 2 more shorcuts to be happy bitwig camper - for toggling VST synth window (current shortcut is laughable, we need solid one like in S1 or Cubase) and note merging (ctrl + j for some crazy reason only works on whole midi clips...should work on notes as well like in other daws). Btw. middle mouse navigating is a huge one...once you get used to it, there's no going back :)
Yeah I agree on the toggle, it should be improved for snappier workflow. But its just a tiny detail in all these other powerful workflow increments that helps us work fast in Bitwig Studio compared to the competition. ;) Thanks for writing Lukas!
I also wish that control+J could be used to merge clips in the launcher window too
Awesome video as usual. Very helpful., and thank you!
Hey Sean, thanks for checking in on this Bitwig Studio Basics Episode 10. How was your weekend? Any music making or just chillin?
Thanks for another portion of quick tips, Mattias! As I said for the previous episodes, even with most popular functions it's not unusual to miss something and know something new from tutorials :) My today additions are different tabs in the right side of the main window - used only Browser page from there, while Project and Plugin pages are also quite handy, and things related quantization. I use quantization quite often, also with modified parameters, but never noticed, there're two types of them.
Side note to that I wanted to mention is that I actually don't like things related to grid in editor. For example, the most confusing thing for me is, how it's called officially, white selection area, which appears as you select notes. It's so often, that I try to resize a note and in fact resize this area. Or I want to resize one note, but it resizes a group of notes, just as this white area somehow survived my click on the blank area. And several other corner cases I can't now remember, but which try to spoil my joy using Bitwig :) I agree, it's apparently things to get used to and learn, I also agree, that the selection box is important for some of use cases, but, well, when the behaviour is conter-intuitive it's usually treated like usability flaw, rather than the user's flaw. Surely, DAW isn't type of programs, which one can do particularly easy and intuitive to use, but still…
So yes, thanks again for revisiting all these little things, and all the power for the just started week to you!
Thanks Alexey! Yeah that ”white selection area” functionality takes some time to get used to. Its all about learning to select from the top of a track or at the bottom of the track. LOGIC also included a similar solution and the reason is to save us from using too many key commands just for editing. So it’s for a good reason but demands more from the user since you have to be sure to press the mouse in the correct area of the track.
Thanks again for nice constructive feedback. Have a splendid start of your week Alexey. Here was had quite the storm today with thunder, lightning and crushing rain but it only lasted for a bit. Aside from that it was pool weather so I took the kids for a swim. Cheers, Matt
@@MattiasHolmgren Oh yes, indeed, with great power (and functionality) comes great responsibility (and complexity :)). Practice will win it all! Well, I hope)
Oh, there's even nature special effects in your place! Sometimes I like to look at the thunderstorm from some safe place, it's so powerful! But yes, some storms now getting dangerous, whether it global warming or whatever. So it's nice, that it passed you so quickly) Weather for a swim is cool - we have a summer camp for kids based in the school next to my house, they apparently go to swimming pool every day, so pure luck for them! Very glad for you and kids enjoying your summer! So nice!
Waiting for sidecar compatibility on Catalina
Ahh ok cool.
Das mit Abstand BESTES Lernvideo über BITWIG ever kurwa mać! THANK YOU!
Oh then you got to watch this one: th-cam.com/video/TVp6eu_5LlQ/w-d-xo.html AND th-cam.com/video/n-HF_-eX4kQ/w-d-xo.html
@@MattiasHolmgren Natürlich werde ich mir anschauen! Habe erst alles von 5 Jahren zum Nachholen. Übrigens schade, dass es nicht auf Deutsch ist. Als Pole kann ich nicht ganz nachvollziehen, warum ist die deutsche Sprache von Künstlern und Kulturschaffenden so unbeliebt. Gruß aus Gleiwitz! TITANARBEIT!
@@kasimasi6747 sagt du mir nicht du wuurst ge essen hast? My German is very fun and bad. haha. Sint daine staine noch blau? You can always activate translation on the videos. English is "unfortunately" the universal language.
Verstehe alles! Sind nicht mehr blau und die Wurst war lecker! Fine! I really thought you were German :) Pomyliłem się... przepraszam! :D Mit SAUERKRAUT!
@kasimasi6747 swedish 😂🥁💪🤷♂️🥁💎
Does anyone know if there is a setting to force the browser to open on "any device type" by default? More than half the time the preselection is wrong
That would definitely be a "defaults to - Any Device Type" for me too. ;) It's always a headache when you don't see plugins you are looking for. I hope they include such a "flag" and parameter so we can set this up as we want it to work. Thanks for the comment and excellent suggestion Ty!
big browser needs a slicker smaller UI in general...id actually be happy with just a single lil search box in the upper right corner of the default GUI heh...at least when I just wanna keep focus on my tracks n clips and not have an imposing square taking up 75% of the screen..how bout some transparency options at least?
6:49 song?
Hi, you like the song? It's a song I composed called; Town of Newman, you can view that project and listen to the complete song in this video - th-cam.com/video/fs7qohRlJak/w-d-xo.html
It's also available on my bandcamp - mattiasholmgren.bandcamp.com/track/town-of-newman
and on my Spotify channel - Mattias Holmgren.
@@MattiasHolmgren yes, especially the drop is crazy good!
Awesome, it's a very fun song. With a few nods at Thomas Newman. ;) Glad you enjoy it. I have a few similar songs like; Icarienna, Beyond The Bright, Medvind, Fender Dreams.
@@MattiasHolmgren icarienna is amazing I wish it was easier to find though
@@happyduck1424 thanks, happy to hear you like Icarienna. Funny, it's about a year ago I wrote it 2019-06-07. Maybe time to do a walkthrough on the track. I do remember it was a Bitwig project.