Nice to see you on Bitwig's channel. I have the same feeling about Bitwig. It doesn't get in my way. It's easy, powerful and versitile. Thanks for a good vid.
Can you just praise Bitwig without putting other DAW(s) down? In several ways what you've said is not 100% true and Live has several advantages over Bitwig in other areas, so it's not so black & white.
@@Artek604 yee, I said its better in terms of modulation and technicality. Bitwig has its bugs, the bug which does not allow me to group effect tracks hasnt even been fixed. I cant even export wav files just by dragging a clip into the browser (I dont want to export a bwclip). Does BW have a mid side eq built in? I dont think so. But Ableton has one. Does BW have the amount of resources that Ableton has on YT? I dont think so. And so on. But, when i want to mudulate something, the amount and types of modulation BW gives is better than Ableton for now. You cant change my mind on that. Also the audio stretching modes (way more than what Ableton gives). And so on. You get my point.
Blimey, the mastering section at the end of this video brought sounds out of my old 2012 MacBook Pro's speakers I didn't even think they were capable of reproducing! - Must be some psychoacoustic effect going on.
Glad you enjoyed it! And welcome to the party - I'm just mad I didn't switch sooner haha. Bitwig totally changed my approach to sound design and my writing process.
Got a copy of Bitwig cos I purchased a Nektar keyboard and really really fascinating and fresh DAW. I would be very intrigue to change. BUT, I know it's a stupid thing for probably everyone but I really hate that orange color for volume, samples and buttons all over the interface (fine in the effect chain). Will you ever add the possibility to personalise the GUI like most of softwares out there?! Again, I know it's trivial but if I have to look at an interface all day it needs to look pretty for me
my main DAW is Studio One and my supporting DAWS are Bitwig and Mixbus 32c to cover all types of music. These 3 DAWs are simply phenomenal. i've also tried Live, FL and Cubase .
I'm sorry to have to disagree with the awesome Coffee-Boi here. And i'm sure that i will (obviously) get Bitwig fans angrily disagreeing with me here as well. But i personally find Bitwig to be one of the single most clunky, annoying, unintuitive, and ugly pieces of software that i have used this century. The only reason i renew my license and keep trying to learn it is because it works across all 3 of the main platforms. And i guess at least it's not LMMS.
Really glad you enjoyed it! And I'll note it down, maybe I'll drop it on my website sometime as a free preset/rack thing. I've got a few that might be handy to share!
Thanks for the video. I have a question - can you please tell me where I can see a video tutorial on oscilloscope and Spectral plugins. I would like to understand how to understand what you see on the screen of these plugins.
Bitwig is amazing, so glad I bought it. Though the clips time signature changes need a serious look at. Instead of working similar to automation when you change lots of time signatures it needs to actually change the global time signature so we don't end up with issues with the pre count being wrong sometimes or counting in to play in a different time signature when the scene you are playing is not the main time signature in the transport section. Posted about this on twitter, reddit, the discord and emailed support so hopefully we can get some help with this! Looking forward to the new updates for Bitwig anyway.
Bitwig Time signature thing has always (along with its audio editing system) have been its weak points, at least as long as I've used it (since v2). DAW with the most fluid and easy audio editing capabilities has always to me been Reaper, but also the fact that time signatures can be completely absurd in it are great. I haven't actually tried this in a long time, but Bitwig used to just basically go "no, I can't hear you" if you wanted to put in anything other than 3/4 or 4/4 (or any multiplier of those) as time signatures.
It's not very good even in 3.3.1, especially using the clip scenes, playing the wrong measures, counting wrong if you don't manually change the time signature so it makes it a nightmare to do 5/4 into 7/8 to record. Ableton does this well with their edit launch time signature they need to take a look at that and possibily emulate it, if it actively commits the change and keeps the time signature change the last one played it might solve their issues. I made a post here if you are interested : www.reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/kyu44h/time_signature_issues_bugs/ But if not, hopefully they fix these problems because as you say it is a weak point!
That is an interesting problem. My guess is that creating an automation lane on the master channel in the Arrangement view is the intended solution, but I have no idea how to work around that in the clip launch view
Bitwig is the only new Generation daws for me. Logic acts like a dinosaur in comparison. And all bitwig synths sounds no warm and massive. Not hearing any aliasing in the higher range in the Oszillators. I am ebery day impressed.
Easy to use, but I can only use 2 plug ins (with bitwig 8track) which sucks. Should be able to use as many as I need as long as I don't exceed 8 tracks
Bitwig is great no doubt, but the lack of feature of exporting midi and wav files by just dragging it to the browser needs to be looked into (instead of exporting a clip which is not what we want most of the time. Also grouping of effect send busses cannot be done due to some kind of bug (the feature is available in the menu but does not function as it should, and doesnt create a group).
@@skatechatham still takes a few extra steps, no? It would be more convenient if this feature was added. (Also im managing with your method for now lol)
7:22, 9:03, 12:19 are those clicks normal? Part of the synth? Do they present in final rendering, or in other words is this some preview artefact? ? How do I get rid of them?
It's hard to say exactly where those artifacts are coming from. Possibly related to playing back while simultaneously doing screen capture, or that the audio latency setting is too low. Or maybe the signal is peaking somewhere in the chain. Many possible causes, many ways to fix it.
I’m a 20+ year Logic guy, but respect your knowledge and skills. BitWig is interesting, but $399 vs Logic $199 makes it tough to recommend to noobs. Whenever I consider a DAW other than Logic, Apple seems quick to release the ‘best of’ features to stay competitive. For example, live loops (vertical orientation) dominated by Ableton was soon added to Logic X and I think Logic’s live loops feature is now better than Ableton, while Ableton’s track mode (horizontal orientation) is inferior to Logic, ProTools and StudioOne. I hear your BitWig workflow efficiency argument - that’s compelling. But, are there features or capabilities in BitWig that Logic is missing?
I think Bitwig is more noob friendly. The UI design is consistent throughout, from all the devices, to the top level stuff. The help system is also the best in the business, and there isn't as much complexity or any legacy cruft. Logic is extremely feature dense, which is great for pros, but can be overwhelming and off-putting to newbies. Logic has a ton of old legacy features and devices, which still retain their original, outdated UI design and don't look at all consistent with their newer additions. Of course with logic, that $200 investment is the end of the story ...free updates for life! ... $400 is just the first of many drops in the bucket with Bitwig , after the first year of free updates expires. But it's so worth it. imo. Especially if you love sound design, modular synths, experimentation and playing well with external hardware. It's fresh, exciting, and the type of fun environment that can inspire a newbie to stick with the craft.
I really think the decision depends a lot on the type of music you'll be making. If you're primarily live tracking acoustic instruments or drums, Logic would probably be the preferred way to go. If you're more into electronic music production, ITB, or accompanied by external electronic instruments, , Logic can certainly cover most of the same bases -- but I think Bitwig arguably has more to offer. It's like the best of Reason and Ableton, combined into a very forward thinking and accessible DAW.
@@truthbydesign5146What if you don't do the updates? Can you still work on an unupdated version without problems? I use Studio One Pro version 5.0 and refuse to update for fear of issues which is not uncommon and not wanting to fix something that is already working. How much are BW updates after the free year?
@@beatweezl My free year of updates just ran out a few months ago. I’m sitting in a stable release (4.1x) and really don’t have any need of the features added since then. I might update again in a year or two, depending on what’s added in the interim. 12 months of updates is $169, but there isn’t any need to pay unless they add new features that you really want. You also have access to all previous versions in case an earlier one is more stable for you.
@@bitwig uff idk.. I paid a lot for them (ie native Instruments) I guess they are primarily for windows. I hoped Vsti DLLs are Platform neutral. So I guess I am screwed?
Hmm, well, he's a sound designer. Not so much a musician (although I guess he wants to be one as well). If you want "music youtube pro" that is genuinely pro that if you haven't heard of any tracks, is more of failing on your side than anything else is Benn Jordan (or Flashbulb). He's also very much into Bitwig, although more on the sound design side rather than composing. I think. Since he apparently has been using FL Studio since stone age, and has done all his music on that... if it's done on a DAW, anyway.
It's a big world out there - lots of channels and producers haha. You can find a lot of my music hear on TH-cam on some label/mix channels, and I've also got it posted on Audius and Spotify and all that if you want to check it out! I've got more stuff coming soon, and recently did a few livestreams showing the creation process of my next EP in Bitwig!
Great fundaments. I think Bitwig should invest even more into these: transparent mastering grade/more true analog modeled ZDF filters (accesible in every device and for "transparent" oversampling where it is needed), smoother dynamics. With this you can build galaxy of tones :) EQ5+, new filters in Grid and new saturator is good example of finetuning what we already got. I think with new engine oprimizations they are heading there. More quality than quantity of functions and workflow.
I should probably do some work but instead my company is paying me to watch videos about Bitwig... It's money well spent if you ask me.
What kind of work is that?
Are you a spy for Ableton??????
Just tell them it's a motivational exercise.
My boss is a hero. I work in a call centre and he gives me an hour and a half a week to watch videos about bitwig and maschine MK3.
@@williamgreen-heyes5869 Yo that sounds like my dream dayjob lol
Nice to see you on Bitwig's channel. I have the same feeling about Bitwig. It doesn't get in my way. It's easy, powerful and versitile. Thanks for a good vid.
Thanks! Pretty hyped to be on here myself!
Damn, voice on this guy. So soothing.
Yes, yes, we know, he knows. Focus.
Thanks, I made it myself.
Bitwig > Ableton in terms of Technicality & Modulation.
Can you just praise Bitwig without putting other DAW(s) down? In several ways what you've said is not 100% true and Live has several advantages over Bitwig in other areas, so it's not so black & white.
Hey evolved and realized that music doesent care for daws..
@@Artek604 yee, I said its better in terms of modulation and technicality. Bitwig has its bugs, the bug which does not allow me to group effect tracks hasnt even been fixed. I cant even export wav files just by dragging a clip into the browser (I dont want to export a bwclip). Does BW have a mid side eq built in? I dont think so. But Ableton has one. Does BW have the amount of resources that Ableton has on YT? I dont think so. And so on.
But, when i want to mudulate something, the amount and types of modulation BW gives is better than Ableton for now. You cant change my mind on that. Also the audio stretching modes (way more than what Ableton gives). And so on.
You get my point.
@@HiveMind-qv1iy I had way too much fun in Bitwig. So much in fact, that I couldn't finish a single track in 3 years :D
@@nebroskitheraut6705 Just use a mid/side container way more versatile can add whatever EQ plugin you want to the mid/side
This guy’s content is what convinced me to switch over from Ableton. Bitwig is an absolute powerhouse.
Great man I love Bitwig, it feels like an instrument
Exactly.
Howdy Doody Buckaroonies
🤠
@@VenusTheory The Hillbilly Way? 😄 Here we goo now!! --->>> en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy_Doody
"Bitwigggg" he says with that bedroom voice
Next up: I read the Bitwig manual as an audiobook.
Blimey, the mastering section at the end of this video brought sounds out of my old 2012 MacBook Pro's speakers I didn't even think they were capable of reproducing! - Must be some psychoacoustic effect going on.
good overview. made the switch to Bitwig 6 months ago, the best modern DAW imo
All of us are on v3 but this dude rocking the future with v6
@@KutAnimus
he said he switched to Bitwig 6 months ago, and considers it his best DAW
@@ivansiviero5059 I'm going to synthesize a woosh sound in Bitwig just for u
Woooosh
Glad you enjoyed it! And welcome to the party - I'm just mad I didn't switch sooner haha. Bitwig totally changed my approach to sound design and my writing process.
@bitwig It's interesting how you keep this up on the channel despite throwing Cameron under the bus not long ago
“Because randoms just make life better”
Beautifully said.
What an exciting program. Thanks for the overview. I just got my copy
Got a copy of Bitwig cos I purchased a Nektar keyboard and really really fascinating and fresh DAW. I would be very intrigue to change.
BUT, I know it's a stupid thing for probably everyone but I really hate that orange color for volume, samples and buttons all over the interface (fine in the effect chain).
Will you ever add the possibility to personalise the GUI like most of softwares out there?!
Again, I know it's trivial but if I have to look at an interface all day it needs to look pretty for me
They have this now
@@JeremyForTheWin oooh really that's Great!!!!
Will have a look definitely
This is actually great work! Amazing how this thing could do all these music magic. Awesome!
my main DAW is Studio One and my supporting DAWS are Bitwig and Mixbus 32c to cover all types of music. These 3 DAWs are simply phenomenal. i've also tried Live, FL and Cubase .
I'm sorry to have to disagree with the awesome Coffee-Boi here. And i'm sure that i will (obviously) get Bitwig fans angrily disagreeing with me here as well. But i personally find Bitwig to be one of the single most clunky, annoying, unintuitive, and ugly pieces of software that i have used this century. The only reason i renew my license and keep trying to learn it is because it works across all 3 of the main platforms. And i guess at least it's not LMMS.
NEXT LEVEL DEMO BROTHER! BIG FAN! Thanks for the FAST TRACK!~
"here I cooked up a very basic mastering chain"... then goes on scrolling endlessly 😱
Any chance you could post the mastering chain preset? Great use of stock plugins for enhancement and great modulation possibilities!
Really glad you enjoyed it! And I'll note it down, maybe I'll drop it on my website sometime as a free preset/rack thing. I've got a few that might be handy to share!
Thanks for the video. I have a question - can you please tell me where I can see a video tutorial on oscilloscope and Spectral plugins. I would like to understand how to understand what you see on the screen of these plugins.
Because randoms just make life better 🤣🤣🤣 totally agree 👍😁
Tell us how many filters and effects devices you put on your voice. - All that you show Ableton can not?
Bitwig is amazing, so glad I bought it. Though the clips time signature changes need a serious look at. Instead of working similar to automation when you change lots of time signatures it needs to actually change the global time signature so we don't end up with issues with the pre count being wrong sometimes or counting in to play in a different time signature when the scene you are playing is not the main time signature in the transport section. Posted about this on twitter, reddit, the discord and emailed support so hopefully we can get some help with this! Looking forward to the new updates for Bitwig anyway.
Bitwig Time signature thing has always (along with its audio editing system) have been its weak points, at least as long as I've used it (since v2). DAW with the most fluid and easy audio editing capabilities has always to me been Reaper, but also the fact that time signatures can be completely absurd in it are great. I haven't actually tried this in a long time, but Bitwig used to just basically go "no, I can't hear you" if you wanted to put in anything other than 3/4 or 4/4 (or any multiplier of those) as time signatures.
It's not very good even in 3.3.1, especially using the clip scenes, playing the wrong measures, counting wrong if you don't manually change the time signature so it makes it a nightmare to do 5/4 into 7/8 to record. Ableton does this well with their edit launch time signature they need to take a look at that and possibily emulate it, if it actively commits the change and keeps the time signature change the last one played it might solve their issues. I made a post here if you are interested : www.reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/kyu44h/time_signature_issues_bugs/
But if not, hopefully they fix these problems because as you say it is a weak point!
@@DrawAndErase bw will eventually get there and fix all their bugs :)
@@nebroskitheraut6705 Hopefully, I hope they respond to my emails one day!
That is an interesting problem. My guess is that creating an automation lane on the master channel in the Arrangement view is the intended solution, but I have no idea how to work around that in the clip launch view
Man, this tool is amazing. I have to get a copy soon. Wow.
I like to add a shoirtcut to mute one midi note , how?
I'm enjoying it so far. Creating my own effects, while new to me, is exciting. I appreciate the ideas you've given me, too. Thanks.
are ableton users seeing this? this is amazing.
A lot of them are using Bitwig already :)
How is BW for recording vocals and guitar and producing say alt rock, pop, maybe more organic genres? I like to be versatile.
Bitwig is the only new Generation daws for me. Logic acts like a dinosaur in comparison. And all bitwig synths sounds no warm and massive. Not hearing any aliasing in the higher range in the Oszillators. I am ebery day impressed.
Amazing video. Please make many many many more of these! As many as possible! ❤️
I'm stoked to get home to build something awesome now.
Let me know how it turns out!
Hola están muy bien los video tutoriales .pero podían estar con subtitulado en español.
My favorite bitwig feature is its controller scripting features.`
Missed the live video 😪😪😪
How did you make the clips less round in the arrangement? Rlly like the looks of it
Well, I didn't change anything that I know of haha. Might have been a change in a newer version if you're not on the latest versions?
@@VenusTheory Yep, didn't have the Version.. For whatever reason. Thx for the answer anyways :)
assigning a xy axis' ?what does this mean, what is this component of the daw entail, how does it functon?
Venus Theory ! Look at God I follow him , I love him. but Thank you Lord One day I'll understand the BITWIG language, sheesh. .
13:30 there's a mono monitoring button in Studio tab already :)
Easy to use, but I can only use 2 plug ins (with bitwig 8track) which sucks. Should be able to use as many as I need as long as I don't exceed 8 tracks
Just upgrade to 16 Track. It is well worth it for 8 extra tracks and unlimited VSTs.
Bitwig is great no doubt, but the lack of feature of exporting midi and wav files by just dragging it to the browser needs to be looked into (instead of exporting a clip which is not what we want most of the time.
Also grouping of effect send busses cannot be done due to some kind of bug (the feature is available in the menu but does not function as it should, and doesnt create a group).
Lately I've been doing sound design by using bounce then just grabbing the clips out of the project folder. I never have to use export.
@@skatechatham still takes a few extra steps, no? It would be more convenient if this feature was added. (Also im managing with your method for now lol)
@@nebroskitheraut6705 Dreaming of a studio one - bitwig hybrid DAW
Great ideas for sure - MIDI especially!
7:22, 9:03, 12:19 are those clicks normal? Part of the synth? Do they present in final rendering, or in other words is this some preview artefact? ? How do I get rid of them?
It's hard to say exactly where those artifacts are coming from. Possibly related to playing back while simultaneously doing screen capture, or that the audio latency setting is too low. Or maybe the signal is peaking somewhere in the chain. Many possible causes, many ways to fix it.
The good ol’ days.
hey can anyone help me im trying to connect me interface but it only shows outputs in settings
Hi there, please visit our support pages for help: www.bitwig.com/support/
A M A Z I N G
Awesome!!
We love ❤️ Bitwig 🥰
dope!
I’m a 20+ year Logic guy, but respect your knowledge and skills. BitWig is interesting, but $399 vs Logic $199 makes it tough to recommend to noobs. Whenever I consider a DAW other than Logic, Apple seems quick to release the ‘best of’ features to stay competitive. For example, live loops (vertical orientation) dominated by Ableton was soon added to Logic X and I think Logic’s live loops feature is now better than Ableton, while Ableton’s track mode (horizontal orientation) is inferior to Logic, ProTools and StudioOne. I hear your BitWig workflow efficiency argument - that’s compelling. But, are there features or capabilities in BitWig that Logic is missing?
I think Bitwig is more noob friendly. The UI design is consistent throughout, from all the devices, to the top level stuff. The help system is also the best in the business, and there isn't as much complexity or any legacy cruft. Logic is extremely feature dense, which is great for pros, but can be overwhelming and off-putting to newbies. Logic has a ton of old legacy features and devices, which still retain their original, outdated UI design and don't look at all consistent with their newer additions.
Of course with logic, that $200 investment is the end of the story ...free updates for life! ... $400 is just the first of many drops in the bucket with Bitwig , after the first year of free updates expires. But it's so worth it. imo. Especially if you love sound design, modular synths, experimentation and playing well with external hardware. It's fresh, exciting, and the type of fun environment that can inspire a newbie to stick with the craft.
I really think the decision depends a lot on the type of music you'll be making. If you're primarily live tracking acoustic instruments or drums, Logic would probably be the preferred way to go. If you're more into electronic music production, ITB, or accompanied by external electronic instruments, , Logic can certainly cover most of the same bases -- but I think Bitwig arguably has more to offer. It's like the best of Reason and Ableton, combined into a very forward thinking and accessible DAW.
@@truthbydesign5146 great insight! Thx.
@@truthbydesign5146What if you don't do the updates? Can you still work on an unupdated version without problems? I use Studio One Pro version 5.0 and refuse to update for fear of issues which is not uncommon and not wanting to fix something that is already working. How much are BW updates after the free year?
@@beatweezl My free year of updates just ran out a few months ago. I’m sitting in a stable release (4.1x) and really don’t have any need of the features added since then. I might update again in a year or two, depending on what’s added in the interim.
12 months of updates is $169, but there isn’t any need to pay unless they add new features that you really want. You also have access to all previous versions in case an earlier one is more stable for you.
modulation you'll never look back!
Totally changes your approach to working in the DAW/your favorite plugins. It's a lovely, deep rabbit hole to fall in haha.
fantatic. thanks
well said
what about vstis in Linux.. Is that supported?
We support VST plug-ins on all three major platforms. If the VSTi plug-in runs on Linux, it should run fine in Bitwig Studio.
@@bitwig uff idk.. I paid a lot for them (ie native Instruments) I guess they are primarily for windows. I hoped Vsti DLLs are Platform neutral. So I guess I am screwed?
@@marcello4258 You'll have to check with the plug-in developers if they support Linux or not. Best we can do is to provide the platform.
all these music youtube pros that I haven‘t heard one finished track of. haha
Hmm, well, he's a sound designer. Not so much a musician (although I guess he wants to be one as well). If you want "music youtube pro" that is genuinely pro that if you haven't heard of any tracks, is more of failing on your side than anything else is Benn Jordan (or Flashbulb). He's also very much into Bitwig, although more on the sound design side rather than composing. I think. Since he apparently has been using FL Studio since stone age, and has done all his music on that... if it's done on a DAW, anyway.
venus theory has plenty of music! he's a future garage musician
Just look for it - there's plenty of his music around and it's very good.
Bruh he has music. Very good music too.
It's a big world out there - lots of channels and producers haha. You can find a lot of my music hear on TH-cam on some label/mix channels, and I've also got it posted on Audius and Spotify and all that if you want to check it out! I've got more stuff coming soon, and recently did a few livestreams showing the creation process of my next EP in Bitwig!
Very instructive!
Glad it was helpful!
Great fundaments. I think Bitwig should invest even more into these: transparent mastering grade/more true analog modeled ZDF filters (accesible in every device and for "transparent" oversampling where it is needed), smoother dynamics. With this you can build galaxy of tones :) EQ5+, new filters in Grid and new saturator is good example of finetuning what we already got. I think with new engine oprimizations they are heading there. More quality than quantity of functions and workflow.
That'd be awesome to see!
hey bitwig plz read all the comments on your all videos ..... we have suggested some improvements
Ive had bitwig for a long time. Ive used other daws but i keep coming back to bitwig. I call it "the intelligent" daw.
I am FL Studio Nazi but you may have convinced me to switch to Bitch Fig, MPE Support is a big difference between two DAW's.
We are waiting for you my friend!
That and never having to click "Make Unique" ever again!
Shame on you
@@p4uls7 lol XD
@@skatechatham Haha, underrated comment if ever I saw one.
Loving BitWig, hating the clown talking about it.