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Sure the Reason rack is awesome too...but by using Bitwig Studio native Drum machine you get more cpu headroom, and it's actually a very nice and powerful device when you start to explore the expanded mixer view of the drum machine etc. ;D It's really easy to make quick drumkits and mix them without needing to jump to the mixer view. Love it! 🔥 Thanks for writing Lee!
Hey, It will select active sample according to how its setup in the sampler multisample edit. I did a video on how to use the function in practise here: th-cam.com/video/tE3R6-gGX78/w-d-xo.html
Hi Andy, thanks glad u enjoy the video. I didn't use iPad with Bitwig in this video. If you are on a mac you can of course try SideCar with Bitwig. But the iPad will mostly work with the apple pencil. Which is a bit of annoying. Wish we could use side car with touch too.
Hello. Is there a way to add fx to an specific group of drums insise drum machine?. Like a buss for the snares and hihats for example. Thx for the video.
Yes, you can expand the mixer for a drum machine in the mixer. To see all subtracks. Then process the individual channels, or send selected subtracks to a submix if necessary.
Once again, thank you so much Mattias for this very useful video. In fact, after watching your videos on Bitwig, I started to dive more into it even more everyday and I really enjoy using it now as it has a very easy to use workflow. That being said, I have completely given up using its older brother, namely Ableton Live as it is a very PC hungry software. I am sure many people will agree with me on this also. I will continue watching and learning more from you in the future. A huge thumbs up for you from me! Keep well. I send my best regards to you brother..!
Hi again Ali. Thanks for supporting my work! Glad you found this Bitwig Drum Machine tutorial helpful in your work and musical journey. Yes Ableton is indeed CPU hungry, still I think it's a good DAW. I made many fun songs in it. But I feel Bitwig has the upper hand in usability and sleekness when working on a laptop (or desktop). ;D Hope to see you around in the comments and upcoming live streams! Thanks! 👑🌞
Is there a way to group the audio outputs of different pads together? So, like 3 kick drum pads go to one insert fx chain, the open and closed hats go to a different one, and then a third for toms?
Yeah know what u mean. In Bitwig you can either use aux sends from a track to send to another, OR use audio receiver device on another track to route audio to that mixer track. You can also set a tracks input to another tracks output which is neat. 🦊☀️🥁
Really useful video! I didn't know that you could open out the drumkit in the mixer view, but it's really useful to have all the faders visible at once when you're trying to balance out the different elements in the kit.
Hi Laurent. Where do you see the button "Follow played note"? Do you mean the Dashboard -> Settings -> Behaviour -> Resume Playback -> Note Chase? If so, it means it will catch and play a midi note even if you start the playhead in the middle of a "long" midi note. If Note Chase is NOT active, you will only hear midi notes starting where the playhead catches the beginning of the notes. Makes sense? This is commonly used when you are composing songs which has long sustained notes / drones etc. like in string arrangements, film / game scores etc. I use the function all the time so I don't have to rewind to the beginning of the midi notes each time I want to hear a specific chord, when working with sustained notes. But maybe you were talking about some other button? 😋🌞
@@MattiasHolmgren I am talking for the button in the Drum Machine, at the top of the midi drum chain scroller (according to the F1 help of drum machine) :)
it would be possible to use a compressor on c1 kick and d1 snare drum notes but not on e1 cymbal? like a bus compressor for kick and snare but excluding the cymbals
Yes if you open a slot, you will see theres a sampler. In the samplers fx slot (or after) you can add extra individual fx…. But easiest way is open the Bitwig mixer, expand the drum machine so it shows all individual drum slot tracks (individ. Samplers) and there u can add plugin fx to each individual slot. Enjoy 🤘🥁
@@MattiasHolmgren yes i know i can compress individually but thats not what i'm looking for, i wanted to compress snare AND the kick together like in a drum bus... but not the cymbal.
@@matrixmodulator here's a tedious "workaround" to accomplish routing one or multiple drum machine slots into a single bus in Bitwig. Mute both Kick & Snare. Create a new Audio Track. On the Audio Track add an FX Layer. In the FX layer add two Audio Receivers. AR 1 should be set to Drum Machine Kick (Pre) and AR2 should be set to Drum Machine Snare (Pre). Voila. Now you have kick n snare into a single bus.... lol
But I wouldn't go that route. I would rather just duplicate the drum track and have kick & snare on another track lane....and the rest of the kit on its own individual track lane...MUCH easier and faster way to accomplish processing kick & snare as a separate "bus".
hello where is your tutorial where you can make kick select on the rack ? works like multisampler inst. I remember a while back i see it but unable to find it. thanks
Nice! Solid drum machine overview 😎 I’m loving the wet fx slot lately in bitwig, great for throwing a quick side-mode eq and subtly boosting highs on the side signal.
Oh, fresh Bitwig video, thank you very much, Mattias, always especially nice to see! And yes, drum machine is so utility and every day instrument there, probably my favourite one if counting on the frequency of use, that it indeed might be completely hidden from our attention) So yes, many thanks for sorting out all the routing details inside it. It's not the problem for me personally, but I can imagine how it can be confusing at first glance. So definitely a proper thing to point out. I like the best, that we're able to put anything we want into drum slots - that's indeed quite handy to pick sounds quickly or even assemble some complex instrument structure. That's probably more useful for drum-like sounds or patches, but anyway, seems to be very powerful for me. The only thing I'm two minds with is those 'register' feature, when you can switch the whole map. For me it often just hides things if there is a lot of samples or patches rather than helps to organize them properly :) I think, it's often more handy to just drop another drum machine or even track if there's no room for another sample. But yes, we all have different usage scenarios, so not really blaming it) Do you use this feature yourself often? Obviously in live situation it's quite nice to just switch the maps to see them or make it follow the playing note. Thanks again for this new Bitwig video, Mattias! Helps me to keep inspiration) I'm afraid, I again was too busy for something music-related last week, so it's definitely important to keep inspiration thoughout this) Hope you're doing well. We already getting cooler here at the end of the summer, but the forecast seems to promise quite warm autumn, so we will see) Have a nice and productive week, mate! Hope to see you soon!
Hi Alexey, yeah I have the same impression on the Drum Machine. When you construct your own kits you almost never go beyond 16 slots anyways. We just fire up another instance rather than fiddle to browser another "slot page". It's indeed more upfront and easier to navigate. I know some people might want to build mega kits, or maybe if you slice a huge audiofile up so it's 128 pieces... it can be useful. But for my work I stick to 16 slots for most scenarios. Same here regarding weather Alexey. We have started to hit autumn so it's indeed getting colder and more windy. Me and Mimmi took a trip up north to Piteå and Hotell Kust this weekend. It was a nice trip / SPA weekend. ;D With hot / cold tubs...outdoor swimmingpools etc. But it was windy as hell. Still very nice to get away for some day. Glad you enjoy the video. I'm gonna do some more music theory deep-dives and have some other stuff coming up. Medieval music composing etc. ;D Hope to talk soon. Much creativity my friend!!! 🌞👑
@@MattiasHolmgren Thank you very much, Mattias! So glad you enjoyed your days off together! If I got it right, you had some nice moment to celebrate, so although too late, but my congratulations ;) Oh yes, cold tubs. Was it below zero degrees there? I heard, someone go to those cold cameras from time to time, obviously to grow younger, haha =) But, I think, it's great experience anyway. In Russia we also have tradition to swim in ice-holes in winter, mainly on certain Christian holidays, I tried a couple of times, it's indeed very refreshing and… inspiring? =) Have a nice days, my friend! All the good luck for your nice plans!
If you want to have separate tracks for each component (kick, snare etc.) of the drums in the arranger view or you want to export them separately into another DAW you can use audio receiver.
Do you mean how I expand the view in the mixer, to see kick, snare , hihats as separate mix Channels? Bitwig Studio Drum Machine gives separate mix Channels for every Drum Machine device pad automatically. You just load up a drumkit and then press the little "double arrow" icon at the top of the track in the mixer. Then the separate mix channels appear. Hope the info helps. 🌞🌟
@@MattiasHolmgren no, I don't mean in the mixer view. The thing with the 2 arrows u explained nicely in the video :) but I mean in the arrangement view. There u have splitter up drum machine and below kick and below snare..
Oh, I get it. ;D The top track (bluish) is the drum machine track we talk about in this video. After that we have a DRUMS track, which is actually a GROUP since you can see it has a folder icon. Then within that folder you have some kick-, snare-tracks etc. BUT, this group is MUTED so it's not audible in the example. In the example I solely show and talk about the blue track with a drum machine device plugin...and its sub mixer channels obviously. ;D I have other videos where we talk about groupings in Bitwig Studio though. Working with groups in Bitwig Studio is powerful, easy and awesome! Hope it makes sense. 🌞
@@MattiasHolmgren okay, so the drum group doesn't result from the drum Machine. The group was created separately. Then it makes sense ;) My actually problem is, that I create a drum pattern in drum Machine and I want to export the drums, but every drum part for itself, kick snare hats and so on separately. I want to send the single waves to another producer. I watched many of your videos but didn't found that :/
@@delux0r0815 hi, ok then: 1. Create some new tracks in Bitwig. 2. Put these new tracks in a new group (folder) track (not necessary but I do this for organization purpose). You can just select all the separate tracks and press COMMAND + G (on MAC). 2. Set the track AUDIO INPUT on all these new tracks to the output from each Drum Machine Pad Output. Yes, they all have a separate node output (Device Chain Out) which you can use. ;D Use PRE / POST fader depending on how you want it. I set it to POST fader to make sure all volumes stay as I mixed them in the Drum Machine mixer. 3. Put all these new tracks to REC ARM and play record your beat for a few bars. Note that you will not see any audio amplitude / volume happening on the separate tracks but they will record the audio from the Drum Machine. 4. Now you have all your kick, snare, hi-hat etc as audio on these new tracks. 5. Celebrate. ;D Bitwig Studio has a VERY flexible audio routing as you can see, you can basically route anything into a new track (and at any point in a device chain flow...which is just insane) Did that solve your problem?
Quick question. Is there a way to fade in the samples in each drum pad without having to go to each individual sampler and adjusting the attack? I like to use the drum machine kinda like you would use fruity slicer, but fruity slicer has an attack knob that adjust every chop. I was just curious if there was a way to do that for the drum machine cuz it’s inconvenient going to each sampler
Hi Sammy. Unfortunately the drum machine is not the same kind of device as a slicer plugin. The drum machine is just a container for several other samplers. And you would have to map a macro modulator to every slots -> sample -> env-attack. I suggest you look for another plugin if you want to change attack release on several playback nodes at the same time. A long dirty way is to resample your kit. Make a small drum loop which contains all your hits. Then drag it into a single sampler. Make that single sampler into a multisample instrument. Duplicate the sample in the instrument editor and make sure you have a separate slice for each drumhit from the original sample. Now you can adjust that single sampler attack, decay, release etc and it will effect all individual multi sample hits when they playback from a midi event. It's not quick, but it works. FL Slicer is nice. ;)
=)....instant like. Quit Helpful...thanks. Sadly Knobs actually dont have a specific range or value so that a selection of multiple Samples in your Case can not snap. So you can only hear if a kick was changed. But in the Grid will it work with Merge (and mode is "nearest"), S+H, Gate and Some Samplers... Was trying what "polarity" does in the FX Grid...some days ago just thinking cheers*
Awesome, happy to hear you like the video. Insta like, I like. ;D 👑 Adding the extra layer (Grid) to select samples sounds a bit cumbersome for a simple task which works quite good for quick selecting sounds. I'm very much for simple solutions in all my work. Maybe for advanced work and your own personal presets it's fine. But out of user perspective, I believe that Samplers within the Drum Machine is a better solution. A drum machine with Grid (AND sampler within Grid) and extra devices, is more complicated for a user to adjust too. The whole point with the drum machine preset and this one knob selection is to make things easy and quick for a user. And they can also very easily go in there and swap things and edit further without digging too deep. Grid has it's place, but maybe not for this one simple task which the Drum Machine/Sampler already handles quite well. I don't feel that the "non-snap points selection" is bothersome, although it would be helpful if Bitwig devs added this feature. Thanks for writing Bug man! Have an awesome day of sound creation! 🌞
@@MattiasHolmgren right right, for me it seems that a kinda visual feedback is a part of easier working, what you see is what u get. i never would build a drummer in the Grid, god no...but there a 2 or 3 different feedback possibillities...i was thinking about this...i am very fast in finding little problems ^^, 1. Snaping - when a multisample selection knob snaps to a already existing sample, then there 2 snaps for 2 samples 2. Colour Code - every Sample has a different Colour and Range 3. Marker - every Sample gets a Marker on the Selection Knob Surrounding, 5 Samples are 5 little Stripes or Points But yeah its just Brainstorming...Its always a Question if is there a real Problem and is a Solution easy... I think Bitwig doiung it very well up till now...Cheers*
I hate to admit this, it _shouldn't_ matter, but the way the daw looks influences me in some way. Are there ways to alter the default colorful nature of bitwig? Whenever I open it, it just feels... IDK strange to me. It's just a little preference thing, but 🤷♂️
Hi Elsif, unfortunately it's a predefined scheme. You can alter contrast / brightness but not general color theme which is pre-defined. I also think it would be awesome if they open up so people can create third party skins. Though it's not in the way of my work. 🌞😃
jag har likadana hörlurar :) jag önskar att bitwigs drum machine hafe varit kompatibel med ableton. funderar på att köra bitwig på en linux maskin. har du testat det? och link borde fungera där oxå va? :)
Hi, great. I love these headphones AKG141 above the more expensive AKGs. I've had a few other models, but always fell back to this one. And it still holds up....with some duct tape. ;D Why do you want to run things in Ableton? Why not just do all your work in either Bitwig or Ableton? I think both DAWs are nice. Obviously I prefer the design of Bitwig Studio more, but live looping is still better in Ableton (and some plugins in Ableton are awesome, like Glue compressor, Corpus etc.). But Live has become soggy and resource heavy while Bitwig is lightweight. I don't run Linux machines yet. I've planned building one for experimentation videos. But haven't come around yet. Too much going on with other work and things to explore. ;D Tack!
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Thanks for these tuts, migrating from cubase and this looks like a lot of fun
Yeah it's a lot more fun than the "stale" old DAWs of yesterday. 🌞
In Bitwig Drum Machine Mega Tutorial we talk about the audio signal flow of Bitwig, presets, mixing the drum machine device, drum slots and much more!
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Thanks for this! I've been using the reason rack for all my drums, and didn't know bitwig's drum machine was so powerful.
Sure the Reason rack is awesome too...but by using Bitwig Studio native Drum machine you get more cpu headroom, and it's actually a very nice and powerful device when you start to explore the expanded mixer view of the drum machine etc. ;D It's really easy to make quick drumkits and mix them without needing to jump to the mixer view. Love it! 🔥 Thanks for writing Lee!
Awesome tutorial, as always, you are just a good teacher. Your accent makes it even better. :D
Thanks Ragnar. 😋 🧙♂️🌞 I give you a bunch of swenglish to chew on. 🌟🎂
Can you explain what's under the hood with the selector knobs?
Hey, It will select active sample according to how its setup in the sampler multisample edit. I did a video on how to use the function in practise here: th-cam.com/video/tE3R6-gGX78/w-d-xo.html
@@MattiasHolmgren I watched this one yesterday just after I asked the question! Once again, thank you, your videos are really excellent.
@@SamSilk happy to inspire! 😉🌞🎉
Really great tutorial! How did you setup your ipad to control Bitwig?
Hi Andy, thanks glad u enjoy the video. I didn't use iPad with Bitwig in this video. If you are on a mac you can of course try SideCar with Bitwig. But the iPad will mostly work with the apple pencil. Which is a bit of annoying. Wish we could use side car with touch too.
Great production quality Mattias! Thanks for the great video!
Much appreciated Sincrol! Glad u like my Bitwig Studio content! 🌞😃
Hello. Is there a way to add fx to an specific group of drums insise drum machine?. Like a buss for the snares and hihats for example. Thx for the video.
Yes, you can expand the mixer for a drum machine in the mixer. To see all subtracks. Then process the individual channels, or send selected subtracks to a submix if necessary.
Thank you for these videos Mattias
U are welcome 🍀☀️
Once again, thank you so much Mattias for this very useful video. In fact, after watching your videos on Bitwig, I started to dive more into it even more everyday and I really enjoy using it now as it has a very easy to use workflow. That being said, I have completely given up using its older brother, namely Ableton Live as it is a very PC hungry software. I am sure many people will agree with me on this also. I will continue watching and learning more from you in the future. A huge thumbs up for you from me! Keep well. I send my best regards to you brother..!
yeah ableton loves cpu and mem :)
Hi again Ali. Thanks for supporting my work! Glad you found this Bitwig Drum Machine tutorial helpful in your work and musical journey. Yes Ableton is indeed CPU hungry, still I think it's a good DAW. I made many fun songs in it. But I feel Bitwig has the upper hand in usability and sleekness when working on a laptop (or desktop). ;D Hope to see you around in the comments and upcoming live streams! Thanks! 👑🌞
Is there a way to group the audio outputs of different pads together? So, like 3 kick drum pads go to one insert fx chain, the open and closed hats go to a different one, and then a third for toms?
Yes if you route them to aux (or other tracks). You can do any grouping you like that way for processing.
@@MattiasHolmgren sweet I'll try and figure that out. I'm coming back to DAW after years of modular and certain things elude me so far.
Yeah know what u mean. In Bitwig you can either use aux sends from a track to send to another, OR use audio receiver device on another track to route audio to that mixer track. You can also set a tracks input to another tracks output which is neat. 🦊☀️🥁
Really useful video! I didn't know that you could open out the drumkit in the mixer view, but it's really useful to have all the faders visible at once when you're trying to balance out the different elements in the kit.
Hi, thanks! Yeah its really useful to know these "deep" / expanded views in the mixer. A bit of hidden in the interface. Thanks for writing! 🌞
What does the button "Follow played note" does ?
Hi Laurent. Where do you see the button "Follow played note"? Do you mean the Dashboard -> Settings -> Behaviour -> Resume Playback -> Note Chase? If so, it means it will catch and play a midi note even if you start the playhead in the middle of a "long" midi note. If Note Chase is NOT active, you will only hear midi notes starting where the playhead catches the beginning of the notes. Makes sense? This is commonly used when you are composing songs which has long sustained notes / drones etc. like in string arrangements, film / game scores etc. I use the function all the time so I don't have to rewind to the beginning of the midi notes each time I want to hear a specific chord, when working with sustained notes. But maybe you were talking about some other button? 😋🌞
@@MattiasHolmgren I am talking for the button in the Drum Machine, at the top of the midi drum chain scroller (according to the F1 help of drum machine) :)
I wish you could group drum pads like you can in Ableton. For me, that is the only feature that is missing that I reach for with Drum Machine.
eg. chop up a drum break, group all hats together and group all snares together... process accordingly
it would be possible to use a compressor on c1 kick and d1 snare drum notes but not on e1 cymbal? like a bus compressor for kick and snare but excluding the cymbals
Yes if you open a slot, you will see theres a sampler. In the samplers fx slot (or after) you can add extra individual fx…. But easiest way is open the Bitwig mixer, expand the drum machine so it shows all individual drum slot tracks (individ. Samplers) and there u can add plugin fx to each individual slot. Enjoy 🤘🥁
@@MattiasHolmgren yes i know i can compress individually but thats not what i'm looking for, i wanted to compress snare AND the kick together like in a drum bus... but not the cymbal.
@@matrixmodulator here's a tedious "workaround" to accomplish routing one or multiple drum machine slots into a single bus in Bitwig. Mute both Kick & Snare. Create a new Audio Track. On the Audio Track add an FX Layer. In the FX layer add two Audio Receivers. AR 1 should be set to Drum Machine Kick (Pre) and AR2 should be set to Drum Machine Snare (Pre). Voila. Now you have kick n snare into a single bus.... lol
But I wouldn't go that route. I would rather just duplicate the drum track and have kick & snare on another track lane....and the rest of the kit on its own individual track lane...MUCH easier and faster way to accomplish processing kick & snare as a separate "bus".
@@MattiasHolmgren thanks yeah some great ideas, it would make midi editing a bit more tedious though
hello where is your tutorial where you can make kick select on the rack ? works like multisampler inst. I remember a while back i see it but unable to find it. thanks
Hi its the drum toolbox video here: th-cam.com/video/tE3R6-gGX78/w-d-xo.html Enjoy! 🥳🎅
@@MattiasHolmgren thanks
Nice! Solid drum machine overview 😎 I’m loving the wet fx slot lately in bitwig, great for throwing a quick side-mode eq and subtly boosting highs on the side signal.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah Wet FX Slot is nice! ;D
hello can you tell me how to find Bitwig's native drums kits? if there's any, thanks!
Make sure to enter dashboard and install all bundled soundpacks.
@@MattiasHolmgren ok ok many thanks
Oh, fresh Bitwig video, thank you very much, Mattias, always especially nice to see! And yes, drum machine is so utility and every day instrument there, probably my favourite one if counting on the frequency of use, that it indeed might be completely hidden from our attention) So yes, many thanks for sorting out all the routing details inside it. It's not the problem for me personally, but I can imagine how it can be confusing at first glance. So definitely a proper thing to point out.
I like the best, that we're able to put anything we want into drum slots - that's indeed quite handy to pick sounds quickly or even assemble some complex instrument structure. That's probably more useful for drum-like sounds or patches, but anyway, seems to be very powerful for me.
The only thing I'm two minds with is those 'register' feature, when you can switch the whole map. For me it often just hides things if there is a lot of samples or patches rather than helps to organize them properly :) I think, it's often more handy to just drop another drum machine or even track if there's no room for another sample. But yes, we all have different usage scenarios, so not really blaming it) Do you use this feature yourself often? Obviously in live situation it's quite nice to just switch the maps to see them or make it follow the playing note.
Thanks again for this new Bitwig video, Mattias! Helps me to keep inspiration) I'm afraid, I again was too busy for something music-related last week, so it's definitely important to keep inspiration thoughout this) Hope you're doing well. We already getting cooler here at the end of the summer, but the forecast seems to promise quite warm autumn, so we will see) Have a nice and productive week, mate! Hope to see you soon!
Hi Alexey, yeah I have the same impression on the Drum Machine. When you construct your own kits you almost never go beyond 16 slots anyways. We just fire up another instance rather than fiddle to browser another "slot page". It's indeed more upfront and easier to navigate. I know some people might want to build mega kits, or maybe if you slice a huge audiofile up so it's 128 pieces... it can be useful. But for my work I stick to 16 slots for most scenarios.
Same here regarding weather Alexey. We have started to hit autumn so it's indeed getting colder and more windy. Me and Mimmi took a trip up north to Piteå and Hotell Kust this weekend. It was a nice trip / SPA weekend. ;D With hot / cold tubs...outdoor swimmingpools etc. But it was windy as hell. Still very nice to get away for some day.
Glad you enjoy the video. I'm gonna do some more music theory deep-dives and have some other stuff coming up. Medieval music composing etc. ;D
Hope to talk soon. Much creativity my friend!!! 🌞👑
@@MattiasHolmgren Thank you very much, Mattias! So glad you enjoyed your days off together! If I got it right, you had some nice moment to celebrate, so although too late, but my congratulations ;) Oh yes, cold tubs. Was it below zero degrees there? I heard, someone go to those cold cameras from time to time, obviously to grow younger, haha =) But, I think, it's great experience anyway. In Russia we also have tradition to swim in ice-holes in winter, mainly on certain Christian holidays, I tried a couple of times, it's indeed very refreshing and… inspiring? =) Have a nice days, my friend! All the good luck for your nice plans!
If you want to have separate tracks for each component (kick, snare etc.) of the drums in the arranger view or you want to export them separately into another DAW you can use audio receiver.
Yes indeed Peter, the Audio Receiver is a great audio routing device to know about.
How you splitted up your arrangement from the light blue producers kit into the single lines (kick, snare...) in the drum section of the playlist?
Do you mean how I expand the view in the mixer, to see kick, snare , hihats as separate mix Channels? Bitwig Studio Drum Machine gives separate mix Channels for every Drum Machine device pad automatically. You just load up a drumkit and then press the little "double arrow" icon at the top of the track in the mixer. Then the separate mix channels appear. Hope the info helps. 🌞🌟
@@MattiasHolmgren no, I don't mean in the mixer view. The thing with the 2 arrows u explained nicely in the video :) but I mean in the arrangement view. There u have splitter up drum machine and below kick and below snare..
Oh, I get it. ;D The top track (bluish) is the drum machine track we talk about in this video. After that we have a DRUMS track, which is actually a GROUP since you can see it has a folder icon. Then within that folder you have some kick-, snare-tracks etc. BUT, this group is MUTED so it's not audible in the example. In the example I solely show and talk about the blue track with a drum machine device plugin...and its sub mixer channels obviously. ;D
I have other videos where we talk about groupings in Bitwig Studio though.
Working with groups in Bitwig Studio is powerful, easy and awesome! Hope it makes sense. 🌞
@@MattiasHolmgren okay, so the drum group doesn't result from the drum Machine. The group was created separately. Then it makes sense ;)
My actually problem is, that I create a drum pattern in drum Machine and I want to export the drums, but every drum part for itself, kick snare hats and so on separately. I want to send the single waves to another producer. I watched many of your videos but didn't found that :/
@@delux0r0815 hi, ok then:
1. Create some new tracks in Bitwig.
2. Put these new tracks in a new group (folder) track (not necessary but I do this for organization purpose). You can just select all the separate tracks and press COMMAND + G (on MAC).
2. Set the track AUDIO INPUT on all these new tracks to the output from each Drum Machine Pad Output. Yes, they all have a separate node output (Device Chain Out) which you can use. ;D Use PRE / POST fader depending on how you want it. I set it to POST fader to make sure all volumes stay as I mixed them in the Drum Machine mixer.
3. Put all these new tracks to REC ARM and play record your beat for a few bars. Note that you will not see any audio amplitude / volume happening on the separate tracks but they will record the audio from the Drum Machine.
4. Now you have all your kick, snare, hi-hat etc as audio on these new tracks.
5. Celebrate. ;D
Bitwig Studio has a VERY flexible audio routing as you can see, you can basically route anything into a new track (and at any point in a device chain flow...which is just insane)
Did that solve your problem?
Quick question. Is there a way to fade in the samples in each drum pad without having to go to each individual sampler and adjusting the attack? I like to use the drum machine kinda like you would use fruity slicer, but fruity slicer has an attack knob that adjust every chop. I was just curious if there was a way to do that for the drum machine cuz it’s inconvenient going to each sampler
Hi Sammy. Unfortunately the drum machine is not the same kind of device as a slicer plugin. The drum machine is just a container for several other samplers. And you would have to map a macro modulator to every slots -> sample -> env-attack. I suggest you look for another plugin if you want to change attack release on several playback nodes at the same time.
A long dirty way is to resample your kit. Make a small drum loop which contains all your hits. Then drag it into a single sampler. Make that single sampler into a multisample instrument. Duplicate the sample in the instrument editor and make sure you have a separate slice for each drumhit from the original sample. Now you can adjust that single sampler attack, decay, release etc and it will effect all individual multi sample hits when they playback from a midi event. It's not quick, but it works.
FL Slicer is nice. ;)
@@MattiasHolmgren bummer. Thank you Matthias!
=)....instant like. Quit Helpful...thanks.
Sadly Knobs actually dont have a specific range or value so that a selection of multiple Samples in your Case can not snap. So you can only hear if a kick was changed.
But in the Grid will it work with Merge (and mode is "nearest"), S+H, Gate and Some Samplers...
Was trying what "polarity" does in the FX Grid...some days ago
just thinking cheers*
Awesome, happy to hear you like the video. Insta like, I like. ;D 👑
Adding the extra layer (Grid) to select samples sounds a bit cumbersome for a simple task which works quite good for quick selecting sounds. I'm very much for simple solutions in all my work. Maybe for advanced work and your own personal presets it's fine. But out of user perspective, I believe that Samplers within the Drum Machine is a better solution.
A drum machine with Grid (AND sampler within Grid) and extra devices, is more complicated for a user to adjust too.
The whole point with the drum machine preset and this one knob selection is to make things easy and quick for a user. And they can also very easily go in there and swap things and edit further without digging too deep.
Grid has it's place, but maybe not for this one simple task which the Drum Machine/Sampler already handles quite well.
I don't feel that the "non-snap points selection" is bothersome, although it would be helpful if Bitwig devs added this feature.
Thanks for writing Bug man! Have an awesome day of sound creation! 🌞
@@MattiasHolmgren right right, for me it seems that a kinda visual feedback is a part of easier working, what you see is what u get. i never would build a drummer in the Grid, god no...but there a 2 or 3 different feedback possibillities...i was thinking about this...i am very fast in finding little problems ^^,
1. Snaping - when a multisample selection knob snaps to a already existing sample, then there 2 snaps for 2 samples
2. Colour Code - every Sample has a different Colour and Range
3. Marker - every Sample gets a Marker on the Selection Knob Surrounding, 5 Samples are 5 little Stripes or Points
But yeah its just Brainstorming...Its always a Question if is there a real Problem and is a Solution easy...
I think Bitwig doiung it very well up till now...Cheers*
as always, thank you!
One small suggestion... maybe hit cmd/opt-d to hide the dock when screen recording?
Glad you enjoy this Bitwig Studio video! Thanks for the tip! I prefer to have the dock around.🌞
I hate to admit this, it _shouldn't_ matter, but the way the daw looks influences me in some way. Are there ways to alter the default colorful nature of bitwig? Whenever I open it, it just feels... IDK strange to me. It's just a little preference thing, but 🤷♂️
Hi Elsif, unfortunately it's a predefined scheme. You can alter contrast / brightness but not general color theme which is pre-defined. I also think it would be awesome if they open up so people can create third party skins. Though it's not in the way of my work. 🌞😃
Thank You!
You're welcome my friend! Glad you like my little Bitwig Studio adventure.
jag har likadana hörlurar :) jag önskar att bitwigs drum machine hafe varit kompatibel med ableton. funderar på att köra bitwig på en linux maskin. har du testat det? och link borde fungera där oxå va? :)
Hi, great. I love these headphones AKG141 above the more expensive AKGs. I've had a few other models, but always fell back to this one. And it still holds up....with some duct tape. ;D Why do you want to run things in Ableton? Why not just do all your work in either Bitwig or Ableton? I think both DAWs are nice. Obviously I prefer the design of Bitwig Studio more, but live looping is still better in Ableton (and some plugins in Ableton are awesome, like Glue compressor, Corpus etc.). But Live has become soggy and resource heavy while Bitwig is lightweight. I don't run Linux machines yet. I've planned building one for experimentation videos. But haven't come around yet. Too much going on with other work and things to explore. ;D
Tack!
To have better sound every music producer must have a cat :)
The cat… that’is the best sound design ”tool”. And photo bomber ;) …like my kids 😂👌🥁
1000'th view!?
Congrats! 🌞