Such a unique perspective... As a long time DAW user who has only recently switched to Bitwig I find myself having my mind blown again and again seeing all of these concepts and custom modulations... I feel bitwig is less of a DAW and more of an audio experiment everytime I open it up... I wish i took on BW many moons ago... Great videos as always...
The best of all you don't need to use an expensive synth or browsing thousand of presets. All you have to know is that all filters in bitwig are tuned to C3
Love your videos, and ideas! One thing I noticed is that even with stacked poly voices - your DSP meter didn't even register. I just did some testing on my own, and the sampler is super efficient for making huge sounds.
that's because of the way it works. Applying a single filter to audio is very efficient, as is just playing the sample slower/faster. A lot of Plugins do a LOT more :)
Sampler is amazing. I just wish it had the Ableton Slice feature (to play slices via the keyboard) and Elastique time-stretching on it. So I can use it for my purposes of using one shots without using synths... It doesn't work so well when you're using a bass one shot and when going higher in pitch it plays faster. Other than that though it's awesome :D
So in the everlasting spirit of replacing cool plugins with Bitwig’s own facilities, I’ve just tried this technique to recreate a Kontakt library called Harmonic Bloom. It has a tonal layer (nothing special there) and a noise layer, which goes through a bank of 8 resonators, pulling 8 harmonics out of the noise. Sounds really sweet for ambient sound design. The sampler has only one filter, so I've used the Resonator Bank instead, which has 6. (By grouping resonator banks into layers we can of course have any number of harmonics we like). Works lovely, as expected, but there’s one issue: the Resonator Bank is not a filter. It enhances the selected harmonics, extracting playable tones out of the noise, but all the other frequencies of the sample also go through. I can use eq to cut just below the low harmonic and just above the high harmonic, but that’s not going to be keytracked. And then, of course, there are all the frequencies in-between the harmonics, so some of the original noise will always push through. I wonder if there's a better way.
Sweet. Another idea to expand on this is to do it in the grid. There you can add multiple filters and set then to C3, C4, C5, ... to create sounds with more harmonics.
As someone who uses samplers a bit more traditionally I have HATED the Bitwig sampler. Still don't love it because it's not perfectly suited to me needs but I played around with it along with this demo and I must admit I see it merits! I will definitely get more into it. I just don't understand why there isn't a traditional slice mode where I can manipulate each slice within the sampler. Either way, great video, I'm into it!
I'm not sure where else to ask this, but does Bitwig have a way to send cues from a live set to visual programs like TouchDesigner, Synesthesia, or Resolume?
I prefer to noise up my samples with tape effects, which I often bake in. Now in latest bitwig you can use convolution device to turn this noise into really interesting ambience.
Today I tried to do something similar in The Grid. I ended up using a bunch of SVF filters in a row, set to band pass mode, but the resonance is not narrow enough. Any ideas to get a high resonance band pass filter, or does the SVF filter need additional slope options?
Great idea and sounds! I tried it with resonator bank in the FX slot instead of filter. It also has key tracking but even more resonating frequencies :)
Polarity Music you are right. I guess, a possible workaround would be an fx container with multiple resonators and per note switching but it will become needlessly complicated.
Interesting, but I'm still not sure what the answer to the question "The most overlooked Sampler feature in Bitwig Studio?" was. Is it "creating nice sounds from random sh*t" ? 9:08
For me as a newbie, I didn't really know what the keytrack in the filter section did. It never occurred to me that you can use the filter to change the pitch without having to enable the sampler key tracking.
@@PolarityMusic Let's call it "Bitwig Chromatic (Twelve-Tone)" scale, like we don't have enough historical scales already)))) Anyways, your video is awesome as always, thank you for making it!
I wouldn't say this is an overlooked Sampler feature in Bitwig or is anyway better than many an other solution. Many a sample player or instrument that takes samples can do this if the filter can resonant and has pitch tracking - which I guess is most of them. In Ableton both the Simpler and Sampler do a better job of this, Simpler can also warp the Sample for pitch. Plus both have 5 filter modes and 4 with filter drive. I also do this in Serum by dropping an ambient sample on the noise generator, which is actually a sampler. And Serum has a great selection of filters to choose from. I use Pigments 2 which has some great filters for doing this also. And a choice selection is the the powerful MSoundFactory for endless ways of setting up something like this. I would say those 5 samplers/instruments do a better job of this, just by having more filter options and the level of control over the filter in an internal sampler/instrument. But i saw the video you talk about, and she was in the process of sound design and resampling, effecting the samples while pitching on the track, and was likely using the EQ Eight for a finer level of Q control and also being able to control and balance of the other frequencies in relation to what was being resonated - she wasn't trying to do or incapable doing what you are showing here. And here is the link to the video we reference, that you failed to supply a link to in your show notes: th-cam.com/video/hlJCSmBxR0U/w-d-xo.html
I love Polarity because he's never shy about highlighting advantages of Bitwig and all the ways it can do just about anything. Thanks again!
Such a unique perspective... As a long time DAW user who has only recently switched to Bitwig I find myself having my mind blown again and again seeing all of these concepts and custom modulations... I feel bitwig is less of a DAW and more of an audio experiment everytime I open it up... I wish i took on BW many moons ago... Great videos as always...
This channel is such a goldmine of interesting techniques
Wow you really amazed me this time, this is really NICE, you make gems!!!
The best of all you don't need to use an expensive synth or browsing thousand of presets. All you have to know is that all filters in bitwig are tuned to C3
This is epic ❤️😎 thank you very much for every cool video you make.
Loving Bitwig more and more. Thanks for the cool trick!
Thx for always reminding me how dope Bitwig is 🙏🏻
naaaisss. thanks so endlessly much. hope you are getting much more views in the future as it is heavily deserved.
“Nice sound from random shit” classic, your videos are always gold, keep up the good work!
I was about to comment that line myself, typical musician language with some special polarity music flavour lol
Great tip! Works a treat with vocal samples too. You can have ethereal voices mangled into space bending proportions. Pure sonic madness on 1 track!
Love your videos, and ideas! One thing I noticed is that even with stacked poly voices - your DSP meter didn't even register. I just did some testing on my own, and the sampler is super efficient for making huge sounds.
that's because of the way it works. Applying a single filter to audio is very efficient, as is just playing the sample slower/faster.
A lot of Plugins do a LOT more :)
New to Bitwig, loving it. Thanks for the good videos and the timestamps!
Sampler is amazing. I just wish it had the Ableton Slice feature (to play slices via the keyboard) and Elastique time-stretching on it. So I can use it for my purposes of using one shots without using synths... It doesn't work so well when you're using a bass one shot and when going higher in pitch it plays faster.
Other than that though it's awesome :D
So in the everlasting spirit of replacing cool plugins with Bitwig’s own facilities, I’ve just tried this technique to recreate a Kontakt library called Harmonic Bloom. It has a tonal layer (nothing special there) and a noise layer, which goes through a bank of 8 resonators, pulling 8 harmonics out of the noise. Sounds really sweet for ambient sound design.
The sampler has only one filter, so I've used the Resonator Bank instead, which has 6. (By grouping resonator banks into layers we can of course have any number of harmonics we like). Works lovely, as expected, but there’s one issue: the Resonator Bank is not a filter. It enhances the selected harmonics, extracting playable tones out of the noise, but all the other frequencies of the sample also go through.
I can use eq to cut just below the low harmonic and just above the high harmonic, but that’s not going to be keytracked. And then, of course, there are all the frequencies in-between the harmonics, so some of the original noise will always push through. I wonder if there's a better way.
Sweet. Another idea to expand on this is to do it in the grid. There you can add multiple filters and set then to C3, C4, C5, ... to create sounds with more harmonics.
Thanks alot for the video's. Just switched from FL to Bitwig and these videos help !
Love the thumbnail so much.
As someone who uses samplers a bit more traditionally I have HATED the Bitwig sampler. Still don't love it because it's not perfectly suited to me needs but I played around with it along with this demo and I must admit I see it merits! I will definitely get more into it. I just don't understand why there isn't a traditional slice mode where I can manipulate each slice within the sampler. Either way, great video, I'm into it!
great trick, man! I'll definitely make use of it!
i could watch your stuff all day long. always so immensely inspiring!! thank you!!!
Ur channel is a real eye opener. Thank U!
That's such a cool idea. I just did something similar. I ran my pad through a Bit-8 and used the keytrack modulator to modulate its clock.
Wow nice video! I tried it also on a sample and produced a sound that is not even invented in Star Wars. Great job. Thanks!
"Creating nice sounds from random shit" --> Hell yeah!
Bitwig's sampler has to be the best DAW-native Sampler on the market.
Yes, it has fewer features, than let's say Ableton's two samplers have, but I always achieve epic sounds with it in the all playback modes.
this is so cool, thanks!
I do this but in Falcon. That sound would be great in the pluck oscillator.
really appreciate your videos. just joined at the $5 patreon level and love the preset tutorials you're doing
Many thanks for your support ❤️
This is so creative and inspiring. Doing this with all native tools, so awesome thank you!
I'm not sure where else to ask this, but does Bitwig have a way to send cues from a live set to visual programs like TouchDesigner, Synesthesia, or Resolume?
midi and cv
This is so very nice, thank you.
Thanks so much for this tutorial
Great! Thnx a lot!
More great content, thx!
This video is so much fucking gold, wow!
I prefer to noise up my samples with tape effects, which I often bake in. Now in latest bitwig you can use convolution device to turn this noise into really interesting ambience.
Exactly 🙏
Thank you, Robert! Features good
Thanks you for your work :)
This sounds so good.
Anybody know how to trigger polyphonic pan each time the sample is triggered? Seems like the sample pan knob is global at all times which sucks.
Use a polyphonic Modulator and the modulation is polyphonic
@@PolarityMusic awesome thanks!
That was great to watch
Today I tried to do something similar in The Grid. I ended up using a bunch of SVF filters in a row, set to band pass mode, but the resonance is not narrow enough. Any ideas to get a high resonance band pass filter, or does the SVF filter need additional slope options?
The new XP filter device in The Grid gives 2P and 4P bandpass filters. Much more flexible than SVF imo. It's like the Ladder device, I think.
großartig. ich denke meine Entscheidung für bitwig ist gefallen!
Great thanks for another amazing tutorial!
Great idea and sounds! I tried it with resonator bank in the FX slot instead of filter. It also has key tracking but even more resonating frequencies :)
Yes but sadly it's only monophonic :(
Polarity Music you are right. I guess, a possible workaround would be an fx container with multiple resonators and per note switching but it will become needlessly complicated.
great stuff
This is fantastic man, thanks for sharing it
Very nice tutorial, could you please make video on how to control expandable rythm please, either with sampler and or echo notes?
Really nice trick. Thanks dude
Awesome sound, you should keep going to build up some track with it!
already did :D instagram.com/p/CALOoeDhuW0/
Oh, snap! Ableburn!
Thanks Polarity!
sounds good
amazing video
Clever but would still benefit from an EQ!
saw that video, really cool
Bitwig Wizard!
My mind=🤯
Bitwig: Anything you can do I can do better
Ableton: we'll see, we'll see. Ok, I agree, you do it better. Maybe 11 will fix that.
Live has better audio effects tho.
@@CuriousPassenger What's with the version 11 high CPU, I hear that's still a problem?
Wowzers
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Thanks for the heads up!
Evan Studio? Eban, Eben, Evab Studio? Can't find it.
Quite sure this is what he meant: th-cam.com/video/hlJCSmBxR0U/w-d-xo.html&feature=emb_title
Interesting, but I'm still not sure what the answer to the question "The most overlooked Sampler feature in Bitwig Studio?" was. Is it "creating nice sounds from random sh*t" ? 9:08
I gather that it's the key-tracking feature in the filter, no?
Nope! He's talking about the filter section in the sampler. Using a band pass and adjusting the resonance frequency is his point. :)
For me as a newbie, I didn't really know what the keytrack in the filter section did. It never occurred to me that you can use the filter to change the pitch without having to enable the sampler key tracking.
It's the polyphonic filter with keytrack for each voice in the sampler. I'm not sure that this is pretty common.
Wait, even in Bitwig Studio 262Hz is C4, not C3. Not like it really matters for the technique that is shown in the video.
bitwig even shows C3 as a note if you dial in 262hz in the bottom info display
@@PolarityMusic Let's call it "Bitwig Chromatic (Twelve-Tone)" scale, like we don't have enough historical scales already)))) Anyways, your video is awesome as always, thank you for making it!
WTF! genius!
This is cool
I want to see you make an entire song with only 1 sound using only the sampler on each track. I know you can do it
This technique is also demonstrated in ELPHNT's excellent Masterclass video here th-cam.com/video/VWFsR0HT7Pc/w-d-xo.html. Super cool technique!
This guy is a Magician.
✨
Too sick!
Creating nice sounds from random shit,you have a way with words!Thanks for an interesting and informative tutorial.
Wizardry🧙♂️🎲🎧🎨 🎹
I wouldn't say this is an overlooked Sampler feature in Bitwig or is anyway better than many an other solution. Many a sample player or instrument that takes samples can do this if the filter can resonant and has pitch tracking - which I guess is most of them. In Ableton both the Simpler and Sampler do a better job of this, Simpler can also warp the Sample for pitch. Plus both have 5 filter modes and 4 with filter drive. I also do this in Serum by dropping an ambient sample on the noise generator, which is actually a sampler. And Serum has a great selection of filters to choose from. I use Pigments 2 which has some great filters for doing this also. And a choice selection is the the powerful MSoundFactory for endless ways of setting up something like this. I would say those 5 samplers/instruments do a better job of this, just by having more filter options and the level of control over the filter in an internal sampler/instrument.
But i saw the video you talk about, and she was in the process of sound design and resampling, effecting the samples while pitching on the track, and was likely using the EQ Eight for a finer level of Q control and also being able to control and balance of the other frequencies in relation to what was being resonated - she wasn't trying to do or incapable doing what you are showing here. And here is the link to the video we reference, that you failed to supply a link to in your show notes: th-cam.com/video/hlJCSmBxR0U/w-d-xo.html
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MATE! THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING :D THANKS FOR SHARING!!!