It's a new digital audio workstation, and so joins a crowded market. Still, I thought it was pretty interesting what he had to say, so thought I'd share it.Is Bitwig Studio's fresh take on clip-based music production different enough to tempt users away from established rivals?īitwig Studio is the first, and the flagship, product of Bitwig GmbH, a small music software house based in Berlin and founded by ex-Ableton engineers. I checked out bitwig on Linux, but meh, maybe in a few years time. I'm happy enough with Ableton 9 (not even upgraded to. I also reckon there will have been some pretty terse developer meetings at Ableton Headquarters this week. If it proves to be as bulletproof stable as Ableton 9 has been I can see me using it live, and if they can resist filling it full of pointless DAW bloat and keep it light and focussed, I think it’s going to go on to become a classic, and an incredible tool for the generation of live electronic music. It would appear that Bitwig have been listening more attentively to Ableton Live’s user-base than Ableton have. Tabbed projects, hybrid tracks, clips AND arrangement on the same screen, totally interconnectable and modular by design and no ****ing MAX MSP in sight! The arrange window ‘reads’ left to right, with the mixer controls on the left like EVERY other sequencer EVER and the plugin delay compensation works so well I completely forgot to think about it. I’m aware of the connection between the two companies but they way Bitwig have taken the idea and turned it into everything I hoped Live would become, but didn’t, is very gratifying. It just seems to suck the music out of you! I keep sitting down with it, to see if I can find its shortcomings and, within 45 minutes, coming up with these absurd musical Heath Robinson devices, where the volume of *this* is modulating the LFO speed of *that* and the midi notes of *this* are modulating the phaser depth of *that*…īitwig plainly owes a lot to the design innovations of Ableton Live and no doubt there is an element of them ‘riding on giant’s shoulders’. The new Note Mod and Audio Mod devices are preposterously brilliant and the overall effect is that of a fully integrated environment, where everything does what you hope it is going to and there are none of the seemingly arbitrary blocks to creativity you find in other programs. All they ever asked me for was technical feedback I’m raving about it because I think it is the first genuinely innovative sequencer I’ve used since Ableton Live, thirteen years ago, and they seem genuinely interested in what their potential users think of their software. Now, I promise this isn’t some kind of greasy ‘endorsement’ thing, where they give me a free sequencer in exchange for glowing reviews on the internet. I’m *very* happy to report that they have most definitely been putting the hours in, because the list of bugfixes is enormous, the list of improvements similarly so, and the new features are superb. V1.1 was released this week so I updated and gave it another try. After a short while, though, it became apparent that it wasn’t entirely finished, so I sent them a couple of long emails detailing what I thought needed fixing and put it away, hoping that the next version would feel a bit more complete. They originally sent me a free copy when it first came out, in exchange for any technical feedback I could give them, so I dived in and really liked what I found. I found some other threads about bitwig, but this one seemed the most appropriate. Found this thread to post some new stuff about bitwig.
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