How to make better Automation on Bitwig, a complete guide
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Since some devices on Bitwig are very hard to understand, i will be breaking them down for you so you can use it with no problems at all. On this occasion we will talk about the automation features.
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - basic automation
15:16 - Modes
21:00 - Advanced automation
Well, that was my first xnb tutorial... I really enjoyed it. Well thought out, clearly described, no time wasting...
I watched it for ages, pausing, going back, making notes... But it never got boring.
Well done I'm impressed, and "I know Kung Fu"
your channel is a treasure trove of knowledge. Especially about Bitwig. Thank you. Awesome content
Thanks !!!!! I'll try to keep it up.
I am currently transitioning from FL to Bitwig after 8 years of working with it professionally and honestly your channel was exactly what I`ve needed, I keep finding tutorials that only talk about advanced stuff, so i know how to use the advanced stuff that brought me to Bitwig in the first place but for the whole month working in it I haven`t figured out how to do the thing you explain right at the beginning. Thank you very much.
BRUH.. the cntl drag up and down.. I was selecting multiple points to do thst
Ableton uses shift key to slide down two points ..
Glad to know this is here
I use 'Tool' in the end of each track lane instead using the Mixer.
Yes/ me too,...i just hate adjusting mixer when finishing a track and finding out is linked to automation.
@@FernandoLobo TrackControl from DMGaudio is also something to consider!
Hot tip.
Yes this is also the best way to have good gain staging. You can use your mixer fader at the very end of your mixing process for final balancing, after you’ve dialed in all your main moves with Tool gain. I use Tool a lot.. even between different plugins, to feed each plugin the level it expects. You get best audio quality this way. Search “gain staging” if you want to know more about this.
To the point and compact. Just awesome, man! Thx ✌️
Excellent video. Thanks a lot!
Thank you for that! I’ve been doing automation for awhile and you still managed to clear some things up for me. If you are ever looking to do more videos on this topic, I would love to see how other people handle automating plugins that you only want on part of the track.
If I understand you correctly…I would just use automation to turn the vst off and on as needed.
glad i found this channel, very good
Awesome thank you once again 👍🏼
Very useful thanks
Thannks very helpful.
great tutorial!
thank´s a lot 4 content;))
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Brilliant explanation, free and loop automation finally understood Captain!thx!
Thanks !! It turns out there is a lot to automation right ? Automation and movement brings life to your track, is a must on every production.
@@XNBeatsMusic yes, also setting macros with multiple settings on 1 macros is really cool so you don’t get a ton of automation to managed.really like you have explained everything!
@@jean-baptiste9230 thanks dude. Really glad to contribute to your arsenal hehe
I'm hoping that as CLAP is fully integrated, there will be per note automation that enables a more elektron style automation work flow
Cool video, thanks! Any chance of doing a follow up showing the best way of copying and pasting automation, and how to deal with any possible pitfalls?
FL Studio looks more and more like a fancy sampler compared to Bitwig. This is some hot shit!
An automation thing Bitwig is still missing is being able to highlight a section of time and just drag the automation line. With the effect of four points being created with the inner two increasing or decreasing the desired value, with having them auto highlighted. Like Ableton. I know right now you can kind of auto create two points at the highlight borders, still you have to create two more and select to do this. Too much click click click and frowning involved.
TOTALY getting that extra click thjng .. Ableton damn fast fkr automatikn
I’m liking bitwig .. 14 days into the trial
It’s this or upgrade Ableton to 11. Still on 10.
There are a couple Ableton things that I don’t know if I can get past
Little shit
Like the speaker 🔈 u can click in the middle or a clip down at the bottom of the screen and have it play frlm tbere.
Or the simpler chop thing
And none of the bitwig “preset layouts”
For 2 screens are to my liking
I want the damn inspector in the session view side.
And I prefer Ableton EQ8 bc of control drag on a node to change Q. EQ+ one node does that but solos the band .. BUT the EQ+ sounds better IMO.
Bitwig has wayyy better instruments
And of course the modulators
Man.. and I like the grey and pastels of Ableton but I can’t pass on what I think may be the right time to hop on BW. I suspect in one maybe 2 more upgrades it’s gonna hit that maturity level Ableton has. As in some workflow stuff that makes life easier
question, when doing curve automation, can i make the curve earlier or later without the pen tool?
Isn't it command and drag?
Or highlight with the time tool? (3)
Maybe I misunderstood
I know I'm a year late on this... but I am not able to make this work! At least as far as a looping audio clip. (see time 24:50): Does this only work for MIDI clips? I have an Audio clip that I have looping ... and if I have the "free" button enabled, and I start the loop with a ramp of volume... but then if I extend the automation length far beyond the length of the audio clip ... I expect each time it loops thereafter, the volume will remain constant.. but no matter what I do, every time the loop restarts, the volume level starts at what it was at the beginning of the clip loop! In other words... I can't make the volume automation independent of the looping clip! Is this a limitation of Audio automation in Bitwig? The one thing I notice that is different is that I am trying this with an Audio clip.. not a midi clip!
Does anyone know how i could get it synced to the grid?
Eg.if I set it to 1/16, it would only have 16 different levels per bar, and the value would change on grid.
At the moment it makes loads of points like a wiggly line
I bet it's possible. I can't find it in the manual. Would be useful for dubstep basses surely? "1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/8 etc"
Just adding another comment on this excellent channel for fun
Is there a way to lock the automation? Every time I duplicate the clip it copies the automation and sometimes I don't want that to happen.
The "Automation Follow button"
located to the left of the snap options (bottom left of arranger window and automation device window)
Toggle off, and then you can delete, copy, duplicate part independently of the clip.
P.182 of the manual I believe ( just read it 5mins ago!)
Around the 25th minute marker, you explain about the clip automation and point out the Free button; to extend the automation, without having to draw or copy in the MIDI notes over and over again. I always start from the clip launcher mode and record the scenes into the timeline; if I were to make a 1 bar arp (like you) and extend the automation to 8 bars (like you 😂), would the clip be 8 bars long; containing all the MIDI notes / information?
Great vids btw mate! I'm going to join your Patreon cuz I like your style..... 🤟🏻
Thanks !!! On the launcher yeah, it would be an 8 bar automation. You would be looping your one bar. But then you need to record the 8 bars, it will not duplicate the clips for you on the arranger timeline.
And with the Patreon thing, yeah, everything helps. But only if you can afford it, I really wouldn't like to accept anything if you are financially struggling. That's why my Patreons are 3 bucks, and cancel anytime.
@@XNBeatsMusic Thanks for clearing that up! It was as I suspected. I have been using Live for 12 years and I have to say that Bitwig is really promising; the Grid is as much easier and more intuitive than the Max 4 Live setup (Feels that way to me) and I just love the modular uses of it.
Only thing keeping me with Live is that I have a TouchAble app on my iPad Pro that basically acts as a Push! When that happens to Bitwig, I’m fully jumped over.
Keep up the good work from Blighty 🇬🇧
Hey man is there a way to deactivate all automations?... I need to send clean stems to my engineer on a different DAW.
Per track;
1- Click "show automation lanes" hamburger
2-On star icon "show all lanes"~ toggle on til it reads "all"
3- On each lane, click the "X". As you will see at the bottom, this will "delete this lane and all its automation".
You probably already knew this.
Just don't save over your automated version!
Thank you I'm still looking for tempo automation on the master track.
Some songs slow down or speed at at various times accelerate or decelerate.
I found if I right click the tempo field In the top menu bar i can choose automate tempo from there.
Then I go to the master track and can then choose to automate the bpm.
I'm still stuch on a few things and was wondering if you can do a video on this at all? As I said I'm confused about a few things.
1)
I can't see what bpm I'm setting it to untill I click a point which seems absolutely stupid. As this can be from 1 bpm to 500 or more it's hard to know what your doing, would of been nice to to have a scale in bpm on the left side so you could easily see but I don't see any option or am I missing something
2)
if I click at 1 point like100 BPM and then later choose say 125bpm is there anyway to insteed of the bpm being an instant jump in bpm or a straight line up can you somehow use curves ?
Thank you for your help and comments I really appreciate your videos . They have been very helpful. 😊
maybe this might help:ua-cam.com/video/DxznkqSICRQ/v-deo.html
This was pretty easy with 90s sequencers...
After moving from FL Studio, I wonder how over-estimated Bitwig is in terms of automation/modulation:
- how to copy/paste point's values? I see only a way to manually set the deserved parameter for each point in the Inspector panel
- how to rename automation lanes? usual means like ctrl+click dont work, lane gets its name from a plugin, and having e.g. several lanes called "mix" or "dry/wet" from different plugins is very frustrating
- how to set the deserved parameter for the point? If I found a sweet spot for a filter, after the automation is halfway drawn, there is no way to type it or copy-paste it to a desired point - only to manually fine-shift it - inspector shows point's value in percents, and plugin knob - in herz
Hello, and how are you managing this issues? did you find a workaround to make it better? any tips appreciated, thanks.
@@mjaa1307 Hi, I'm still diggin in numerous vids about bitwig automation, but some things are a bit clearer for me:
- automations cant be renamed - one can only rename macro knob on a plugin shell in device panel - but it doesnt help in the automation editor at all, when in the list you see numerous lines 'Volume' or 'Mix' and you have no idea which is which :(
- it's possible to move a knob value from plugin (in e.g herz) to automation point value in %: you can make it via macro knob - you set the macro knob in plugin's shell in device panel, then you memorize the value in herz (or whatever), then you shift the macro knob to match the value in herz, and popup of macro knob shows the value in 0..1 number, then you multiply it by 100, then you manually type the number in inspector panel for a desired automation point. If to set automation directly, without macro knob - there seems no chance to do it :(
- good news are only for numerous automation points - if you want to move them up/down, but want to keep their ratio - you should select them and simply move up/down by mouse or keyboard arrows (hold shift for fine adjustment)
- so the workflow for automations I got used to in FL studio has to be revisited upside down in bitwig, I have to invent new moves and habits from zero level, so in case of automations moving from FL is very hard... I still have numerous questions how to do this or that, my routine actions in FL automations, and the answer to half of them - no way I can do it here ((
@@IntellliGiant very helpful many thanks ! !
How to disable/enable automation lane?
If you move the automated parameter knob to the right of the name manually or click the blue circle icon it disables the automation lane, then you can restore the automation by right clicking the green circle icon or with the global Restore Automation Control button. Have you found a better way yet? Seems unintuitive, basically the reason I watched this video.
@@andrew155028:21 can we do this in arrangement view??
I like how bitwigs automation is rudimentary basic and instead of improving this and other qol features they cramp into it more unnecessary devices🤦♂️