Random pro tip: You can import other Bitwig projects into a project, and it'll create a new group with all the tracks inside that project. Very handy if you want to build up a template with minimal tracks initially, but add 'sections' as you need them.
Thank you! i finally found a comprehensive video on this that isn't filled with condescending commentary or pretentious. You explain this software exceedingly well!
Brilliant tips Alex! Time savers for sure. For the bouncing in place in the arranger view, would still like a "rollback to midi " function, just in case I decide to use another instrument or vst and have the midi source available rather than lost during the bounce in place process. This is what I currently do to get around that: I make a normal bounce, then deactivate the midi source file and hide it. Need to make a change of instrument (or the midi)? Unhide it, copy any new effects I've made in the bounce, activate it, change instrument or FX, bounce again, rename, delete previous bounce and finally deactivate and hide source file again. There's got to be an easier way to accomplish this... In cubase and studio one, there is just no thinking involved (need to save CPU? Freeze. Need to make a change? Unfreeze, make change, refreeze). Let us know in a future video :) Thanks again! Your tips are golden nuggets of Bitwig wisdom :)
First of all thank you for your words! I'm glad to be helpful. Secondly I agree, there should be an "unbounce" option, then it would beat freeze all the way
Thank you, this was useful. I read the entire Bitwig manual last year, but of course I couldn't remember all of it, and you showed me a couple of things I'd forgotten about: the focus mode where you only see the tracks from a particular group is really cool, and also what you said about Bounce in Place and how you can place the effects either in the plugin or after it for different levels of access after the bounce... that was very interesting too.
Fantastic! Love number 7! Do you have any midi tips and tricks? I’m struggling with sending and receiving midi from my tr-6s and mc101. The audio is a breeze!
You are an excellent teacher, Alex! I've learned so much about Bitwig in the past few days from your videos! I am coming from Ableton and I am starting to see what all the Bitwig buzz is about!
The tips were useful, even if I knew them all, but sometimes we forget a few elements, so a refresh is nice. For an arrangement vid, I was expecting turning a complete 16 bar loop into a bigger track, with reduction - as in which elements to remove at what time, along with adding effect automation over the entire timeline to compliment our new structure - perhaps for another arrange video!
Excellent video, again! Another helpful thing to do is set up controller panels in a standardised way and save them with your presets. Eg. I always put cutoff, reso, attack and decay on as the first row and out the volume in the 8th slot, leaving the three slitsfor tonal (LFO, etc) and effects. This means it is super fast and consistent to set the instrument preset to your midi controller. i always know how the main controls will align to the knobs on my controllers (FaderFix PC12, Akai midiMix, EletraOne, etc.)
You can also build an entire track in the clip launcher, then simply press record and trigger the clip groups in sequence to your preference. Then everything will be in your timeline and you can tweak and spruce up as you like. Super quick way to build an entire song.
Hi.Thanks again for your great advice.I don't know if you already have a video about the left window of Bitwig. In which numbers and other things appear when you insert an instrument. It would be nice if you could explain a little bit about this. Of course there is documentation, but it is much easier to understand visually with explanations. I've only been working with Bitwig for a month, but I've learned more in a couple days of watching your videos than in a month of reading the documentation.:)
We are so lucky these days with the music tech available. I’m now too old and ill to do much anymore. Bitwig, Omnisphere, Reason Rack, Izotope bundle and Soundtoys 5 rack on an i7 Surface Pro would have had me playing 20 hours a day. Now I go days without doing anything but trying to not feel crap. Brilliant video Alex. Love the new look browser too. I wouldn’t use the Grid much though but it looks gorgeous. A bit like Audulus.
Bitwig has a more advanced type of freezing with the use of groups. It is necessary to work in a track arrangement in this case, then, if desired, transfer the arrangement to the clip.
A video I'd like to see: exercises i can do to get used to the transition from loop to arrangement. That is, i want to get experience beginning an arrangement with minimal composition effort. Something analogous to doing scales, but for arrangement. I can't figure out what "deliberate practice" for arrangement looks like!
Arrangement isn't that , what you talk about is structure , sorry but i have to point this out , i get a lot this type of confusion from students .... the term In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Exellent video anyway ;) Probably the most efficient video on workflow i was looking for (specially coming from genralistics daws) Thinking of getting bitwig and i had a lot of infos here , fav one being collection in browser that i used to have in cakewalk and no more in studio one (very limited) Is there a way to sart writing automation without having to create a lane first (i usually enable automation on plugin wrapper in S1 and move my controller knob , it create the lane and the curve , here i didn't find it , had to create the lane , asign the knob ect ...;so long)
Thanks for watching and the clarification. I knew that but as most of people call structure "arrangement" I figured keeping it os the video is easy to find :)
Is this Bitwig version 5? I still wait for the final 5 version, because all those betas is not convenient to work with. I know templates. Sometimes hard to see what happens if I save. For example I save as template, and later I want to save the project. But then I think I must always use "File - Save as" because if I chose the other options "File -Save" or "Collect and Save" is just overwrite the template, but will not save the project. But if there is no template it will save the project. it confuses me somehat regularly.
I think that's why BW offers the save as template and save as... options as two separate things. Also yes, this is BW 5 but all these tips are also for BW 4
@@AlexReidStudios Hi Alex. Any idea of recording reverb tails on an instrumet track which you have to record the midi clip longer as the loop region. does this have an impact when you duplicate the longer clip with the tail which merge into next midi clip (arrangement view) ?
@@AlexReidStudios Oh, ok. I'm from Poland. I was thinking about your accent :-) Thank you for all your thoughts, tips and videos in general about Bitwig, I'm in the process of switching from FL Studio to another DAW (I'm not a professional musician) and I can't decide which one to choose. P.S. Why do you wear a mask?
HEY MAN. CAN I PAY PAL YOU 25$ TO MAKE A EASY VIDEO ON EXPLAINING HOW TO EDIT A FULL SONG THAT'S ALREADY BEEN RECORDED...SO LETS SAY THE SONG IS ALREADY COMPLETE... BUT I JUST WANT TO STACK 5 FFX ON IT AND IN ONE ARE THE 2ND VOCALIST IS TO LOUD AND I NEED TO BRING HIS LEVEL DOWN? IS THAT POSSIBLE?. LIKE I SAID THIS IS NOT INDIVIDUAL TRACKS BUT BASICALLY REMIXING A FULL FINISHED SONG MP3 DRAGGED IN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS RESPECTS...
I used to love Bitwig, but I've swapped over to Waveform 12. It pretty much does everything Bitwig does, but much more powerful things like track Freeze Points (absolute genius), smart MIDI and chord arranger. Oh, and its free.
@@AlmerosMusicCode Kinda. The Pro Version is about $90 I think and that has everything, or you can get free and just add the pro bits your really need. Either way, its a fraction of Bitwigs extortion price (IMHO)
I suggest to everyone not to use bounce or bounce in place. Unfortunately those functions are broken. You can hear is exceptionally well on material with transients. Bitwig will remove all transients from your material after bounce. The longer bounces also a problem. You can try to bounce long note and flip the phase of bounced clip. Play it along original clip and you will hear phaser effect. Bitwig developers unfortunately ignore this problem. Like many other problems.
Random pro tip: You can import other Bitwig projects into a project, and it'll create a new group with all the tracks inside that project. Very handy if you want to build up a template with minimal tracks initially, but add 'sections' as you need them.
Wow, honestly didn't knew that, so useful!
I use this to create the overall master for my CD before I send it to the disk company.
Thank you! i finally found a comprehensive video on this that isn't filled with condescending commentary or pretentious. You explain this software exceedingly well!
Honestly part of why I make this video is because many Bitwiggers skip the basic stuff :). Thank you!
Brilliant tips Alex! Time savers for sure. For the bouncing in place in the arranger view, would still like a "rollback to midi " function, just in case I decide to use another instrument or vst and have the midi source available rather than lost during the bounce in place process.
This is what I currently do to get around that: I make a normal bounce, then deactivate the midi source file and hide it. Need to make a change of instrument (or the midi)? Unhide it, copy any new effects I've made in the bounce, activate it, change instrument or FX, bounce again, rename, delete previous bounce and finally deactivate and hide source file again.
There's got to be an easier way to accomplish this... In cubase and studio one, there is just no thinking involved (need to save CPU? Freeze. Need to make a change? Unfreeze, make change, refreeze).
Let us know in a future video :)
Thanks again! Your tips are golden nuggets of Bitwig wisdom :)
First of all thank you for your words! I'm glad to be helpful. Secondly I agree, there should be an "unbounce" option, then it would beat freeze all the way
Thank you, this was useful. I read the entire Bitwig manual last year, but of course I couldn't remember all of it, and you showed me a couple of things I'd forgotten about: the focus mode where you only see the tracks from a particular group is really cool, and also what you said about Bounce in Place and how you can place the effects either in the plugin or after it for different levels of access after the bounce... that was very interesting too.
Honestly I also tend to forget manuals haha. Thank you, glad you liked the video :)
Fantastic! Love number 7! Do you have any midi tips and tricks? I’m struggling with sending and receiving midi from my tr-6s and mc101. The audio is a breeze!
@@Tobes1100 Gonna check some and I'll let you know :)
You are an excellent teacher, Alex! I've learned so much about Bitwig in the past few days from your videos! I am coming from Ableton and I am starting to see what all the Bitwig buzz is about!
Thank you so much! I'm glad to be helpful and I hope you are enjoying Bitwig
The tips were useful, even if I knew them all, but sometimes we forget a few elements, so a refresh is nice. For an arrangement vid, I was expecting turning a complete 16 bar loop into a bigger track, with reduction - as in which elements to remove at what time, along with adding effect automation over the entire timeline to compliment our new structure - perhaps for another arrange video!
That video is coming :)
@@AlexReidStudios Perfect Alex! Looking forward - it's my struggle point!
Man! you're amazing!
Thank you!
Excellent video, again! Another helpful thing to do is set up controller panels in a standardised way and save them with your presets. Eg. I always put cutoff, reso, attack and decay on as the first row and out the volume in the 8th slot, leaving the three slitsfor tonal (LFO, etc) and effects. This means it is super fast and consistent to set the instrument preset to your midi controller. i always know how the main controls will align to the knobs on my controllers (FaderFix PC12, Akai midiMix, EletraOne, etc.)
Thanks, I don't do that often but is a time saver for sure
I do a lot if this except... and I'm amazed I did't know this... you can mix and match the loop blocks and main tracks! 🎉❤❤😊
Is amazing
Thanks! Very useful! Hope this series will continue
It will!
You can also build an entire track in the clip launcher, then simply press record and trigger the clip groups in sequence to your preference. Then everything will be in your timeline and you can tweak and spruce up as you like. Super quick way to build an entire song.
Hi.Thanks again for your great advice.I don't know if you already have a video about the left window of Bitwig. In which numbers and other things appear when you insert an instrument. It would be nice if you could explain a little bit about this. Of course there is documentation, but it is much easier to understand visually with explanations. I've only been working with Bitwig for a month, but I've learned more in a couple days of watching your videos than in a month of reading the documentation.:)
Glad to be helpful. I will definetly make a video about that, there's a lot of stuff there.
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Bitwig newbie so this was very handy - thank you.
Glad to help :) I have a Bitwig playlist if you want to see other tutorials
@@AlexReidStudios seen that - thanks.
I think I now everything I need to know about bitwig but I'm always wrong about it. So thanks about these tips.
It takes patience, glad I could help :)
We are so lucky these days with the music tech available. I’m now too old and ill to do much anymore. Bitwig, Omnisphere, Reason Rack, Izotope bundle and Soundtoys 5 rack on an i7 Surface Pro would have had me playing 20 hours a day. Now I go days without doing anything but trying to not feel crap. Brilliant video Alex. Love the new look browser too. I wouldn’t use the Grid much though but it looks gorgeous. A bit like Audulus.
Hey thanks for watching and I hope you still are finding some time to play around with all these toys :)
Sorry you feel ill Jami, I'm old ish and getting there myself! Crap lungs :/ At least we have our tech to entertain when we can manage.
Bitwig has a more advanced type of freezing with the use of groups. It is necessary to work in a track arrangement in this case, then, if desired, transfer the arrangement to the clip.
A video I'd like to see: exercises i can do to get used to the transition from loop to arrangement. That is, i want to get experience beginning an arrangement with minimal composition effort. Something analogous to doing scales, but for arrangement. I can't figure out what "deliberate practice" for arrangement looks like!
Today's video was about that, but file got corrupted, hopefully next sunday it will be up :)
@@AlexReidStudios Eric mind explode gif
Arrangement isn't that , what you talk about is structure , sorry but i have to point this out , i get a lot this type of confusion from students .... the term In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition.
Exellent video anyway ;) Probably the most efficient video on workflow i was looking for (specially coming from genralistics daws) Thinking of getting bitwig and i had a lot of infos here , fav one being collection in browser that i used to have in cakewalk and no more in studio one (very limited)
Is there a way to sart writing automation without having to create a lane first (i usually enable automation on plugin wrapper in S1 and move my controller knob , it create the lane and the curve , here i didn't find it , had to create the lane , asign the knob ect ...;so long)
Thanks for watching and the clarification. I knew that but as most of people call structure "arrangement" I figured keeping it os the video is easy to find :)
yeah i know it a common acceptance , at least as youtubers we should point this out ;) @@AlexReidStudios
You don't even need to hold ctrl when copying clips between arrange and session btw
Yeah I realized after the upload lol
how did you rout the SSD microphones to different audio channels?
Inside the plugin, go to mixer. At the bottom of every trqck you'll see a number, that's the output
Can you do like in ableton that you change audio into -- melody or rhythm ?
I think you can't
But in freeze modes you can go back
My mom walked in when I was performing my Great Nasty Solo and it was kind of embarrassing
Lol, too dirty
Can wai chu use zese on my proyects.
how did u collapse the groups
The groups have folder icons, yoy just have to press them
Is this Bitwig version 5? I still wait for the final 5 version, because all those betas is not convenient to work with. I know templates. Sometimes hard to see what happens if I save. For example I save as template, and later I want to save the project. But then I think I must always use "File - Save as" because if I chose the other options "File -Save" or "Collect and Save" is just overwrite the template, but will not save the project. But if there is no template it will save the project. it confuses me somehat regularly.
I think that's why BW offers the save as template and save as... options as two separate things. Also yes, this is BW 5 but all these tips are also for BW 4
Sometimes i get audio bounce in the group but can’t open the audio edit and does bounce when i duplicate…
I'm not sure what are you describing
Question, How do you breathe?
I had to hold my breath all the time, that's why I changed the mask
bitwig can import (.als) project from ableton live....not totally but a lot ,) and with jackaudio bitwig can record ableton live realtime....
It can also open Ableton and FL Studio project files
@@AlexReidStudios Hi Alex. Any idea of recording reverb tails on an instrumet track which you have to record the midi clip longer as the loop region. does this have an impact when you duplicate the longer clip with the tail which merge into next midi clip (arrangement view) ?
Hi, Alex. Are you Scandinavian?
@@frozen_78 Nope, I'm from Chile
@@AlexReidStudios Oh, ok. I'm from Poland. I was thinking about your accent :-) Thank you for all your thoughts, tips and videos in general about Bitwig, I'm in the process of switching from FL Studio to another DAW (I'm not a professional musician) and I can't decide which one to choose.
P.S. Why do you wear a mask?
@@frozen_78 I wear it for privacy and shyness haha. Glad you liked my videos
@@AlexReidStudios Don't be shy ;-) Is there a place we can talk more about audio stuff? I have a few questions for you.
@@frozen_78 You can join discord :) discord.com/invite/yPrmyKuAcM
nice
Thanks!
Claaiiiiire
what? lol
everythign is happening so fast, i guess that young people tempo
learning your DAW is too dangerous. you may actually get something done. totally unacceptable. hahaha
hahahha totally!
With most DAWs. With Bitwig, you just learn more cool things to do with it and get distracted by and go down endlessly modulated rabbit holes.
HEY MAN. CAN I PAY PAL YOU 25$ TO MAKE A EASY VIDEO ON EXPLAINING HOW TO EDIT A FULL SONG THAT'S ALREADY BEEN RECORDED...SO LETS SAY THE SONG IS ALREADY COMPLETE... BUT I JUST WANT TO STACK 5 FFX ON IT AND IN ONE ARE THE 2ND VOCALIST IS TO LOUD AND I NEED TO BRING HIS LEVEL DOWN? IS THAT POSSIBLE?. LIKE I SAID THIS IS NOT INDIVIDUAL TRACKS BUT BASICALLY REMIXING A FULL FINISHED SONG MP3 DRAGGED IN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS RESPECTS...
For an enquiry like this please consider sending me an emal :)
ITS BUZZZD03 AT YAHOO AND THATS ZERO 3 NOT o @@AlexReidStudios
Good tips but only one of them has to do with arrangement.
I used to love Bitwig, but I've swapped over to Waveform 12. It pretty much does everything Bitwig does, but much more powerful things like track Freeze Points (absolute genius), smart MIDI and chord arranger. Oh, and its free.
Haven't tested waveform in a while, gotta give it a chance
@@AlexReidStudios Yeah man, they've really done a good job on the new version. The modulators are not as complex as Bitwig, but 1000% easier to use.
Looks cool and that for free? Not bad! Business case is you have to pay for expansion packs if I see correctly.
@@AlmerosMusicCode Kinda. The Pro Version is about $90 I think and that has everything, or you can get free and just add the pro bits your really need. Either way, its a fraction of Bitwigs extortion price (IMHO)
Waveform can be unstable..still feels buggy in my opinion
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you cant create as many collections as you want sadly....
that's a shame
I suggest to everyone not to use bounce or bounce in place. Unfortunately those functions are broken. You can hear is exceptionally well on material with transients. Bitwig will remove all transients from your material after bounce. The longer bounces also a problem. You can try to bounce long note and flip the phase of bounced clip. Play it along original clip and you will hear phaser effect. Bitwig developers unfortunately ignore this problem. Like many other problems.
Need to test that as I haven't noticed an issue before
Lol at "oh hi mark...er".
You've got a natural talent for explaining things. Would be awesome to see a tutorial on Grid from you
Thank you so much, gonna plan something :)