16 Issues with Bitwig that drive me crazy & why it's still the best DAW for Drum & Bass/EDM
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
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I recently took the plunge and invested in Bitwig Studio. Although I believe it's the best state of the art DAW for electronic music/EDM production, there are several aspects that really annoy me. In this video I have noted down my concerns and broken them down into chapters. My intention is that either my viewers can prove me wrong / they can show me some workarounds / or Bitwig can work on these points.
Do you agree/disagree on these points? Is there something that did not grab my attention yet and is missing in this list?
0:00 Intro
00:59 The Time Stretch-UI in Bitwig is not as sophisticated as in Ableton Live
04:36 Time Stretch in Ableton Live IMHO is the reference
06:27 Plugin overview in Bitwig - too overloaded
07:33 Plugin overview in Ableton Live - straight, simple, clutter free
08:49 Arranger & Mixer overview in Bitwig - not better, not worse than Ableton Live
11:49 Arranger & Mixer overview in Apple Logic - my personal reference
12:00 no advanced Audio editing in Bitwig
13:46 Working Folder & File Management. Please just save everything.
16:55 The Bitwig Button, File Menu & Task Bar. Why.
18:23 Is there a Toggle-button in Bitwig?
21:04 Why does Bitwig hide enabled Mute buttons?
21:57 Quantization, Quantization..., Quantize Audio...
23:16 Is it possible to replicate a Track without its clips? Like in Logic?
24:01 Just record one Bar less, Bitwig.
24:50 The Pitch shift's UI and other inaccessible elements.
26:20 Can I get back the legacy Bitwig's clip corners?
you should use collect and save instead of save directly
maybe change the keyboard shortcut
That trick is quite handy and should work for me. Thanks!
Regarding your "plugin overview" problem:
In top left of the pop-up browser, click the “show all sources” button, then click the “collections” tab and create a collection. Name it appropriately. In your example, “transient designers” perhaps and colour it as you like.
You will notice that you now have a “transient designer” collection icon in the browser toolbar (most left column of the pop-up browser window - if you hover over it, it will show its name)
Now, in the browser, right mouse click on a transient designer VST of your choice and tick the “transient designers” collection button.
That transient designer will now appear in the “transient designers” collection……along with any others that you put there.
Obviously, you can utilise this method with any kind of collection you want: eq, delay, reverb, instruments etc….
Hope that helps.
I've found that when switching to a new DAW you have to develop a completely new workflow that is better suited to your new DAW. You have to completely forget how you did things in your old DAW and develop new and different ways of working, all DAW's have their strengths and weaknesses.
On your first point. Something is up with your import settings because it should just detect the tempo and work pretty well. Regarding the stretching there is a function called scale 50 and 200 that you can set a keyboard shortcut.
There’s a difference between onsets and warping as well. Find the start point of where you want it to fix and then create the end point so that wait it’s constrained.
You can also right click and quantize audio or type in the og tempo in the inspector if you get a wonky import. I never get bogged down by audio warping like this
I guess the solution to the toggle button issue is using the activate/deactivate function of Bitwig (Alt+A for me). It works with devices, midi- and audio clips. You even get a visual representation if a clip is active or not.
you should change the keyboard shortcut "Toggle Active/Mute State"to 0
Hey Marc, you can use option+a on mac to toggle stuff off and on. Works on entire tracks and individual clips too :) Also, when you want to edit stuff directly (type values) you can use cmd+click on the field like @olnium says, you can also triple-click for the same on most sliders too I've found. Double click returns to default.
What's cool is on filters you can also enter C1 or B2 or whatever and it will move the filter to that value.
Agreed, needs new Audio and Midi track (replicated) with empty version, please.
You can shift focus from clips to the mixing bus in the bottom left corner of the mixer view. Makes it look more like logic.
To be fair, I discovered this too late, one day after releasing the video :D I'm also using the mixer overview in live mode, when controlling everything with my Novation Launchpad
About the tempo, switch the inspector on and you see all the information 😉 additionally you can change a lot of things within the loop direct in the inspector 👍🏻
You aren't mentioning about the freeze option in Ableton. I've been requesting this option THOUSAND of times. And people just don't get how easy is just to freeze a channel and don't have to bounce it, disable a track. that occupies space in the arrangement view. I've been using bitwig since 2014! I don't understand when will this freeze option come.
when you change layout to mixer,you can close clip launcher then you can see it like logic ,the button is on the left of you first track (you can see an AB icon,youcan try the buttons
and stuff like showing EQ curves or limiter/dynamics meters is only supported with native devices, which makes total sense and is same for Logic.
when you select the audio clip you can change the stretch mode.maybe your default is raw, so you demo is so difficult
It's Ctrl+Click (Cmd+Click on Mac) to type in values.
Thanks, that works. Goes to category RTFM :-)
@@MarcRenton Check the bottom of the screen when hovering over any control and it'll tell you all of the available hotkeys for that control.
Cool 👍
Dude why don't you just remove the scenes from the mixer view and drag the faders up? You can also add Big Meters for full control of mixing. Nothing wrong with the mixer imho. I agree, the browser on the right-hand side just doesn't make sense, but create your own collections and add them as shortcuts to the left-hand side so you can quickly access your favorite plugins and presets.
Fully agree, I also have taken over using the tab key to switch to the mixer. Just like I was used to from Ableton.
@@MarcRenton Strange, It's always been the tab key for me. There's some really cool shortcuts for Bitwig. I've found one that allows me to open the selected device, solo selected track, move notes around, shorten lengthen, duplicate etc.
Maybe the best daw for you is the Studio One.
RTFM
Bit wig got you wigging 😢
It's fascinating how much bad faith, forced transplantation of other DAW workflow and simple ignorance is in this video. Why you're using Bitwig?