10 Reasons why I switched from Ableton to Bitwig 🤔 | Quick Bitwig overview 

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switched from cubase to bitwig and all of a sudden enjoyed making music again :-)

Bitwig is really nice. One tip that I didn't see in the comments on 06:24 where you load the access Virus as an Audio effect. Wenn you open the Browser, you can switch on the left side bottom in the browser on "Every Device". Then you don't have to create an Audio track and move the device from one to the other track. So you can load any device (instrument, Audio, Midi) in any track. Just set the filter in the bottom left to your needs.

I used FL before buying Bitwig. Learned alot from FL but with Bitwig everything is so much faster and the modulation and workflow is amazing.

Having an Inspector, device slots and being able to have the mixer on the arrange page are some of the other reasons I switched! Also having a dedicated audio editor window is great, always hated moving audio from Session to Arrangement view to edit it!

Only thing left I REALLY want is MIDI Comping and Midi Capture on Bitwig. Those features are just too useful for my workflow. Find it so bizarre that audio comping was included but no MIDI comping.

I agree on the timing, I grew up on analogue sequencers and drum machines, you pressed play with a simple kick and snare pattern and they just grooved, solid, locked in. I've ever felt that with Ableton, it just feels sloppy to me. Started using Bitwig a while back and I'm kinda getting that same solid locked in feeling again. I mean, timing is everything with electronic music.

6:05 It also makes sense to put devices in serial with their own effects because you can activate or deactivate them with automation o without automation and the audio passes through the chain, they do not necessarily have to be in parallel, nor on different tracks.

haha, as an ableton fanboy, every reason you mentioned gave me some extra sweat droplets while thinking "uh, that would be so cool to have in Ableton". 😂

10:34 in Ableton you can also open 2 instances (configured in preferences) and move audio clips (no midi) between them, even from the explorer

Great to hear you break this down. It seems like a really great DAW. Thanks again! 👏👏👏

Two things Im really missing in Bitwig and the reason why I dont switch from Ableton are the Retrospective Midi Recording and the Macro Snapshots (with Max4Live even with Macro Snapshot Morphing). I really hoping this two features gets in to Bitwig soon!

"Point of reference" is perfect. Spot on 🙂

great video man, thanks for the useful info. Quick question, If I don't care about sample packs and stock plugins (fx and instruments) is it worth the studio version or I should be fine with the producer version? The difference in price is twice as much $200 vs $400 and I think the only relevant difference for me would be the grid, but is it worth $200?...

It's now my go-to. After Ableton announced Live 12, the update pricing and features, I kinda dipped. Rested Bitwig. Instantly fell in love. Runs smooth.

i am working on managing how to bitwig... i found out some advantages over ableton, though ableton is a beast, i am just look what will make my workflow seemless you have made a gr8 video here, that can guide to a better choice thumbs up

Being a linux music psycho my move was a switch from renoise to bitwig, where bitwig is more modern, unfortunately renoise has falled behind in terms of keeping up with the latest changes to linux like pipewire. Bitwig is even more powerful for me on opensuse tumbleweed than on windows 11 or the mac although I use windows 11 for hardware updates and hardware editing.

F1 key is killer for learning. Highlight and vst or effect hit F1 full screen overlay if the, let's say, notefx or a delay or polysynth or any other device is highlighted and it has all the knobs with explaination and you can move controls while overlay is up and it effects the plugin it's brilliant easy to learn no going back n forth

Being an Ableton user in addition to Bitwig, do you know how to set macro/control knobs in Bitwig to a specific min/max range? You know in Ableton how you can alter the range of a knob's parameter to specific values or ranges; Is this achievable in Bitwig? I am trying to create a multi-sampler instrument where I filter through 30 samples with a macro knob on a container/group. But, I want the range to be from 1 to 30 (the number of samples I have loaded into the multi-sampler browser groups). For example, if the control knob is turned all the way to the left, I want the sample "select" point to start on "sample 01" and the max range only only going up to sample 30. Essentially, I want each whole value knob turn of my macro to change the sample with each increase in value, all the way up to 30 samples I have in the multi sampler. In the multi-sampler edit window, I have the "select" layout so each sample is evenly distributed up the scale, but I'm stuck at making the knob value be limited from 1 thru 30. Any insight would be great! Thanks!

But the ableton live devices like the diffrent granular max for live plugins. What does bitwig had beside the standard granular option in the sampler?

the 1st thing why I switched is.. latency. Everything is spot on

As for the workflow, is there a feature on Bitwig which is a compensation of CTRL + SHIFT + D or DEL on Ableton for adding/removing track time in the middle of the arrangement view?

good video! very informative.

Excellent video!

Reason 10 is one of the things that really f@cks me up in ableton, and may also a good reason why i should switch. Workin on phasing of Kick and Bass in Ableton can be so frustrating.. and modular section in bitwig sounds also very interesting 😮

tech is good when its complex but easy to use ( i agree with all your points )

My understanding is that the sandboxing uses more memory, not CPU (especially on the most safe level)

Thanks Ollie !

The only thing I miss switching to Bitwig from Ableton is Drum Buss and the note repeaters and randomizers. Any equivalents to those?

About the universal tracks, I suspect when you say you believe Reason have a similar thing, did you mean Reaper? Because Reaper does, if my understanding is correct.

Hey great review Question how about a buss like those it has sends?

excellent and german direkt video, love it

You don't need to have a separate track to load a different plugiin, you can simply change the filter

6:42 this problem is not only in bitwig, fl studio or studio one, I dont remember, also has the problem of confusing some instrument with an effect, but it can be configured to correct it, I don't know if it is possible in bitwig

Ableton has gotten SO slow since 11.3. I’m considering switching just to experience a performance improvement.

Wow this is so good With ableton i always had problems with this stupid max for live devices. I cant even count how many times that screwed up my sounds i was working hours for. And on bitwig lfo is just included and also modulation. Ableton again seems very stupid actually

Wait.. so do u use a mac and run the virus ti software? Or is it a windows?

feedback fx is very nice :)

Is Bitwig more stable than Cakewalk or Reaper? Any experiences here?

Long time FL Studio user here, and I recently jumped over to BitWig. Absolutely love it! Thank you for this video.

I bought Bitwig 1.4 when Ableton was at 9. Honestly, Bitwig just performed better, albeit buggy back then. Plugin crashes was a big issue in ableton. Not so much in Bitwig. Way better internal plugins. Interface just had faster workflow. I too had the experience that Bitwig was super easy to learn, and after 3 days I'd made a full track ('Wild Growth - Drifting Upwards', if you want a listen. Shameless, I know :p) which I felt sounded sounded fuller than any track I'd done in Live. I'm guessing it just boils down to how the engine actually processes everything on export.

Thanks ❤

Any idea when they will offer native support for silicon? I'll switch then.

Video and ARA support would be amazing 😍

(polyglot here) dunno if anyone replied to your query, but yes 'point(s) of reference' or 'reference point(s)' is indeed correct. not that it truly matters, you have no difficulty making yourself understood in English, if that is not your first language.

I ditched my ableton lite because it crashed already just by scanning the plugins, that never happened with Bitwig :)

Reason nr. 4 is huge... this really makes one think. Such a shame ableton dont have this And reason nr 7 omg

The push integration is better in ableton than bitwig, a specific controler for bitwig would be great

i don't get that "hello internet" intro coming from someone who is into sound and music :) as a musician/sound designer have you listened how it sounds?

I been an ableton user since 2008 and been using bitwig since its initial release bitwig definitely has its pros but unfortunately I get daw sick if not using ableton 😅

Here before "BUT you can do xyz in abc DAW" :D I agree on all reasons!

Max4live isn't at all the same, similar but not the same. The grid is more like reaktor from native instruments, but easier. The thing about max, is that you can buy tools, make and sell tools, or get free tools, and there are literally thousands. You don't need to make any. But if you do, the amount of control you have is God tier. You can control video, you can control lighting, even robots. So, the grid, is more of a modular tool, and instrument, max is just a lab for tools.

Best choice

Good choice :)

FL Studio has almost all this options, never crashes, and lifetime updates : )

THANK YOU... for keeping the videos short, precise and , for me personaly, about what you are stating in the video statement. Not 10000 hmmm yaaaahhh well welll and so on and so on. Keep upp the god work with information SHOULD tkae 30sek and not 20000 min.

i switched 3 times now i own cubase bitwig and ableton mby i switch more idk

and following on from yesterday's announcement, 1 reason why you'll going back xD

Point of reference makes perfect sense bro :)

Bitwig is the best

Stop tempting me to make the switch bro.

Studio one for the win. Worked with may daws but studio one is lonely st the top imo. The workflow of bigwit is not even near studio one. Better plugins and faster.

Top 5 bitwig features that I love. 1. Sandbox plugins (no crashing) 2. Custom controller scripting is easy and fun. 3. Modulate everything with everything, as deeply and weirdly as you want. 4. Modular (grid) features for sound generation, audio effects, and midi/cv effects/processors. 5. The clip launcher is like live, but just better. One thing missing: Ableton live’s looper device is not here in bitwig. (SAD)

Why is it that producers always find ways to make u change daws? All daws do thesame thing.. all Daws have flaws no daw is perfect...

Reason number 9 is dead now 😢

I bet live 12 will be all of bitwig + more.

1 thing i don't like with bitwig everything is orange .

I'm scared. Cubase for 10 years, Ableton for 5 years, and Bitwig all of a sudden is screaming out my name like a lost angel. Learning a new DAW is horrifying but it appealing one way or the other.

ableton started losing its stability back in version 8, that's what moved me to Bitwig.

Hi Ollie. Please let us know your opinion on the great robbery. I am currently going through my youtube subscriptions to see if I'm still going to support them. I have supported bitwig for 6 years and this is bs. I like what you do but will not support RU-vidrs who support Bitwig anymore.

but the gui.. the gui of bitwig is just aweful (and if you have to look at that for hours on end... ugh)

funfact: bitwig is made by an ex ableton software engineer

it's too ugly!

Max is buggy as fuck it's unusable due to how unreliable it is. Ableton crashes a lot with max. The Color limiter bug hasn't been fixed in two full versions. Ableton is a fucking resource hog too. I'm the index big has been screwing up my PC for ages. Same on Mac. I want to switch to Linux and bitwig. Very disappointed with post 10 Abletons bullshit. 10 on windows 7 was excellent. The perfect daw. What the fuck happened to it like

And two days ago bitwig announced why I’m switching from it.

Bitwig is not superior in my opinion because even though it has many unique features it lacks basics that all other DAWs have and had for years. Also developers of Bitwig known to be very denial and not listening to their users at all (fe about the EQ+ phase issue developers response was “it is by design”). But because it is indeed very stable and it never crashed on me even with sandboxing off I’ll continue to use it. I hope developers will start to work on basic functionality and iron out countless internal bugs at some point but I doubt it will ever happen.

Time to switch back lol.