5 Things I WISH I Knew When First Getting Into Bitwig 

20 years of Cakewalk, 4 years of Live...looks like Im learning Bitwig now. Thanks Dash

I read some years ago that Bitwig's team was originally part of Ableton's development team. I think the plugin's UI at the bottom being the same was already a big hint. So it makes sense that it can import Ableton files. But it's amazing how far ahead of Ableton it got today.

i love bitwig's delay going above 100 percent

Bitwig is so much beyond my own capabilities, but as such it will always surprise and motivate me to learn more about it. Best DAW ever. Great video!

I hear so much about Ableton that I wonder if I’m missing out by sticking with Logic but BitWig seems to be even more up with the best ways to make electronic music. Thanks for this video.

Really cool the trick where you have used the drum rack for chords. Bitwig is soo flexible the DAW feels like an instrument where you can be creative

You don't believe it but Bitwig has the ability to load Fl project files.

The best production channel in RU-vid history period.

You just helped me increase my Bitwig character XP level to 82!

WOW, your project really sounds like Vibrasphere!

This Ctrl+Enter I never knew about, really nice tip man :)

I didn’t know the operators could do that with audio too. Fantastic video!

Great vid Dash 👌 im learning so much

Downloaded. A keeper for sure.

Thx Glitch for this very very useful tipps, especially Operator!.

Another super informative and massively helpful video! Thanks Dash!

+1 thing in the 'Loop Operators' so in the looperator :) topic: the 'Expand' generator function. (To access this function, right-click on one of the clips in the Clip Launcher where operators have been used. and can be found in the context menu) I stumbled upon this feature entirely by accident, from the manual: "... The Expand function takes any Launcher clip and supports printing out two, twenty, or however many cycles of the original as a new clip (with all possible Operators removed and printed as permanent events). And unlike "bounce" functions, Expand outputs the same kind of clip you started with - note clips remain note clips, audio clips remain event-based audio. This lets you see all the nested patterns and relationships that Operators can bring to a "simple" loop, or even start a precise edit without the randomness.,. etc." good stuff

That was awesome! Thanks a lot!

Some top shelf stuff here man! That drum machine/chord trick is excellent, cheers. ✌️

Man i love this DAW Best Audio Playground ever!

So glad you did this vid. I'm at that point where I'm just switching from Ableton. Damn, there's some really cool stuff here in Bitwig.

The operators alone is what makes Bitwig so magical. Oh, the wild and weirdo hi-hat patterns I've made. Plus, i love being able to create an entire 4/8 bar pattern in just one clip.

Thanks for the very clear information. I'm giving up on Ableton since the new updates.

This is a great video ! Thanks for this.

Great one .. thx again Dash for your education as every week ;-) I just tried the presets .. they are awesome and are very useful for everybody who stuck with music theory stuff.. Thx for your work on it.

I didn't see anyone acknowledge that Sandstorm reference, so I guess I will. Well played.

Bitwig is the best DAW if you’re making anything glitchy/IDM. It’s crazy how next-level it is when it comes to sample manipulation

You Sir, are a fucking legend 🙂

Brilliant,,cheers.

wait what.... 30 seconds in and you blew my mind allready... and i have been using Bitwig for 4 or 5 years allready... how the hell did i not know that function hahaha

please keep the Bitwig tutorials coming

I just started using xfer cthulhu chord generator for the first time (usually I just use the arp) and immediately made one of my trance tracks sound amazing

I‘m only here because Ableton doesn’t work really great anymore with my m1 MacBook. I cannot believe what they let this happen to Ableton within the last 1-2 years. I guess I will give Bitwig a try…

Heeeyy Dash! How about a mixing(mixing in bitwig) tutorial?😊

i was always one of the biggest haters against the fact that bitwig's minimum track height is still quite large to keep the overview in big projects. but knowing now that you can just look at certain groups exclusively makes me feel much better about it. on top of that you don't need as many tracks in bitwig as you need in cubase anyway, because in cubase you need group tracks, not just for grouping tracks, but also for setting up parallel processing of a single track and that can really visually accumulate throughout a project

Thanks the last chord setup in drum machine is quite confusing but i have been looking for a way to trigger custom chords with a single note, will try…

Best DAW ever

LETSGOOOOOO

The inversion of a chord is determined by which note is the lowest in the chord. How exactly you space the chord, e.g. root, root +3st, root +7st vs. root, root+7st,root+15st, is called voicing.

Dude Dash - good video; it's getting late so I'll have to finish watching later. I'm switching in 6 days to Bitwig because as a professional, Ableton's unbearable, urgent and "we can't reproduce them" bugs have finally got me out of there - after ten years. Reliability is why I'm switching - not cool features. Please note Bitwig CANNOT open all Ableton audio files, there are a huge amount it cannot (without being bounced) and if that's a deal-maker for anyone don't switch. Below is what Bitwig wrote me. And bouncing first is not an option - it took me 2 hours to bounce all the files I needed from Ableton for use in my first Bitwig lesson in six days. Why? Because if you have a file called 'Dash' in an Ableton project, Bitwig will probably need EVERY one of the Dash files. "Dash-1D#3" Dash-2 D#4- etc. Anyway, here's what Bitwig wrote me, quote: "The problem is that Ableton made the strange decision to copyprotect some of their sample libraries by encrypting the samples but still given them a standard aiff or wav file extension name - even while those encrypted files are not actually readable samples anymore and only Ableton Live itself can read this file and decrypt it."

Not sooo fond of the Chord/Scale system in Bitwig. Little less mathematician-approach, little more composer-style approach would be awesome. Thinking of Scaler2 here as an example of how things look a little more appealing/meaningful to a composer, compared to little device chains with note numbers having to be typed in, haha. (+ scale being visible in piano roll / chord tracks, those are good tools for composers, e.g. in Cubase). Edit: Sorry forgot to mention: thanks for the video - nice hint with the operators!! 😊

I wish I knew what a pain in the butt it’d be to switch from Reason to Bitwig in terms of my audio interface, a MOTU M4. Once I can finally hear my guitar/vox, I can’t get the audio to playback in the DAW (even though I see it). That ate up about 2hrs of my night.

...bitwig can import ableton projects? That was the last thing I needed to know to check iout, thanks!

Are there any other videos about trackers? You had one with renoise, very exciting. are you planning something like this in the direction of tracker? Or is it too niche.. Thanks!

Good one . Just as I've been trying to learn shortcuts. Nightmare

Do you like it more than Cubase? I am only about 100 hours into Cubase, total, ever. Lol Bitwig looks very clear to use... Although, I like the challenge of Cubase, I am not able to really create anything, just stimulate my intellectual side haha

@dasglitch could u explain how you did that glassy lead in the back it’s killer !

I'm not a bitwig user......... Yet

Using the drum machine for applying different MIDI Fx on different notes seem overly complicated to me. Why not just taking note Fx layers for that and applying a note filter in each layer? Does the same job, seems much faster to me and you could even model something like keygroups with that approach.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom and knowledge 🍆🌊

I will do the wave trick , not the midi trick . operator . It is no operator to see at Wave . I must see the Video again . No mode brings the operator in sight . raw or elastic or cycles or stretch or . What is the Hack for the trick . I have my wave piece , give him a double klick and on the left is the parnell , but without operator . HELP bitwig5

1. Their refund policy (gottem LMAO!)

Tips greatly appreciated!

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