I am so glad to see Omri do a bitwig series. I try to follow his modular stuff in vcv rack, but the grid seems easier to me somehow. Omri is a deep teacher and worth considering regardless of our medium
love the surprise instrument mastery you showcase in these videos alongside the nuts-and-bolts bitwig technique! the flute at the end was especially beautiful ❤
When using the note grid you can achieve polyphony without multiple voices. Set the grid to voices: true mono, then use multiple note-out modules. You can also uncheck "Free-run when stopped" to start and stop the patch with the transport controls, although I've recently been using a "transport playing" module AND-ed with the note output as it seems a bit more deterministic. This also removes the need to use the note input clip. I have such a setup in my own recreation of Steve Reich's Piano Phase which you can see here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CD6dvw7IuF4.html
Really nice, basically this are polyrithms and they sound really cool. The stereo separation that you get is amazing and I wonder if there is any way that you can feed an arp from a clip and make the same effect. I will experiment with that later but so far it seems really difficult, is there any way to buffer midi notes?
If you have note clips, no need for the grid. Start with two identical clips, then shorten one of them by, say, 1 beat. You may not need to drop a note, just trim a bit of the empty space at the end of one clip. Put them in the clip launcher, on two separate tracks, set them both to loop, and they’ll play together out of phase just like in the examples here. (But that's not a solution for a live playing arp. You'd need a looper probably. We should totally have a midi looper in the grid!.)
Thanks! You can definitely create the first technique with clips. As Song OfItself mentioned, you just need to trim one clip by a step or so, and they will slowly go out of phase.
On the first example I couldn't hear the panning stereo between the left and right channel in the same track. So I separated each section to the left and the right in their own tracks and then I could hear the stereo separation. I'm not sure why it didn't sound the same as yours as I have the latest release of Bitwig.. Basically the very first sequence run would sound muffled on the second pan and once the drift occurred, then suddenly it sounds correct. When I split it into two separate tracks one pan left and one pan right, then I could hear the stereo separation from start to finish.
