Where it’s not like every other DAW is in its use of a clip–based sequencer alongside a more conventional linear timeline. Beneath, the bundled Polysynth instrument isn’t blessed with a particularly sexy graphic interface, but is surprisingly potent. The Mix view with its integrated clip launcher. It also has user–tweakable audio time–stretching, transposition and transient detection built in at a fundamental level, so you can record audio at one tempo and subsequently play back at another, and easily conform loops to work better in mismatching tempos and keys, among other things. It’s got a dark–hued, single–window graphical interface with configurable inspector and browser panels, and uses drag–and–drop principles much more than menus and dialogue boxes - all bang on–trend. It hosts its own bundled effects and instruments (of which there are 62, if you take into account various MIDI and modulation tools) as well as VST plug–ins. Meanwhile, if you want a potted summary right now, here it is.įundamentally, Bitwig Studio is a DAW like many others: it has audio and instrument tracks, a sophisticated signal-routing environment, a mixer and a transport. Also, swing by and have a look at some of the videos and other information there. Nick Rothwell reviewed the launch version of Bitwig Studio in SOS June 2014 issue and I thoroughly recommend a read of that if you want to understand its workings in detail. Could it be the DAW for you? Bit Reduction Most interesting of all, it has some really distinctive and interesting capabilities that set it apart from its competitors. And yes, the name is memorably quirky! However, as I hope will become clear over the course of this review, Bitwig Studio very much stands on its own merits, and is not overtly copying anything or anyone. Some aspects do bear comparison with Live. On a superficial inspection, it might appear to be some sort of Ableton Live wannabe with a slightly comical name and yes, some of the people behind Bitwig Studio are indeed former Ableton employees.
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These components and others can be split off to suit multi–monitor systems.īitwig Studio might be the newest kid on the DAW block - but it’s growing fast!īitwig Studio is a cross–platform DAW that has been around for a couple of years now on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The Bitwig Studio interface in all its glory, with central Arrange view surrounded by transport, inspector, device panel and browser.
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