I switched from ableton to bitwig a month ago and it boosted my creativity by a great margin. I achieve the sound i want way faster because of some great design choices. A crashing plugin in ableton is a creativity killer, in bitwig its no problem :)
Great vid, amigo! I would add that another great practical aspect of BW's modulators is to revive old VSTs - those still in use but that have objectively crappy modulation systems (FM8 and Sylenth are 2 that come to mind). Just override all those old limited internal systems with BWs = a great way of breathing some life into vintage VSTs Also: It's a great shortcut to diving into vintage-modeled synths that come with a learning curve. I mean: how many of us have really taken the time to learn all of Arturia's vintage emulations? My MO now is: Just show me where the barebones oscillators, filters and Envelopes are and after that I'll go to work with BWs modulators. Hotwiring a crazy complex Modular Moog with some of BW's more extreme modulators, ie, is a sure way of doing some unique vintage-meets-modern sound design:)
modulators and fx containers inside devices are two of the best features of Bitwig, imo. Putting another Reverb in the Reverb "tank" or a Chorus+ or even a resonator bank, etc, then modulating the reverb itself... it's the LEGO of DAWs :D
I still remember the day, about 2 years ago, when I tried to find an LFO in FL Studio. As with anything in FL, it wasn't where I expected it could be, so I turned to youtube and learned that the LFO lives among audio effects and is actually called "Fruity Peak Controller". And why not? It is, after all, a peak controller that doubles as a rather quirky LFO. I won't describe it in detail, don't want to horrify people, but mostly I couldn't get over how they named it, how impractical it was, and how they apparently didn't care. I remember it because on that day I finally decided I had enough and bought Bitwig - for the modulators. Soon I discovered the three grids in it and that made Bitwig my favorite piece of software of all time (which in my case means since mid-90s, when I got my first PC AT computer). Never looked back, and my creativity opened up like I didn't think was possible. And now when I am looking for something, it is where I expect it to be, and usually has a recognizable name, too! (Well, except maybe the Tree Monster :--))
Happened something similar but in less time and many DAWs in between. I switched from FL because it was not intuitive for me, but Bitwig gave me an efficent workflow.
@@AlexReidStudios and for me those are often the ones that I would like to have mapped to a controller the most for live sets playing... often its those that for example regenerate some random data, for some reason - I noticed this repeatedly, its those "out of the box" that dont fall into the category of classic 128 CC functions / generic traditional hardware controls.. i.e. XO and switching between new sets of random samples or beat patterns.. :( id fukin love that mapped for live play, tried many workarounds, gave up
@@ancientbohemianthat’s more a plug-in developer problem than it is a bitwig one. Bitwig has its architecture set in a very open way. 3rd party Plug-ins often don’t.
Bitwig claims to modulate systemwide - I could not find a solution for track a modulates track b . spent hours with chatGPT got dozens of suggestions none worked tho I did the setup exactly as suggested . waht I miss is a general global modulation matrix . or at least a in/out selector in the mod symbol
@solarsound744 I believe it's not possible. There are track modulators, which will modulate anything inside a track, and then you got project modulators, which can modulate anything
I switched from ableton to bitwig a month ago and it boosted my creativity by a great margin. I achieve the sound i want way faster because of some great design choices. A crashing plugin in ableton is a creativity killer, in bitwig its no problem :)
That's true, Bitwig hasn't crashed on me, escept one time but was becayse of an iLok plugin. And the workflow is really efficent
Great vid, amigo!
I would add that another great practical aspect of BW's modulators is to revive old VSTs - those still in use but that have objectively crappy modulation systems (FM8 and Sylenth are 2 that come to mind). Just override all those old limited internal systems with BWs = a great way of breathing some life into vintage VSTs
Also: It's a great shortcut to diving into vintage-modeled synths that come with a learning curve. I mean: how many of us have really taken the time to learn all of Arturia's vintage emulations? My MO now is: Just show me where the barebones oscillators, filters and Envelopes are and after that I'll go to work with BWs modulators. Hotwiring a crazy complex Modular Moog with some of BW's more extreme modulators, ie, is a sure way of doing some unique vintage-meets-modern sound design:)
I agree, that makes it an amazing DAW, not beign limited by a plugin's limitations
Thank you! this is really helpful. cant you please show how to create a multiband dynamics with side chain like in Ableton?
I could make a short video, but basically you have the multiband 3 device, and the dynamics have sidechain inputs. there's a multiband dynamics too
@@AlexReidStudios Thank you
I think this is one of the more intuitive workflows for this sorta stuff.
Agree
Thanks for these tips!
Hope they were useful :)
modulators and fx containers inside devices are two of the best features of Bitwig, imo. Putting another Reverb in the Reverb "tank" or a Chorus+ or even a resonator bank, etc, then modulating the reverb itself... it's the LEGO of DAWs :D
Gotta make a video about those wet, tank and so on containers, they are great
Thanks for the helpful tips!
Have fun!
I like your channel...the way you present the information is top notch...no water, everything is strictly business.... keep it up!
Thanks! Straight to the point is my philosophy
I still remember the day, about 2 years ago, when I tried to find an LFO in FL Studio. As with anything in FL, it wasn't where I expected it could be, so I turned to youtube and learned that the LFO lives among audio effects and is actually called "Fruity Peak Controller". And why not? It is, after all, a peak controller that doubles as a rather quirky LFO. I won't describe it in detail, don't want to horrify people, but mostly I couldn't get over how they named it, how impractical it was, and how they apparently didn't care.
I remember it because on that day I finally decided I had enough and bought Bitwig - for the modulators.
Soon I discovered the three grids in it and that made Bitwig my favorite piece of software of all time (which in my case means since mid-90s, when I got my first PC AT computer). Never looked back, and my creativity opened up like I didn't think was possible. And now when I am looking for something, it is where I expect it to be, and usually has a recognizable name, too! (Well, except maybe the Tree Monster :--))
Happened something similar but in less time and many DAWs in between. I switched from FL because it was not intuitive for me, but Bitwig gave me an efficent workflow.
1:50 frustratingly, not every parameter of every 3rd party plugin can be mapped and modulated :o(
There are some, true. Not sure why but it depends on how the plugin is programmed
@@AlexReidStudios and for me those are often the ones that I would like to have mapped to a controller the most for live sets playing... often its those that for example regenerate some random data, for some reason - I noticed this repeatedly, its those "out of the box" that dont fall into the category of classic 128 CC functions / generic traditional hardware controls.. i.e. XO and switching between new sets of random samples or beat patterns.. :( id fukin love that mapped for live play, tried many workarounds, gave up
@@ancientbohemianthat’s more a plug-in developer problem than it is a bitwig one. Bitwig has its architecture set in a very open way. 3rd party Plug-ins often don’t.
Ableton is starting to get flanked. 13 better be something awesome... not just a couple new devices and some bug fixes.
Can you modulate left and right separately without the stereo split container?
@@GeorgeLocke I don't think so, unless the device or plugin has separate parameter for left ans right
@@AlexReidStudios it occurred to me to wonder because of the stereo LFO on filter+ and sweep
@@GeorgeLocke Haven't opened that device as The Grid in a while so I cannot remember how that works
Bitwig claims to modulate systemwide - I could not find a solution for track a modulates track b . spent hours with chatGPT got dozens of suggestions none worked tho I did the setup exactly as suggested . waht I miss is a general global modulation matrix . or at least a in/out selector in the mod symbol
@solarsound744 I believe it's not possible. There are track modulators, which will modulate anything inside a track, and then you got project modulators, which can modulate anything
@@AlexReidStudios thnx