Bitwig Studio 3

Full Description

Comping – get the best take from multiple recordings

Bitwig Studio 4 introduces advanced comping capabilities, allowing you to take the best parts of multiple takes to create one flawless master take. When recording your performances, each take its given its own colour, ensuring you won’t get lost searching through different takes. Comping works in both the Launcher and Arranger, allowing you to focus on your arrangement. There is also a unique new feature in the form of ‘Fold To Takes’. For example, if you are looking for an eight-bar comp, the entire clip will be spooled into takes lanes so you can begin comping. This is perfect for experimenting and creating interesting new results.

Operators – music with a mind of its own

Modulation and customisation has been a big part of Bitwig Studio’s ethos, with the inclusion of powerful Modulators in previous versions. The introduction of ‘Operators’ brings your loops to live by creating new possibilities and timelines by programming or performance control. The Operators are comprised of four modes which can be used simultaneously or on their own. Leave your sequences to ‘Chance’ or create your own custom event timelines for in-depth control.

In-depth control with Expression Spread

The newly updated engine provides expression like never before. Keeping with the theme of randomness, Bitwig introduces the ability to randomise note velocities, individual chord panning and advanced pitch modulation. Perfect for creating new ideas and live performances, the powerful editor will visualise any values when the clip starts, updating when the loop cycle begins. Whether you want total control or want to leave it to chance, Bitwig Studio 4 gives you everything you need to achieve the unachievable.

Anti-Loops – the brand-new sound package

When is a loop not a loop? When it’s an Anti-Loop! With over 100 clips create by expert sound designers, the Anti-Loops sound pack gives you everything you need to experiment with the new Operators and expression controls. These new sequenced sounds can be broken, manipulated, mangled and chopped to create new and exciting ideas. If you need inspiration, Anti-Loops is the perfect place to start.

An intuitive user interface

Thanks to Bitwig Studio 3’s drag and drop feature, manoeuvring between projects is made simple. Multiple projects can be kept open simultaneously, allowing you to incorporate tracks from one project into another quickly.

Fades and crossfades can be seen and edited in detail in the arranger timeline. This removes the need to search through drop down menus to apply a fade. The slopes and curves can be edited by both ear and eye by simply dragging the mouse over the intended edit. Crossfades are automatically created when overlapping audio clips, once again streamlining your workflow.

The pop-up browser makes it easy to navigate through devices, presets and samples. Search functions make auditioning and selecting components easy, ensuring no time is wasted searching endless folders.

Get creative with The Grid

The Grid is a modular environment that zooms out on your modular design, allowing you to see and manipulate every little detail. Signal flow is indicated simply, ensuring you have full scope to edit, swap and move components to your hearts content. The result of this can be some truly unique sounds.

Simply drag a Grid device into any open project to begin patching over 150 different modules. Any device can be patched via stereo to another, the results may surprise you! Common connections are premade, and interchangeable of course, to set you on the right path from the beginning.

Advanced MIDI support

Bitwig Studio 3 has included MPE (Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression) to cope with ever advancing MIDI devices. This makes it one of only a few DAW’s capable of picking up every nuance of your performance, including features like micro pitch and sophisticated layer editing. Regular features for editing MIDI, like Velocity, Gain, Pan, Timbre, and Pressure, can also be easily manipulated in Bitwig Studio 3.

Hands on control

For those looking to delve deeper into the roots of VST’s, Bitwig Studio 3 lets you freely edit scripts directly from the makers. This provides the ultimate control to change parameters and create a controller tailored to your workflow. Touch screen integration also puts every parameter of Bitwig Studio 3 at your fingertips. Complete multi-touch functionality for all of the DAW’s key features significantly speeds up your workflow.

Sounds to get you started

Bitwig Studio 3 comes with over 10 gigabytes of sounds (this number is always increasing!). This includes over 2,000 presets created with some of the best sound designers available. These royalty free sounds can be used to take your project to the next level or help you get started. Packages including samples, loops and more can be selected from the Bitwig Studio Package Manager. This gives you full access without clogging up your computer with audio you won’t use.

Integrate with your current setup

Ablteon LINK has improved the workflow of producers since its introduction allowed cross-DAW integration. This allows projects to be shared between musicians and allows creativity to be at the forefront. Bitwig Studio is a very prominent part of the Ableton LINK network, allowing it to seamlessly become part of your production or performance setup.

The hardware integration offered by Bitwig Studio is a big reason why its so popular. With Bitwig Studio you get a whole array of devices dedicated to controlling your external hardware, either via MIDI and CC or CV, Gate and Clock, sent directly to your audio outputs.

Features

• A professional Digital Audio Workstation for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Super-fast workflow for sound design, recording, live performance, and beyond
• A complete package with 80+ instruments and effects
• Enjoy over 10 GB (and counting) of world-class sound content from Bitwig and selected partners
• Out-of-the-box support for standard audio interfaces and controllers
• A unique and highly flexible modulation system for unbound creativity
• Excellent hardware integration
• The Grid, a modular sound design environment sporting 154 modules and lightning-fast workflows
• Ableton LINK version 3, supporting start/stop synchronization

Specifications

• Compatability: PC, Mac
• Product code: BITWIG-3