I would say Bitwig. If they are already giving prices to retailers and even linking to a retailer from their (Bitwigs) own Twitter account that means..jonnyG wrote: Cheers for that. I asked because I remembered it was a long time and that V.1 had a very positive reception re. stability.
Any bets on what hits the shelves first: Bitwig or Live 9?
a. The Pricing is 100% official
b. It is probably not more than 3 - 6 months away from release.
I know "a." is definitely correct but "b." is more of a mystery. To have the product listed by retailers and not be available for more than 6 months would be strange. I would think BWS could ship by April / May but then again if it is anything like Ohm Studio's beta then it could be 18 months+ from now before BWS is released.
Time will tell I guess. If BWS takes that long to come out of the door it would be a disaster for Bitwig. Live 9 would surely not take 4 - 5 years to show up and IMO will very likely be released within the next 12 months.
Live 9 just seems further away than BWS still IMO. Live 8 was announced in January 2009 IIRC (over 3 years ago incredibly) and was released in April 2009 2 -3 months later. So I would think any Live 9 release would be about 2- 3 months after a Live 9 announcement which has not happened yet.
So I think at least for now BWS appears to be a more likely product to be released first out of the two. Especially if Bitwig are following Abletons Live 8, 2 - 3 month announcement to product release time frame.
Bitwig I would think are definitely hoping to get out of the door first.