Let‘s speculate about 5.2

[nowiamone]

Well the most sad thing would be "10 new synth toys to play with in the grid, 2 new Filters"...

Personally I'd really appreciate 10 new things to play with in the Grid (*) and a couple of new filters, and have no use for non-Grid related sequencing stuff.

No matter what new features the next update brings, people will complaint that THEIR "must-have" feature wasn't implemented (or wasn't implemented the way they wanted it). That's just how this game works

(*) especially if one of them is hosting plugins in the grid, and another one is sub-grids we can save in a preset library.

Yup, that's how the game works, everyone has his/her special wishes. You wish for grid-stuff, i mostly for QoL features. Not to say i wouldn't be happy to see a Sampler with proper slicing abilities for live performance and Live-Audio-In for the Sampler in the Grid, also.

[SLiC]

I wonder if it will be influenced by the new features in Live 12 at all? Search browser by similar sound, global scale, better midi editing etc...

[enCiphered]

I will always use a full-fledged sample browser application like Sononym for similarity search, regardless of how well a DAW integrates such features. Because it has so much more to offer.

[Zikax]

I wonder if it will be influenced by the new features in Live 12 at all? Search browser by similar sound, global scale, better midi editing etc...

I think they will update the browser soon because so many users don't like the new one. maybe they add some customization tools and some a.i similarly search.

[pdxindy]

I wonder if it will be influenced by the new features in Live 12 at all? Search browser by similar sound, global scale, better midi editing etc...

I kinda imagine that they had their own roadmap for 5.2 decided before Live 12 was even announced.

[Hanz Meyzer]

Looked into my crystal ball, and it clearly envisioned these upcoming features:

- midi comping
- midi always on recording
- custom interfaces for grid setups
- vst undo
- step recording in the pianoroll, including fancy erase and skip function
- midi delay setting per track and clip (also negative)
- inplace pianoroll, also highly improved gui rendering speed
- scripting now can also create custom guis, custom shortcuts, it also can manipulate midi data
- there now is a shortcut to increase and decrease quantization
- quantization now is always shown in the bottom status bar on the right
- Bitwig now supports the system device (no more loosing audio device settings, if you move your mobile)
- master spectrum analyzer now can be integrated in the gui sections, without being a popup window.
- you can now edit two pianorolls side-by-side (without z-layering)
- ARA2 support was added

[JHernandez]

Groove Pool and a kick ass Sequencer obviously.

I have a feeling I'm going to be saying this for years but I don't need or want anything else.

[catzilla]

Yeah, we have a Grid-based synth (Polymer), two Grid-based FX (Filter+/Sweep) and still no Grid-based sequencer.

[SLiC]

Maybe its step sequencer time in the piano roll?

[MusicDiedWithDad]

hoping for (in priority)
1) better sampler (stretching options, crop sample, and slicing (haha coming from ableton really miss sampler)
2) native pitch tuner or ara2 support

[enCiphered]

Oh yes, a good sequencer is long overdue. But it really has to be very good because there are already many excellent external alternatives. A hybrid of Riffer and Stepic

[Zikax]

With version 5 they updated the Browser.
With version 5.1 they updated the Mixer.
With version 5.2 they update the Sequencer?

[SLiC]

With version 5 they updated the Browser.
With version 5.1 they updated the Mixer.
With version 5.2 they update the Sequencer?

Probably update the Browser again, third times the charm!

[pdxindy]

Oh yes, a good sequencer is long overdue. But it really has to be very good because there are already many excellent external alternatives. A hybrid of Riffer and Stepic

If/when they add a sequencer, I hope it uses the same paradigm as Logic's Step Sequencer (similar like Studio One too) in that it is part of the piano roll and is represented as a clip. This is such a fundamentally better workflow than 3rd party sequencers like Stepic which aren't integrated and have their own independent timeline.

[Jac459]

With version 5 they updated the Browser.
With version 5.1 they updated the Mixer.
With version 5.2 they update the Sequencer?

Really, that's what you remember from v5 and v5.1 ?