Bitwig

ThomasHelzle · Post by **ThomasHelzle** » Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:11 am

Thanks ASJPlugins for your feedback!

Yeah, that behaviour of the Bitwig timeline is rather annoying, it also does not reset things when you jump to the beginning of a project until you start playback. It's also bad with for instance controllers using motorfaders, since you can't jump to a certain time and see your faders update. Not actually sure why it does it that way, may be a question for support.
I'll write a mail right away.

Thanks and cheers!

Tom

Excds · Post by **Excds** » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:20 am

Good news everyone! If you look at the 2.3 changelog you can see this: "FIXED Various issues with MIDI Timecode."

Guess what that means? Yep, you can now use xjadeo synced with Bitwig.

ThomasHelzle · Post by **ThomasHelzle** » Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:04 pm

Did you try it on Windows too?
I was under the impression that XJADEO didn't receive anything there and was just plain broken?

Cheers,

Tom

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:00 pm

Excds wrote:Good news everyone! If you look at the 2.3 changelog you can see this: "FIXED Various issues with MIDI Timecode."

Guess what that means? Yep, you can now use xjadeo synced with Bitwig.

Well, sort of. I tested it this afternoon, playback was choppy, very discontinuous. I may be missing something, but I've used xjadeo a lot in the past (not with BWS, of course). Anyway, I'll keep testing and report back later.

Best,

dp

Excds · Post by **Excds** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:56 am

StudioDave wrote:
Excds wrote:Good news everyone! If you look at the 2.3 changelog you can see this: "FIXED Various issues with MIDI Timecode."

Guess what that means? Yep, you can now use xjadeo synced with Bitwig.
Well, sort of. I tested it this afternoon, playback was choppy, very discontinuous. I may be missing something, but I've used xjadeo a lot in the past (not with BWS, of course). Anyway, I'll keep testing and report back later.

Add your findings to the beta testing group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bitwig-beta

Excds · Post by **Excds** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:58 am

ThomasHelzle wrote:Did you try it on Windows too?
I was under the impression that XJADEO didn't receive anything there and was just plain broken?

Nope. I'm not a Windows user (Linux ftw)...

As long as you get midi from Bitwig to xjadeo, it should work.

ThomasHelzle · Post by **ThomasHelzle** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:35 am

Excds wrote:
ThomasHelzle wrote:Did you try it on Windows too?
I was under the impression that XJADEO didn't receive anything there and was just plain broken?
Nope. I'm not a Windows user (Linux ftw)...

As long as you get midi from Bitwig to xjadeo, it should work.

Not necessarily - the last time I tried it, XJADEO did not react to anything I fed it Midi wise.

For now I'll stay with VidPlay I think, less hassle to set up.

Cheers,

Tom

Excds · Post by **Excds** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 10:01 am

ThomasHelzle wrote:For now I'll stay with VidPlay I think, less hassle to set up.

Join us at c-base on Monday, I'm going to show how to set it up (well, at least in Linux).

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:45 pm

Excds wrote:
ThomasHelzle wrote:For now I'll stay with VidPlay I think, less hassle to set up.
Join us at c-base on Monday, I'm going to show how to set it up (well, at least in Linux).

For those of us who can't possibly make it to c-base on Monday (or any other day), perhaps you could post the instructions here ?

But after further tests I'm sure the problem here is with xjadeo, not BWS. I've written to Robin, hope to hear back from him soon.

Best,

dp

StudioDave · Post by **StudioDave** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:24 pm

Greetings,

I reverted from xjadeo 0.8.7 (home-built) to version 0.8.4 from the Planet CCRMA repos. It works now ! So indeed, the problem was with my version of xjadeo, not BWS.

Cool stuff.

Best,

dp

ejgallego · Post by **ejgallego** » Thu Mar 01, 2018 10:39 pm

Not having any luck with xjadeo 0.8.7 + BW 2.3. Video follows playhead but that's all. Will try reverting to an older version.

ejgallego · Post by **ejgallego** » Thu Mar 01, 2018 11:44 pm

Bah, it works now.... the problem was that I was sending MTC in more than one midi channel of the virtual midi device. Now, I send MTC only on channel 1 and indeed Bitwig works well with xjadeo. Yup! Instructions:

Bitwig 2.3 + xjadeo 0.8.7
Create a virtual midi device
Code: Select all
```
sudo modprobe snd-virmidi midi_devs=1
```
Enable "ALSA midi" in your favorite jack config tool.
In Bitwig => Settings => Synchronization => Out => Virtual MIDI Channel 1 => Send MTC
In JACK patchbay, connect virtual midi out to xjadeo midi in [Alsa seq works better for me]
?
Profit!

Be careful not to pollute the MIDI channels going to xjadeo, that confused it big time.

lunardigs · Post by **lunardigs** » Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:24 am

Hey, has anyone tried?:
VSTi video player - http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/videoplayer.html
VidPlayVST - https://www.vidplayvst.com/index.htm

ejgallego · Post by **ejgallego** » Fri Mar 02, 2018 12:32 am

I've tried VidPlayVST in Linux. It is clunky [and wants to install as root] but works. Do you have any specific question?

I think I'll prefer `xjadeo` due to it being more mature, however it is more of a pain to set up.

lunardigs · Post by **lunardigs** » Fri Mar 02, 2018 3:22 am

Well, I've only gotten XJADEO to work. The 'play position' issue is a real pain though.
How about VidPlayVST, did it sync play position for you?

It would be nice if BWS had a video player built-in. Imagine for instance, setting up a bunch of clips; then playing through the video (while recording) and trigger clips to sketch out a 'storyboard.' Then--presuming 'play position sync' is a feature--you could scrub through, adjust and detail.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

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