Bitwig 3.1 announcement

[xx JPRacer xx]

Can someone confirm if the Note Chase function works with the Windows build?

Working fine here (Win10).

[T71]

[Hez]

Is it possible to use scales with more than 12 tones per octave?

I wouldn’t think so, there are only 12 slots to adjust pitch

Doh! Thank you. Was hoping to use some quarter tone stuff and other > than 12 EDO (equal division of octave) scales. still amazing! Hoping to see a update for 1/4 tone scales and beyond 12 tones per octave scales. There are a ton of them in the scales/tun format.

Yeah I don't think this first microtonal introduction will really support >12 degrees per octave (apart from maybe with some hacky workarounds), but it's a great first step and shows obvious interest in the field from the devs. Some of Dave's custom scales are good fun and he's already messing with non-standard octave sizes, despite the scale degree limitation.

[akeia]

It should be no problem splitting the incoming MIDI data at the octave an then route to two (or more) different micro-pitch devices. You will need to figure out the appropriate cent offsets for the individual devices (for f.e. 24-EDO) but reverse engineering Scala http://huygens-fokker.org/scala/ presets will help.

[memyselfandus]

Exciting! Thank you

[Challtaq]

I missed deeper scale-settings too after owning it for 2 weeks. pretty rediculous

[Taika-Kim]

I think the decision was made on pragmatic grouds: what's possible without eating too much developer resources. Changing the whole software to be fully microtonal suddenly would require a redesign of the piano roll editor and probably a ton of things under the hood. Maybe when they have 100 employees instead of 10 or whatever, we can wish for everything. So just keep buying those licenses

[u-u-u]

Is it possible to use scales with more than 12 tones per octave?

I wouldn’t think so, there are only 12 slots to adjust pitch

Doh! Thank you. Was hoping to use some quarter tone stuff and other > than 12 EDO (equal division of octave) scales. still amazing! Hoping to see a update for 1/4 tone scales and beyond 12 tones per octave scales. There are a ton of them in the scales/tun format.

Yeah I don't think this first microtonal introduction will really support >12 degrees per octave (apart from maybe with some hacky workarounds), but it's a great first step and shows obvious interest in the field from the devs. Some of Dave's custom scales are good fun and he's already messing with non-standard octave sizes, despite the scale degree limitation.

If you want to do quarter tones, have a look at the 'Quarter-tone ET' preset for the Micro-pitch device. You don't need to adjust 24 notes individually for quarter tones individually for just that.
Of course, if you really want to detune 24 individual notes of the qarter tone octave then that might become more complicated (but not impossible as someone else mentioned).

[Hez]

If you want to do quarter tones, have a look at the 'Quarter-tone ET' preset for the Micro-pitch device. You don't need to adjust 24 notes individually for quarter tones individually for just that.
Of course, if you really want to detune 24 individual notes of the qarter tone octave then that might become more complicated (but not impossible as someone else mentioned).

I'm more than satisfied with the current implementation, at least for my current (non-existent) microtonal capabilities. I did have a mess around with creating a full 24 note octave with unique tunings, it's definitely doable (and relatively simple just to get a single octave mapped out), but a bit cumbersome. I also promptly remembered that I can barely write a good melody with the usual 12 tone octave