What are some 'meta concepts' an FL user should know about Bitwig?

[pdxindy]

Your clips are not exact duplicates when? How much variation your music contains in the end doesn't really matter, the question is how you get there, and it's where ghost clips come in handy. They just allow you to sketch out a placeholder arrangement early on in the creation process and add detail and variation as you go, always with an easy way to make wide-reaching changes.

Seems like we have a different approach. Like I said, sometimes I use Logic and it has ghost clips and I still don't end up using them.

I would rather re-examine the objective and come up with fresh approaches. I think the idea of ghost clips is somewhat fiddly... too small an individual chunk. I like the idea of something bigger... maybe timeline instances. Se select say the first 4 bars of the arrange, and be able to make ghost copies along the timeline.

Or maybe something like Scene Markers in Arrange. So I can put a Scene Marker somewhere along the timeline and when the playhead reaches it, it plays that Launcher scene until it reaches the next Scene Marker. So it functions like a Scene Song mode.

Those are the directions that interest me more... but hey, advocate for what you want!

[antic604]

Your clips are not exact duplicates when? How much variation your music contains in the end doesn't really matter, the question is how you get there, and it's where ghost clips come in handy. They just allow you to sketch out a placeholder arrangement early on in the creation process and add detail and variation as you go, always with an easy way to make wide-reaching changes.

Seems like we have a different approach. Like I said, sometimes I use Logic and it has ghost clips and I still don't end up using them.

I would rather re-examine the objective and come up with fresh approaches. I think the idea of ghost clips is somewhat fiddly... too small an individual chunk. I like the idea of something bigger... maybe timeline instances. Se select say the first 4 bars of the arrange, and be able to make ghost copies along the timeline.

Or maybe something like Scene Markers in Arrange. So I can put a Scene Marker somewhere along the timeline and when the playhead reaches it, it plays that Launcher scene until it reaches the next Scene Marker. So it functions like a Scene Song mode.

Those are the directions that interest me more... but hey, advocate for what you want!

That sounds like Blocks mode in Reason. Smarter implementation in Bitwig would be awesome, indeed!

[Dionysos]

I would rather re-examine the objective and come up with fresh approaches. I think the idea of ghost clips is somewhat fiddly... too small an individual chunk. I like the idea of something bigger... maybe timeline instances. Se select say the first 4 bars of the arrange, and be able to make ghost copies along the timeline.

I just looked up Reason's block mode and that looks great, too, and would neatly map to launcher scenes. I don't care too much about the specific implementation as long as the core issue is addressed.