Is Bitwig the best DAW for MPE?

[WasteLand]

the MPE of Reaper and Cubase also is also pretty good. if not excellent (Cubase..).

Yeah, Cubase is excellent in terms of recording and editing MPE data.

Where Bitwig stands apart is all the ways one can work with MPE as a sound design tool. Between the Grid, Arpeggiator, Modulation (per voice MPE capable) and Selector Devices you can do all sorts of stuff no other DAW can do.

Want to play a 4 note chord where each note has its own arpeggiator and the poly pressure of each note controls the speed of that arp? Easy...

true, that is why i have both... and others...

[jancivil]

Actually MPE in a DAW doesn‘t need to be specially supported if the DAW would simply just record and pass on Midi unchanged.

this can only be a truism if 100% of MPE users rely 100% on a contiguous live performance
reality would seem to be closer to the opposite pole

[Tj Shredder]

Actually MPE in a DAW doesn‘t need to be specially supported if the DAW would simply just record and pass on Midi unchanged.

this can only be a truism if 100% of MPE users rely 100% on a contiguous live performance
reality would seem to be closer to the opposite pole

Not my reality…; - )
You could still edit Midi of course and it wouldn‘t hurt its MPE capability as long as you keep the part of the information that you don‘t (need to) edit, namely the Midi channel…