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In other words: vocals, guitar, etc.
i already get how appealing it looks for “electronic music”. Just curious how well-suited it is for other types of recording.
Anyone here use Bitwig for all recording (etc.) purposes, including “live” instrument tracking?
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- KVRAF
- 25025 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
While I have V5.1 Studio installed, I haven't really used it yet. But since my songs are ~90% self-recorded audio, I looked into (that includes testing it) its respective feature-set and found it overall quite good. Unfortunately it however neither supports ARA, not does it have an in-built pitch-editor, so there's that. But the comping, take-management, etc. is amongst the best, I think - mops the floor with e.g. both Studio One and Reaper in that regard (who are both super-messy for different reasons).
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- KVRian
- 1404 posts since 17 Oct, 2018
Yep. I use it all the time. I have external synths I record, and do vocals and guitar as well. It works fine. No worse or better than anything else out there. The only issue you may run into is that there is no low latency mode if I remember correctly so if you plugins with latency you will need to disable them (like actually deactivate them, not just turn them off) to bring the latency down. If you have a zero latency tracking function or hardware monitoring on your audio interface this may not be an issue for you.
Studio One // Bitwig // Logic Pro // Ableton // Reason // FLStudio // MPC // Force // Maschine
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- KVRAF
- 2140 posts since 16 Jan, 2013 from USA
I found it ill-suited for three reasons:
1. Time corrections with audio files using transient markers is, to put it politely, a delicate operation. Especially compared to Live where you can mass insert markers and simply have at it.
2. When you loop record, undo removes all the loops/takes, not just the last one. You must stop and grab the mouse to remove the last take, which is invariably just the throwaway left after you stopped.
3. I personally find the balance between zoom and scroll when you drag the mouse to navigate the timeline far too finicky. It always seems to do both and Bitwig is the only program I've ever used that has this issue.
Keep in mind that when recording, I nearly always have a guitar in my lap or another instrument at hand and all I want to do at most is tap a key (Bitwig does allow you to define your own keyboard shortcuts thankfully) or grab the mouse with one hand.
Numbers 2 and 3 I could live with, but number 1 simply makes other programs a better choice for my situation. If any of this has changed, I'm sure a current Bitwig user will let me know. I haven't tried it since 5.0.
1. Time corrections with audio files using transient markers is, to put it politely, a delicate operation. Especially compared to Live where you can mass insert markers and simply have at it.
2. When you loop record, undo removes all the loops/takes, not just the last one. You must stop and grab the mouse to remove the last take, which is invariably just the throwaway left after you stopped.
3. I personally find the balance between zoom and scroll when you drag the mouse to navigate the timeline far too finicky. It always seems to do both and Bitwig is the only program I've ever used that has this issue.
Keep in mind that when recording, I nearly always have a guitar in my lap or another instrument at hand and all I want to do at most is tap a key (Bitwig does allow you to define your own keyboard shortcuts thankfully) or grab the mouse with one hand.
Numbers 2 and 3 I could live with, but number 1 simply makes other programs a better choice for my situation. If any of this has changed, I'm sure a current Bitwig user will let me know. I haven't tried it since 5.0.