Bitwig 6

[permeke]

menu: add multiple tracks. When ?

[JHernandez]

Why is it limited to such a standard palette of scales? Would be better if you could just import Scala files or create your own

Yeah, it's odd. There's also no way to hide it or turn it off. I have a pelog heptatonic song for Indonesian gamelan and Bitwig is proudly displaying C Major at the top of the project and there's no way to hide it or dim it or turn it off

That does seem silly af. It obviously has to change. I'm unlikely to use that feature, recording instruments and what not. I don't want some random key name hanging out at the top.

[limitlesssss]

I just opened up Bitwig 5 to see if a bug was new in 6 or not, and it felt like going back in time 100 years.

Would love to see two full-screen screenshots showing the same busy project in both versions, so that we can actually compare the GUI changes between Bitwig 5 and Bitwig 6.

A busy project like this:



Or this:



Thank you.

[iNNeRNoiZe]

Tested B6 for a few hours... Crashes audio engine everytime I drag samples in timeline while playing the song. Random audio engine crashes while song is playing.

Latest Macos on M2 Max, native plugins only, core audio, 128 samples.

[tumface]

God, the arrange view feels so much better to use now that there's no invisible horizontal line on each track where the mouse behaves differently above and below the line.

[tumface]

Latest Macos

Not the beta OS, right? That's known to cause crashes on basically everything.

[monolithx]

I do New fancy colored features on weak foundations. And they remain as is after this update.

These are very important features for many users that have been requested for years, delivered all together as a well-designed and coherent update on top of one of the DAW that has some of the most robust internals of them all. I have no idea what fantasy land this comment is coming from, frankly.

Short answer: MAX/MSP (&Co) reality land

Less short answer: I don't care too much about editing features, there are enough others DAWs and tools for that out there. Multichannel? VST3 midi? Controls UI? CC and Remotes management? MIDI manipulation (not modulators!)? Nope.

Note regarding the legendary "most robust internals": trust me, not on Windows...

[tumface]

Short answer: MAX/MSP (&Co) reality land

I'm under the impression Bitwig was started because Max/MSP integration tanked the software quality of Ableton Live, and some engineers left out of frustration. Though the initial high level of crashiness from Live 8 has been mitigated now, you can see the ongoing effect it has on Ableton Live with some prominent people complaining in the last few weeks that Live projects get slow to interact with due to the LOM after a few dozen routable audio objects are in a project. Bitwig, of course, can handle many thousands of tracks/racks without any noticeable slowdown.

Note regarding the legendary "most robust internals": trust me, not on Windows...

No problems here. I use it on both Mac and Windows.

[stamp]

Short answer: MAX/MSP (&Co) reality land

Less short answer: I don't care too much about editing features, there are enough others DAWs and tools for that out there. Multichannel? VST3 midi? Controls UI? CC and Remotes management? MIDI manipulation (not modulators!)? Nope.

Note regarding the legendary "most robust internals": trust me, not on Windows...

Since there seems to be other daws that satisfie your needs I'm asking you yet another time why the heck are you even here complaining? Why don't you just accept the fact that Bitwig is not the daw for you and move on?
As someone once said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"...

[Jac459]

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Note regarding the legendary "most robust internals": trust me, not on Windows...

Did you get that Bitwig 6 is in beta?

[Jac459]

I am just scratching the surface of this update but it seems to be the bigger I witnessed by far (I started using bitcoin with version 4). I hope there will be good learning material available on the net.

[JHernandez]

I am just scratching the surface of this update but it seems to be the bigger I witnessed by far (I started using bitcoin with version 4). I hope there will be good learning material available on the net.

Trading a lot lately?

[Alchemedia]

I am just scratching the surface of this update but it seems to be the bigger I witnessed by far (I started using bitcoin with version 4). I hope there will be good learning material available on the net.

Trading a lot lately?

[ere2learn]

A busy project like this:

Screenshot 2025-08-28 013707.png

Gonna take a while to get accustomed to the gui for me

I think its the shading on clips

[pc999]

We need more scales, exotic one and custom ones