Bitwig 6

[stamp]

By now I should know the Bitwig way. Make some thinks better and other worse. But everytime I hope they evolve and avoid taking things away when gving us new stuff.

[pdxindy]

I don't have the beta but after watching al the videos I think I would like an option to switch to the old bright background.

There is a Timeline Background Slider. But at it's lightest, it still seems a bit darker than the old background.

[pdxindy]

I agree on the paperclips.

It's hard for me to think of a worse choice than the paperclip

Someone suggested a small '=' sign... or even just a dot.

[stamp]

I don't have the beta but after watching al the videos I think I would like an option to switch to the old bright background.

There is a Timeline Background Slider. But at it's lightest, it still seems a bit darker than the old background.

Would you mind posting a picture, please?

[Jhowas]

Hi everyone!
But it's just me or we can't move between onsets on audio clips using the arrow keys left and right like we used to?

I mean what it does at minute 4:28 of this video!

[BazJacuzzi]

One annoyance: editing a drum pattern with a minimal kit, the drum/hybrid midi editor note heights can get absurdly large. I'd rather have them smaller and have an unused area beneath.

[tumface]

One annoyance: editing a drum pattern with a minimal kit, the drum/hybrid midi editor note heights can get absurdly large. I'd rather have them smaller and have an unused area beneath.

The detail editor (piano roll) view's zooming resetting and limiting itself all the time (or in unpredictable ways) is one of the things that frustrates me with Bitwig. Please send them a feedback email saying you'd like more control over zoom, such as being able to lock the zoom to a fixed value that only changes when the user adjusts it, or whatever you think would help you. Our power combined can change their minds

[_leras]

For me I would wait until the actual release, or as @MegaPixel says, maybe 6.1.

My update plan is still live, but my actual update is usually based around what I'm working on.

I'm working on a project so I won't upgrade until that's done.

If we could still install multiple versions at the same time I'd probably start using the new version for sketches and new ideas from the 6.0 release.

[muzicxs]

If we could still install multiple versions at the same time I'd probably start using the new version for sketches and new ideas from the 6.0 release.

You should be able to, at least on Windows and MacOS. Not sure if this also works on Linux. What OS are you on?

[_leras]

One annoyance: editing a drum pattern with a minimal kit, the drum/hybrid midi editor note heights can get absurdly large. I'd rather have them smaller and have an unused area beneath.

A max note height would be good. Otherwise filling the area is not great.

What I would really love is for them to make some new grid types i.e. an x0x type drum grid. I also think they should have some other kind of sequencer type clips, where you can duplicate and edit variations in the sequence pattern per clip. I can dream I guess that they have seen my feature request.

[BBFG#]

If we could still install multiple versions at the same time I'd probably start using the new version for sketches and new ideas from the 6.0 release.

You should be able to, at least on Windows and MacOS. Not sure if this also works on Linux. What OS are you on?

It didn't for me. Tried to keep version 4 in a completely separate folder and after installing V5 in it's own folder, V4 completely stopped working. Although all the projects from 4 did load in 5. But while 5 did improve in the later versions, it was still having major problems and excessive CPU usage. And the nag screens to install everything I never use was beyond annoying.
System: Win10 Xeon4C 3.6 - 32GB.

[Ou_Tis]

If we could still install multiple versions at the same time I'd probably start using the new version for sketches and new ideas from the 6.0 release.

You should be able to, at least on Windows and MacOS. Not sure if this also works on Linux. What OS are you on?

It didn't for me. Tried to keep version 4 in a completely separate folder and after installing V5 in it's own folder, V4 completely stopped working. Although all the projects from 4 did load in 5. But while 5 did improve in the later versions, it was still having major problems and excessive CPU usage. And the nag screens to install everything I never use was beyond annoying.
System: Win10 Xeon4C 3.6 - 32GB.

I installed the Bitwig 6 beta and Bitwig 5.3.13 seems to be working fine for me---Windows 11.

[pc999]

We need more scales, exotic one and custom ones

I think this may be a Bitwig editor first and techno type scale implementation.

The more exotic tunings (and via scala?) are already available via Micropitch.

Should they or could they combine them both?

In "exotic scales" (for western music at least) I am thinking of scales used in traditional eg. Japanese, gypsy, Middle East, "world music"...

It would be something else from micropitch, although it could be interesting if somehow they could combine both.

[tumface]

Tuning and scales are interrelated but distinct things (in most music systems.) Like you can have a song written in "C Major" according to the staff and use a reference pitch of 440hz but then instruct the voices in the choir that are singing the major 3rd interval in a particular chord at one point in the song to adjust intonation to increase or reduce the beating frequency. The major 3rd won't be snapped to the 12tet grid but it's still a major 3rd, symbolically. If you're going to have scales and tuning support in a DAW that isn't a gimmick it needs to be able to deal with this kind of thing. (In my opinion.) Ableton Live 12 doesn't do a bad job at this, though it lacks a good way to deal with a drifting reference pitch. Scale Breaker and Oddsound MTS-ESP (assuming your synth that implements MTS-ESP can do continuous tuning changes instead of only at note on) can both deal with that brilliantly.

Now that I've written that out, I realize this is really esoteric and doesn't matter. Nevermind

[muzicxs]

Right click (or click and hold) on this little menu here in the Detail Editor and choose Transpose.

Thanks a lot! I would have never guessed this . Quite a questionable UX decision IMHO. This triangle in the bottom right corner probably is their new way to inform the user that this button serves two purposes. Click for on/off and hold for more options.