Bitwig 6.1 beta available: Sampler, redefined

[pdxindy]

Normally I'm not a fan of new devices because so much can be done via VST, and I'd prefer focus in the core application, but I have to say that this time it looks pretty interesting and I'm not disappointed with this new sampler. It really looks pretty cool and extremely versatile.

In the new Spectral Mode using reharmonize, one can conform the harmonics to the Global Scale. Gives lovely results as it conforms to scale changes over time.

[Jhowas]

Am I mistaken (very possible), or is there no way to select a region between a start and end point and have it perfectly match — via time-stretching — a fixed musical length, like 1 beat, 2 beats, 1 bar, etc.?
Ableton’s Simpler can do this, and the new Bitwig Sampler seems capable of all sorts of innovative and even crazy things — but not something as basic as stretching a portion of audio to fit the tempo?
I’m probably missing something here.

[questionaire]

I have requested this for so long and now when i leave Bitwig it shows up. Slicing and improved granular sampling
But i can deal with ableton simpler and granulator aswell and reach crazy results.

I wish Bitwig did run not so bad on my labtop.

Have fun with the new sampling power in bitwig!

[pdxindy]

Am I mistaken (very possible), or is there no way to select a region between a start and end point and have it perfectly match — via time-stretching — a fixed musical length, like 1 beat, 2 beats, 1 bar, etc.?

There's no way to do that in the sample window.

[dvMi]

The main drawback of this update is poor time stretching. Ableton and Reason sampler Mimic have long had good stretching for working with notes in piano roll, but here it simply crushes sounds when raising and lowering the pitch in spectral mode. But for everything else, I'm very pleased! Thanks to the Bitwig team, we hope they add a good stretcher to 6.1.