Bitwig 4.3 is out - Space & Tone (RELEASED)

[lunardigs]

Flatpak is working for me so far. My only gripe with Bitwig moving to Flatpak is this, from https://www.bitwig.com/support/technical_support/52/:

We recommend installing any VST plug-ins using Flatpak. VST plug-ins that cannot be installed via Flatpak should be installed in a folder that is reachable by Bitwig Studio, like your home directory. Be aware that anything installed in /usr/lib won’t be available to Bitwig Studio.

I have a handful of Linux VST3 plugins that are installed to /usr/lib/vst3 by default, and there is no way to tell an installer to choose another location. I guess for now on, I'll be forced to move and chown anything that gets installed to /usr/lib/vst3.

Try adding permission filesystems=host-os to ~/.local/share/flatpak/overrides/com.bitwig.BitwigStudio
You can edit the override file directly or use Flatseal GUI.

Then launch Bitwig and add a plugin location: /var/run/host/usr/lib/vst
and or /var/run/host/usr/lib/vst3

You should then see whatever VSTs are in there. Although, anything dynamically linked won't work.

Btw, the default is filesystems=host, which means everything is accessible, which I wouldn't do.

About launching different Bitwig Flatpak versions:
Last installed Beta:
/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=master --arch=x86_64 --command=bitwig-studio com.bitwig.BitwigStudio

Latest stable:
/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=bitwig-studio com.bitwig.BitwigStudio

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My question to anyone who knows: I have some plugins that want access to libcurl-gnutls.so, located in /usr/lib, for online activation/validation; does anyone know how to make a proper alias so the plugins can find it within the sandbox?

[dlandis]

I just DL'ed the second Beta and I am very happy to say that the MPE glide issue has been fixed. It is back to working as it did in the Bitwig Studio 4.2 release.

Thanks, Bitwig!

Thanks also to Bill for his willingness to check the issue out.

Glad to hear this. I'm still not up and running with my ROLI gear yet.

Yes, I figured, but thanks for being willing to check it (even if it's not an issue now.)

[Fraggle]

I think Convolution should be available inside the grid - Why do you think they did not make it so ?

[lsooxlla8]

The new Delay+ gives some lovely results with very short delay times and using the blur modes and high feedback with a bit of ducking. I'm impressed with Delay+ sound character and possibilities.

Yeah. All the "+" versions of effects have sounded really fantastic, imo. The chorus is the nicest, smoothest sounding chorus I've used, beating out many popular third party options. They've really stepped up their FX DSP game, that's for sure.

Such a shame, eq+ is still unusable due to it's pdc bag and related phase destroying

[_leras]

Such a shame, eq+ is still unusable due to it's pdc bag and related phase destroying

Only if using on a parralel channel - otherwise it is fine.

[ralfrobert]

I think Convolution should be available inside the grid - Why do you think they did not make it so ?

+1

Performance considerations, maybe.

[billcarroll]

Such a shame, eq+ is still unusable due to it's pdc bag and related phase destroying

Only if using on a parralel channel - otherwise it is fine.

I would love to see EQ+ fixed. Until them I mainly use Fabfilter Pro-Q3, or sometime EQ-2 or EQ-5. EQ+ could be so much better ... or at least I dream of it being so much better

[D.K Envelope]

please fix the eq+
i look on you bitwig-team

do it now

[billcarroll]

please fix the eq+
i look on you bitwig-team

do it now

I agree Please send them an email to let them know what you think support@bitwig.com

[D.K Envelope]

we are thousands
latency matters

i repeat latency matters

[BobDog]

we are thousands
latency matters

i repeat latency matters

What does that mean?

[billcarroll]

we are thousands
latency matters

i repeat latency matters

What does that mean?

I think it means EQ+ has uncompensated latency that can cause phasing issues.

[dupont]

I noticed several seconds freezes on OSX, when I browsed for impulse file in convolution.

[ReleaseCandidate]

Delay and reverb are very nice but the flatpak distribution has been quite disastrous for me so far.

All global plugins from /usr/lib can't be used by Bitwig, not even with symlinks.

I have some plugins that want access to <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">libcurl-gnutls.so</span>, located in /usr/lib, for online activation/validation; does anyone know how to make a proper alias so the plugins can find it within the sandbox?

You have to bind-mount the directories into the flatpack image (using mount --bind ...). And put that into a Systemd service script so that this is mounted on every restart.

[Beamboom]

The pipewire implementation is just pure fantastic, major improvement here.

But: Anyone know a workaround for wine-bridged plugins (wine + linvst)? I would assume (hope!) this is solved before it's out of beta, as this is a major showstopper. Should I mount all locations of the wine installation plus the linvst installation?