Relative newcomer to Bitwig, making music as a hobby. Mostly in-the-box synths & samples stuff, but sometimes I’ll record instruments or vocals too.
The last DAW I was using was Cubase v5 (lol), so I’ve been checking out some tutorials on Bitwig’s workflow and functionality. I really like the ease of adding subtle expression variations, and the modulation options are an absolute game-changer.
But I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface - what are some features that are not quite so obvious that you like to use?
It’s hard to name one, basically just experimenting with the various modulation modules. For example recently I played around with the Select-4 one (low quality rec) to make stretch and phase adjustments at varying degrees.
Have you played around with the modulators at all? Or have any other general questions?
Very cool! Yeah I will definitely need to crack open some more of these tools and just keep playing, I haven’t even tried most of them yet, will have to explore that select-4 module first though
Also that strip on your controller looks like fun to use!
I don’t have a video to share but one of the things I discovered was, if I use the note expressions to randomize velocity a bit, and then map velocity to the likelihood of transposing notes up an octave… now every time a midi chord plays, I can get a different voicing. Got a feeling I’ll be using that technique a lot
The mod strip on the Keystep is very nice and I’m not sure I could go back to a mod wheel tbh. That’s an interesting technique I’ll have to try. What I love about bitwig is how it’s built on small tools and everyone will come up with their unique way of applying them. I’ve been hooked on Amigo Sampler since it launched (very reasonably priced) and still come up with new ideas and how to build upon previihs ones. New Amigo update made the root key modulatable so I’ve been having fun with that.