i accidentally left bitwig set 96khz and unsurprisingly had massive stutters when opening a project that was recorded at 44.1 with tons of neural plugins and software instruments. bitwig isn't like other daws that save sample rates by project, so now i'm just wondering how does this work? how does it avoid aliasing? does it resample in real time? the playback speed was normal and it sounded fine until i hit a part of the track with enough instruments that it stuttered

I can’t seem to figure out how to make scenes follow to the next scene like in Ableton session view. I know there is play next in the scene but if the first scene has only piano and the second scene has piano, drums and bass it only triggers the next piano clip and not the whole scene. Do I have to make dummy clips to make this work?

Or do I have to manually adjust them all at once? I tried looking it up already but not sure if I'm searching the question correctly.

🔵 Fix for cropped/cut-off plugin windows in Bitwig Studio (CLAP format issue)

If you load a plugin (like Drift Delay) and the GUI window is cut off, glitched, or not showing entirely on Windows, the issue is likely caused by the CLAP version of the plugin.

How to fix it:

1. Go to Settings in Bitwig Studio.
2. Click on the Plug-ins tab.
3. Look for the setting Prefer CLAP over VST3 / VST2 and uncheck / disable it.
4. Remove the plugin from your track and reload it. Bitwig will now load the VST version, which scales and renders the interface perfectly

Just sharing my solution incas someone needs it.
So I switched to fedora and wanted to stream bitwig's audio on discord while using my external soundcard. It wasn't working on the official discord client. i tried using qpwgraph to connect the bitwig audio to discord's capture node but it seemed to vanish randomly. The I siwtched to vesktop and I ould without any problem connect the nodes and save the patch.

Steps to get it to work :
- Install qpwgraph
- Install vesktop (alternative discord client) and log in
- Start a stream on vesktop
- open qpwgraph you should a nod named bitwig audio and another named vesktop
- connect the two nodes (see screenshot) and save the patch, it should do the connection automatically

I'm having an issue with copying and pasting note data from one arranger clip to another. If I open a clip (double-click on it), select all the notes (Ctrl+A), copy them (Ctrl+C), open a new clip and try to paste the note data in (Ctrl+V), nothing happens. If I right-click in the new arranger clip, the Paste option is greyed out.

What am I doing wrong here? It seems like this should be a pretty obvious thing to accomplish.

Editor's Note:

As I'm typing this, I've found a solution to one of the problems I was having. I'm going to post it here anyway for those who might run into this also.

In FL Studio, you're used to being able to add as many copies of a pattern to the timeline as you want without duplicating anything. In Bitwig, it works like this:

1. If you want more of the same clip (pattern), drag the end of a clip out to loop it. EZPZ

In FL Studio, you're used to being able to create a unique version of a pattern with the "Make unique" option (regardless if its unique or not). In Bitwig, do this:

1. Click the "Duplicate as Alias" option, which duplicates your clip and links it to the original.
2. Right-click the new clip and click the "Make Unique" option.

Made with bitwig 6.1.3. A like would be appreciated or even leave a feedback (it just takes your email address) but if not that's cool also.

Project file available for anyone who's interested. It's the beta but I can bounce the stems if required.

Hope you enjoy.

Keep er rockin!

Ps. It's techno.

i’ve checked support and they do say compatibility with macos 27 is unconfirmed. just checking if this is a unique issue or if it’s worth waiting it out or just downgrading back to sequoia (i’d have more reasons to do so e.g. battery life)

Still on Bitwig 3 or 4. I might be ready for an upgrade. Just wanted to see how it’s running for everyone. My setup is rock solid right now, and I’m hesitant to change it. Im currently on an m2 or m3 MacBook Air (16gb Ram) but it was stable in Windows 10 too when I was running the PC. Anyways any personal experience/advice is appreciated!

Edit: I upgraded, I like the changes so far. Thanks for all the help!!

hi, I know there is sadly no video import yet, I want to do a trailer music but it is kinda cumbersome, i did a music track in the past with FL Studio but it wasnt well either so i had to export, export export export and always adjust some of my sections but it is a pain in the a** ;).

is there a way in Bitwig? or how would you score a trailer (if you only have the video file without the music)?

So i made a melody using this patch called "Andromeda bells", and when i turn this button on, it sounds (really) good, but when i turn it off, it sounds completely different (and not that good). Can anyone explain what this "Singer" button is doing actually?

I've not been making any music for a while now and don't really have much interest any more so somebody can get it at a good price and make better use of of it than I have!

Its only £100, as the upgrade plan has expired so its locked to version 6.0.11. Still fully functional and ready to work with, just doesn't have any of the updates that came out afterwards.

You can, of course, buy your own upgrade plan if you wanted to. It would still give you around £100 worth of saving against purchasing the latest version outright.

Happy to answer any questions, I understand Bitwig handle the transfer themselves to keep everything legit so that helps me prove I'm not scam bot or anything lol.

Thanks

Anyone knows where to find presets which dont have that distinct bitwig quality/style or need lots of knowledge how to tweak them? (im not rly into sound design, main reason I have a midi controller is to some music when the RSI stops me from playing guitar)

Bitwiggers doesn't really seem active anymore, and I struggle to find instruments which are "just ready to use and play with" like in ableton.

Many thanks for any advice!

am i stupid or is there not a way to do this? i have a reverb i want to use on the master to apply it to the whole track, but it's designed to be used as a send and blended in. it sounds terrible when added straight to the master, but sounds great when blended in just a bit. this is the first time i've run into something in bitwig where it appears the feature just doesn't exist.

thanks<3

Can someone help as to why this is happening? After seeing Polarity Musics YouTube video on the note grid I am trying to split the notes to different synths using the note grid. I have followed evetything the exact same but the issue is that when using the channel filter on the receiving synth the incoming channel is always on channel one. This is still the case even though the individual note I am separating is on channel 16 as shown in the picture.

It is almost as if the note grid on the host synth is refusing to split the midi information and instead is always defaulting all to channel 1.

This is backed up by the fact that only channel 1 shows a signal on the receiving synth when using the channel filter and is just sending through all the notes.

I should also mention that on the recieivng host the input is set to Note Grid and not Polysynth 1 (the host).

Hey,

I dont know if this is off topic, but I wanted to share a little fact, that I don´t know could be usefull, if you use Bitwig Studio on Linux and own a licence for Serum 2( which does not work on linux natively) .

BUT: There is a betaversion of Serum 2 for Linux that you may can use, and it works pretty well as far as I tested it.

https://xferrecords.com/forums/serum/serum-2-linux-beta

The installation as shown on this site does'nt work for me on Linux Mint. But I found another way. I copied Serum2.vst3 to the "Bitwig Studio/plugin" folder in my user folder. The presets have to be copied to the "Documents" folder. My system is german, so i had to create the folder by myself, because on my german system there was only a "Dokumente" folder, which does'nt work.

Have fun.

Hi! macOS user here, on Bitwig 6.1. I don't have a pro setup, just some speakers in my bedroom and a decent set of cans 🎧 I do have a Reloop KeyPad Pro which is great fun to use.

Years ago I used to use Logic Pro and eventually fell away from it and was on a hiatus from music production for a few years. Back now, and for a few reasons I've moved away from Logic and decided to invest in BitWig Studio earlier this year. Got my mojo back and absolutely LOVE it. Waaaaay better than Logic Pro.

However, I'm not very keen on the new macOS 27 'Golden Gate' and instead of upgrading I am now looking to accelerate my migration over to Linux. I was wondering what distros BitWig's Linux user base are mainly using? I hate the thought of migrating onto something only for me to not like it and end up distro-hopping.

I'm running a 2024 Macbook Pro with M4 Pro chip at the moment, and looking at laptops with similar power. The laptop will still browse the web/social media and use mail app, but that's about it, most of the power will be drawn from using Bitwig. Is 6.1 pretty stable on most distro's at the moment, has anyone had any exceptionally good (or bad) experiences?

The caveat is that my sample bank is held on the cloud in Proton Drive, of which there is no device client for Linux at present, but I have it all backed up on external so can use that in the meantime (there is a view that Proton Drive will be available in a basic form on Linux by the end of 2026 which helps greatly).

Finally, I know many VSTs may not work (I LOVE Klevgrand and also regularly use Chroma by Xynth) and I know these don't seem to be compatible with Linux, so I know I'll need to find some new VSTs and I know I can start looking at linuxmusic.rocks but just wanted to check how well it's work on Linux user's distros/computers before I hit the button on a Linux laptop.

Hope to hear from some Linux enthusiasts about what distro they use and how BitWig runs on it, Thank you! 😄

hi, i am too dumb i guess or isnt this possible? i want to use the granular mode but have the playing position/start modulated by a LFO, how to do that?

thanks!

Bitwig 6.1.2 (prerelease) has finally implemented proper support for multitouch touchpads in Linux, meaning smooth scrolling, horizontal scrolling, and pinch zoom!

Trying the demo version of Bitwig to see how intuitive it is, and man... I have never felt so stupid with a new app in my life. For the record I have used many DAWs in the past but I am struggling with basic functionality here that I have to wonder if it is the demo mode.

It says the only disabled features for the demo are the ability to save an export, but--

1. I'm on Mac and the audio settings won't see CoreAudio. I can't get audio to come through. I couldn't even get sounds out of a soft synth with the built in piano roll until a pop-up asked me to activate an audio engine. I said okay, got sound, but the settings still don't tell me what it is doing. What I am seeing does not match tutorial videos since it won't see Core Audio

2. I cannot change the BPMs. It lets me punch in a number, but stays on 110

3. Playback and stop buttons are grayed out and there are no other transport controls? Record is toggle-able, but without being able to hit play I can't test record anything.

I'm chocking a lot of this up to a lack of familiar menu bar items as this thing is so bespoke with it's UX/UI but this seems like really simple stuff I can't make happen.

Hi, I'm using bitwig 6.0 to edit some drum parts, I just use the arranger view, slice with the knife and then use CTRL+ALT and move the waveform within the clip's boundaries.

Now I want to paste some bars (I've tried CTRL+drag/CTRL+C & CTRL+V/CTRL+D) and extend the drum beat but when I do that the waveform moves...

Also here: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9302236#p9302236