Guys, Bitwig

[Andrew Tarpinian]

Also wanted to mention and it may because it's more of what I'm used to, I really wish the audio software world would take some cues from the visual software world. I would really like to have a DAW that works like AfterEffects/video editing software. Ironic because after all these years audio in AE still terrible. A couple examples:

Project view/bins - Sure you kind of have this in a side bar looking at what is in your project folder but I think it would be beneficial to have a directory structure that lives in the project that you can organize and pull from/drag into how you see fit that is separate from your OS folder structure. The next bit takes this further. 

Compositions/Pre Comps - Reason kind of has this, Live's clip view and Logic's track stacks share some similarities, but why not have something like this? You could create multiple arrangement type sequences and then join them together in a nested fashion for the "song." It's so beneficial to make something super complex and then be able to edit that in a simple fashion, but then in a click go back to the complexity. 

Yes this takes you out of the straight forward mixing desk way of working but haven't we reached a point where a large part of us can handle more and music is moving away from this way of working? I see modern producers doing sound design by having to work in multiple projects, endlessly bouncing and organization becomes a chore in itself. 

My guess is we don't have the computing power to be able to do all this in a realtime fashion? Hell I would be fine with some freezing/preview rendering thrown in. 

Feel free to mention if I am not aware of workflows like this that exist. 


> On Mar 13, 2016, at 5:30 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Just feels good to me. I like to work very fast, so I'm sensitive to the way a program responds. I started using it because it fully supports the seaboard Rise, but as soon as I opened it I knew there was something here. Also love the little things, view multiple midi tracks as layers on top of each other, more freedom in layout, built in stuff sound nice so far, being able to add things like lfo's to your instrument and effects chains. While it certainly feels "young" compared to Live or Logic there is a lot here to like. I'm also over my previous issue of "they are just biting Live" cuz well this doesn't really feel or look like Live. 
> 
> Logic just feels so heavy now a days, Live of course feels like it's always scolding you for working in the arrange window. Bitwig feels like it's giving you a bit more leeway in working how you want. Will prob stay in Live most of the time but this is nice too. 
> 
> It does look a little like a "PC" program in some parts of the UI design if you know what I mean, that's the only downer so far. 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 13, 2016, at 6:32 AM, Kim Johnsson <johnssonkim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> why is that?
>> 
>> Downloaded it a month ago (probably for the third time during its existence), did not yet try it out, though.
>> 
>> Kim
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