Bitwig Studio 6 takes a big step up, improving and expanding on the core DAW functions that you use every day. This major update brings you fresh and faster ways to work that will feel familiar. You’ll notice the difference right away: Bitwig Studio’s looks have been improved, and the visual interface is now easier to adjust to your needs. There are also countless changes under the hood, large and small.
It starts with an extensive upgrade to automation editing, which touches everything from smoother editing gestures to new behaviors such as spread and hold. You can also now work with automation in clips, opening up new possibilities that make intuitive sense.
Clip aliases offer a new way to handle repetition and structure in your music, while project-wide key signature helps guide your work with notes. New and improved tools, such as the Spray Can and Audition tool, join enhanced expression editing – for the fine details – and layered editing, for big picture work. All of these changes add up to a big improvement in the way you use Bitwig Studio 6 for fundamental music-making tasks.
Bitwig Studio 6 brings an extensive upgrade to automation editing, starting with two new ways to access your curves. Pressing [A] switches to Automation Mode, overlaying each track with the parameter you last touched, or any other single lane you choose. Or reach for the Detail Editor Panel, where you can now access all automation for any track. Use these alternate editors to keep the Arranger clean, or to get a new perspective on how different tracks relate to one another.
Brand new in Bitwig Studio 6, clip aliases are a way to create structure and sequence in your music. Instead of duplicating a clip across a track, try dragging it as an alias. This means the clips will have a shared fingerprint – what we’re calling their pattern. When you edit one, all clips sharing that pattern will be updated, and other clip settings remain unchanged.
Clip aliases work with audio, note, and automation clips, and can be used in both the Clip Launcher and Arranger. They’ll slip into your workflow without much fuss. If you still like to copy-paste, you can link identical clips as aliases later: just use the Merge Duplicate Patterns function. This is handy for tidying up your existing projects, too. And when it’s time for one alias to break free, Make Unique will make any clip independent of the others.
Bitwig Studio 6 is a powerful DAW with a growing user base, and plenty of features.
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