Bitwig Studio 6 Beta Announcement

[00:00:00] Hey folks, welcome back. So Bitwig Studio or Bitwig did something yesterday. They have never done before at least as far as I know
[00:00:06] They kind of announced
[00:00:09] That the beta version is coming later next month. They never did this before usually. It's like that. They say oh, here's a new version
[00:00:17] These are the features
[00:00:20] Here's the beta version downloaded have some fun give us some feedback BAM BAM BAM right and then we go from there
[00:00:26] So this time it's a bit different. We get an announcement that the beta is coming
[00:00:30] Next month August the 27th you can download beta. So it's 29 days to go, right?
[00:00:37] And they did this by just posting
[00:00:40] Some kind of image I show you in a minute and some people
[00:00:44] Speculated why that is some people said maybe it's because they went bankrupt, right?
[00:00:49] Or maybe they need to drive the sales up the sales or low this year
[00:00:54] And in my opinion, none of this is the case because they already had this year a big project
[00:01:01] Which was the bit we connect the audio interface and it was a very very big deal for them
[00:01:07] It's the first hardware device
[00:01:09] You have to deal with drivers
[00:01:12] Three different platforms, right Mac linux and Windows a lot of bucks
[00:01:17] You have to make the implementation for Bitwig because in Bitwig itself you have some special
[00:01:24] Pains to deal with the Bitwig connectors. So a lot of things to change also Bitwig studio 6 is a big project
[00:01:32] A lot of features to implement a lot of bucks
[00:01:35] To figure out which kind of direction you want to go. Is this the right way to go, right?
[00:01:40] Is this the right feature set and so on so a lot of things to a thing about and to develop and
[00:01:46] Not enough manpower
[00:01:49] Also here the rotor control which I showed you in some of my videos was a big project for them
[00:01:54] They had to deal with
[00:01:56] Different things here with Melbourne instruments directly because it's a very special kind of
[00:02:02] MIDI controller, it's
[00:02:05] So it's set up a bit differently. You have a lot of data on the device itself and it's not so much
[00:02:11] Software-based
[00:02:14] Anyway, so three big projects basically this year bitwig studio 6 coming the device here and also the rotor control
[00:02:21] So this was probably the case why we have such a late announcement for bitwig studio 6
[00:02:28] So anyway, I want to show you the picture here. They showed this yesterday on their Instagram
[00:02:33] It's basically just a picture with a big six
[00:02:36] Some hints at the background what's coming and then beta are coming August the 27th
[00:02:42] So if you zoom in you can see a lot of different things or at least you can see that bitwig looks a lot of
[00:02:49] Or much different. We have a dark background here. There's some kind of minor
[00:02:53] Text on the arranger itself. There's some kind of paper clip here
[00:02:59] This looks a bit different here, I would say the automation looks a bit different
[00:03:06] So I don't want to go too much into these fake speculations because I already know what's in there roughly
[00:03:15] And I can't I can't tell you I am in the eight right I can't say what's in there. What's not in there
[00:03:21] All I can say I want to say is they're really delivered on what they said on their last post where they said
[00:03:28] You know, we want to improve on the piano roll
[00:03:31] We want to improve on the arranger and in my opinion
[00:03:34] They kind of delivered on this at least as far as for as far what I saw
[00:03:38] and
[00:03:41] The wait is over. It's still 28 29 days to go and then we can try out the beta version
[00:03:49] Of course for ourselves download this thing have some fun
[00:03:52] And then you can wait for bitwig studio 7 one week later. That's how it goes
[00:03:58] I
[00:04:00] Think I will stream on August 27. So prepare for that. I want to show you all the things and
[00:04:07] Kind of can't wait to show you this actually I can't wait
[00:04:12] It's still 28 days. So it's not that far, but still 28 days, right?
[00:04:18] In the meantime, you can go to the discord, of course with a bitwig discord
[00:04:22] We have here a dedicated channel for bitwig 6
[00:04:25] It looks like this a lot of memes people going mad
[00:04:35] Oh bus, it's actually a nice affair. I use this at some point
[00:04:39] So yeah, people speculating here. What's going on? What is this? What is what is that?
[00:04:44] A lot of shit posting a lot of fun. So make sure you join the discord and
[00:04:51] We can wait together for August the 28 27, sorry, and then we can try it out together. So that's the
[00:05:02] That's the plan. Okay
[00:05:06] Also here a bit we connect for 12 right? So this is the big hardware project that this year and that's me laughing at
[00:05:12] Stepwise because it's just such a funny device
[00:05:16] Anyway, so bitwig studio 6 coming finally it's here. So today is someone asked me about the bitwig sampler
[00:05:26] Time-stretching inside of the sampler is such a topic sometimes. I saw it over the years in certain forums that people ask
[00:05:35] Can you time-stretch with a sampler? So first up inside of the sampler you can actually do everything, right? You can also slice
[00:05:43] Trump sounds it's just not straightforward. It's not like you have an automatic
[00:05:50] Mapping function where you can just pull down a threshold and then it finds out all the
[00:05:55] Transients inside of a drum loop and it puts it on a keyboard
[00:06:00] That's not possible, but you can still use
[00:06:03] Modulations and fake kind of this kind of slicing functionality. It's just not straightforward
[00:06:08] Also time-stretching is possible. So you have some kind of
[00:06:13] music loop in the background and you can see it's
[00:06:17] Maybe I got back here to 127. That's the original BPM of this loop here
[00:06:23] Also on the left side, you can see it's on stretch HD. So it's in a stretch mode and
[00:06:29] The tempo here is defined 127. So now when I play this back, it's the original speed and original pitch
[00:06:37] Right so it loops it's just a random music loop I found on my hard drive. I made at some point
[00:06:53] So now we can change the BPM right and because it's in stretch mode it kind of fills in the gaps because it needs to play this sample
[00:07:01] back a bit slower and then you stretch it out and
[00:07:06] It tries not to change the pitch
[00:07:10] So you want to play this audio back slower and usually the pitch goes down with that
[00:07:15] But because we have time-stretching or stretching enabled
[00:07:20] It keeps the pitch static at the same value and it plays it back slower
[00:07:26] We can even change the grain size here
[00:07:46] So
[00:07:48] The grain size is basically when you go in here
[00:07:54] It's just a small portion like this and then the stretch algorithm just loops this to fill in the gaps because you stretch the audio
[00:08:03] Apart because you want to play it back slower, but you want to keep the pitch so it fills in the gaps here
[00:08:10] With small little grains. That's how it's called
[00:08:14] But it's just a small little loop on the audio and it plays these loops back
[00:08:18] And you can hear this when you play it back very slowly
[00:08:21] Right there are small little loops moving forward and playing and filling in the gaps
[00:08:27] So this is how the algorithm works here the stretch algorithm. There are different ones
[00:08:32] Maybe let's go to stretch normal
[00:08:36] They can hear it more clearly all the small little things so anyway, that's not what I want to show you
[00:08:43] I want to show you how this works in the sampler. So we know that
[00:08:47] We have some grains and we play these grains to fill in the gaps because we stretch the audio apart
[00:08:54] So we put this in the sampler here and
[00:08:56] Here we also have a repitch mode and it says it's a C3 which is probably not true
[00:09:03] But C3 is just don't add any pitch at all. It's no key track and so key tracking is basically disabled when you play
[00:09:11] Here the note of C3
[00:09:13] So you put in a thing a note and we can just hit play and it plays in the sampler
[00:09:24] So it's of course not the right speed here we need to play this at 127 127
[00:09:37] All right, so the meaty triggers exactly when we hit the end of the sample
[00:09:51] Because we play this back at the same at the original pitch and at our original bpm
[00:09:57] But now the problem is sometimes people want to change the bpm and then this doesn't fit anymore
[00:10:03] All right, so we play back slower and here the clip basically ends here
[00:10:16] So what we can do is we can use time stretching here in the sampler and it's not straightforward
[00:10:23] You know, I want to say that so we have to some repitch modes
[00:10:28] We put this put this into textures mode here granular playback preserving sample pitch
[00:10:33] So now we have a speed knob here and a grain size exactly the same thing as we had here on the left side
[00:10:39] Right, we have stretch in the sampler
[00:10:41] It's called a textures mode and then we have here the grain size just just three buttons in the sampler
[00:10:48] We have a knob here where we can change the grain size in milliseconds
[00:10:52] So this is basically the size in milliseconds how big the small audio chunk is that is used to loop
[00:11:02] And to fill in the gaps. So let's try this out. We have here the speed knob
[00:11:06] So this is time stretching but here we have a speed knob in percentage, which is not very helpful
[00:11:29] But what we can do is we can
[00:11:31] replace the speed knob and make the playback
[00:11:35] Manual kind of and we do this by using here this freeze playhead
[00:11:42] Button right and if you push this button, you can see here the speed knob changes to a position knob
[00:11:49] Now we can change the position manually inside of the sample
[00:11:53] So what we know is these are kind of four bars one bar two bars three bars four bars, right?
[00:12:00] So we can kind of create a face signal
[00:12:04] position signal
[00:12:07] With all kinds of different modulators. So I'm using here just a classical LFO and
[00:12:12] The ramp signal is just a ramp or in worst
[00:12:16] reversed
[00:12:19] Saw wave you can see it's just going up in value and we put in here a timing mode because the timing
[00:12:26] is based on the BPM and then we can say we have four
[00:12:32] bars to fill right and then we modulate here the whole
[00:12:36] Thing because we know this is the start of
[00:12:39] The sample and this is the end of the sample and then we want to play this back exactly
[00:12:46] With four bars as a speed
[00:12:48] Setting here, maybe open this up
[00:12:52] You can see it's already just scanning through the waveform and we want to re-trigger of course here when the note hits
[00:12:58] And we want to put this into unipolar mode because we only want to modulate from zero to one
[00:13:04] Right. This is zero and this is one. So now we can hit playback
[00:13:08] You can see it fits perfectly it plays back the sample exactly like this sample
[00:13:25] Because we tell the position knob play this position at any time and then we time sync this here to the LFO
[00:13:33] which is time sync to the BPM and we fill exactly here always spread this
[00:13:37] Sample exactly across four bars because we have four bars when we say spread this to two bars, then it's playing this
[00:13:45] twice as fast
[00:13:58] Right, so we wonder for one here and now we can change the BPM and the sample doesn't change in pitch
[00:14:06] But it changes in
[00:14:08] playback speed
[00:14:10] So the playback speed changes but the pitch stays the same
[00:14:26] But in the texture mode we can also change the pitch here with this knob
[00:14:29] Completely not dependent on the playback speed so we can say oh we want to have this here
[00:14:37] Maybe an octave lower and the playback speed is still the same
[00:14:40] Or maybe an octave higher
[00:14:51] So with this we kind of completely separated pitch from playback speed and
[00:14:57] The textures mode kind of helps us with this very easily actually
[00:15:02] so when you know
[00:15:05] The length of your kind of sample or your loop
[00:15:10] You can work very easily here with the fake face signal with the fake positioning signal
[00:15:17] Inside of the sample with the textures mode on and the freeze knob on because you can
[00:15:21] very we can be very specific with your
[00:15:25] Playback of the sample
[00:15:27] What we also can do is we can change it to grain size and let's say I want to play this here at exactly one on BPM
[00:15:35] And I can go down here zoom in and say here
[00:15:39] Oh, this is probably
[00:15:42] 132
[00:15:45] With note right and you can see it's 80 milliseconds. So we can type this in into the grain size 80 milliseconds
[00:15:52] So now each grain is exactly here one
[00:15:56] 132 note long basically on the grid. Maybe it sounds better
[00:16:01] But the grain size is basically matched with the BPM now
[00:16:06] And with the motion we can kind of change how the grain
[00:16:14] Moves or the motion of the playhead moves over these grains maybe back and forth a little bit
[00:16:19] So we have more like a smooth result
[00:16:22] Not so much
[00:16:33] Maybe make it bigger so let's say instead of here
[00:16:37] Maybe use 37
[00:16:42] Hmm, let's see how this sounds
[00:17:09] Also, if you don't like how the stretch algorithm sounds because it's so, you know, it's so kind of so many artifacts
[00:17:16] sometimes
[00:17:19] not always
[00:17:21] With musical stuff, it works very well to use
[00:17:24] Voice stacking. So let's use your five voice decks. We just duplicate the sample of five times and then on each instance we
[00:17:35] Use here voice control or stack spread
[00:17:38] It's maybe better and then we spread out the grain size so each stack gets a different grain size and maybe a different motion
[00:17:45] Motion parameter we have to tweak this here a bit later. Not too much and
[00:17:52] Then you fill in the gaps much better because you have different layers and each layer plays kind of the sample
[00:17:59] back a bit differently and then you fill in the gaps and it gets more dense and
[00:18:05] It's maybe sound better. I don't know
[00:18:07] Haven't tried it yet
[00:18:10] So maybe use your minus one to plus one because now we can spread out here in the stereo field a bit more
[00:18:17] Let's see how this sounds so I using use your second one because here I can choose minus one to plus one and you use
[00:18:26] Zero to plus one because I want to
[00:18:29] Just modulate here in the positive range and here you want to modulate into the negative range
[00:18:35] Which means left and then a positive right. Let's see all the sounds
[00:18:58] It becomes a bit more dense, let's go full here with 16 stacks makes a bit quieter
[00:19:03] And the smaller grain sizes don't work here for this material, maybe it's better for drums
[00:19:25] Now I can play it back very slowly
[00:19:54] So it sounds very blurred but
[00:19:57] Sometimes it's what you want
[00:20:00] But you can work around certain things here and try out to use stacking to kind of smooth and fill in the gaps if you don't like the artifacts of
[00:20:09] The stretch algorithm here right so we can hear
[00:20:12] These small little repetitions
[00:20:15] And this is much smoother
[00:20:18] You
[00:20:20] So you have some options here, so
[00:20:30] Sometimes this algorithm here the stretch one where you have just three options for the grain size
[00:20:37] I would say sometimes the sampler is even better because you have this fluid grain size knob
[00:20:44] You can change the motion. You can use voice stacking. It's sometimes even better to have this
[00:20:49] Inside of the sampler and the next question would be probably
[00:20:56] Can I change the pitch with the keyboard and I think if you have here the key tracking on you can
[00:21:01] Let me try this here
[00:21:04] If you like to have this kind of old-school sampler style then you use maybe bit 8 on that
[00:21:25] And jitter clock maybe here the quantization level
[00:21:33] I
[00:21:35] Made a video about bit 8 and how you can use it to kind of fake this
[00:21:55] sampler sound as a
[00:21:59] Sampler sound here with the beat 8 because you don't need to sample
[00:22:03] With a bit reduction and then put it in the sampler and then pitch it down you can kind of fake this here by a modulating the clock
[00:22:11] Knob and change it with a key. So key tracking basically the clock here. It works kind of well
[00:22:18] So I showed this in different video. I want to go down this rabbit hole, but I just want to show you how you can use the
[00:22:26] sampler here to make
[00:22:29] Yeah, this kind of stretching
[00:22:31] Possible so you can completely change what you want with the sampler. You can say or play it back at this speed or play it back at this pitch
[00:22:40] And you can change it independently from each other. So the sampler is very powerful in my opinion
[00:22:46] Also what I talked about here in the beginning you can use something like the pitch 12 right where you have the keyboard
[00:22:55] And you can say oh when I press C. I'm playing back
[00:22:59] Maybe let's go out of this mode here
[00:23:02] This is
[00:23:05] What is down?
[00:23:08] Maybe on what's that C sharp C sharp I started different position right?
[00:23:15] And
[00:23:17] Then you have
[00:23:28] Right so again make some kind of slices with this it's does it's just not straightforward and
[00:23:38] It's not like a easy feature where you just pull down the threshold
[00:23:42] And then you have all the transient selected on the keyboard. That's not possible. Hopefully we get this at some point
[00:23:49] It's probably not in bitwig 6 because it's focused on a ranger and you know a piano roll and such things
[00:23:57] Anyway, I think that's it for this video. I just want to make
[00:24:02] Some kind of combined video. So the big quick bitwig announcement
[00:24:09] Yesterday and also this question from yesterday from someone
[00:24:14] Combined video. Anyway, let me know what you think about bitwig studio 6
[00:24:18] Let me know what you think about the sampler how you use it
[00:24:21] If you have questions about the sampler, let me know I can make a video and show you everything that you can do with the sampler
[00:24:28] I mean
[00:24:30] Everything is possible
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[00:24:38] 28 days 29 days until bitwig studio 6 nice one