Bitwig Studio 6 Overview – What’s New & Key Features

[00:00:00] Hey folks, welcome back.
[00:00:01] So today I want to give you with this video a small compressed overview over
[00:00:05] Bitwig Studio 6, what's new and what's changed because not everyone wants to
[00:00:10] watch my five hour long stream from the release day.
[00:00:13] Okay.
[00:00:14] So before we start, please don't focus on this guy.
[00:00:17] Okay.
[00:00:18] He's living rent free on my skin at the moment and he's going away pretty soon.
[00:00:22] I promise.
[00:00:23] Okay.
[00:00:23] So let's go to Bitwig 6 here.
[00:00:25] Um, this is how it looks like a bit, a bit different, right?
[00:00:29] You can see different rounded edges here.
[00:00:32] This is kind of new.
[00:00:33] We have some new options here in the transport area.
[00:00:36] We also have a dark background.
[00:00:39] Now you can't switch back to the bright or white or gray background.
[00:00:43] We had in Bitwig 5, um, it's not possible at the moment.
[00:00:47] So you have to live with the black or darker background.
[00:00:50] Um, we also have here on the right side, some kind of action bar, uh, with new
[00:00:56] options, we have still here the arrow key, the pointer tool.
[00:00:59] We have the time selection tool.
[00:01:01] We have the pencil to draw in stuff that still works, um, like this.
[00:01:07] But we also have your spray paint tool, which helps you to paint stuff faster.
[00:01:13] So you can just click and drag, right?
[00:01:15] Or drag back and you can kind of create things sometimes faster.
[00:01:21] Um, it has different features or functions inside of different contexts.
[00:01:26] So here in the ranger, you can of course, uh, create clips.
[00:01:30] Um, then we have still here the knife tool to slice stuff.
[00:01:35] And I just saw here in a video from Moss that you can actually, uh, cut much, much
[00:01:41] better now because you can see a line and you can also click and hold and then, uh,
[00:01:47] pull this down and you can choose where to cut here by going left and right.
[00:01:51] And if you are ready to cut, just release the key.
[00:01:54] So thanks, Moss, I didn't know that, um, even though I use the alpha, there's also
[00:02:01] here an eraser tool still and the audition tool, which is new.
[00:02:05] So, uh, the audition tool is something you can use to play back fast, uh, individual
[00:02:11] clips or the complete arrangement from a certain point, you know, without, uh, um,
[00:02:18] yeah, quantization, and then it goes back to where it was before you clicked.
[00:02:23] This also works, of course, inside of the detail editors or every editor.
[00:02:28] Basically, you just can use the audition tool to just make a quick look at that.
[00:02:33] Um, yeah, then we have a new look.
[00:02:36] You can see the dark background here.
[00:02:38] We can change this and there's also here down there, a small little drop down
[00:02:43] menu, which is completely new.
[00:02:44] And here you can switch to a dark grid and it's, they mean that the grid here
[00:02:50] in the background that you can see at the moment here, it's white.
[00:02:53] So you can switch to a dark grid, then you can change the grid intensity to
[00:02:57] make it a bit brighter and a bit darker.
[00:02:59] You can switch to white grid and also can make this year darker or even more
[00:03:04] brighter if you want to have real contrast than the background.
[00:03:07] Also, you can change the background level, which is, yeah, makes it a bit gray.
[00:03:12] I think almost like it was before.
[00:03:15] If you liked more, uh, brighter than you can do this here.
[00:03:18] So you have a lot of options here to tweak it, uh, but there are limitations,
[00:03:23] right?
[00:03:23] Um, then here are some options that you had before.
[00:03:27] I think these were some buttons down here in bitwig five.
[00:03:31] Um, so yeah, there's also some options here, global automation lock, which means
[00:03:36] basically if you want to, uh, lock, uh, combine or link, uh, note clips to the
[00:03:43] new automation, uh, clips together.
[00:03:47] So you can move, um, note clips around without having the automation
[00:03:52] clips attached, so you can use the global automation lock here at zero, or you
[00:03:56] can just click this button here.
[00:03:58] This is also new.
[00:03:59] Then you can see, um, we have here a scale mode.
[00:04:03] We can choose from different scales.
[00:04:05] This is pretty new.
[00:04:06] And, um, yeah, this is for the whole project and you can use them inside of the
[00:04:11] project here, different tools like no transpose or the appreciator or some
[00:04:17] modules inside of the grid.
[00:04:19] And they just, just use the information from this, um, selection here, right?
[00:04:23] And everything changes with it.
[00:04:25] Um, there's also now here some kind of new thing, um, that you have at the top.
[00:04:31] We can add here, let's say at the project level, we can add automation for the root
[00:04:37] key, for instance, or the scale or, uh, time signature tempo.
[00:04:41] We had this before in bitwig five, but it was like down here with the master track.
[00:04:46] Now it's at the top and here we can change, of course, settings inside here
[00:04:51] of the scale menu.
[00:04:52] So you can say, I want to have B minor here, and then you want to switch
[00:04:56] to C major later in the, uh, track and everything down here changes with it.
[00:05:02] Also the scale lock feature of the editor, of course, if you want to do this.
[00:05:06] Um, then you can see we have different rounded buttons here.
[00:05:10] They look a bit different.
[00:05:12] Also, this is a different round or different, uh, edge rounding here, uh,
[00:05:16] corner rounds, uh, whatever you want to call it.
[00:05:19] This is different.
[00:05:20] We also have down here this small little overview.
[00:05:23] So you can see what's going on in the project.
[00:05:25] Even you are zoomed in, you can see where you are.
[00:05:29] So it's more like an, a nice overview.
[00:05:31] And it also works like a scroll bar kind of, this is pretty neat.
[00:05:36] Um, then you can see on the left side, all these tracks look a bit different.
[00:05:41] We don't have the slider anymore here.
[00:05:43] There's also no button for, uh, the automation lanes.
[00:05:47] Now there's basically a global automation button here, which kind of, uh,
[00:05:53] switches everything into a different mode.
[00:05:55] So every track is basically now, um, showing you the automation, which is
[00:06:00] basically the last track or the, the last button, the last knop, you
[00:06:05] touched on a synth, right?
[00:06:07] So here phase four, if I just move this, you can see here it's changing.
[00:06:11] And then you can start to automate basically here, uh, right away.
[00:06:15] So this is a global automation mode now.
[00:06:18] And this small little track, uh, local automation lane is more or less gone.
[00:06:24] You can still add automations here by using this plus button.
[00:06:28] Um, and then you basically see also here in this list, the last or the
[00:06:34] recent touched parameters, right?
[00:06:36] So when we go here, there are already automations there.
[00:06:39] And the plus button there is gone.
[00:06:42] So there's a plus button only when there is no automation, uh, on the track
[00:06:47] itself, it's a plus button.
[00:06:48] If you start to add automations to this, uh, bus here, then it looks like, um,
[00:06:54] more or less like this, uh, small little arrow here, where you can unfold, um,
[00:07:00] the automation lanes that you already filled with automations.
[00:07:04] And if you need to add something, you need to go down here and use the plus
[00:07:08] button, or you go here and say, I think you can, uh, add automation lanes.
[00:07:13] And then you can see you're already the last touch parameter.
[00:07:16] It's filter frequency for me, or you can go down here into the synthesizer
[00:07:21] and can right click and say, add automation lane.
[00:07:23] And this is a bit of a problem for me, but I make a separate video on that
[00:07:29] because I have some problems with the new way of how they change this here,
[00:07:34] because I don't really need a global automation mode and I prefer actually
[00:07:39] having here a local automation lane unfold button, but I make a separate
[00:07:44] video on this and talk about this when I, you know, have my thoughts, um,
[00:07:49] compressed and compressed and I can make a video about this.
[00:07:52] So these are basically the new automations.
[00:07:55] Um, we also have now clips.
[00:08:00] So when you click on a note clip here, for instance, this one, we
[00:08:04] can now see on the left side here, there is this small little drop down
[00:08:08] with some kind of fingerprint icon or something like this.
[00:08:11] We can click this and you can see, um, it shows me here different numbers
[00:08:16] and some patterns on the right side, which means, uh, Bittwick or Bittwick says
[00:08:20] here, there are actually, um, different patterns and there are different
[00:08:25] clips, but they're actually all the same.
[00:08:28] And you can go down here to merge duplicate patterns.
[00:08:33] And now you can see, we have this paper clip here on this note clip, uh, which
[00:08:38] kind of, um, gives you an indication that we have now one original clip.
[00:08:44] And all the others follow this original clip, which means I can just go
[00:08:49] into one clip here and change the clip.
[00:08:52] And then everything changes with it, right?
[00:08:56] So when I change here, the note, you can see every other clip follows
[00:09:00] basically this first clip or this one clip.
[00:09:03] So they are linked together.
[00:09:05] You can do this even here inside of the note, uh, or the, the, the clip
[00:09:09] launcher, if you have here, basically a clip, you just copy this over as an
[00:09:13] alias clip and you can change then in here, your original clip and everything
[00:09:19] inside of the arrangement doesn't matter where it is in the arrangement.
[00:09:23] It doesn't need to be here close to each other.
[00:09:25] You can just spread it around and the whole project, it doesn't matter.
[00:09:30] When you change this original clip, everything changes with it.
[00:09:33] So this is very nice for making complex, complex arrangements, but you
[00:09:37] still want to be able to change the sequence in a central place.
[00:09:43] I really like it.
[00:09:44] There's also an option down here under play under the play button.
[00:09:47] You can see record to arranger as alias clips.
[00:09:50] This helps you basically when you have your clip launcher clips and you hit play
[00:09:55] and then you hit record here to record actually what you do in the launcher.
[00:09:59] Into the arranger.
[00:10:00] Then when this is enabled, um, all of these clips you write into the
[00:10:05] arranger are actually alias clips, pretty dope and very cool.
[00:10:10] If you want to create arrangements fast and then later on, you can just be
[00:10:15] in the launcher, in the clip launcher, and you can change the sequence here.
[00:10:19] And then everything changes in the arrangement.
[00:10:22] Um, yeah, very nice.
[00:10:24] Actually, I really like this change, um, much needed.
[00:10:28] Um, then we have here some status updates.
[00:10:32] When you play basically a clip, maybe a move something here, you, uh, maybe
[00:10:37] mutus, you hit play, you can see now we have the status, um, circle here.
[00:10:42] And it says how many iterations you looped this thing and when it's done
[00:10:48] and when it started and so on.
[00:10:49] So there are some updates also here.
[00:10:52] Um, then we have the automation itself.
[00:10:56] So when you go to the automation, you can see here, uh, we have some
[00:10:59] track automation and we have some clip automation.
[00:11:02] So this is clip here where you have this kind of background and you can always
[00:11:07] make certain things, uh, to a clip.
[00:11:10] So this is here, um, track automation.
[00:11:13] And let's say I really like this stuff, this automation I did here.
[00:11:18] So you can hold down alt and click here and then it makes everything to a clip.
[00:11:24] So this clip is actually the same or has the same behavior as a note clip or
[00:11:29] an audio clip.
[00:11:30] So this update basically brings the automation up to par to, uh, note
[00:11:37] clips and audio clips.
[00:11:38] Okay.
[00:11:39] So you can drag this into here, into the clip launcher.
[00:11:43] You can just play it from here and add automation to your instruments
[00:11:49] from the clip launcher.
[00:11:50] Or you can also use, um, let's say, um, yeah, alias clips.
[00:11:55] So let's say we make here another one to another clip.
[00:11:58] So we can go here to the left side and it says, Oh, we have multiple clips here.
[00:12:02] They do the same thing.
[00:12:03] So merge it and you can see this one is merged with this one because it's
[00:12:07] actually having the same values or the same automation curve dope, right?
[00:12:12] So this is also the same.
[00:12:14] And I think when you change here, the automation in here, um, everything
[00:12:18] changes with it, right?
[00:12:19] So we change at this down, um, you can see here, it's down here, it's down here.
[00:12:24] Right.
[00:12:25] So it's linked together.
[00:12:26] So also automations have now, uh, alias, the alias feature.
[00:12:32] And you can just spread this around.
[00:12:34] Also a cool thing is about this, uh, about these automation clips here that
[00:12:40] you can actually drag this into the, um, yeah, modulator section of
[00:12:45] instruments in between, you can see it will create there a segments modulator.
[00:12:50] If you don't like a segments modulator, you just hold down alt and
[00:12:54] it is a curve modulator, which is great.
[00:12:58] We also can open up here a different, yeah, a curve for the curve modulators.
[00:13:04] We could do this before, but now we can just drag this out into an automation
[00:13:10] lane, so we can interchange basically curves or BV curves from modulators
[00:13:16] and automations and just make one thing the other, uh, just how we like it, right?
[00:13:21] So also very smart to have this, um, that we also changed how automation
[00:13:29] is, uh, edited kind of, so let's close here, the clip launcher.
[00:13:34] So we can now, uh, do something much more smooth, right?
[00:13:38] You can see how it's deleting certain points.
[00:13:41] This is cool.
[00:13:41] Uh, we have here, um, kind of curvatures we can apply.
[00:13:46] There's also something that you can select multiple points and then you
[00:13:51] can just all track, I think now it's not all track, but you can see on
[00:13:55] the left side here, there's a spread.
[00:13:57] So we can apply spread, which actually randomizes these, uh, modulation points here.
[00:14:04] So every time you run through this clip or this modulation clip or automation
[00:14:09] clip, um, the values are slightly different.
[00:14:14] So it's very nice for when you want to have, uh, very specific automation
[00:14:19] curve, but you want to have it slightly different on every iteration.
[00:14:23] Very great to have this and, um, yeah, uh, can't think, uh, don't want to
[00:14:31] use anything else basically.
[00:14:34] When you use the time selection tool here, you can also use
[00:14:37] then the short, short, uh, cut two or one or two, right?
[00:14:41] You can select something like this and then you hold down alt and you
[00:14:46] can more or less make here a hard cut in this, right?
[00:14:50] So you can see, um, it's much easier now than it was, um, than before, uh, to
[00:14:56] make a four point, um, automation.
[00:14:59] So this works basically everywhere.
[00:15:01] You just make a selection and then all track up and down.
[00:15:04] Very nice to have this.
[00:15:06] This is like, this was missing for years and people were complaining
[00:15:11] about this finally, um, we have it in our automation things.
[00:15:16] Also, you need to check out, um, that this automation has a different smoothing.
[00:15:22] It's much tighter now.
[00:15:24] So when you want to have very tight curves, you can do this.
[00:15:28] Um, I don't want to demonstrate this here to make this video not too long,
[00:15:32] but you can, uh, draw in very sharp, short curves like this one, right?
[00:15:37] And then you can, uh, make the loop very short and loop it.
[00:15:42] And it will do it last, just like if you had a curve, a modulator on that.
[00:15:47] It's very tight and the smoothing is reduced.
[00:15:51] It's very precise.
[00:15:52] Check it out, try it out, bounce it to audio and see, uh, how the
[00:15:57] waveform looks like in my opinion, they did some nice changes there.
[00:16:01] Okay.
[00:16:02] Moving on to the detail editor.
[00:16:06] There also changed something there.
[00:16:08] You can now open up the detail editor for you.
[00:16:11] It's probably shift and tap.
[00:16:12] So you clip, click one, um, note clip here or audio clip or automation clip.
[00:16:18] And then you hit shift tab for me.
[00:16:20] It's just tab and you have this detail editor and you can, uh, use here
[00:16:26] some different things on the left side, right?
[00:16:28] We have folding, this was already available.
[00:16:31] Uh, we have now here also automation editing and you can see all the
[00:16:35] automations here we just selected.
[00:16:38] Um, so you can do stuff like this.
[00:16:41] Also we have, um, what's it called?
[00:16:45] Waveform overlay.
[00:16:46] Um, you can choose your different waveforms or different audio clips
[00:16:51] that we have in the project.
[00:16:52] Just to overlay this here with the media, uh, media clip.
[00:16:56] Um, there are also new buttons here with these kind of small little arrows,
[00:17:02] which means you have to click and hold.
[00:17:04] So click just disables and enable, see the feature.
[00:17:08] And long click basically gives you a drop down.
[00:17:11] And yeah, there you have that.
[00:17:15] Also here, this is, uh, the expression overlay, uh, feature, uh, before in
[00:17:21] bitwig five, this was only for, uh, pitch, uh, for micro pitch or MPE pitch
[00:17:27] informations, right?
[00:17:28] So pitch spent up and down on multiple nodes, also polyphonic.
[00:17:33] Uh, now we can choose here between pitch transpose, which was possible for,
[00:17:38] but we can also do this now with pressure.
[00:17:41] Pressure was in bitwig five only available, um, down here, right?
[00:17:46] You have to choose basically the pressure here and the timber and what's
[00:17:51] that after touch, maybe gain, panning and chance.
[00:17:55] Um, so now we have this basically on a per node, um, overlay.
[00:18:00] So we can choose here, pan, then choose a different pan for this node, even
[00:18:06] though it's maybe a polyphonic, right?
[00:18:08] When you have like chords and you have multiple nodes on top of each other,
[00:18:12] you can then, uh, choose different pan settings for different nodes.
[00:18:15] Even though they play at the same time.
[00:18:17] And it's very hard to do this here in this kind of view.
[00:18:22] So we have this now on top of the nodes, pretty nice change in my opinion.
[00:18:27] And then the last one here is this, uh, scalon mode, right?
[00:18:32] So if you activate this or enable this, um, you can see then here, we have
[00:18:38] an overlay or this overlay is actually always visible for me.
[00:18:41] I have to change this here on the right side.
[00:18:44] So we have here a snap to key, uh, we can disable this and also node
[00:18:50] background, piano pattern and a tap to key.
[00:18:53] So let's choose piano pattern.
[00:18:54] So now this is basically the normal piano roll views.
[00:18:58] We have dark background here for black keys and white or brighter background
[00:19:02] for the white keys, what we can enable basically here, the, um, what's
[00:19:08] the name, snap to key option.
[00:19:10] So you can see slightly blue lines here and they indicate, um, nodes that
[00:19:16] are in the scale and the scale you can change at the top here with this selector.
[00:19:21] Okay.
[00:19:21] And then you can move notes around and they snap to these lines.
[00:19:27] So even if you just use the arrow keys, you can go up and up and up.
[00:19:32] You don't basically go up in semitones.
[00:19:35] You go up and down in scale notes, right?
[00:19:38] You can see here, we just skip one note because it's not in the scale.
[00:19:42] So this is basically here, the snap to key option.
[00:19:46] So you can enable or disable this.
[00:19:48] Then on the right side here, you can also enable or disable snap to key,
[00:19:54] which is also here usable via the K shortcut.
[00:19:59] But there's also an option for node background, right?
[00:20:02] The moment it's piano pattern, it's, yeah, that you have dark backgrounds
[00:20:06] for black keys and white background for white keys.
[00:20:10] But here you can choose to adapt to key.
[00:20:13] And now the pattern is different.
[00:20:14] So we have a blue background for all the nodes that are in the scale and
[00:20:19] the dark background for all the nodes that are not in the scale.
[00:20:23] Also your snap to key works.
[00:20:25] If you disable this, then you can also use nodes out of the scale.
[00:20:30] But if you enable your snap to key, you can see it's now here.
[00:20:35] This kind of pattern on the nodes.
[00:20:38] And it indicates that it's not in the scale of, yeah, the scale you choose here at the top.
[00:20:44] Another thing I forgot to mention is actually that you have now this detail editor much
[00:20:51] more easy for keep on, keep multiple things inside of the detail editor.
[00:20:58] So usually I just click one clip.
[00:21:01] For instance, this one here and you hit shift tab.
[00:21:04] And you see the detail editor, just these nodes here.
[00:21:07] And then if you want to, you can just use the control key and select multiple.
[00:21:12] So this clip and this clip and maybe here also this way file, right?
[00:21:16] And then you hit shift tab and it looks like this.
[00:21:19] So with this, you have more or less your multiple things selected.
[00:21:25] The crash, you can see are also these nodes in there.
[00:21:30] So, yeah, multiple instruments at the same time.
[00:21:34] Phase four here, maybe, let's say we have here the impact or maybe it's the crash.
[00:21:41] Yeah, you can see the crash then in the background.
[00:21:43] You can also select here the first clip, phase four, or this other clip and then paint in nodes.
[00:21:51] So the multi-layer display is also a bit changed and it's more easy.
[00:21:56] You can also include, of course, automations here.
[00:21:59] If we add maybe this automation thing and then look at different patterns.
[00:22:07] Let's open this up.
[00:22:08] Track view is possible.
[00:22:11] You can see the automation here.
[00:22:13] So everything is pretty clear and you can overlay multiple clips at the same time if you want to.
[00:22:24] But yeah, this was kind of possible before in a certain way, but now it's more powerful.
[00:22:31] Let's put it this way.
[00:22:33] So the detail editor is actually something that you want to use.
[00:22:37] And we also have at the top these small little lines where you can change what you actually want to edit.
[00:22:43] If you want to edit basically the first clip or the second clip here, or you can unfold here
[00:22:49] and choose what kind of clip you want to edit.
[00:22:52] You can also switch to the track view.
[00:22:54] You can see what's going on in the whole project here.
[00:22:57] So you have full control over everything from the detail editor.
[00:23:03] And if you have basically a dual screen setup, you can have this on a second screen.
[00:23:09] And all you need is basically to just click once here and you can see the detail editor on the second screen.
[00:23:15] What's going on there or click here or maybe this or select this and this.
[00:23:19] And then the second screen or the detail editor on the second screen just adapts and show you actually what you just selected here.
[00:23:27] Then we have inside of the clip.
[00:23:31] Let's go here to clip again.
[00:23:32] Let's switch to clip view and piano roll.
[00:23:36] So here we have, of course, let's say the spray tool, which lets you kind of create exactly like I showed you with the audio clips
[00:23:49] or the MIDI clips, note clips in the beginning, you can do this here with notes.
[00:23:53] So we can click and drag and make just a pattern in the size of the selected grid.
[00:24:00] So at the moment here, it's 160 note and it depends basically on the zoom.
[00:24:03] So we can just redo this here and say, I'd say to zoom in, you can see we have additional grid lines.
[00:24:10] You choose then here to spray can tool again, and then you paint more or less in 132 note size.
[00:24:18] So you can use this to create, for instance, hi-hats or whatever you want to create.
[00:24:23] You can also with this tool can click, track, and then you before you release, you go up and down.
[00:24:32] You can change the velocity just with one click and track more or less.
[00:24:37] And you can also do something like click and then hold down the Alt key.
[00:24:44] And then you can go up and down and basically paint patterns or musical sequences if you want to.
[00:24:51] And just go back and redo it and do it again.
[00:24:55] Everything just with just holding down the Alt key and holding down the mouse key, the left key and just painting in.
[00:25:03] So this works pretty flawlessly.
[00:25:05] There's also like something, a step recording is also new.
[00:25:10] Let's delete this here.
[00:25:12] So if this is available or enabled, these two shoes here, you can click anywhere into the clip and then you have this bright white line.
[00:25:23] And then you can place something on your keyboard.
[00:25:27] You actually have to enable here the keyboard.
[00:25:28] I think I was actually working without to actually working without.
[00:25:32] So you don't need to use your arm button to actually make this available.
[00:25:38] All you have to do then is put it in some place, then hold down a key on your keyboard.
[00:25:42] When you hold it down, you can see I press here basically this button.
[00:25:46] Then when I release the key on the keyboard, it paints this note in the size of the current selected grid size here.
[00:25:54] You can also do something like hold it down, hold the key on the keyboard and then you use control and an arrow key.
[00:26:03] You can make this longer or shorter, right?
[00:26:07] And then you just release when you are happy.
[00:26:10] And then you can use control and right key to insert some spaces and then again, press a key on the keyboard or multiple keys.
[00:26:20] If you want to make them longer and you can edit or step edit with this sequence.
[00:26:27] And you can also see the velocity is also used from your key presses on the keyboard.
[00:26:33] So a lot of features actually just in Bitwig 6.
[00:26:37] It's so much I need to talk for 26 minutes without a pause just to tell you more or less everything.
[00:26:45] And there's even more, okay?
[00:26:47] So here I want to show you basically a project directory of Bitwig Studio 6.
[00:26:54] This is how it looked like before we have here our main project file.
[00:27:01] There are also some bounces in here and we have auto backups.
[00:27:04] So it does automatically back up your projects.
[00:27:09] This was also available before we have this for a long time, right?
[00:27:13] But now they changed something here in auto backups.
[00:27:15] We have here the project and you can see we have now here a new folder called versions.
[00:27:21] So when you click on this, you have project files and you can see we have 6.0 alpha 18.
[00:27:30] As a version for this project file, which means you can open up more or less old projects and save.
[00:27:41] And it will save the last current version of this project for this Bitwig version.
[00:27:50] So with this you can or you have the sometimes you have the problem that you overwrite with new versions of Bitwig old projects.
[00:27:57] And then when you go back to an old Bitwig version, you can't open the project anymore
[00:28:04] because you just overwrite with a new version, right?
[00:28:06] And it says basically, oh, this project is not valid and it was made with a different version and you can't open it.
[00:28:14] So here with auto backups and versions, we can open up other versions or let's say project files
[00:28:24] that have that you have saved with a different version.
[00:28:28] So we have versions now and Bitwig 6 does this automatically, which is in my opinion, nice idea, nice touch.
[00:28:35] OK, so that's it.
[00:28:37] I talked for 26 or 27 minutes.
[00:28:39] I showed you or tried to show you everything that's new in Bitwig 6.
[00:28:43] There is obviously a lot of more little features here and there.
[00:28:48] I couldn't show small changes they made.
[00:28:51] But all in all, I think this is probably the biggest update to Bitwig Studio in one single update.
[00:28:58] It feels so much that they changed in different things and it probably changes how people use Bitwig in a day life
[00:29:08] because of the scale mode.
[00:29:09] A lot of people wanted this, right?
[00:29:11] Automations is very dope now.
[00:29:13] It's very tight.
[00:29:14] I actually love it.
[00:29:16] I probably prefer it for some time now over what you later because it's so tight and it's very fluid to work with.
[00:29:28] Also alias clips.
[00:29:30] You have you have also a feature where you can load up old projects from older Bitwig versions.
[00:29:38] And you probably also copied clips all over the place.
[00:29:42] And there's a feature where you can say make all sequences, all clips that look like the same, make it an alias.
[00:29:51] And then you have, yeah, you can use basically this alias feature on all projects pretty easy and pretty fast.
[00:29:59] Also, step editing was a big thing for people.
[00:30:06] I heard there's a lot that people wanted to have this.
[00:30:10] There are a lot of more features people want, of course.
[00:30:14] So I'm happy that I don't need to see, need to read, please implement the scale highlighting feature.
[00:30:20] Why this was the biggest one, I guess, that people commented under my videos.
[00:30:25] So I'm happy this is now finally a thing of the past.
[00:30:29] And I can't wait to look forward to new feature requests that coming in every day.
[00:30:34] So, yeah, I like the update.
[00:30:37] There will be some more videos with specific things.
[00:30:40] I just want to make a quick update videos who are informed what's new.
[00:30:45] I'm happy about every future.
[00:30:47] I probably don't use everything every day, every time.
[00:30:51] I think most of these features are for other people, not me personally, because let's say the scale feature, right?
[00:30:59] I know my minor scale.
[00:31:01] I know which notes I need to use.
[00:31:05] And for drum bass, I usually use chromatic notes anyway.
[00:31:10] So I probably don't need the scale feature.
[00:31:14] But sometimes when I make some EDM or I don't know, Melodic House or something like this, it could be nice to have.
[00:31:20] I also forgot to show you the modules because there are a lot of devices that actually use the scale feature.
[00:31:31] The global scale like the note transpose, the note echo, which is pretty cool.
[00:31:36] You can just echo up in notes and it uses the scale.
[00:31:41] There is an arpeggiator that uses the scale mode.
[00:31:45] So you can just enable the mode and then you can offset notes in the arpeggiator.
[00:31:51] And it just follows the scale really nice.
[00:31:54] You can automate then the arpeggiator in different ways and it still is in the scale.
[00:32:02] And we have also new modules inside of the grid that use the global scale.
[00:32:08] So you can make generative patches and put it in your project and then change the scale.
[00:32:13] And it sounds perfectly in tune.
[00:32:17] So as probably more, I just forgot, you can also use the automation clips and just move them into your library.
[00:32:27] So you can save these automation clips so you can make nice little automation clips you use all time.
[00:32:35] Maybe a sine wave, maybe a saw wave going down or whatever, fade in, fade out.
[00:32:41] And you can just recall it from the browser inside of the clip launcher.
[00:32:47] You can also load now, I show you this quickly here, right?
[00:32:52] We have here basically a modulation or automation pane and then you can instead of record your automations,
[00:32:59] you can use this plus button and load in here a shape, which is then used as an automation, right?
[00:33:07] Pretty dope.
[00:33:08] So there's so much stuff.
[00:33:14] I really like the update.
[00:33:15] I think it's really worth to make an update or make an upgrade to this version.
[00:33:21] If you don't have the money, maybe wait for the Christmas or winter sale.
[00:33:27] It just, there was just a summer sale, but there's probably also winter sale.
[00:33:32] So maybe wait for that if you don't have the money.
[00:33:35] But if you have the money, in my opinion, they really did a great job with this update,
[00:33:41] even though I know some people don't like the update and they want something completely different.
[00:33:48] But that's always the case, right?
[00:33:50] We have always other features we want.
[00:33:54] And I'm pretty sure they will do it.
[00:33:56] In my opinion, this is also kind of a nice message to the community.
[00:34:01] We actually hear you and we implement stuff you actually want.
[00:34:08] Okay, so all in all, a nice package.
[00:34:12] And I think I wrap it up here with this video.
[00:34:15] There are more videos coming the next days with some specific features, specific tips.
[00:34:21] And yeah, let me know in the comments what you think.
[00:34:24] Of course, leave a like, leave a subscription and tell me what you think.
[00:34:30] Okay, see you next time.
[00:34:32] Bye.
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