I'm still on windows but Linux is looking better and better and I'm curious about people's experience with it.

I noticed that with the new 5 release, Bitwig made some big changes to the different versions:

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In stead of the 8, 16 and Studio version there are now 3 editions that are differentiated by what devices and options are included but not by the amount of tracks you can use or the limits on external plugins like before.

Do you think this is an improvement?

I has been in beta for a while, now it's officially out: https://www.bitwig.com/whats-new/

Anyone tried it? How do you like it? What do you think about it being a full version update?

This is intended for a sticky thread to put Bitwig related banter in that does not need it's own thread.

So.. got anything related to Bitwig you want to talk about but you don't want to make a thread for it? Just put it down here.

TIL How to play notes on the computer keyboard

It's easy: >press [Capslock] on your computer keyboard

This is essential to me. Because if you don't have a midi keyboard connected you can still play notes to record or test a sound. And I do not have one connected most of the time.

In Ableton Live

In Live the standard configuration is that you can play notes using the keys on the computer keyboard. Starting with A they layout mimics a piano layout. You can change octaves with Z and X.

You can choose to disable that and use the keys for shortcuts. Do this by pressing the keyboard icon in the top bar. Or the shortcut M

I have thought about binding the action in Bitwig to M. Only that is the current shortcut for Mixer view. A very useful one.

So I think I will keep using the Capslock even though I find myself shouting in other applications on occasion.

Does anyone have a good suggestion for an alternative key to bind this to?

TIL how to turn off/mute notes with a shortcut

One of my most used shortcuts in Live is numpad 0 to turn off notes. I use it all the time to edit and create variants of melodies and drumparts.

In Bitwig I could never find it, and now I know that was because in BW it uses Toggle Active (and I was looking for 'note' shortcuts).

The shortcut is: Alt+A (Option + A on Mac)

I also learned that you can add another shortcut to it, like the numpad 0 that I'm used to using in Live.

How to add a custom shortcut for this:

Go to Settings in the menu and select shortcuts on the left. Then search for 'active', click the + next to 'toggle active' and you get a pop up to add a new shortcut.

Here I have already added the numpad 0:

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Hope this was useful to someone!

Hello!

I just started this community because there was not a Bitwig one on lemmy.studio yet.

I did find a few on other instances and had a think about what I could contribute that was different, also since I usually am more of a consumer of content on other media so I don't see myself posting about news and other information that people could easily find themselves.

But what I will do is share things I learn about the Bitwig DAW, probably in the form of short TIL (today I learned) posts when I discover how to do things that I aleady know how to do in my current most used DAW, Ableton Live.

I got interested in Bitwig last year and have had the DAW for..about a year I think? But I did not really dive deep in to it yet, one of the reasons being those niggles of how things are just a little different in a new program and jumping back in to the known is just a few clicks away.

Everyone is welcome to share their own discoveries about the program whether also coming from a different DAW or as a totally new DAW user.

And if anyone wants to post other things related to Bitwig, feel free!

This community is not meant to be strictly limited to what I described above, it is just going to be my focus currently.

Have fun, keep learning and be nice to each other!