Hosts & Applications (Sequencers, DAWs, Audio Editors, etc.) • Re: Live 12 or Bitwig 5.1

Indeed. I found Bitwig UX to be bad overall. Weird thing.

When talking about keyboard shortcuts I was saying Bitwig is better. D for the device submenu, i for information, b for browsing, everything you would use all the time is logically laid out with usually a single keyboard shortcut. B for the browser is a lot different than alt command/control b. I feel the same way about nested devices in Bitwig, it's just more intuitive. Where Live beats it is in the new browser VS Bitwigs new browser, and track routing is much more intuitive in Live. I had to look online to figure out how to set up a multi instrument in Bitwig, it's dead easy in Live.

I agree about the browser. However setting up a multi in Bitwig is easy and imo much better than Ableton. The only thing about the way Bitwig does it is that it's a little hidden and you have to be shown how to do it. It's not immediately obvious. But just click the double arrow on the plug-in device and choose Add Missing chains and you are pretty much done. That will add all the outputs for the plugin and you can just click on the mixer view to see all the channels. You can then create Inst tracks and point them to the main Inst track.

I've tried this with a few different plugins, and it never works.

I've got a couple of UJAM beat makers as well as Komplete 14U with Kontakt and a variety of drummers, definitely things that support multi-out.

I set them up in the plugins themselves the way they should - both work in other DAWs, though I had to do it all manually (ie route to drum pieces to the correct outputs etc and save that all in KK, and with UJAM I have to change all pieces to be routed to "individual" as its "master" by default).

I'm trying to get Bitwig to do it the easy way by adding missing chains, but "add missing chains" is greyed out. Does nothing at all, can't be clicked. Right clicking the channel and clicking "add missing chains" does nothing as well.

I must be missing a step somewhere because I have everything working perfectly in other DAWs.

Trying to replicate what I do elsewhere into Bitwig.

Statistics: Posted by harddaysnight — Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:23 am

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