Getting Started: How To Use Next Actions in Bitwig Studio

Bitwig's Clip Launcher is a realtime companion to the Arranger, but it can also create arrangements in its own right. So triggering one clip can also set what we should "Do Next" time. And organizing our clips into blocks provides new worlds of opportunity. Glimpse what is possible, then make the Clip Launcher your own in Bitwig Studio.

Contents:
0:00
0:55 What are Next Actions?
3:08 Changing multiple clips at once
4:36 "Clip blocks," for breaks options that don't repeat
6:46 A full arrangement, built with Clip Launcher

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[NakulKrishna]

Bitwig: the only DAW that seems to understand the mindset of a musician. Never have to fiddle around with settings if I don’t want to, controllers come setup as soon as you connect, plugins have parameters mapped to the racks. And the modulation and poly grid stuff is pure gold. Can’t wait to keep watching you grow and evolve. Would love to see some love for video scoring features as this daw is perfect for sound design and composition.

[jeremjerem]

The latest videos tutorial about the sequencer is pure gold for me as Bitwig newcomer switcher from Ableton 👍
Great job, pls continue guys 😉

[konskift]

We all want the dulcet sensual tones of Dave L back!!!

[TheServalt]

Last two videos were very informative covering basic DAW features keep it up bitwig!

[Centomila]

I use Next Action in all my sketch tracks and i love it. <3 The only things that i find really frustrating is the missing of _Nothing_ option in the _Do_ dropdown. I'd like to temporally disable next action instead of reducing the _After_ to 0.0.0.0.

[publika]

Guys, I've tried your DAW and I liked it a lot. If you want me and many other producers and engineers to switch over from Ableton I suggest you implement the midi capture (retrospective recording) functionality, since once you try it it's hard to go back. Thank you and congratulations on your good work.

[Artek]

Good video, although it kind of shows that without proper Scene-level follow actions building more complex arrangement like this might prove less efficient than actually using Arranger, e.g. if you wanted the melody to go 1st, followed 2nd by bassline then you'd need to change Follow Actions in several places, instead of e.g. changing order of the Scenes. Not to mention it slowly starts to resemble programming and could be hard to debug with all the randomness and jumping between blocks :)

Also, it would be awesome if Scenes could - visually - contain several clip slots per track, so that a block of clips that say play random breaks "fits" under one Scene, rather than "sticking out" to 4 consecutive scenes.

[ultrajayme]

I've been using bitwig since 1.8 and I'm just NOW deciding to learning the clip launcher LOL

[spelmastarn]

How did he switch between horizontal/vertical view at 0:49? In a tutorial, it’s best to assume the viewers don’t know these things so invisible kbd shortcuts are confusing.

[DanWest]

Super grateful for this one - perfectly timed for my current process. I. Am. Edified!

[rogercawkwell]

Scenes don't seem to have follow actions, so that whole groups of clips jump at the same time. This is a feature I would definitely use.

[dj-]

Thanks. Please can you a multi instrument rack video and a vocal video with essential factory plugin used for vocals. I've just left ableton for bitwig. I've not seen many vids for vocals. Thanks.

[mjaa]

Hello, is there a way to use Post Record Action and Post Record Delay on "Scenes" the same way they are used on Tracks? Thanks.

[Hoergraete]

Just as a feature idea: Put in a 'block selection' drop-down list with the options 'same', 'other', 'random', 'first', 'last' and 'offset'. They are only available for the 'first', 'random' and 'last' next actions. For the 'offset' option there should be an (positive or negative, non-zero) integer value that lets you define the offset of the next block. If it's zero, it's the same block, if it's -1 it's the previous block and so on. This way you could spare some next actions but also provide greater flexibility for the selection of the block that is triggered next.

[tahiche.]

What are blocks exactly?. How do you define what makes a block of clips?. Great video btw. Thanks!

[Drew_Vernon]

Why is there no 'reset current' next action? That would enable me to reproduce the digitakt behaviour where you have say 7/16 steps... but the M.LENGTH is set to 21... so every 21 16th notes, the track resets to step 1, regardless of where it currently is. This is the one thing I miss from this video.

[jwillbassist]

How to move the Scene launch to the right???

[vvcv__]

I wanna give you, and Bitwig, a big fat kiss right now --even though i have donut, and Doritos, crumbs in my mustache and oily-matted long beard.

[vintagetelefly]

Please make video editing avaliable like in reaper.
Further, make multi take recording in arrange window possible. Then I would switch to bigwig soon.

[anthonyclark]

Out of curiosity, how do you switch between a horizontal or vertical layout of the scenes (clip launcher)? In the video, it looked like you used a keyboard command (the mouse wasn't used to trigger the change).