Every Bitwig Modulator Explained and Ranked on a Tierlist

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[Chi_Mecha]

While I agree that we want a quick wavetable editor for Bitwig, it is also important to mention that the wavetable LFO can import shapes you made in other editors, like for example Phase Plant or Vital.

[humanprogram]

Found this really useful! One nice thing for wavetables LFO is that Biteig’s wavetable collection has a handful of utility modulator wavetables like Lorenz chaotic modulation, so that adds a dimension to it for me.

[michail_]

Thank you, very interesting and informative.

[latuile]

First thx for this video, it's always nice to have a comprehensive overview of this topic. Now I (of course xD) have to slightly disagree with you on the ranking... Classic LFO: I'm still rather new to bitwig (1.5y, coming from a hardware setup) but to me it is my default go-to LFO, because of all the features it packs and the flexibility they provide where other LFOs are much more specialised. Wavetable LFO: some other comments alreay state my points about it, I personally like it a lot to build evolving, "textured" ambiant noise backgrounds. Parseq8: being able to have each step address a different parameter allows for variations you could hardly get from most other modulators and create very interesting rythmic patterns out of a single source (think of stuff like the Moog DFAM), specially when paired with other modulators.

[schubertludwig]

I made it that far, but I also don’t want to do timestamps for this. xD
Thanks for your thoughts on these, certainly inspires me to play with the Audio Rate (4:35) modulator again!

[Beatsbasteln]

i didn't know the globals one yet but it would have been super useful many times when working with massive feedback delays. gotta say tho, it would make more sense to me if global's playback modulator was just a feature of delay+ directly, as it's definitely only really needed in delay or reverb contexts. this is definitely much more of an actual delay parameter than delay+'s post filter knobs. they always feel a bit redundant to me because i usually load an EQ somewhere after delay+ anyway, but for more complex curves

[GodelsPrison]

Great video. For me the math mod is S-tier, it has many uses but I frequently use it in conjunction with macros and lfos as a depth modulator for stack spread.

[rentonl]

amazing video! how did you get the waveform to be visualised at the top?

[GeorgeLocke]

We need a "PureData for bitwig" to do midi manipulation, eg converting poly pressure to cc selected by note number

[johnmiller]

you can use the button as a mod quantizer. For me this puts it to an S tier — I use it constantly to create binary random lfos.