Bitwig is still the best DAW. Here's why

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[Mukar]

Despite some of the missing features for non-electronic music creation (like articulation mapping for instruments that use keyswitches), I ultimately chose bitwig over studio one during my recent escape from FL Studio due to your last point. This thing is STABLE. Studio One bricked two projects while I was demoing it due to the DAW hanging on the loading of a few plugins, but Bitwig just said "hey these aren't loading. You'll just have to reload them, " and proceeded to open everything else. It's incredible.

[Nine-Signs]

So when it crashes it can be recovered?
20 years of propeller heads reason: "Recovery? Autosave? whats that then?"

[TremelJackson]

Bro look like a young Joseph Gordon Levitt

[philipwacker]

Bro. Quite my tempo! Amazing short guide and review!!! Thank you so much, this is so informative in a really condensed way.

[HalfJoked]

Interesting to see a lot of Reaper users commenting. I'll say the same, Reaper my landing pad now, I still use Ableton for electronic writing out of familiarity. Bitwig seems really cool but there are still core features of Ableton that I find more welcoming when the focus is on writing music over sound design. I personally still prefer the UI of Ableton, to me it's softer & more consistent than the blockier look of Bitwig. I used to worry about the stability of Ableton but now that Reaper takes place as the main landing pad it's not really an issue.

[andreuosika]

I've just started my journey and I'm a total newbie, but agree, Bitwig is an amazing DAW. I tried Pro Logic and Ableton Live for a bit than gave Bitwig a try. I after getting used to the layout etc, I find it to be the most intuitive and with the best designed user interface. Also PL and Live crashed on me a number of times while demoing. BW hasn't so I appreciate the stability. If you are new to DAWs, seriously consider Bitwig.

[brianbergmusic]

Thanks for the advice for new users. I'm a newcommer to the DAW since I'm slowly migrating to Linux, and I'm using Bitwig as an FL Studio replacement in the distro of AV Linux and so far I haven't been disappointed.

[SitWithAnkit]

Bitwig has the best stock plugins, best plugin system (modulators, tank fx, super fast user experience)
But Bitwig lacks some essentials which I would love to see: video playback support, ARA, Midi generation and manipulation.

[oasinwolf]

Cubase user here. Never heard of Bitwig before but now i think i know where the concept of modulators in Cubase 14 pro come from... And afaik, we're still unable to do that polyphonic modulation. My new nektar keyboard comes with Bitwig 8-track and definitely givin it a try. Thanks for the information!

[Emily_M]

thanks for sharing :) Another thing with sharing between projects, instead of drag n drop you can also cut/copy and paste devices.

Another of my favorite features, which you did show actually, is being able to nest devices inside various signal paths. I once put a resonator bank in the Reverb tank lol.

[rano]

I love Bitwig, it's one of my fav DAW and I use it as my secondary DAW. But if you are not making a certain kind of music, then this DAW might not be for you. And the reasons you mentioned, those are truer for Reaper as well and there are way too many features that Reaper can do but bitwig can't like audio to midi, scale lock in the midi editor and the list goes on. But despite that, modulation is its biggest selling point, which is why I keep coming back to it.

[kiksstudios]

It still dont have ara.. Pitch editor like cubase and studio one have.. Many features missing..

[samargouda]

Somebody let me know about some custom themes for bitwig

[ohcibi]

You need to be REEEEAALLLY careful when adding effects to the Feedback FX chain of any delay plugin though. Make very sure that whatever effect you put on does not add more db, than the feedback setting of the delay plugin removes with each tap. Secure your ears by always putting a limiter behind a delay or having some way of emergency unplug whenever you play with delays.

[MaximusWhyman]

As a user of Bitwig for the last couple years I’ll say, Bitwig is a daw for nerds. So it isn’t for most people.

[johnhill]

Dude, that project recovery shit you showed at the end… godly! Does any other daw have something like that? That’s the exact reason I couldn’t use waveform. It crashed on me once and I could not recover 30 minutes of work…

[vanderloo]

Will, you can please do a video all about bass and how to get it to sit right in the mix.

[itsrasalhague]

Good tips! Good video overall. I mix in Reaper which is a powerhouse. But, it lacks a few things on the creative/sound design side like instrument racks, macros and advanced parameter modulation like you've shown.

I'll play around with the trial and see where it goes. Thanks.

[Phantom_Communique]

REAPER.

Jk. Bitwig is awesome. I have mixed feelings about ableton and I love that Bitwig takes a lot of the best features of ableton and improves on them (imo). I’ve recently switched to reaper mostly for the customization and the stability, but the stock instruments and modular environment of BW are amazing.

[DeanWilliams]

Nice video. Bitwig looks good. Thanks for that default preset tip for the EQ. I use Cubase and I found I can do the same thing there. ☺