Audio Quantize in Bitwig 5.1

Nice overview. Thanks! Maybe the dog ate the feature request list seven years ago and they had to channel it back from the beyond of the dog paradise. That can take quite some time :) But anyway makes me optimistic that we may see some more improvements of already existing features to make producing eve more easy. 🚀

haha I will be cry too

I don't understand why Bitiwig insists on not implementing bpm detection in 2023. Also it's been a while but i believe there is no onset detection parameters to play with. Samplitude which is almost a 30 y.o program and definetely not orienntated on loop based music can do both.

the quantize window should be moveable for sure!

Man, this Audio Quantizing sounds so clean and amazing. studio one's sucks. It has so mamy artifacts (mostly because it only has a limited amount of stretch/pitch modes and they all sound not good)

They are like a decade too late. Who’s running the show over there?

I use elastique pro on pretty much everything. I especially like it for vocals if you need to pitch them up or down for the key, but want the voice to still sound close to original sound.

I am diving into this ass first and i will not stop till i can create something to rival the album ultraviolet by usedcvnt.
Thank you for inspiring!
Love and blessings.

threw me off that this video did not start with "hi folks"

Thanks! great video.. was just working with some samples to make it the right bpm. 🙏🏻

Audio quantization! Yes! Was waiting this feature for years! Finally it’s here

A "normalize" shortcut is a dream come true, and it's awesome to hear from Bitwig, that they'll also let us directly "normalize" Clips in the launcher in the future

Normalize!!! Finally
Now my only remaining request is for support for working with old sample packs that has "stereo samples" split into dual mono samples

That's Awesome!!!😍

Have you ever used New sonic arts Vice? It s the purest slicer since Recycle. It IS Recycle in a plug in. Sounds better than beats/slice mode (has stretch/fade), drag to midi, better detection, loop braces within slices, easy editing, filters/fx/tuning/envelopes per slice. I don't eff around anymore. If I need to slice a funky break I just break that out.

Set Clip Start 👏👏👏
Normalize 👏👏👏

It would be good if some big company invests in Bitwig, they can hire more people and take this DAW to the next level, its begging for it, kind of like what Yamaha did with Cubase back in the day and at this point we need not native hardware for Bitwig, that is just going to pen DAW up to so many people.

I love all this, need to be able to edit stretch time for groups like multi tracked drums and such, that is still a brutal process in bitwig.

Been a long time coming. I bet this will win some more Ableton converts for them.

Ich warte ja immernoch auf Track variierende Tempo Modulationen :D

Slice in place and normalize looks super useful! That would save lots of individual gain edits when working with vocals or something like bass guitar I think. I don't understand the new onset threshold setting though. It seems weird that it's a selector for them horizontally in the timeline, I would have thought that it worked vertically, so you can choose the minimum signal threshold at which it considers it to be a valid onset, like with a peak limiter. Can you click and drag the percentage figure and move it in that axis?

As per the last part of the video: What do you guys do when you load a sample that is just filled with onsets? Do you do the work and just delete all the ones you don't need?
I wholeheartedly agree with Polarities suggested changes.
Would it be possible to be able to load an audio clip, choose the onsets manually and then choose the stretch mode afterwards? Unless I've been doing it wrong, -which is likely tbh, this doesn't seem possible atm.
These video's make it harder and harder to refrain from switching to the beta version. I'm just worried my current projects will bork.

Could be useful to have a tempo knob and a jogwheel to adjust the start position of audio event/clip and its tempo like dj softwares have. In a live performance context i would like to just drop audio and have an automatic real time analysis so i can have all the metadata for key tempo and even frequency colorized spectrum, like dj softwares have. Then i dont have to make all of those more technical editing moves when performing. For now i have to previously prepare this audio events as clips. But i really want to be able to as an example; make lyrics and vocals with AI on the fly and throw it into the mix, without any problems. Great video!❤

What’s left for me for this editor to become not just awesome, but super awesome, is the ability to add the onset markers by hand (as is possible in Live).

Jetz braucht nur noch der Sampler diese Features. Warping und Slicing im Sampler ist so wichtig.

Audio quantization‽ Normalization‽ Maybe they'll go really crazy with the next update and add a tuner.

great explained....thx...
f.e.the stretchmarkers is not a onsetmarker as in live and not always there..nice to see how its works in Bitwig...stable...thx...
P.S. The live handling and detecting of the first onset is maybe a dev. problem for the future, hope they can tackle that... as Live user it feels a little bit wonky...

Hallo Polarity, ich möchte schon lange von Windows auf Linux umsteigen. Einzig Ableton Live hat mich davon abgehalten. Würdest du sagen das es Bitwig schon mit Ableton Live aufnehmen kann? Bzw was sind die Vor und Nachteile? Ich wäre bereit es zu lernen.

Bitwig muß in den Audio und Warping Funktionen, echt nachlegen das geht in Ableton 11 Suite einfach geschmeidiger, ich warte daher noch mit einem Umstieg👍🏻😳

Thank you for the overview!

I feel the same way about normalization in bitwig. That feature alone makes this a fantastic update.

Thanks, Polarity, great overview, I get it now completely. I think they have done a very good job with this, some very good opportunities for creativity, typical Bitwig

Thank you. A very necessary video for me.

When I saw you using normalise, I was like "wait, that did exist, why did I never see this"

So that's a new feature as well.

I really think Bitwig needs to still focus on the basics, version 5 was already good, 5.1 is a great update.
What I need now is more intutive automation, I think it's always a struggle to get good curves and it's just annoying. I know you can use modulators and I often do, but there are som things an lfo or a segments just won't do as precisely as automation.

Yup A Threshold is a needed addition to that Transient Detection feature.

I just want to be able to drag an audio file in and not have it overwrite everything after it, along with keeping it's chopped position in tact which is what FL Studio does. It's useful for non destructively auditioning different files in built up chop phrases and I find myself having to open FL just for using audio clips now

i feel there are some Reaper handling of audio that would be incredible within Bitwig...and then i would never open reaper again if i could do all that stuff in Bitwig

Bitwig 5's theme is "sorry, we're finally adding things you've wanted for years" lol

lol I'll cry with you. Not having something as basic as normalization blew me away XD

You can get some nice gritty oldskool loop effects with elastic pro and a low formant setting.

I use RAW as my default (and i work with loads of breaks)

Here's hoping that this audio quantizing is leading to better slicing or stretching tools and integrated into the sampler. We all need to keep bugging them to get up to par with where Ableton is. So far I am loving what they are doing.

I wish they merged "Stretch" and "Onsets" modes of the editor into one - let's add, remove and edit Onsets on top; and add, remove and edit Stretch Markers on the bottom. Also, while adjustong the sensitivity for quantizing audio Bitwig should show Stretch Markers, instead of Onsets. Lastly, I'm not really sure why they've split normal Quantize and Audio Quantize? That requires separate shortcuts. I understand the former is for MIDI and audio events, the latter for audio itself. But I'd rather it was one Quantize with a toggle switching between events & audio quantize.

🔥✨🎉

Great video man. It's really good to go over this stuff again occasionally even without the new stuff. The set clip start and then trim the front end is a good idea, and I was doing it a different way. It's really looking pretty good now.