Bitwig - Bitwig Studio (Available Now)

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Record and arrange, improvise and perform, or do it all at once. Choose between several display profiles. Design your own sounds with dedicated container devices. Combine built-in instruments, effects, and VST plug-ins.

Bitwig Studio’s unified mapping system allows you to modulate any device or VST parameter using macro controls and modulator devices. Explore a new world of creative possibilities, including audio and note expressions, histogram-based value editing, layered editing, extensive bounce-in-place functions, automatic slicing, smart controller integration, and the Open Controller Scripting API.

Every feature in Bitwig Studio was developed by musicians, for musicians. Welcome to the next generation of music creation and performance software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.


Bitwig Studio features

• Cross-platform DAW (Windows, OS X, Linux).
• Intuitive non-linear sequencing for the studio world and beyond.
• Full multi-core and multi-processor support.
• VST 2.4 support with built-in 32-/64-bit bridging and plug-in crash protection.
• Proprietary time-stretching technology.
• Unlimited Audio Tracks.
• Unlimited Effect Tracks.
• Multi-display support for up to 3 displays.
• Unlimited Note Tracks.
• Unified Modulation System: Use Macro Controls, Note Expressions, LFOs, and Envelope Followers to modulate any device parameter, including nested internal devices and even VST plug-ins.
• Note and Audio expressions, including per-note Micro-Pitch Control.
• Automatic sample slicing to both Sampler or Drum Machine.
• Record and edit both track and clip automation in absolute and relative modes.
• Support for numerous MIDI controllers out of the box.
• Multiple tools for specific tasks and editing workflows.
• Macro Controls per device, as well as dedicated Device Panel Mappings with color-coded knobs and buttons for an overview at a glance.
• Advanced layered editing.
• Open Controller API: Lets you create and customize functionality for virtually any MIDI controller, including scripting access to nearly every feature of Bitwig Studio.
• File import: WAV, MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis.
• A PDF Manual is included with the Bitwig Studio application in English and Japanese.

Bitwig Studio for Windows, Mac, and Linux costs MAP $399 USD / 299 EUR
 
http://www.bitwig.com/en/home/recent-news.html
 
Demo-
http://www.bitwig.com/en/bitwig-studio/download.html

They might as well kiss there butt's goodbye..

From reading what this has to offer, the only thing "worthy" is Plugin Isolation.

@$399.00 I'm guessing it's not going to do well..but, what do I know...stranger
things have happened...

Not very interested but I'm doing a HD restore this afternoon so I might try the demo.

carl
Not very interested but I'm doing a HD restore this afternoon so I might try the demo.

I used it for a while during the Dev stage...it's ok...the color scheme is a little annoying to me...
it's a "decent" DAW...but I don't think they'll get $399 for it...maybe half that...to be in 
direct competition with FL and some of the others...but if they are trying to compete with
Studio One, Cubase, Sonar, Pro Tools, etc...they can forget it...they're not going to do well..

I think they are missing the boat... I was excited when they first started talking, but not so much any more.
 
I've been following their adventures since the very early days, and I think they have some really good ideas, but nothing earthshaking. At $399 I want earthshaking. And at any price a new sequencer must offer me some major improvement in workflow... the cost, in time, to really learn to use a new tool is just too high.

Bill
Agree entirely - whilst the "dollar" cost is a bit high, the main cost will be installing, getting to learn it, working through whatever bugs appear, upgrades - not for me at the moment I don't think, just too busy.
Nigel
 
 

Bit(wig) underwhelmed here. I thought from all the initial talk that it was going to be new and revolutionary and have all the big boys worried. I don't see anything there that will do that.

Learning a new daw does not sound like anything but a waste of time. I've been thrilled Sonar X3. I may not even upgrade it for a few years.

There are actually a number of forward-thinking ideas in there, along with some missing features (that will likely come along later). It's got (at least part of) Reaper's best feature, which is that there is no distinction between tracks and busses. Plugins apparently run in their own processes, which I take to mean 32- and 64-bit plugins can be freely intermixed - and making it unlikely that a mis-behaving plugin will crash your DAW. And I saw some scripting flash by too fast to see in the video. That's intriguing.

Bigwig and Ableton Live excel in loop based, sample live performance.
 
Many performers at live gigs use Ableton to control lighting, video as well as using contollers to play samples or even entire songs.
 
I don't see Bigwig or Ableton Live taking over the linear studio production that ProTools, Sonar etc use - I don't see that as the purpose or main focus of Bigwig or Ableton.
 
If your a DJ or need something to control everything while on stage Ableton Live was key and now Bigwig offers a newer different approach.
 
The price point of $399 seems high for home based studio musicians but a couple of live gigs and it pays for itself and isn't that high a price if you need those feature sets.
 
I have Ableton Live and use it as a big old sampler to manipulate samples and loops easier than working in Reason 7, ProTools or Sonar.  It's another tool in my toolbox. 
 
I don't think I will jump on a v1.0 release but if they offer a 50% off at some point I would jump ship from Ableton Live as I don't like some of the workflow that has been implemented in Live 9.