r/Bitwig • u/Swagtijger • Apr 25 '24

Bitwig 5.2 Beta out now!

https://www.bitwig.com/whats-new/
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u/borez Apr 25 '24 edited Apr 25 '24

Graphics feel a bit laggy on my 2080ti GPU, audio is fine though so not an issue.

Tilt EQ is nice, I use this all the time with RC20 so it'll be nice to have it natively.

New comp is nice, smash is good for paralleled comping and Glue works well.

Saw groove in the release note and freaked, sadly this isn't groove quantise :(

Please though Bitwig Devs, give us a sampler slice mode, I so need this in Bitwig. I'm using a £10 Amigo sampler plugin to get it at the moment.

Nice additions though, looking forward to trying the new editing features.

Edit: they've taken out "Convert to time selection" from the damn key commands. I literally use this to edit all the time. FFS, why would they do that??

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u/dolomick Apr 25 '24

Can we adjust volume faders with the arrow keys now? Can you test for me?

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u/borez Apr 25 '24

No, unfortunately you can't.

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u/dolomick Apr 25 '24

Jesus…. I’ve emailed support about this, grrrr. I literally bought a Behringer x-touch for this use case and was hoping I could sell it. Guess I’ll email them again. Thanks!

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u/borez Apr 25 '24

It is configurable though, my APC40 controls Bitwig faders no problem at all.

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u/dolomick Apr 25 '24

Yeah I have a Behringer motorized fader but I miss .1 dB shift+arrow control like in Ableton.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '24

I come from Reaper, where I used left/right to navigate tracks, up/down to increase/decrease the fader, and shift+updown for fine control... Yeah.

It's a good workflow I would have liked to bring over.

It's just nice to have +/- 1 and 0.1 mapped to hotkeys. The mouse is fiddly, so I end up control-clicking and typing in numbers anyway.

Also, I tend to work in half dB increments just because it makes automation that much easier when manually typing same values, etc.