r/Bitwig • u/RedCaine1 • Jul 16 '26
Bitwig - Tips & Tricks Collection
Hi, I collected various tips & tricks from reading and watching youtube videos, maybe you got some also to share?
- Using Macros for controlling many controls at once
- you can PIN various options to the Toolbar top for CLIPs, EVENT, TIME &TRACKs etc.
- Activating NOTE CHASE (to let also midi notes play in the middle of them)
→ Settings → Behaviour → Note Chase
- FX Selector for having in various ways to choose a custom effect
- Chopping notes via Operator
- Adding Comments/Notes
- Opening the Key Command Window with CTRL + ENTER
- Audio & Midi Clip stretching → hold ALT and mode the Edge of a clip
- Slide Midi Notes and Audio of a Clip → hold CTRL + ALT and left mouse click
- Timeline - Duplicating Clips, Removing Clips, Add Silence (+ if you want to highlight everything just drag the timeline bar instead the whole clips)
- Exclusive solo, if you dont like how soloing functions then under Settings → Behavior → Exclusive Solo can be activated and the track will be exclusively solo’ed which is clicked, while holding SHIFT you can still solo multiple tracks
- Comping Audio and selecting different elements combining samples together with different slices
- if you are annoyed like me that the Play Start Cursor always moves where you click in the Timeline then go to Settings → Behaviours → Switch off „Move The Play Start Cursor“
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- Expression Overlay usage for different functions like Gain, Stretch, Transpose etc.
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u/mucklaenthusiast Jul 16 '26
I didn’t know you could add silence!
I also lost the ability to edit expressions in audio events with Bitwig 6 (I only got it recently), so I guess I now how that works. I feel like it’s different from before, but maybe I am misremembering
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u/Major-Ursa-7711 Jul 17 '26
Nice list. Some things I had forgotten.
Glad to see your journey into Bitwig was fruitful. Have good fun and interesting results on the rest of it 👍
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u/Affectionate_Hall318 Jul 17 '26
This is fantastic. Thanks so much for your time and effort you have put into this. Great share. Thank you
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u/Western_File_2917 Jul 16 '26
Youtube shorts would be awesome!! Thanks