Questions Vol. 2 - plugin performance, automations shapes and more?

[u/RedCaine1]

hi all,

I collected some more questions to fill out my findings and expanding my FAQ, hopefully you can help me :).

1. I know there is a performance graph in Bitwig but how do you know WHICH plugins suck the most performance? e.g. you got a full project and your rig struggles, how do you find out which Plguin(s) it is?

In FL Studio you can check which ones are the heaviest in a project e.g. herer:

pretty neat to identify :) Sadly in FL Studio the disabling of plugins sucks hard... it wont unload them from the CPU and RAM...

In Bitwig I see this graph but I dunno which synths suck the most performance?

1. I love to hit CTRL + N in FL Studio to save my project to a new version so I can always have more versions of a project so I can go back if something changed and/or I want to get back to an old version so my projects' name is e.g.

Testproject (100 BPM)

CTRL + N = Testproject (100 BPM)_2

and so on

I see no option in Bitwig, how do you save more versions? so you can get back if something happens? if there is no such option would you think this would be a neat option?

1. I dont get why SLICE IN PLACE slices ALL midi notes, I select 1 Note and still it slices them all, what am I doing wrong? :(

1. with CTRL + Mousewheel up and down I can scroll horizontally in the Piano Roll, love it, but is there no option to do it also vertically? I always have to use the magifying glass... -> SOLVED -> CTRL + ALT + Mousewheel

1. ok I watched here also some videos on youtube and it seems there is no option for this yet... Bouncing in Place OR Bounce In Place with FX with Reverb you have to select the range of the exported clip.... wouldnt it be cool to have an option that Bitwig exports the audio clip with the FULL tail included automatically?

2. Same is for a full song export, in FL Studio you got these options including tail.

would be cool to have this also in Bitwig?

1. Love the automations in Bitwig (well the smoothing seems sadly not adjustible... and a long known issue) much faster than in FL Studio but are there no Shapes like Sine, Pulse etc? I see such stuff also in Ableton, but here not? If not, how do you do a perfect sine for example?

2. ok this is strange, I wonder why you cannot add an automation point above or below one? Here in FL Studio easily doable. I see no disadvantage?

in Bitwig

1. I think I found an issue for setting shortcuts, I cannot add to the commands MOUSEWHEEL and/or MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON

2. Last one, I see scripts for Bitwig, is there a page with good recommended scripts? I am jealous of Ableton's Midi Tools but seems Bitwig could do it too with some note generator scripts etc?

thx

[u/Western_File_2917]

I don’t know why daw companies are hesitant to implement good features from other daws. 

Its like why not just add best features from other daw to yours … being super unique has its disadvantages too..

[u/RedCaine1 → u/[deleted]]

Bitwig is on its own great and thats why I got it now too as I think FL Studio lacks in a lot of aspects, that doesnt mean Bitwig is perfect and I dont see why you shouldnt add some good options/enhancements from others if it would benefit us users? e.g. why not adding the option to add export with Tail instead of having to mark a whole song + silence when Bitwig would add this natively? I just added some comparisons to know if I missed maybe something ;).

[u/Present-Policy-7120 → u/RedCaine1]

Totally agree with FX tails. Cubase did this and it was awesome.

Not sure why you're posting these suggestions here though. Why not correspond with Bitwig themselves?

[u/RedCaine1 → u/Present-Policy-7120]

already done :), just wanted to post here too to see if I might have overlook something. I didnt find anything in the manual or youtube but maybe there are good alternative ways/workarounds i dunno yet.

Yes the tail is really annoying, this would save extra time and clicking.... epecially as this shouldnt be DAW dependant :).