Bitwig 2 has only four top-level menus - File, Play, Add and Edit - though a fifth menu can appear in various editing states depending on context. The Dashboard removes the need for Preferences, Options and Help options in the main menu system, thus allowing the menus themselves to be simplified. Finally, the Help tab links to tutorials and documentation. Next along is the Packages tab, which is sorted into collections according to the source from which they originate. The leftmost tab, labelled according to your Bitwig username, accesses projects (including downloadable demos) next along is Settings, with subsidiary tabs for preferences relating to user interface, audio, controllers, synchronisation, plug-in management and so on. It pops up if you launch the application directly, rather than by double-clicking a project file, and can be accessed by clicking the ‘wig’ icon at the very top of the application window. This can be thought of as a glorified preference pane which also incorporates file and package management. The most obvious change in Bitwig’s user interface is the addition of something called the Dashboard. Instead I’ll look at what makes Bitwig 2 different to Bitwig 1, starting with the improvements to Bitwig’s overall user interface. In particular, I’m not going to talk about Bitwig’s clip editing features, which haven’t noticeably changed apart from the layout of some buttons and controls, nor its clip launching and arrangement views. The new Dashboard serves as the starting point for settings, projects and help.Rather than repeating the above-mentioned revews’ in-depth descriptions of how the program works, I’ll assume a working knowledge of Bitwig in writing this one. So what have Bitwig introduced in version 2 to justify bumping up the version number, and charging for the privilege? The answer, in a nutshell, is that although the core recording, playing, editing and mixing functionality of Bitwig is largely unchanged, its instruments and effects have been given a major structural overhaul. The first version underwent a lot of incremental improvements since I reviewed it in June 2014, most of which were covered by Robin Bigwood in his March 2016 review of v1.35.
#Bitwig studio v1 upgrade
Bitwig Studio 2 blurs the lines between sequencer, synthesizer and DAW, with an advanced and very flexible modulation system.īitwig Studio 2 is the first major upgrade to this relatively new digital audio workstation package since its initial release around three years ago.
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