The first thing you’ll bump into is the new Dashboard, a window from where you manage settings, projects, templates, packages and more. Interface: Enhanced.Īlthough the fundamental look of Bitwig Studio remains, there have been many tweaks and changes. But it’s still a surprisingly adept and powerful DAW with a slick, modern interface and tons of functionality. So are there still omissions? Yes, like no support for video, although that’s something that will surely arrive at some point. And while it’s true that Bitwig 1 didn’t have the insane depth of features of some of the bigger name DAWs, it’s also true that the developers were aiming to create something unique rather than shoehorning in everything they could. These are things that older DAWs take time to incorporate since they require much rewriting of code.īeing a younger product also usually means having fewer features. Fullscreen operation is completely supported, as are Retina and Hi-DPI screens. As an example, in the Settings you can customise Bitwig for all kinds of monitor setups, including tablets like the Surface. Not only does this mean the developers had time to learn a lot from competing products, it also makes it easier for them to adapt to newer technologies.
Ableton Live, believe it or not, is 16 years old. Running on OS X, Windows and remarkably also Linux, it has the benefit of being a fairly new product and is thus unencumbered by years of legacy code.
So What Is It?īefore we get to what’s new in version 2, a brief recap of what Bitwig Studio is all about.
Some people noted its undoubted resemblance to Ableton Live (the company was started by ex-Ableton employees) but when you actually used it, you could see that despite some superficial similarities to Live, the developers’ claim that they had tried to assimilate the best parts of many different DAWs largely rang true. When Bitwig Studio appeared in 2014, it surprised many people by seemingly skipping some of the early stages and going straight to being a very adept package for a first release. Indeed, it’s a tough market in which to establish new products and ideas. Most new DAWs start off relatively feature-light and only really hit their stride three or four major versions in.
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