It’s not that I think Bitwig is bad, it’s my favorite DAW by far, it allowed me to start working in the way I tried working for ages so there’s that.
BUT, in terms of mixing as you would in a studio environment, it has some defects in terms of wokflow.
Little but significant things like:
it can’t move many faders at once from the mixer nor from the timeline (it can do it from a panel on the side but it’s a bit weird as a choice and doesn’t make things smoother for traditional mixing).
It does have customisable shortcuts, but not enough (basically not at all when it comes to mixing).
For instance, in DAWs like Logic you will find stuff like “create 2 automation points at each side of a clip”, also you’ll be able to just drag automation lines up and down just by clicking between two automation points (in bitwig you have to select the automation points to move them around).
Once again, small stuff, but huge time saver; stuff that makes importing/recording stems and mixing way smoother.
I think the reason for this is that Bitwig is extremely focused on sound design and all things modular (cross track ‘patching’ and all sorts of modulators applicable to any device that will make any software or hardware A LOT deeper. The grid is also amazing and I find it way more stable than M4L).
Among the couple things I just mentioned I’m only annoyed by the automation thing, I barely touch the faders anyway, I usually work on levels and panning from inside the track’s panel (where the devices are) so I can use the track’s fader as some sort of final VCA that I might automate at the very end.
If you don’t have any sort of plugins you’ll find better stuff in Logic out of the box, especially when it comes to dynamic processors (I like bitwig’s EQ. The compressor not so much).
Also, if you’re into that, Logic allows for binaural/dolby atmos and for working on video.
(hopefully bitwig will integrate at some point…)
Bitwig is hands down the best when it comes to working with external gear, making the most out of every piece of hardware and software you have and customising your signal flow (and all things modular but I said it 200 times already ).