I find that I need to set up latency manually when syncing with external gear. Is this as expected, or am I doing something wrong?
Example: I’m slaving the Octatrack to Bitwig via the MIDI out on my audio interface. My audio interface is set to a buffer size of 256 samples, resulting in a reported block latency of 5.3 ms. When I record a take, the resulting audio clip is late off the grid by (slightly more than) 10.6 ms. That is quite natural, as it is the round trip latency of sending MIDI to the Octatrack, and then the audio convertion back into the DAW.
If I add 5.3 ms compensation to the audio interface in the Synchronisation page, and add 5.3 ms compensation in Recording offset in the Audio page, the recorded audio lands bang on the grid.
What I’m wondering is, shouldn’t Bitwig be able to automatically compensate for this latency?
I know you are asking about Essentials, but via Splice there is a rent to own option for the full version. That’s $16 per month for 25 months ($400 - same as full price). You can suspend payment at any time and still keep your progress towards ownership and resume from that point. You can also pay it forward whenever you want. It’s a fully fledged license for your ownership upon last payment.
Other than that they might have another sale during Superbooth in May. Dunno if anything before that. Last year it was 50% off but I think that was a special price for the 10th anniversary.
Yeah, every time I get frustrated with Ableton (or, more frustrated than usual) I subscribe to Bitwig via Splice for another month, it’s very useful. I usually then hit roadblocks in Bitwig (more user error I’m sure), and realise that completely re-building my live setup yet again would mean months of non-creative scut work which depresses me enough to go back to my shaky old Ableton set.
…yep…every bitwig user who’s into tutorials and quick tips and start a track from scratch kind of stuff should follow at least some or all of these…
as antic604 pointed out already… bitwig mycelium is always worth a watch…
and so is tilde sounds…
and alchemy…
and of course, always top notch… polarity…
not to forget… bitwig themselves always do a damn good job, when it comes to tutorials…
5.3 is doing great here…now i can’t wait already again for the next one…
which will hoefully include limiter+ and the new promisland features for the piano roll editor…
You might find it bundled with some midi pieces if you look around. You could even write bitwig and explain yourself. Maybe they will grant you a license.
Folks I got confused and accidentally saved a bizarre Compressor+ preset as my default, and wish to get the original default Compressor+ settings back…can someone please do me a favour and screenshot their plain default Compressor+ settings so I can re-create it?
Many thanks!
Here’s those settings as a preset you can load (in case some bits are buried in a menu somewhere): Default.bwpreset (7.3 KB)
Also, your saved default device settings are kept in a hidden folder. If you delete them, you’ll go back to the default default settings. On a mac, that folder is: Documents/Bitwig Studio/Library/.settings/devices
Thanks for the patch, screenshot and helpful info @jemmons - I appreciate it!
If it was a phaser or something I probably could have lived with it, but the Compressor+ is complex enough for me to want the default settings quite plain
Yes, Polarity is lately on fire having created key & scale -aware melody and chord generators, and now MIDI capture… I guess Bitwig can cross those feature out of future updates and further go back to gimmicks. Oh well…
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