I’m a big fan of Bitwig. I switched to it from Ableton a few years ago. I was on Ableton for about 15 years before that. I don’t miss much from Ableton, except for slicing in the sampler. In Bitwig, you can slice an audio clip to a multisample by onsets (like transient markers in Ableton), beat divisions, or stretch markers (like warp markers in Ableton). But, it is kind of a hassle to adjust slices after that. You can do it, but it is a lot more tedious than the slice mode in Ableton’s “Simpler”. If we had slicing within the sampler, and a dedicated controller, like Push, that would be very cool. Even cooler would be a dedicated controller made by Elektron. I don’t expect that would ever happen, but that would be my ultimate dream machine.
The other main feature I want in Bitwig is containers in “The Grid”
I made a whole thread about it on Bitwish:
Containers in The Grid
There are a whole bunch of other features I would like, but slicing in the sampler and Containers in The Grid are my top 2. Another Big one for me would be a “modulator Grid” (Basically a modulator that would load up The Grid for custom modulators.
I think Bitwig 4 took some influence from Elektron. The “operators” are similar to trig conditions, and the “repeats” it similar to retrig on Machinedrum and Octatrack. I recently made a note grid patch that mimics the retrig from those boxes pretty much exactly. That is the cool thing about The Grid. You can make custom instruments/ effects/ sequencers/ modulators ect… much quicker and easier than other modular environments (in my opinion).