Bitwig

Customized Workflow To Match Any Style: Make Bitwig Studio 16-Track your entry into the world of Bitwig Studio, the innovative music creation and performance software.

Discover Bitwig Studio, the innovative music creation and performance software. Record and arrange in the timeline, perform in the Clip Launcher, and build audio devices in The Grid. Bitwig Studio takes your musical ideas through each stage of production.

Arrange in the timeline, perform in the Clip Launcher, and take your musical ideas through each stage of production. Here are the main features at a glance:

• Native cross-platform DAW (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• Modular device structure with advanced nesting and routing
• Award-winning instruments & effects, including Bitwig’s own Sampler and Polysynth
• Unlimited VST and VST3 support, with built-in 32-/64-bit bridging, plug-in crash protection, and delay compensation
• Modulate any device, VST plug-in, or hardware parameter with Bitwig’s program-wide modulators (Macros, Note Expressions, LFOs, and more)
• Industry-leading hardware integration: connect synthesizers, drum machines and other hardware devices seamlessly into your workflow over MIDI, CV/Gate, and analog clock
• Unlock your creativity with Operators, Voice Stacking, touch and MPE support

What You Get

• 16 audio-, instrument-, hybrid tracks
• 2 effect tracks
• 2 group tracks
• 8 scenes
• 4/8 audio I/O busses
• Use as many VST plug-ins as you like (with 32-/64-bit bridging, delay compensation, and crash protection)
• VST multi-out and side-chain not supported
• 3 algorithms of time stretching:
• Stretch, Stretch HD, Slice
• 3 display profiles (single display only)

Instruments & Effects

In total 91 instruments, effects, note FX, and modulators. Here are some highlights:

• Polymer, Sampler, Drum Machine, and more
• 31 excellent audio FX devices: Reverb, Delay, Distortion, EQ
• 18 Modulators: LFO, ADSR, Macro, and many more
• Hardware devices: control your hardware via MIDI and CV/Gate

Sound Content

From acoustic bass to futuristic glitch loops, Bitwig have your sound content needs covered.

Here’s what you get with Bitwig Studio 16-Track:

• Drum sounds: from classic to contemporary, professionally sampled, as single sounds and kits
• “Bösendorfer” Grand Piano Light: a great sounding piano, ready to play
• Wurlitzer E-Piano
• 100s of world-class presets for all included Bitwig instruments and audio effects
• Clips and Templates to give your song creation a flying start

Powerful Editing Tools

Bitwig Studio is here to help you make your musical ideas happen, in as few steps as possible. Focus on the music, not the tool.

Audio Editing: The Detail Editor optimizes audio editing by letting you make edits within a clip. This allows you to stretch, split, pitch, pan, copy, reverse, add, move, and rearrange audio as you choose.

Expressive MIDI Support: In addition to standard note-editing features and per-note expressions such as velocity, gain, pan, timbre, and pressure, Bitwig Studio features unique tools like quick actions, micro pitch, and sophisticated layered editing, and is a forefront runner in supporting MPE.

Time Stretching: Keep your audio material in time regardless of project tempo using Bitwig Studio’s state-of-the-art time stretching. Let Bitwig Studio analyze and automatically stretch your audio, or take full control and use Bitwig’s advanced stretching and editing tools.

Bitwig Studio comes with 8 different time stretch algorithms to cover all your musical needs, including the renowned Zplane Elastique in four flavours.

Instruments & Effects

Here’s a taste of the vast and ever-growing device library that comes with Bitwig Studio. With over 90 different instruments, audio and note FX, container devices, and signal routers you can translate any idea into music.

Polymer: Polymer starts simply: pick an oscillator, a filter, and an envelope generator. Swapping out Grid modules within a dedicated synthesizer is both fast and quick, helping you craft production-worthy sounds from minimal controls immediately.

Sampler: The Bitwig Studio Sampler is a powerful tool for playing and manipulating audio. It boasts several playback modes, advanced looping features with crossfades, endless modulation possibilities, a massive multisample editor, and more.

Phase-4: Meet Phase-4, a four-oscillator synthesizer powered by phase modulation and phase distortion. This unique synth can do classic, modern, and beyond.

EQ+: EQ+ is a feature-packed graphical equalizer with up to 8 bands, mouse gestures, and excellent visualization and algorithms.

Drum Machine: The Drum Machine is a container device that you can fill with sonic goodness. It’s never been easier to create unique and great-sounding kits.

Arpeggiator: Individual controls for step velocity, note length, and pitch. 17 note patterns, and three modes for handling octaves. Full MPE support. Even modulate the timing for shifting patterns. Holding chords has never been so musical and dynamic.

Micro-Pitch: Micro-pitch is a Note FX device that allows you to re-tune your note streams in new ways. Transform scales, fine-tune individual notes, shrink or expand octaves, or even slice the octave into a different number of pieces. Play something unimaginable, today.

Amp: Inject a bit of virtual analog grit into your sounds with the Amp device, a remarkable piece of amplifier-simulation technology.

Modulation Heaven

The modulation system in Bitwig Studio allows you to use Macro controls, Note Expressions, LFOs, and Envelopes to modulate any device, VST plug-in, or hardware parameter. With 30+ modulators (and counting) the potential for creative expression is endless.

Hardware Integration 

Bitwig loves hardware. They also love software. This is why Bitwig Studio wants to blur the boundaries between the two.

Let Bitwig Studio control your hardware, or let your hardware control Bitwig Studio, or both, via MIDI, CC, CV, Gate, analog and MIDI Clock, and MIDI Timecode. Enjoy a collection of straightforward tools that allow you to take advantage of the best of two worlds, and that scales with your setup.

Modern Foundation

Building a DAW from the ground up allowed Bitwig to think differently and solve old problems in new ways. Bitwig Studio is made for the future…

Crash Protection

Bitwig Studio handles VST plug-in hosting in a unique way, allowing for different hosting modes and plug-in crash protection. With plug-ins, the audio engine, and other processes running in separate threads, a technical issue won’t bring your whole project down.

Touch Support

With extensive touch-screen support (multi-touch with unlimited touch points, gestures, pen support, and simulated pressure), Bitwig Studio is at the forefront of new ways to create music. Overall, the user interface of Bitwig Studio is touch-friendly; in addition, there is a dedicated tablet display profile, perfect for any touch screen, or devices such as Microsoft Surface computers.

A Rich Library of Sounds

Bitwig has partnered with some of the best sound designers in the business to give you several thousand quality presets, Clips, and samples right out of the box.

Extend your library with offerings from hand-picked partners and artists, who have painstakingly created loops, presets, and sampled instruments for Bitwig Studio. All are high quality and free to use.

Sound Content

A full starter kit right out of the box: Over 2,000 sounds and factory presets, including Drum Machines, Acoustic Drums, Multi-Sampled Instruments, Instrument Loops, Sound Effects, Various Synth Presets, and curated Artist Collections.

Future-Proof

All software updates in the following 12 months are FREE.

Features

• High-performance audio software, with full multicore and multiprocessor support.
• ASIO, Core Audio, and JACK support including JACK transport on all platforms.
• 32-bit floating-point audio processing, up to 192 kHz audio sample rate.
• Scalable vector-based GUI.
• 16 Audio, Instrument and Hybrid Tracks
• 2 Effect Tracks
• 2 Group Tracks (with Groups in Groups)
• 8 Scenes 
• VST plug-ins (with 32-/64-bit bridging, delay compensation, and crash protection)
• Unlimited VST plug-in multi-out and side-chain support        
• Audio Comping        
• 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit Audio Export (including Multi-Track Export)
• File Import – WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, MIDI        
• 4/8 Audio I/O Busses
• Time Stretching – 3 Algorithms: Stretch, Stretch HD, Slice
• Slice to Multisample and slice to Drum Machine        
• Layered Editing (Notes and audio)        
• Bounce and Bounce in Place        
• Multiple Projects        
• Expanded Remote Control Editor        
• 3 Display Profiles – Single Display only
• Load Project Templates
• Seamless Integration of Clip Launcher and Timeline        
• Touch Integration        
• MPE Support (Playing, Recording, and Editing)        
• Plug-and-Play MIDI Controller Support        
• Open Controller API        
• MIDI Clock Sync        
• Ableton LINK

Powerful Editing Tools

We want to help you make your musical ideas happen, in as few steps as possible. Focus on the music, not the tool.

Audio That Works For You

Audio clips are your musical blocks, and edits can be made within them. Split at onsets, repitch with curves, or scale and stretch in various ways. And when the tempo changes, your audio will match it, courtesy of time-stretching options from us and Zplane.

Notes That Do More

Our notes are dynamic, allowing micro-pitch, pressure, panning, and more for each individual note. So get true polyphony from Bitwig’s instruments, or send these notes as MPE or CV signals. Or even add some musical logic with Operators, modulating when and how notes play.

Audio Comping, Anywhere

Comping is a clean workflow for recording and then combining the best parts of many takes. This works on any audio clip in Bitwig, so move freely between the Arranger and Launcher. Even drag in long audio to “fold” a new comp, exploring old tapes in a new way.

Instruments & Effects

Here’s a taste of the vast and ever-growing device library that comes with Bitwig Studio. With over 90 different instruments, audio and note FX, container devices, and signal routers you can translate any idea into music.

Polymer: Polymer starts simple: pick an oscillator, a filter, and an envelope generator. Swapping out Grid modules within a dedicated synthesizer is both fast and quick, helping you craft production-worthy sounds from minimal controls immediately.

Sampler: The Bitwig Studio Sampler is a powerful tool for playing and manipulating audio. It boasts several playback modes, advanced looping features with crossfades, endless modulation possibilities, a massive multisample editor, and more.

Phase-4: Meet Phase-4, a four-oscillator synthesizer powered by phase modulation and phase distortion. This unique synth can do classic, modern, and beyond.

EQ+: EQ+ is a feature-packed graphical equalizer with up to 8 bands, mouse gestures, and excellent visualization and algorithms.

Drum Machine: The Drum Machine is a container device that you can fill with sonic goodness. It’s never been easier to create unique and great-sounding kits.

Arpeggiator: Individual controls for step velocity, note length, and pitch. 17 note patterns, and three modes for handling octaves. Full MPE support. Even modulate the timing for shifting patterns. Holding chords has never been so musical and dynamic.

Micro-pitch: Micro-pitch is a Note FX device that allows you to re-tune your note streams in new ways. Transform scales, fine-tune individual notes, shrink or expand octaves, or even slice the octave into a different number of pieces. Play something unimaginable, today.

Amp: Inject a bit of virtual analog grit into your sounds with the Amp device, a remarkable piece of amplifier-simulation technology.

Convolution: Convolution is an effect that can take any sound anywhere — even places that don’t exist. All convolutions imprint your sound with an “impulse,” and ours comes ready-made with 270 of them, ranging from 12th-century cathedrals and legendary studio effects to more abstract “environments.”

Delay+: Delay+ is Bitwig’s latest boutique audio effect. By balancing familiar controls along with a few thoughtful new ones, Delay+ can either add a little character or fully transform your sound as it ping-pongs along.

Enter The Grid

The Grid is a sound designer’s dream. It can be a synth, an audio effect, or most things you can imagine. The Grid is a modular sound design environment, open for you to build your own creations from scratch. It’s also an expressive instrument with hundreds of high-quality patches for you to explore, ready to play. It’s sophisticated yet easy and fast at the same time. Explore it, build it, play it.

Modulation Heaven

The modulation system in Bitwig Studio allows you to use Macro controls, Note Expressions, LFOs, and Envelopes to modulate any device, VST plug-in, or hardware parameter. With 30+ modulators (and counting) the potential for creative expression is endless.

Hardware Integration

We love hardware. We also love software. That’s why we want to blur the boundaries between the two. Let Bitwig Studio control your hardware, or let your hardware control Bitwig Studio, or both, via MIDI, CC, CV, Gate, analog and MIDI Clock, and MIDI Timecode. Enjoy a collection of straightforward tools that allow you to take advantage of the best of two worlds, and that scales with your setup.

Modern Foundations

Building a DAW from the ground up allowed us to think differently and solve old problems in new ways. Bitwig Studio is made for the future…

Crash Protection: Bitwig Studio handles VST and CLAP plug-in hosting in a unique way, allowing for different hosting modes and plug-in crash protection. With plug-ins, the audio engine, and other processes running in separate threads, a technical issue won’t bring your whole project down.

Touch Support: With extensive touch-screen support (multi-touch with unlimited touch points, gestures, pen support, and simulated pressure), Bitwig Studio is on the forefront of new ways to create music. Overall, the user interface of Bitwig Studio is touch-friendly; in addition there is a dedicated tablet display profile, perfect for any touch screen, or devices such as Microsoft Surface computers.