Well the most sad thing would be "10 new synth toys to play with in the grid, 2 new Filters"...Whats next? Will the Bitwig Team give us some long awaited features like ara2, pianoroll updates, midi comp, retrospective recording or a videotrack?
My feeling say we get a compressor Plus, new randomize bullshit and a samplepack
Piano roll updates would be great. But only if they make sense. There's imho a lot of stuff which does not make sense, workflow-wise. So "updates" often would imply "fixing" the current behavior. A quality of life focused update would be insanely awesome.
Here's an example of behaviors which are unneccessarily slowing down or even destroying the workflow:
- Users have to press Enter each time, after re-naming anything in Bitwig
- When opening the Detail View, Bitwigs Piano Roll often does not show the region where the actual notes are, but something else, like the C7/8 region.
- There's no option for automatic horizontal zoom to fit for the piano roll/audio editor.
- You can't define a custom default setting for the piano roll/editor, which for example always shows certain lanes, and has note audition turned off.
- Accidental time-selection when trying to adjust the note-length of selected notes in the piano roll!
- Accidental time-selection when trying to select Clips in the Arranger
- Accidental time-selection when trying to select a point of automation
- In every DAW except Bitwig, when you want to select several clips in the arranger, you can trust this to happen, independently from where you start drawing the selection box. In Bitwig, you must start the selection box from the upper half of a Track-lane – otherwise you’ll get the time-selection. There must be an option to disable this. And instead have a fixed default tool (like the pointer tool), while of course maintaining the ability to quickly change the tools via shortcuts (1-5).
- Undo/Redo, Cliprecording and Auto-Arm should work, while recording into the Arranger is active! Right now, when you record into the Arranger, Undo/Redo is greyed out and dead, Auto-Arm doesn't work, and currently recording Clips in the Launcher do not land in the Arranger-Recording...
- We still can't see gridlines through Clips in the Arranger
- Playback Bars are too thin for good visual feedback for live-performance.
- Bitwig has no Clip-playback-progress shown on Track level. That means, that live performers with a big liveset will have zero visual feedback about the current Clip-Playback-Progress of Clips, until scrolling the Cliplauncher around in all directions where Clips are playing...
- Bitwig still can't export Midi (*.mid) files which include Automation. This means that if you export a Piano recording out of Bitwig and want to import it in Cubase, you will lose the Sustain Pedal information...
- When importing Midi Files with tempo info, Bitwig still will pop up an nagging dialogue asking the user whether the tempo info shall be imported or not. This must have an "remember setting"!
- Bitwigs Touch UI needs a fundamental overhaul. You can't even make normal selections, drag automationpoints via touch, access rightclick menues, or use the 1-5 tools. (Talking about true touch via finger, not pen).
- Bitwigs Browser has no shortcut for the "live preview" setting.
- Live preview on/off and Showing the Plugin Window yes/no should be saveable into the Bitwig Device Preset!
- Bitwigs Browser Tags and Categories should be fully editable and deletable! Being forced to categorize a custom library into predetermined categories is not a very user-friendly experience.
- and more.
Statistics: Posted by nowiamone — Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:38 pm