r/Bitwig

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As many Bitwig users know, exporting MIDI in Bitwig can be pretty clunky. The default behavior forces you to export the entire project as one massive MIDI file. If you just want a specific clip, the only workaround is to create a new project, copy the clip over, and export—which is a total hassle.

So, I built this script (with a little help from AI) to fix that. It streamlines the workflow, letting you export a single MIDI clip instantly without all the extra steps.

How to Use：

Copy the [MidiClipExporter.control.js ]script into your Bitwig Controller Scripts folder

Open Bitwig Studio. Go to Settings > Controllers > Add Controller. Select [MIDI Clip Exporter​] from the [Generic​]category.

Once a MIDI clip is selected, click the icon located at the top-right corner of the interface (to the left of the Notification area). Configure your export path there, and then click the **"Export to .mid"**​ button.

I've pushed the script to my GitHub repository. You can grab it here: https://github.com/Lenshang/bitwig_scripts

(Sorry if my English is a bit off; I relied on translators for the descriptions above!)

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Bitwig goes yellow after 10-20 minutes. Version 6.0.6.

Changing different rendering modes to vulcan, opengl doesn't help.

Any ideas?

Hi everyone! I've been producing music on the side for about 8 years now. Electronic music is my passion.

My first ever DAW was the free trial of FL Studio 12. I specifically say the free trial because, well, I was 15 years old and couldn't afford it. So I would make a loop, save it, and never open it again. I'd leave my laptop on to continue working on a project.

For a while after I got fed up with never seeing my projects again, I switched to REAPER. That free trial is technically infinite, but the $60 as a working college student was nothing so I sent it over. It was my daily driver.

My school had a scholarship that was given to those with research/creative projects, and I got it. With that, I was able to get Cubase Pro 12. Cubase was great in some aspects because I was also doing classical music for undergrad. Recording instrument parts, scoring midi orchestras... brilliant. But the software always felt a little clunky.

Fast forward: I had heard about bitwig, but last week is when I started my free trial. And it's all that I ever wanted. Automation is so easy. The shortcuts, though very different than Cubase, are simple to memorize. The clip launcher reminds me so much of patterns from FL Studio.

I'm loving it so far! Once the trial's up, I'm definitely gonna get it. It's the first time I felt like everything I want to make music is easily accessible without being overbloated. While I'll still have Cubase and REAPER for other workflows, I think a lot of the creation is gonna start in Bitwig.

Curious, in Bitwig, what would be something very similar or equal to Push 3 for live performance?

I was kind of thinking that I could use like Novation launch pad and then an MPE controller like the Exquis to get the same functionality? Does that makes sense? Am I stupid (probably :-) or are there better ideas?

Thanks in advance!

please bitwig gods? or am i dumb and have never found this?

I switched from Reason to Bitwig and have not opened Reason since. Music Software is expensive so I appreciate the Studio giving people without the financial freedom a chance to reall use and learn to love their software.
I hope someday I will have some spare money to spend to support the guys and girls. Until then.. it's throwaway Mail. :')

Just bought Bitwig Producer earlier and am playing around with it and noticed something odd. Using a VST for the drum track and when I place, say, a kick on the first beat it replicates that kick two more times 28 beats apart. If I try to delete the other two unwanted kicks then it deletes the first one too. What's going on here and how do I stop it from doing this?

EDIT: Bitwig Studio Producer 6.0.6

Hi everyone!

I'm writing this because Sculpt is one of the new Bitwig gadgets that interest me the most, but i haven't figured what can bring to my usual workflow.

I know it's 'inspired' in old Pultec EQs, including a preset recreating the famous low end boosting trick, and i'm sure it can be really useful in the right hands, but i just can't figure what can it bring to the table that the other EQs can't (especially EQ5 and EQ+) apart from the saturation modes.

So here come some questions: what kinds of jobs do you think Sculpt is good for? Where in your signal chain do you put it? Since it doesn't come with an output gain, do you put a Tool afterwards in order to compensate for the changes in volume?

Thanks!

Hi I'm switching to Linux full time :) can anyone help me out if it's possible to email bitwig to get a license for 8-track? Thanks I want to quit using Ableton and not dual boot

Hi guys.
I need to conserve cpu resources for a bigger project, but bouncing doesn’t seem to work as I was expecting. I want to render a “channel” or track in its entirety to audio, then deactivate the original channel to essentially remove but keep all the midi. When I bounce I have to select the individual patterns in the track (rather than the track as a whole) and it creates a separate audio track at the -10dB ignoring any FX like delays or reverbs that occur after the midi data of each clip ends. So for example, a five second midi clip with delays and a high rate of feedback should bounce to an audio clip that is around 10 seconds to account for the FX on the track. This isn’t happening. I’m just getting the 5 seconds and then it abruptly ends, and the audio is not the same volume as the original mixed track.

Am I doing something wrong?

On my shelf I had a Behringer DSP1024P Virtualizer Pro gathering dust. I never really understood how to use the thing properly, and most of the time it ended up as filler in my effects rack, mainly to make the rack look more impressive. In practice, it was just too bothersome to use.

Because I am going to redo my studio, I noticed something I had never really paid attention to before: the MIDI ports. So I got the slightly crazy idea: what if I could control this thing over MIDI from Bitwig, as if it were a VST plugin?

Of course, it is not necessarily very useful. There are many effect plugins available that are better and easier to use than this old device. But just for fun, I tried it anyway.

And to my surprise, it works. I created a VST plugin to control the device, and I can even connect it inside Bitwig to other effects or keyboard controls.

I have to say: I am having a lot of fun with this ancient machine now.

the plugin

the Behringer DSP1024P Virtualizer Pro

Coming from Reason. Curious about Bitwig. Thought this would be a cheap way to try it out :)

Cheers!

I've somewhat recently started making techno (raw hypno hardgroove). I come from a forest/darkpsy backround. In techno are there any rules for layering hi hats? Can I just add more and more for energy or should I remove one when adding another? Do you guys get super anal about kickbass phasing like psy heads or do we just slam bass over the kick tail? Also I use bitwig, does anyone have a ML 185 alternative for bitwig or know what it does and if I could recreate it in the grid.

This patch is obviously inspired by Blade Runner.

Especially the scene where Deckard uses the ESPER image computer to analyze stuff. All the sounds are generated. I do sprinkle in a few samples from the movie here and there, but it’s mostly limited to the computer sounds and Deckard’s voice talking to the machine. Everything else comes from the synth.

For the weird sound effects, I used a feedback system that’s constantly clipping and overdriving itself, creating all kinds of strange artifacts. It kind of sounds like distant city noise... aircraft, traffic, that sort of thing. On top of that there are drones and pads running through a massive reverb. The FM bass also randomly plays a few notes from the current scale every now and then.

Download: https://polarity.productions/dispenser/