Recently ditched everything Windows and Mac and started using Bitwig on Arch Linux.
I’m finding it difficult to use, specifically navigating the workspace. Protools and ableton felt a bit more intuitive to me personally.
Does anybody know of any resources, courses, or tutorials they found useful?
Any tips or tricks?
Hey, I just started working in Bitwig, too!
I’m very new, so all I can say so far is that it’s been helpful to navigate through the different views down at the bottom left or right click on a track to get to the piano roll.
Oh, it’s pretty easy to map stuff to MIDI if you’ve got controllers. For example, I have a launchkey mini that I set the keys to one voice, the tap pads to another, and the knobs to the volume control on each track. I also have another full-size keyboard that I’ve set to another voice. It’s very modular software.
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RTFM. Bitwig has a shitload of capabilities and built in tools, just like Ableton. The workflow is just different.
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Change your default view style. They have different presets for different types of work being done and if you’re rocking a single or dual screen setup. Changing these can be a major help.
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The details are in the sidebar. If there’s a control that you’re thinking an object (effect, clip, instrument, etc) should have, it very well may be showing up on one of the side bars. Reading the manual will also help with understanding what to expect here.
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Learn it without external plugins first. Just like ableton, the built in instruments and plugins are very good, and the presets contain a ton of modulation routing that shows off the insane depth that bitwig allows for assigning modulators. That’s its biggest strength, tbh.
Good luck! It’s really worth the time to learn!
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Moving music production to linux and using bitwig? Would have been less painful to set your scrotum on fire
This is less true now more than ever.
I’ve done that before too.
Migrated from Ableton on windows a couple of years ago. Literally the only thing that has been noticeably different about working on Linux is plugin compatibility. Using pipe wire is a godsend after the buggy garbage I had to use on windows. Bitwig is a fantastic DAW, if you think otherwise, have you actually learned it?
