Bitwig Studio (boxed)

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Get ready to inspire your creativity with the Bitwig Studio DAW software. From sketching your musical ideas and arranging them, to final mixdown and even live performance, Bitwig Studio gives you a powerful toolset and an amazingly fast workflow. Once we checked out Bitwig Studio at Sweetwater, we saw that it's the perfect environment for musicians and producers to try new things and follow your inspiration wherever it may lead. In your studio you've got everything you need to produce incredibly complex and developed tracks, whether you work mainly with audio, MIDI, or both. Live on the stage, you'll be amazed at the rock-solid stability and overall flexibility of Bitwig Studio DAW software.

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• Incredible control over audio and MIDI, with a fast, intuitive workflow
• Unlimited creative potential with Unified Modulations
• Rock-solid platform for live performance
• Ready to integrate with any and all of your control surfaces
• Outstanding instruments and effects to create with

Whether you're working with audio, MIDI, or both, Bitwig Studio never gets in the way of your workflow. It's almost effortless to record in audio, slice it on the fly, send the slices to a drum machine or sampler for creative triggering. Hybrid Tracks let you keep audio and MIDI on the same track, perfect for bouncing a virtual instrument's output to audio while keeping it on the same track lane for a tidy arrangement window. With both track- and clip-based editing, transient detection and time stretching, parameter histograms, per-note micro-pitch control, and much more packed into a very elegant interface, Bitwig Studio is at once easily approachable and incredibly powerful.

Bitwig Studio's Unified Modulations feature is a dream come true for many musicians at Sweetwater. Basically, you can use Bitwig's LFOs, envelopes, and other modulation sources to control virtually any parameter you like. For example, you can assign the LFO on your synthesizer patch to also modulate the wet/dry mix of a delay plug-in, while simultaneously controlling the pan position of a different track altogether. This not only speeds up your workflow, it gives you incredible creative potential. If you've ever worked on a complex sound or project and wished there was an easier way to automate everything, you'll love Bitwig Studio.

The layout of Bitwig Studio may already be familiar to performing electronic musicians - you can arrange audio and MIDI clips as you go, trigger different scenes and tweak effects in real time, and even adjust tempo on the fly. Bitwig Studio was built from the ground up for reliable live performance. One of our Sweetwater's favorite features is that Bitwig Studio runs your VST instruments and effects separately from the host program, so if one of your 3rd-party plug-ins crashes Bitwig doesn't skip a beat. You'll see a warning that one of your plugs crashed, but your project will keep playing without it. You can re-instantiate your plug-in and bring it right back in, without time-consuming - and embarrassing - break in your flow.

Whether you already have a favorite keyboard controller or mixing control surface, or want to build your setup as you go, Bitwig Studio is ready to comply. Many popular controllers are ready to work with Bitwig Studio right out of the box. Even better, an open javascript API is available to create your own custom controller mappings. So even if you haven't even figured out yet what your ideal control surface setup is, Bitwig Studio will be ready for it.

Bitwig Studio is ready to support both 32- and 64-bit VST plug-ins, and it also comes with over 50 amazing processors and instruments that sound fantastic and are considerably light on your CPU. From synthesizers, samplers, and drum machines to auto-filters, frequency modulators, delays, and other effects, Bitwig Studio starts you off with a complete toolset for music production and sound design. Over 3GB of sound content is included too, including samples, loops, and instruments.

• Creative DAW software for production and live performance
• Trigger clips in real time in the Arranger clip launcher, to sketch your songs spontaneously
• Powerful multitrack recording capabilities with a streamlined workflow
• Audio and MIDI clips can exist on the same track
• Hybrid tracks can hold both audio and MIDI simultaneously for cleaner project arrangements
• Edit the contents of multiple tracks simultaneously, both audio and MIDI, with Layered Editing
• Control multiple parameters on multiple devices at once with powerful macro controls
• Modulate any parameter with any LFO, envelope, or other mod source, with the Unified Modulation System
• Over 50 included instruments, effects, and processors, with 3GB of audio content
• Supports multi-monitor setups
• Open multiple projects simultaneously to copy/paste or drag and drop between them