Tips and tricks for bitwig studio

  • vocoder applies harmonic effect of a modulator onto the carrier signal
  • playing around with note effects
    • microtonal pitch filters
    • dribble / ricochet
    • velocity curve
    • arpeggiator
    • bend
    • humanize
  • modulators
    • ADSR modulator can sidechain reverb easily
    • knob to map multiple effects on one axis
    • XY to map multiple effects on two axes
  • the grid
    • basic use of math to generate sequences
    • fx grid to get really crazy effects
    • just using the grid to set up multiple oscillators like any fm or wavetable synth

bitwig note expressions to map velocity/timbre to stuff ADSR is also interesting for this, if u dont want to deal with automations being kind of messy to deal with (even with a macro or XY)

hard with audio tho, need to do some scuffed self-sidechain shit. or just sampler it into an intrument and use note modulator???

  • actually envelope follower does self-sidechain easily!!

note modulators can be per-voice which is interesting


  • default automation lane checks last knob you touched
  • alt to curve automations
  • add macros to plugins with too many knobs for most commonly turned ones
  • can have this apply to any instance of plugin
  • can also do this for chain or other containers, and save it for just the preset
  • soft clip + transient processing drums
  • saturate hard with hp filter, then mix in parallel with dry signal
  • save as default preset

enable playhead following in bottom right of arranger


See also: music ideation tricks