MyKVR Debug: On LOCALHOST - Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Log InCreate An Account
  1. News
  2. »
  3. Audio Software & Plugin Hosts
  4. »
  5. Bitwig

Bitwig Studio updated to v4.2 - Includes Notes in Motion Sound Package

-
Bitwig

Bitwig has announced that, after a short beta phase, Bitwig Studio 4.2 is out now and available to the world. With the release they're also introducing a new sound package, Notes in Motion, that showcases the new sound design possibilities with Note Grid.

Here's what they say:

Notes in Motion Sound Package

Notes are signals in Bitwig Studio, and Note Grid is just the newest way to set notes in motion. The Notes In Motion package includes 30+ patches that generate music, reimagine arpeggiators, sequencers and note repeaters, and offer modular drum interfaces, and more.

You can load them into your Instrument track as Note Grid presets (these have a blue Note FX icon) and feed the output of processed notes into the Instrument of your choice.

36 Instrument Presets come ready to make sound as Note FX devices embedded in FX slots, with handy Remotes already mapped. There are also 31 Bitwig note clips for melodies, chords and leads with pitch FX to provide a quick and easy way to get going with Notes In Motion.

Bitwig Studio 4.2

What sounds good? We got inspired by some classic audio effect units and then made a suite of excellent effects for Bitwig Studio 4.2. Please welcome new choruses, flangers, phasers, and just one more note FX to the family.

Bitwig

Watch The Video

New Audio FX: Chorus+, Flanger+, Phaser+

Each device has four unique Characters that have their own DSP architecture, similar to different eras of vintage studio hardware:

  • Chorus+ Characters:
    • CE - A synth-style friend, with different tone inspirations.
    • DD - Subtle, 80s, and coming from all sides.
    • 8v - Eight voices swirling thru caverns of feedback.
    • X2 - Classic voice doubling circuit.
  • Flanger+ Characters:
    • DP - That digital, scrappy cousin who chews up sound.
    • MX - A firm, pedal-style classic.
    • TFX - Smooth and sparkly, with some edge.
    • WA - Stronger, but subtly delicate.
  • Phaser+ Characters:
    • GS - Our spikey #1 friend.
    • EHx - Classy and smooth, with silky motion.
    • MX - A raspy devil, but solid.
    • MF - Pleasantly greasy and deep.

Bitwig spent a lot of time and care shaping each Character, including the LFOs that make each sound move. But you can also "override" Flanger+ or Phaser+ and get direct control. By mixing and matching LFOs, step sequencers, and any of Bitwig's 38 modulator devices, you are free to animate our algorithms and make them your own.

Chorus+, Flanger+, and Phaser+ are also available as Grid modules. So throw these full effects into any Grid patch, with the freedom to craft a stereo modulation signal or make it fully polyphonic. As always, whatever you can imagine is possible in The Grid.

Watch The Tutorial Video

Note Grid

The Grid is Bitwig Studio's modular sound-design environment, where building instruments and audio effects with Poly Grid and FX Grid is effortless, intuitive, and fun. Bitwig Studio 4.2 introduces a third device: Note Grid. With access to The Grid's 184 modules and polyphonic structure, Note Grid is made to process notes or even generate them.
With the new Note Out module, connecting a gate signal will start outputting notes. Pitch, velocity, and channel can be set manually or with dynamic signals. And since Bitwig fluently speaks MPE, unfolding Note Out allows signals for each note's timbre, pressure, gain, and panning expressions. As with all other Grid modules, Note Out (and CC Out) are available to Poly Grid and FX Grid as well.

Eight musical presets are included today, including new kinds of arpeggiators, swarming polyphonic randomness, modular drum sequencers, and even music-generating patches. The presets are production-ready, and together they show a range of possibilities with Note Grid.

Learn More In The Video

4.2 has further updates to mention:

  • New mini views for the Oscilloscope and Spectrum devices. With new audio effects in the works, it was especially handy to have mini views for devices that visualize their effects.
  • A new Anti-aliasing option for most Grid Shaper modules.
  • And a new Hard Clip module joining the team.
  • A new Channel-16 modulator. Since Note Grid can sort signals into16 MIDI channels, the new Channel-16 modulator helps you use those groupings on any instrument or plug-in.
  • And when generating notes with a module like Probabilities, it just made sense to add a Confidence output, good for per-step velocities or just a little self-assurance.
  • Bitwig is now available in French.

The changelog and release notes are here.

Availability

Bitwig Studio 4 is out now and it is a free upgrade to everyone with an active Upgrade Plan for Bitwig Studio. All the new features except the sound package 'Notes in Motion' can also be explored in our new 30-day trial version.

Discussion

Discussion

Discussion: Active

Please log in to join the discussion

News & Deals Related To This Item

Other Related News
u-he and Bitwig announce CLAP: A new plugin standard
15 Jun 2022
KVR Readers' Choice Awards 2024: Voting Now Open
10 Oct 2024
satYatunes releases Cubasewig - Bitwig meets Cubase
25 Sep 2024
NAMM 2024: Bringing back the Buzz
22 Feb 2024
Best Audio and MIDI Software - 2023 KVR Readers' Choice Awards Winners Announced
14 Nov 2023
Exceeding expectations: NAMM 2023
10 May 2023
Best Audio and MIDI Software - 2022 KVR Readers' Choice Awards Winners Announced
03 Nov 2022
KVR MPE Month Giveaway - Winners Announcement
11 Apr 2022
KVR Readers' Choice Awards 2021: Top 5 nominations for 'Favorite DAW for Performance'
10 Sep 2021
KVR Readers' Choice Awards 2021: Top 5 nominations for 'Favorite Audio Software'
10 Sep 2021
Sensel releases MPE Soundware: Techtonics and Analog Essentials
10 Mar 2021
One week left to enter the MPE Producer's Bundle Giveaway
03 Nov 2020
Sensel and KVR launch MPE Producer's Bundle Giveaway
13 Oct 2020
Sensel and Hugo R.A. Paris release free UVI Falcon and Bitwig Studio Sound Bath Instrument for Morph
21 Apr 2020
Noizebusters releases Timbre Drums - Drum Rack for Bitwig Studio
14 Apr 2020
Skylife updates SampleRobot line to v6.5 - Support for Sequential Prophet X, Bitwig Studio and Synthstrom deluge
09 Dec 2019
Sensel releases 2 free Sound Packs - Music Producer Jams and UR-RT4 Metal
22 Mar 2019
Sensel Announces Free Bitwig Studio 8-Track with Morph purchases
19 Oct 2018
Sensel releases Free Soundpack by Nate Hendrix
08 Aug 2018
ESI announces U168 XT and U86 XT USB Audio Interfaces
03 May 2017
Square & line releases free DroneMorph pack for Bitwig Studio (+WAV)
04 Apr 2017

Show more...