Well... if you see Bitwig Studio as a good Audio Editor, you obviously never has used a better one... and there are quite some out there... so even you're not really into audio editing at all (otherwise you would know a whole bunch of missing features... I'm no professional, but even I could count up some solely from memory and many more with it open...).They came really close with the current precision editing to making Bitwig highly functional regarding audio editing. It's missing two major things in it still, and that is group editing and the ability to insert your playhead position to where your cursor has landed via the new keyboard navigation.
There are other things missing from editing, but what they gave us plus those two missing things are the basics of what one needs for audio editing.
Other things missing from audio editing: An anchor point for clip regions to move regions to a location via the anchor point or lock them down to absolute time via the anchor point. Strip silence. Some shuffle mode functionality (Bitwig has some of this, but it's still missing some functionality like the ability to copy then past a clip region later down the timeline with shuffle behavior.) The four point automation thing is a biggie that is missing to.
I was not expecting them to do the precision editing changes they did with 5.2 and was thrilled when I saw they added all this simple keyboard navigation, selection, and it's version of "tab to transient" functionality. MASSIVE step forward for Bitwig, they are very close now to eliminating the need to use another DAW for editing tasks. VERY close.
Audio Editing is still one of the really weak properties of Bitwig Studio. Another one is how it deals with multi-output plugins and in general with a transparent track routing (like: If a track sends a signal, this should be visible in the sending and receiving track and... should be transparently show the type of signal... which makes tables of routings possible). It's devices, it's concept of modulation and automation - both are quite usable and really versatile (even though with only little more effort from Bitwig it could handle all this automation-/modulation stuff much more transparent for the musician, because this transparency is simply badly realized).
The Grid has some ugly limitations and inconsistencies, which are (despite all it's undoubtedly versatility and possibilities) - according to my information - a result of Bitwigs wish for maximum throughput and performance (at least the concerning the limitations)... but here one also could argue: Who are those who like exactly that point...? I saw here in the thread a guess, Bitwig Studio being targeted to Hip Hoppers... well, I would suspect it more to be targeted to mostly advanced amateur musicians (or even pure hobbyists), who have one hobby in common: Gaming.
Up to the given version I can live with Bitwig Studio and... if there should be a more powerful solution available and still for a reasonable price (because not every price is reasonable and prices never have a "limit"...), then I will re-consider my decision to move to that solution - very simple.
Apart from that I still miss some features and ... well, perhaps they will be available during the following year...? And if not: Studio One is about to enter the Linux market, Waveform from Traction is already available on Linux... both are highly professional DAW's and they will surely make some effort to enter additional markets... and the modular world is such a market, which currently only is really 'served' by VCV Rack. But who knows how long this will last...? So I keep my eyes open and will stay ready for the upcoming future in the DAW world.
To all those who feel like an obligation to defend Bitwig Studio until the last drop of blood:
May be you personally feel BS fits perfectly your personal desire. But unfortunately you are not the world and... guess what? You are not even the user community as a whole and you are - for sure - not the only license holders. Of course every user has to live with BS - right. But like all products: As an owner of such a product one has payed money and - of course - mentions, what one is missing in such a product. Like you seem to think you are entitled to define the necessary features of something everybody freely can buy and you own, everyone else see it simply individually different. And the exact same "right to define" needs and desires is given to each single user - period. This might look different, if - for some reason - such a product is no longer sold freely on an open market and under certain constraints. But currently this simply isn't the case. So if you don't like religious-like wars for nothing (because you simply are unable to accept thoughts, which diverge from your own ones - what is very narrow-minded, by the way!) simply leave such "desires" and criticism similarly uncommented as they don't comment yours!
Statistics: Posted by kurt008 — Sat Jul 13, 2024 1:34 pm