Bitwig has announced the availability of the latest version of its music production software. Bitwig Studio 5 comes with 5 different MSEGs, new capabilities for the Clip Launcher, an overhaul to the browsers, and upgrades to the entire modulation system, such as the ability to control track- and project-level parameters and to expand modulators with pop-out windows.
These new devices and features offer the ability to draw your own envelopes or LFOs and innovative possibilities for live performance.
Bitwig has also added a new sound package and a full song by bass music producer and DJ Chee that’s available as a Bitwig project file.
Any shape can make a sound: a squiggle, a line, a curve. That’s the idea behind Freeform, a Bitwig sound package that contains curves for our MSEG devices, wavetables for the Wavetable LFO, presets for instruments and FX, and note and audio clips.
Freeform’s curves can be used in a broad range of musical and sound design contexts: They can be modulators, oscillators, waveshapers, sequencers etc. Dozens of Freeform’s curves were specially designed for specific MSEGs, such as custom oscillators or distortion shapes. But since they’re BWCURVE files, they can be loaded into any of the MSEG devices and used for your own modulations or patches.
Freeform also has more than 100 presets that include MSEGs and Wavetable LFOs for a variety of Bitwig instruments, from pad sounds to bass voices and drums. You’ll also find some more experimental applications of curves in audio FX, selectors, and note FX presets that generate rhythmic patterns and sequences. Freeform is proof that curves can do virtually anything.
Bitwig Studio 5.0 is a free update for anyone with a Bitwig Studio license and an active Upgrade Plan. New users can purchase Bitwig Studio for 299 USD/EUR during the Summer Sale (regular 399 USD/EUR).
The new Bitwig Essentials and Producer editions are on sale for 79 USD/EUR and 149 USD/EUR, respectively (regular 99 USD/EUR and 199 USD/EUR).
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