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Post by alkonaut » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 8:51 PM UTC

justforyou wrote: post #138

alkonaut wrote: post #98

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I just purchased Bitwig after evaluating all the big ones, and the decision fell on Bitwig because it just felt like a "better" Ableton. I think the Bitwig team is actually former Ableton developers that just felt they could make a better DAW if they started from scratch. They could. It's just hundreds of little paper cuts in the other big ones, that are fixed in Bitwig. If something is clunky and unintuitive in Able…

The unfortunate counterpoint is there are an equal number of things that are clunky and unintuitive in Bitwig. It's also not nearly as friendly and intuitive when being used as a live looper. How many bitwig users here use it in a live performance context?

Post by justforyou » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 11:32 PM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #191

justforyou wrote: post #138

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The unfortunate counterpoint is there are an equal number of things that are clunky and unintuitive in Bitwig. It's also not nearly as friendly and intuitive when being used as a live looper. How many bitwig users here use it in a live performance context?

Not sure if it’s even possible, my evaluation was for my use cases only of course. I probably use 10% of bigwig and 2% of Ableton. So the important factor is whether something is missing in Bitwig, and how polished/intuitive the bits I do use are.

Post by alkonaut » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 11:15 AM UTC

justforyou wrote: post #193

alkonaut wrote: post #191

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Not sure if it’s even possible, my evaluation was for my use cases only of course. I probably use 10% of bigwig and 2% of Ableton. So the important factor is whether something is missing in Bitwig, and how polished/intuitive the bits I do use are.

For what it's worth, the superb modulation options in bitwig are what lead to me attempting (and failing) to replace ableton with it.

Post by vectorEQ » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 3:17 PM UTC

PavlovsCat wrote: post #174

enqk wrote: post #119

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funnily enough, the founder/creator of renoise was working for Ableton in the early years of renoise

Is there a source for this? I never heard that before, though I know Renoise started out as a fork of NoiseTrekker so to speak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renoise > I started coding 2 years ago with this project, so I'm more musician than coder I started making music with protracker https://web.archive.org/web/20020803155023/http://noerror.sc...

Post by bartproost » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 6:46 PM UTC

jwyatt1995 wrote: post #99

bartproost wrote: post #78

I love seeing how the big brands are picking up web audio. I refuse to work on anything else these days, and it's easier than I thought when I started. Built 5 web games using tone.js for Red Bull Mind Gamers last year and just launched a site that auto generates unlimited royalty free mp3s using web audio for a dollar[1]. [1] https://strikefreemusic.com

Do you have any open source work? I've been playing around with web audio applications myself and would love to poke around.