Music made with Bitwig - January 2022

Dark electro style song made in Bitwig Studio with only built in devices. First time used comping for the vocals.

an impulse fires
the sequence starts
forks a million times
out of control

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Just some new ā€œlofishā€ stuff ^^ I use Bitwig on Linux only with native Linux VSTs.

Any VSTs you can recommend? I didn’t find a lot of VSTs that are compiled for linux

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@derk all the u-he stuff, grallion, gclip, luftikus, vitalium, tal-reverb and maybe pionoteq but i don’t have this one.

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Adrian from Anjunabeats said this track was a little raw, what do you think?

Mastered with Ozone 9

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I’ve finished my project of techno-ish tracks and the coming months I’m working on a new project that will be more experimental (to me). More irregular patterns, more randomness. I’m even thinking of adding some of my own voice samples. The first track in this series is a composition made with the orchestral string presets, beautiful stuff, and a grand piano.

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J12

Something Darker

Essentially just plugins, samples, and bitwig
…oh and some guttural mumbling

I missed posting here a few days but I’ve been filling my YouTube channel daily.

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I’ve made two new things with Bitwig in Jamuary:

I tried out how to create granular stuff with the Grid Sampler, where the secret to acutally having multiple grains lies in making the grid have several voices - which catapults CPU useage of course, and for single grid patch songs like this one, also can introduce odd phasing and other fragments. I’m not 100% certain how random LFOs work with multiple grid voices. Definitely, oscilloscopes etc. don’t display anything any more with more than 1 voice, so there’s none in here.

This was made in Bitwig, and the song’s performance is assisted by Bitwig (by means of me just automating the heck out of All The Macros), but is actually a single synth patch song in Phase Plant. All the sounds, FX etc. come from that one patch, I only added some mastering after this recording.

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Hi
I’ve produced this EP using just Bitwig 8 Track,its internal instruments and FX,samples from my collection.
I didn’t use any midi controller, I’ve recorded all drum, bass, and melodies lines using just a laptop keyboard. Four tracks,two of them are breakbeats, and the other two -liquid funk DNB.
Thanks for listening!

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I did a few breakbeat tracks this month but ultimately I’m drawn back to the 4/4 kick. I just discovered that I can add LFO modulators almost anywhere to fiddle with knobs for me. Maybe I should have read the manual sooner.

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Yay knobs! :slight_smile: I read the Bitwig user guide when I was trying to get used to lockdown and I learned a lot. It is a guide actually written to be read. Someone is taking care of little details a leaving fun little comments within the instructions.

And your track, nice build up!

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New track in the works. All done with native Bitwig devices. Again played with the vocoder on the vocals. I am still a bit undecided on only using the vocoder or using a mix of the natual vocals + vocoder.

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I’m also doing a collaboration project with some other members on soundcloud, one of them also uses bitwig mostly. Well, it’s not so much a collaboration but we do these themes and everyone makes a track in said theme and we have a bit of a chat on discord. Anyway, this time the theme is ā€œpermafrost / frozen worldā€ and I made this track. It starts of small and low and dark and slowly opens up, as a very long night comes to an end

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Today it was time for Bitwig Grid again in my Jamuary :slight_smile: It started as ā€œjust something psyā€ and quite definitely became something very close to forest psy.

The kick and the bass were very quick to make, I spent most time on the animals I think :smiley:

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Nice work. Are you sharing any of your experiments bitwig files? I’d love to have a look at a few of them to learn a few things about the grid

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Thanks a lot @derk! I haven’t shared any of them yet anywhere, no - I have a repository where I started sharing some of the VCV patches I’d made, would make sense to do that for the Grid patches as well. Many of them don’t quite work without the samples for parts in there, like the riser here…

I did actually export the animals bit of this grid as a preset though, just readied it for download:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7gBwA0jYgqddIJ0LjPEnmz0-sWWdI78/view?usp=sharing

I’ll let you know if I find out how this could work in a more organised fashion!

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I concluded my January project today with a very slow (96bpm) 4/4 track. I was looking for a lower bound in bpm that still works with a 4/4 kick. I cheated a bit by doubling a few of them but overall I’m quite happy with the result

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In the Venus Theory community Discord, there’s currently a challenge running, where a track has to be made that fits one of a few made-up genres. I picked ā€œ1-bit web ambientā€, and this is the result:

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"1-bit web ambientĀØ, heh. Your Experiment #36 sound triggered the parts in my brain where the song TONES ON TAIL rain 1984 - YouTube was stored and almost forgotten for years. And for this, I thank you. If you don’t know it, I recommend it from beginning to end.

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Thanks @icaria36, listening now, this sounds wonderful! And yeah, the bleeps and bloops have a certain similarity :sweat_smile: