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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 27 days ago
BItwig Studio 5.3 will have the feature I've wanted to any DAW for ages: accented notes in the piano roll. So that you can use two logical velocities and then just put them into good values. A HUGE time saver...

From all the features listed, accented notes is my favorite. Wanted it for so long...

https://downloads.bitwig.com/5.3%20Beta%201/Release-Notes-5.3-Beta-1.html

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@jarkko thanks for mentioning the accents! I completely missed that.

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@patricklang Yeah, a huge workflow improvement IMHO.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 27 days ago
@patricklang My point of view of many of the new features: it's cool that there is stock option but if there is already functional plugin it is not in the end as useful as these small workflow optimizations... E.g. cool that there is 909 and pitch shifter but you cannot level up much with those.

E.g. not that long ago Compressor+ came with glue compression (feedback input signal) but after trying out different settings I still cannot dial it as well as https://cytomic.com/product/glue/, which I bought after switching to Bitwig because Live's Glue was so great (and it's the same same). It does not need a lot in color that you just don't like it as much...

Stepwise is also great because in the past you could emulate Effectrix with a complex Grid patch but it was not that practical. But now with Stepwise and "In any Grid patch, parsing each lane's stream" you can actually make that kind of thing also as usable as Effectrix...
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@patricklang For me Ableton's Glue sounds better even than actual hardware SSL because that is the sound where I learned about feedback compression :-) So it is kind of choice between my "reference" or something else when it comes to that compressor. Good in sound is a lot what you are used to as good.
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