Designed for the electronic and recording musician, Bitwig Studio Essentials is innovative music-production and performance software that allows you to quickly come up with ideas, arrange them on a timeline, and perform them with the clip launcher. With its modular structure, you can connect and route audio, MIDI, and CV signals throughout the software, while interfacing with your hardware setup. Integrate your synthesizers, drum machines, and other hardware seamlessly, and keep everything in perfect synchronization.
Bitwig Studio Essentials includes the Bitwig Essential Collection and over 40 built-in instruments, effects, modulators, and other devices that are ready for production. The software offers unlimited project tracks, effects tracks, group tracks, and scenes. The use of programwide modulators allows you to connect any plug-in or hardware parameter to LFOs, macros, envelope generators, audio side-chains, and more. Bitwig Studio Essentials is cross-platform compatible and works with Windows, macOS, and Linux.
At a Glance
- For macOS, Windows, and Linux
- 40 instruments, audio and note FX, and more
- Includes the devices Polymer, Sampler, Delay+, and Arpeggiator
- Starter modulation system with 10 modulators
- Essential library of sounds, loops, and presets
- Unlimited audio, instrument, and hybrid tracks and scenes
- Unlimited VST/CLAP plug-ins with side-chain support
- Professional editing and arranging tools
- 3 audio-stretching algorithms
- Native hardware integration with MIDI/CV compatibility, plus full MPE support and multitouch integration
- 3 display profiles (single screen only)
- 4/8 audio I/O buses
Browser
Bitwig Studio Essentials features browsers with a streamlined experience and provide a visual way to access content. Search results for plug-ins, presets, and wavetables (etc.) all live in one place. There's also a customizable shortcuts pane that allows users quick access to their favorite sound packages, content types (e.g. wavetables, drum hits, or samples) or folders.
Bitwig Devices
Instruments
- Organ
- Polymer
- Sampler (multisample editor not available)
Audio Effects
- Bit-8
- Compressor
- Delay+
- Distortion
- Dynamics
- EQ-2
- EQ-5
- EQ-DJ
- Filter
- Flanger
- Gate
- Ladder
- Peak Limiter
- Phaser
- Reverb
- Test Tone
- Tool
Note Effects
- Arpeggiator
- Key Filter
- Note Transpose
- Velocity Curve
Containers, Routers, and Hardware Devices
- Drum Machine
- HW Clock Out
- HW CV Instrument
- HW CV Out
- HW FX
- HW Instrument
Modulators
- ADSR
- Audio Sidechain
- Button
- Expressions
- HW CV In
- LFO
- Macro
- Random
- Steps
- Vibrato
Sound Collection
- Acoustic Drums and Percussion
- Bass and Guitar
- Bass-08
- Bitwig Drum Machines
- Classic Drum Machines
- Electric Keys
- Essentials Collection
- Evolving Sounds and Sequences
- Grand Piano
- Notes in Motion
- Polymerics
- Drums and Indian Percussion
- Earth Moments Loops (teaser)
- JoMoX X-Basics
- Prime Loops Bass Music (teaser)
- Prime Loops Deeper (teaser)
- Raw Cutz Sampler 1
- The LoopLoft Loops (teaser)
- Wave Alchemy Loops and Samples (teaser)
Features
- Sound Design and Live Performance
- Unlimited Tracks + VST Plug-Ins
- Includes over 40 Instruments and FX
- 4/8 Audio I/O Buses
- For Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Flexible Modulation System
- Hybrid Audio and MIDI Tracks
- Layered Editing and Clip Automation
- Hardware Support for MIDI, CV, Gate
- Includes Bitwig Essentials Collection