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Nice dude! I just checked out aqua Steve's doom, pretty cool track! Did you use strictly bitwig native plugins? Either way, id love to collab sometime if you're down!
Thx man! ☺️
Yeah, sure. I'm willing to collab. Your stuff seems like you have a good ear/feel for music, so why not 🤷🏻♂️
I used a lot of (free) vst's. Now i know that i probably could have done a lot of that easily with Bitwig devices, but i didn't know how back then.
I used amp-sims for guitar. I think it was Ignite Amps Emissary & Nadir. And i used EzDrummer Drumkit From Hell, which sadly is not cheap.
Most of the guitar recording i did in Reaper.fm; Because Bitwig 3.* did not have good comping back then. Now it does though. Afterwards i pulled the clean DI-Tracks into Bitwig.
@LSD Not yet but it was recommended as an Ableton alternative that runs natively on Linux, so i might well bite the bullet to get away from Windows before the end of the year.
Just hoping I'll be able to use at least my core VSTs...
What VSTs are you using? I run bitwig on arch and it's been awesome so far, all of my VSTs have worked, but that's not to say they will all work. Wine and yabridge do a ton of heavy lifting for the windows based VSTs to work within Linux
That's good to hear, I'm dual booting Windows 10 at the moment purely for Ableton and games but once support for it ends there's no fucking way I am installing that piece of shit Win 11.
Linux gaming is decent these days but I was stressed about just throwing away my considerable investment in VSTs to switch Linux Bitwig. If I can get even half of them working I'll be happy.
I think there are windows vst hosts like Carla and stuff it shouldn’t be to much of a problem to get most of the vsts running
That's great to hear.
I feel that for sure. Does your rig have Nvidia or amd for gpu? I got an amd build and making steam run games on linux was super crazy easy. While I haven't tested every game I own, I was able to play cyberpunk on max gpu settings without any issue. I have homies who do the same, but those with Nvidia have some issues for sure
@LSD NeuralDSP, Fabfilter, Pigments, Kontakt, Blyss and others from Kush, Kclip, sometimes Waves 14 stuff, and Valhalla. If Wine makes it work, it should all be fine.
The only sad thing would be that all the old projects are based on Ableton, but well, that's survivable :)
I can only confirm that out of what you listed, I also have and use pigments, fabfilter, and Valhalla vst with no issue! I just don't personally own the others you mentioned but I'd imagine most, if not all, of them will work.
I've been using Bitwig for about 2 years, though I didn't get much done since then. Bitwig has been pretty good so far, the workflow definitely feels better for electronic music than Ardour. I mostly do deep dubstep, but I'm playing around with all kinds of other (electronic) styles.
something I did with Bitwig last year: https://soundcloud.com/alphawand/solid-wip
I dig "Ohyeah3", good vibe and that's some pretty neat guitar playing.
Nice track! Did you play guitar on that one? If so, what's your setup like? How did you program the drums, Did you use samples or were they synthesized? What kind of electronic music do you make?
Thanks!
I recorded the bass and guitar through my audio interface, for the bass I just used Bitwig's builtin EQ and compressor+limiter plugin like usual - never really saw the point in bass amp sims. For the guitar I used Audio Assault Amp-Locker, an amp sim. IIIRC the drums were sampled from a nu metal drum loop off YouTube.
What kind of electronic music do you make?
Aside from dubstep and similar halftime stuff, I dabble in french house (TBH my bass playing isn't really up to the task, and it feels lame to program electronic bass lines for this genre when bass is your main instrument), instrumental hiphop, some drum'n'bass and chiptune (I used a Game Boy with LSDj for that).
Yeah, Just make random techno
I got Bitwig bundled with my midi controller but unfortunately never really got to use it much because I’m on a mac and use LogicPro. I’ll definitely revisit it.