They really should consider adding this feature, since they have been talking about improving the workflow. Also, the midi recording should quantize to the nearest 4/4 bar like in Ableton, at least be an selectable option. The minutes really do add up when you constantly have to scale and fix what you just recorded so it loops correctly. Having a clip luncher but no midi chase/bar quantization sounds like an unfinished clip luncher. This is one of the reasons why working with midi in Live is thousand times more intuitive in my opinion, not to mention that genius capture feature, which is now included in so many DAWs that Bitwig might as well just add it too.PhilipVasta wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:45 pmAgree!keel wrote: ↑Sat Feb 16, 2019 8:41 pm What I quickly tested my 8track, there is no midi chase. That is one good reason not to change Live to Bitwig. I can't stand DAW's which don't have midi chase. It is highly annoying to compose anything with long notes, like pads, fx's, raisers whatever. Same goes to Reason..
I'm pretty hooked on Live and various great max for live sequencers for writing midi, but than I export that data into Bitwig for sound design/mixing. How I wish Bitwig would just show the piano roll / midi environment some love... than I can finally get rid of Live.
3.1 and onward really ought to be the workflow updates that glue Bitwigs sound design possibilities/hardware integration/modularity together with basic DAW features. It's obviously the most advanced sound design playground around, but the fundamentals are still not quiet right. It's just weird that a DAW has MPE but no way to manually insert midi notes with a keyboard/controller. Also pretty strange that there is an amazing browser, light years ahead of anything else I've tried but there are no modular presets. 3 lfos for different tasks instead of just one full featured LFO. And the inconsistencies of the user interface itself are pretty annoying. Why can't I press alt and left mouse to rename anything within the multisampler or the clips themselves within the arrangement view but it works for track names etc, for example.
Thankfully, those are all very minor things, who don't change the fact that working with Bitwig absolute joy, but as someone said above, Bitwig is so close to being perfect already. Bitwig 2.5 is going to be great, I'm very glad to see such a generous workflow / utilization update and I'm sure MIDI is what they will be focusing on sooner than later. I don't want to come across as I'm unhappy with Bitwig, I'ts just pretty tiresome to be constantly moving across two pretty similar DAWs when one is obviously superior and much more fun but those tiny, super important features are lacking for my workflow. I've tried many times but I can't say goodbye to midi step input. There is just no way to do so for me. I'd give up on all those max for live devices for step input in Bitwig in a minute, because the modulators are already tons of fun for midi editing etc.... anyway, how did that post get so long? I should get back to work.
I'm sure we're going to see a big announcement from Bitwig, with all the features of Bitwig 3 + an public beta, couple of weeks after 2.5 is released. I'm very positive that The Grid is not going to be the only big thing to Bitwig 3.
