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Live looping and Bitwig 2019-08-23T10:26:57+00:00 Hey, relatively new Bitwig user here, I bought it for my looping and jamming project because of how good it felt to work with the DAW. 1) Just a general question to the community: are there some people here who do live looping with Bitwig? I filled a room with mics, guitars and MIDI-controllers only for experimenting with looping and randomisation. In my case this leads to a unusual project template and a lot of questions, so maybe we could start a thread (maybe even this one) to talk about this specific way of making music? 2) Since Bitwig still has no looper I wanted to ask the community, what do you think about a concept like the Playtime plugin by Helgoboss for Reaper? It's a VST plugin that gives Reaper its own clip launcher but adds a lot of functionality compared to Live or Bitwig. This way it's a very powerful multitrack looper for MIDI and audio. The most important difference is that you can disable "exclusive mode" which means that you can record and play as many clips per track as you want at the same time. And there are different additional trigger modes, for example "record/play --> stop/retrigger" so that it's possible to record, play and stop/restart with only one button per clip. I could imagine a lot of advantages by just taking the vision of Bitwig as it is now and add this concept. Just take a Launchpad/Push/etc. and you'd have a multitrack looper for every track with at least 8 layers per track and all the routing and controller scripting already done. And the clip launcher is nicely positioned in the center of the DAW. Adjust the controler scripts for the ability to delete individual clips. The developers could even expand the randomisation options, instead of randomizing the sequence of clips we could define the probability of a clip to play and even make playback of a clip dependent on whether anonther is playing or not. TVbene https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=407539

TVbene TVbene https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=407539: KVRist; Topic Starter; 110 posts since 6 Nov, 2017

Post by TVbene » Fri May 01, 2020 2:18 pm

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misteraudio wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 1:07 pm
TVbene wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 10:00 am With MSuperLooper MeldaProduction now has a new looper VST. For 19€ intro price and Melda's lifetime upgrades that sounds very interesting, I've been hoping for it for a while. And it already has support for MIDI controllers.
Sadly like many other looper plugins it's missing time-stretching or repitching upon tempo change. Enso does repitch but I found it hard to match that with the Bitwigs stretch methods. It's maybe just a detail but changing speed within a looping session isn't possible with any of the looper plugins I've tried.

I think I'll buy it, too. Would be worth a shot to give that feedback in the Melda KVR forum, they seem to be quite active and listen to their users. Also this shouldn't be much of a problem for someone who makes so many advanced plugins for audio manipulation...

edit: I see you already did that

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