One of our personal favourite DAWs, Bitwig Studio, has today announced a sizeable point update, adding a range of new drum instruments, a playful and creative sequencer, an all-new Master Recording section and support for Windows on ARM. There's also a glut of speed improvements, in tandem with the swift auto-configuring of any external hardware. Nice.
It's an impressive amount of new stuff for a mere point update, and there's rather a lot to unpack - so let's take it one section at a time. Firstly, the headline here is those 25 new drum devices. These are organised into three distinct groups (or 'families').
There's the 808-inspired set (v8) a 909-leaning collection (v9) and a lovely smattering of wonky and weird digital drum synths (v0). Bitwig say that these new instruments - though partly inspired by the legendary Roland beat behemoths - are laden with new possibilities via expanded parameters and (as with everything in Bitwig's universe) vaster modulation options.
