Live has good devices too, and stuff like the glue compressor which some people swear by. I think the synths and effects are really top notch. In terms of devices, personally I prefer Bitwig's devices.
Even though it doesn't have the amazing ideas introduced in Bitwig, the features it does have are more solid and polished. Plenty of features that make your life much easier. Live has midi and audio comping, scale mode, etc. There are plenty of UX workflow gotchas like this. Or you want to draw automation for a long segment (say 1 minute) and the UI can't keep up with you at times. Every time you open a midi clip in a new track, you have to tell Bitwig to show you the velocities. To give you an example, Bitwig doesn't show you velocities in the piano roll by default and won't let you save default settings either. Really, the sky's the limit.īut once you get outside of this experimental use case where Bitwig really shines, you will start hitting all sorts of issues. Or using a resonator effect and modulate it with the midi note. Or creating your own reverb in the grid using all pass filters. Stuff like introducing any number of effects in the delay feedback path. You can do so many things unheard of in any other DAW.
If you're looking for a sound design playground for doing generative music or integrating it with a hardware modular system get Bitwig, no questions asked. Stuff like modulators, midi FX, the Grid for audio and midi, etc. The concept of the DAW as a modular environment started in Live, but Bitwig really took it to the next level. Ableton is a big company and Bitwig is really the product of a tiny group of extremely talented hackers.īitwig is really superior in terms of creative sound design features. Bitwig is in many aspects a better Live than Live itself but, even though it's a 10 year old product, it remains unpolished in many aspects and is missing many bread a butter features. The TLDR is that Live is a much more mature and polished product.
I used Ableton Live for years and then switched to Bitwig about 2 years ago.
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