Are you a music producer looking to take your sound design skills to the next level? The Bitwig Grid is one of the most powerful modular environments available in any modern DAW—but its vast potential can be intimidating without proper guidance.

Introducing “Grid Unlocked” by Mattias Holmgren

I proudly present Bitwig Grid Unlocked, a comprehensive course specifically designed to transform you from a Grid novice to a confident sound design expert.

Watch the course announcement video

Why This Course Is Different

Unlike generic tutorials that barely scratch the surface, Grid Unlocked dives deep into the practical applications of Bitwig’s modular system. Each lesson builds upon the last, creating a structured learning path that ensures you not only understand the Grid’s capabilities but can actually implement them in your productions.

What You’ll Learn:

• Foundation fundamentals: Understand the core principles of modular synthesis within the Grid.
• Practical patch building: Move beyond theory with real-world examples you can use immediately
• Phase Modulation Synthesis (like the Yamaha DX7).
• Sound design secrets: Create signature sounds that will set your productions apart
• Workflow optimization: Learn time-saving techniques that streamline your creative process
• Advanced modulation: Master complex routing and modulation techniques that bring movement and life to your sounds

From Confusion to Confidence

Many producers avoid the Grid because it seems overwhelming. We break down complex concepts into digestible, step-by-step instructions that build your confidence with each lesson. By the end of the course, you’ll approach the Grid with excitement rather than apprehension.

Watch a free episode – Filters Part 1 (Low Pass LD)

Join the Community

When you enroll in Bitwig Grid Unlocked, you’re not just buying a course—you’re joining a community of like-minded producers who share your passion for innovative sound design. Connect with fellow students, share your creations, and receive feedback from both peers and instructors.

Reasons to join the Bitwig Grid Unlocked Course:

 Bitwig Grid User Interface – Navigate and master the tools with ease.

 Modular Synthesis – Start with the basics and progress to advanced techniques like FM and phase modulation.

 Poly Grid, Grid FX, and Note Grid – Explore and utilize each Grid environment effectively.

 Custom Instruments and Effects – Learn to patch and design your own unique sounds and setups.

4K quality video + Subtitles (select your native language.)

Support & access to exclusive Discord community!

Lifetime Access to the course and Morningdew Media Education

 +Bonus: Hit me Hard vol 1 sample pack included!

Ready to Unlock Your Creative Potential?

Visit edu.morningdewmedia.com today to secure your spot in Grid Unlocked and transform your approach to sound design forever.

“The Grid isn’t just a feature in Bitwig—it’s a universe of sonic possibilities waiting to be explored.”

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The EDU edition is the Flagship version of Bitwig Studio, discounted at only 269 USD / 269 EUR (Original price €399 EUR).

How to get the Bitwig Studio EDU edition?

1. Purchase one of my Bitwig courses here.
2. Go to Bitwig Webstore EDU link here.
3. Press BUY and purchase Bitwig Studio EDU product.
4. In your “verification process email” to Bitwig, you can attach your “Order confirmation email” from us (Morningdew Media Education). Or mention that you purchased a course from Morningdew Media Education, the course name + your order number.
5. Done!

As long as the course is a Bitwig related course you are eligable to receive the EDU discount!

I’m super excited to be able to offer this to all Bitwig students! If you’re on Bitwig 8-track, or thinking about moving from other DAW to Bitwig…this is a GREAT opportunity to jump in.

Thank YOU all for joining!

// Mattias

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Welcome back to another Bitwig Studio adventure! In this deep dive, we’re going to unravel the intricacies of Bitwig’s instruments, providing you with an in-depth understanding of how each device works and how you can harness their full potential for your music creation.

The Bitwig Instruments Overview

Let’s take a closer look at each instrument device available in Bitwig Studio and delve into their functionalities, exploring how they can be combined and utilized to elevate your musical compositions.

The Chain Device: Container for Musical Magic

The Chain Device acts as an instrument container, allowing you to stack and organize various child devices. This versatile container can house synths, compressors, choruses, and more. Learn how to add, stack, and manipulate these components to create complex and dynamic instrument setups in the video above.

Drum Machine: Crafting Beats at Your Fingertips

The Drum Machine in Bitwig Studio is not just a beatmaker; it’s a modular powerhouse for crafting unique rhythms. Understand how to add samples, trigger them with your keyboard, and explore the limitless possibilities of creating diverse beats with different instruments and layers.

FM4 Synth: Frequency Modulation synth

The FM-4 Synth is a frequency modulation synthesizer that offers a matrix system for adjusting oscillators. Dive into the world of FM synthesis, exploring the modulation possibilities and creative potential.

Hardware Instruments: Bridging Analog and Digital Realms

Explore the HW CV Instrument (Hardware CV Instrument) and HW Instrument, designed for controlling external hardware with CV or MIDI. Learn how these devices enhance the integration of external gear with Bitwig Studio, allowing for seamless communication and control.

Instrument Layer: Crafting Rich Soundscapes

The Instrument Layer is a container device that enables stacking multiple instruments. All the child instrument devices you add to the Instrument Layer will receive midi from the track in parallel and is a great starter device if you want to create rich, layered soundscapes. Adjust the volume between the layers to taste and off you go!

Instrument Selector: Dynamic Instrument Switching

Understand the Instrument Selector, a device for dynamic switching between different instruments in a track. Learn how to use macros to control instrument selection, providing a powerful tool for live performances and studio experimentation.

Polymer Synth: Characteristic Filters and Sonic Exploration

Introducing the Polymer Synth, one of Bitwigs flagship synths with characteristic filters for nuanced sonic exploration. Understand how to manipulate these filters for diverse tonal possibilities, from warm Moog-like sounds to gritty distortions.

Sampler: A versatile sound device for single samples and multi samples + granular playback

Dive into the Sampler instrument, a versatile tool for playing single or multiple samples. Learn how to manipulate sample parameters and explore the multi-sampled piano example, witnessing the transformative power of detailed sample manipulation. The sampler also contains different audio playback modes, including a granular engine for those modern textures and sound scapes.

Vocoder: Shaping Sonic Spectrums

Discover the Vocoder’s enchanting effect that imposes one sound’s spectrum upon another. In this section we look at some practical examples to showcase its transformative capabilities. Want to sound like Daft Punk or Imogen Heap? Then the Vocoder is your device of choice!

XY Instrument: Morphing Between Sonic Realms

Explore the XY Instrument, a container facilitating morphing between different instruments through an intuitive XY pad. Learn how to set up and manipulate this device, creating evolving textures and dynamic soundscapes.

Conclusion

As we conclude our exploration, you now have a comprehensive understanding of Bitwig Studio’s native instruments. Armed with this knowledge, I encourage you to experiment, push boundaries, and elevate your music creation experience. Stay tuned for more Bitwig adventures in the next episode!

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First make sure the Arturia Keystep 37 device clock is set to sync with USB. There is a dip switch on the back of the Keystep 37 unit whis by default is set to sync to Internal clock!

Connect the bundled USB cable from the Keystep 37 to your computer.

FL Studio midi sync settings for the Keystep 37 midi controller

Fire up FL Studio 20 and enter the options -> midi settings tab (short key F11).
Arturia Keystep 37 should now appear as a device in both INPUT and the OUTPUT section.

Clicke “Enable” to activate the midi input from the Keystep midi controller.
In the midi-output section enable “Send master sync” and set the synchronization type to “midi clock”.

How to setup Arturia Keystep DAW sync video

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First press the “show automation lane” button for the track you want to edit. This will open the automation lane.

1. Make a box selection around the automation points that you want to copy. Hold down the left mouse button and drag a region around the automation points like the image below.

2. Copy the selected automation points by pressing CMD+C in OSX / Ctrl+C on Windows.

3. Find a place in the timeline where you want to paste the copied automation points and enter a brand new automation point with a left click. This will act as the starting point when pasting the copied automation points.

4. Press CMD+V in OSX / Ctrl+V on Windows to paste the copied automation points to this new start offset point.

There you go. Simple as that!

If you want to learn more about Bitwig Studio I recommend you sign up for our Bitwig Studio Masterclass here.

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Why record audio with effects?

Why would you want to record audio with effects? It will be impossible to go back and change the effects after…

Sometimes you want to burn the effects into the recording. Maybe to free up space / cpu, or just to be done with the processing. You might have setup a great vocal recording effects chain with subtle compression and you just want that to be applied to the audio and part of the actual recording. Then when you edit the audio, the effects will follow along with your edits. This is a very common approach to recording / editing audio.

You can always bounce the track to get the effects in the audio, but that requires the audio to exist in the timeline. So that’s not an option of you want the effects to be applied in realtime when recording.

First you need to understand the signal flow in Bitwig Studio.

Bitwig Audio Signal flow

The audio (and midi) signal flow in Bitwig begins at the track input.

Take a look at this image of the information panel on a selected audio track in the arrangement.

If we take this single audio track as an example. In the information panel it looks like the audio effects happen before the actual recording takes place… But this is not the case.

Effects are added AFTER the audio clip on the arrangement timeline / clip launcher. So if you would record audio on this track, and later mute the effects, the resulting audio would be dry without the delay-2 and reverb.

These effects are applied only AFTER the audio clip in the timeline.

Bitwig signal flow – step by step

1. TRACK INPUT – The audio (or midi) arrives at the input of the audio track. You set the track input to your audio source, the audio interface input you would like to record. It may be a stereo or mono signal.
2. RECORDING – The audio continues to the arrangement timeline / clip launcher. So if you arm the track and record, the audio will appear in a clip on the arrangement timeline, or as a clip in the clip launcher.
3. DEVICE CHAIN – Now the audio arrives to the effects chain (at the bottom of the image).
4. MIXER CHANNEL STRIP – FInally the audio arrives to the mixer channel strip. So you can control overall volume, panning, solo, mute etc.

Now if you understand the above signal flow in Bitwig, it’s pretty obvious why effects is not applied to the recorded audio.

How to record audio with effects applied in Bitwig Studio?

Ok, so how to record audio with effects applied in Bitwig Studio?

We now know that the single audio track receiving the audio from our audio interface only get the effects device chain applied AFTER the recording takes place in the signal flow.

So if we want to record audio with effects applied we need to setup another track to receive the final processed audio from our first track.

1. Add another audio track in the arrangement (Audio 2 in our example)
2. Set this tracks input to the output of the first track (Audio 1 in our example, this is the track that receives the audio from your audio interface and also has delay / reverb in its effects device chain).
3. If you now arm and record on track Audio 2, it will record the output of Audio 1 with the effects and everything!

There you go, you can now efficiently record audio clips with effects applied to the raw audio.

If you like this tutorial and want to learn more about Bitwig Studio consider enrolling my Bitwig Studio Masterclass here.

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ONLY €74 Euro. (regular price €149)

The offer is valid until 2021-11-06.

About the Bitwig Masterclass

With the Bitwig Masterclass I wanted to go way beyond what you get in regular video courses online. The masterclass is intended to be a living breathing entity where I add episodes regularly + the exclusive community for discussion. Plus you get carefully crafted Bitwig sound packs and samples included with the course package!

Some of you know I already have the Bitwig Basics course available for free on YouTube, but I feel it’s dated (like all content becomes eventually).

With the Bitwig Basics episodes I’ve had the time to really break down how to get the most valuable features for YOU, the users.

During the years I’ve answered and collected thousands of questions on my Bitwig videos so I got a better understanding of what the users tend to want to know. 

// Mattias

It’s all about the user perspective.

I planned my course thoroughly and when you digest the episodes you will know what I mean. 

I’m glad to see so many intermediate and beginner users enroll the course! 

There is one free introduction episode as a teaser sample so you know what you are going to get with this deep class. 

Welcome in and learn the full potential of Bitwig Studio!

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With over 5 hours of cutting-edge Bitwig content, you’ll be able to master every aspect of Bitwig in no time! Enroll and learn Bitwig Masterclass. Led by renowned instructor Mattias Holmgren, known for his highly acclaimed Bitwig Studio Basics, Film Scoring and Game music series on YouTube, this masterclass is guaranteed to take your music production skills to the next level.  

Bitwig Masterclass overview video

In this Bitwig Masterclass overview video you will get a good idea of the course outline and what you get when you enroll the Bitwig Masterclass.

What’s included in the Bitwig Masterclass?

+ Access to the Bitwig Masterclass Video Tutorials pumped with tips and tricks!

+ 35 Episodes, 5 hour 20 minutes playtime in crisp 4K video quality.

+ Bitwig presets – Producer Essentials Pack Vol 1 for Bitwig Studio (worth €25!)

+ Sound pack 1 – Catalyst Risers (worth €12)

+ Sound pack 2 – Analog Coast Kit (worth €12)

+ Exclusive Discord channel for QA (Question Answers related to the masterclass)

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Use the discount code “MATTIAS” to get 10% discount upon checkout!

NOTE: Discount code only valid until 2022-04-22!

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Bitwig Studio sale discount code

Don’t forget to use my discount code “MATTIAS” upon checkout for that sweet 10% discount on the regular Bitwig Studio price!

How do I use the Bitwig discount code?

Firstly, click one of the Bitwig Studio affiliate links above. Secondly, in the Bitwig store click “I have a discount code” and enter the 10% discount code “MATTIAS”. The price will update and you can proceed in your purchase! Congratulations!

Is there a discount code for Bitwig renewal plan?

Yes, my discount code “MATTIAS” is valid for both new Bitwig users and for the 12-month renewal plans! Use it whenever you buy or upgrade your Bitwig Studio license to get 10% off the regular price!

Furthermore, you can even use the 10% discount code when you upgrade from Bitwig 8-track to Bitwig Studio!

NOTE: DIscount code only valid until 2022-04-21 because Bitwig decided to cancel the discount code system for affiliates.

Why do I get a better price using your link and code?

As a long time Bitwig Studio YouTuber content creator and instructor I am part of a special affiliate program in collaboration with Bitwig Studio. This way you can get this really sweet deal via my link and discount code!

Why should I use your Bitwig Studio affiliate links?

In short, to support my Bitwig Studio YouTube channel!

Importantly, whenever you buy via my affiliate links I earn a small portion of the sales. It helps me to drive my YouTube channel and create awesome Bitwig Studio video tutorials and instruction videos to help you learn the Bitwig DAW.

My channel is all about creative inspirational content, I want to help you become a better producer!

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The new version, Bitwig Studio 4, features new musical timelines, Operators, Apple M1 Mac support, mp3 export and Ableton Live file import!

Bitwig feature roadmap at a glance

Bitwig Studio have definitely found their place among the big names in the DAW industry with exciting features for the modern music producer. Especially if you are into any kind of EDM or experimental music. While Bitwig 3 announced the Grid system with a complete modular environment living within Bitwig Studio, version 4 takes this organic feature set even further with note operators.

Making organic music in Bitwig 4 with conditional note events

Bitwig 4 features continues down the road of playful & organic randomization to breath life into stale composition. With the past releases we have had many modulators to breath movement into our parameters and sounds. In Bitwig 4 you have note Operators.

If you ever played an Elektron device, like the Digitakt, with conditional triggers you know what the trigs, err I mean “note Operator” can do.

What are Operators in Bitwig 4?

Operators are rules triggered by note and audio events. Like “trigs” they represent the continued evolution of the DAW from something that has everything frozen in time and, well, boring, to an environment that’s more generative and dynamic.

Chance – Throw a dice and find out if a note event will trigger. Chance is a great feature to quickly make your midi arpeggios come alive!

Repeat – Note event repeats. How many times should a specific note be repeated?

Occurance – Lets you set certain conditions for each event to determine whether it should play. Is this the first loop? Is the performance control “fill” button turned on?

Recurrence – Recurrence allows you to dictate when an event plays during a set number of looping cycle.

Feature trailer of Bitwig Studio 4!

Check out the exciting video from Bitwig Studio team!

Export audio to mp3 in Bitwig Studio 4

Finally, mp3 export options in Bitwig! The export screen have been re-designed slightly with some new modes. Mp3 export in Bitwig should satisfy many producers.

Track Comping in Bitwig Studio 4

Comping lives within the clips. It’s easy to activate comping with the overdub button (below PLAY). Track comping in Bitwig Studio 4 works within the arranger and within the clip launcher so you can work in your prefered environment. Furthermore, you can even drag comp takes between the arranger and the clip launcher! Great!

Is Bitwig Apple M1 compatible?

Yes, with Bitwig Studio 4, Bitwig can run in apple M1 mode (native arm64). With the flexible plugin support in Bitwig, it basically runs the DAW and plugins separately. You can safely run native arm64 plugins AND intel VST plugins alongside each other. If a plugin does crash, Bitwig Studio keeps running. And you can just restart / replace the plugin that crashed.

If you want to find out more about the Apple Silicon M1 architecture and technology you can check my previous articles and videos here.

Is Apple M1 good for music production?

Amazing Strings in Bitwig 4.1.2

Bitwig teamed up with Orchestral Tools for the release of Bitwig 4.1.2 to include a sweet package of orchestral strings. You get pizzicato, sustained, sordino and spiccato. Check out my walkthrough video where we also compose an orchestral music cue.

What’s missing in Bitwig Studio 4 release?

With such a huge set of new features… are there still major features missing that I wish the Bitwig developers would implement? I actually spoke to one of the key developers (Claes) at NAMM 2020 about this. Video support!

VIDEO SUPPORT!

IMO Bitwig should have included video support in Bitwig Studio 4.0. Everyone is making music to videos these days. May it be the huge amount of short films, games, TikTok, YouTube or Instagram stories. I really would have liked video support with this release. All other top DAWs have this feature. So I hope the Bitwig development team will include it in an upcoming “minor” release, maybe 4.1!?

All in all it’s a very welcome release in Bitwig Studio 4.

Try out Bitwig Studio 4 before official release

If you have an active license subscription of Bitwig Studio you can download the Bitwig 4 beta today!

Don’t have Bitwig yet?

You can always purchase Bitwig via my affiliate links + 10% discount code here.

If you have some suggestions of content you would like me to highlight or show in future videos, please PM me on Instagram!

I also have a very exciting announcement to make, but…all in due time!

Thanks!

// Mattias Holmgren – Your Bitwig instructor!

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