Making Music in Bitwig: Audio Effects

Explore the basic filter in Bitwig, including low pass, band pass, high pass, and notch, with resonance, Q, and frequency control, plus modulators for movement and a wah-like effect.

Explore EQ 2, a four-band equalizer with high/low pass, bell, and shelf modes; use key tracking by 64 semitones to move frequencies with notes and cut fundamental from mid bass.

Explore EQ plus, an expanded version of EC2 with more bell and notch filters, shelving filters, global controls, and an amount control, plus spectrum analyzer options.

Explore eq plus for rapid band creation, inspector-based control, and auto q, enabling precise, musical shaping with oversampling insights and spectrum analyzer tools.

Explore EQ-DJ, a three-band shelving EQ for live DJing that lets you set crossovers, adjust per-band gains, and morph between low shelf and high-pass with a phase-aware design.

Explore Bitwig Focus, a three-band eq inspired by MC5 with simplified workflow, featuring tube and transistor saturation and stereo width.

Explore Sculpt and Focus in Bitwig, revealing hardware-inspired pultec-style EQ curves with three bands, high-mid-low shelving, saturation modes, and stereo and phase nuances for bass shaping.

Explore tilt, a workflow that brightens sound with linked low and high shelves around the same frequency. Adjust gain, frequency, and slope to shape stereo and balance without raising loudness.

Explore the legacy ladder filter in Bitwig, a selectable filter with various types and non-linear gain, envelope follower, LFO, and ADSR, though modulators now offer more flexible options.

Discover Bitwig's Filter Plus: a versatile filter and distortion tool with LFO and envelope follower modulation, rectifier, polyphonic voice stacking, and diverse filter types for sound design.

Explore sweep, an expansion of Filter Plus that adds a second filter, flexible routing, parallel and serial modes, joint frequency control, stereo options, wave shaper, and distortion for bass textures.

Demonstrates what a comb filter is as a delay that creates resonances and harmonics, visualized with an EQ curve analyzer, with tips on frequency control, mix, and polarity tricks.

Explore a resonator bank of six bandpass filters that add ringing and harmonics, adjust frequency, q value, and gain, and use them for physical modeling and playable resonant instruments.

Explore how a vocoder in Bitwig blends a modulator and carrier using multi-band envelope following to shape attack and release-driven textures.

Explore tremolo in Bitwig by using an lfo on volume with adjustable speed, depth, and shape; learn retrigger on midi notes, stereo movement, and sidechain interactions for dynamic, rhythmic textures.

Explore Bitwig's gate and its sidechain power: control threshold, attack, release, and depth to clean noise, while biasing the gate with sidechain effects, frequency emphasis, and transient shaping for gating.

Explore how a peak limiter on the master bus uses a ceiling, input gain, and release to bound level, while lookahead reduces distortion with 1.3 ms latency.

Explore the basics of the compressor in Bitwig, including how threshold, ratio, attack, and release shape transients, makeup gain, and input/output levels for dynamic control.

Master compressor plus in bitwig with advanced controls, knee and relaxed settings, parallel mixing, multiple compressor curves (vanilla, smooth, glue, resist, smash), multiband analysis, and coloring and sidechain options.

Explore the dynamics device, mastering compression, expansion, gate, and limiter with high and low thresholds, ratio, knee, peak or RMS modes, attack, release, sidechain, and multi-band options.

Explore how a de-esser shapes vocal clarity by targeting high-frequency s sounds after compression. Set the threshold and ratio for smoother vocals.

Explore transient control in Bitwig's audio effects, using a transient shaper to sculpt attack and tails, modulate with modulators, and create creative dynamics with eq, distortion, reverb, and sidechain options.

Explore how distortion shapes sound by driving a sine wave through Bitwig, and learn how pre- and post-distortion EQ, drive, symmetry, DC, and slow generate odd and even harmonics.

Explore Filter Plus shaper distortion in Bitwig, testing Chebyshev, hard clip, and wavefolder modules in the grid while visualizing input-output with oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer.

Explore the amp in Bitwig, its distortion, cabinet simulation, EQ, and color presets to shape guitar tones with harmonics and stereo depth.

Over, a Bitwig 5.2 device, blends clipping and saturation with multi-band tilt, threshold, knee, makeup, and delta to shape harmonics and preserve bass.

Explore how computers store sound, including sample rate and bit depth, quantization and dither, and how bit eight creates digital effects with gates, clipping, wrap, and diffusion.

Discover how a pitch shifter uses grains to shift pitch up to an octave, create high-frequency layers, and produce granular, stuttery textures for mixing.

Explore the frequency shifter in Bitwig, contrast with the pitch shifter, and learn how hertz-based shifting with mix, shift, and left-right offset affects harmonics, transients, and stereo shimmer.

Explore ring mod in Bitwig by multiplying signals with a sine or sidechain to create metallic textures, then compare ring mode with audio-rate modulation.

Explore Treemonster, a pitch-tracker in Bitwig that turns incoming audio into a sine wave, with adjustable filters, threshold, speed, relative pitch, octave-up options, and ring mode for creative sounds.

Explore rotary, Bitwig's auto pan, using a sine wave lfo to pan between left and right and shape Doppler-like pitch shifts with rate, time mode, and amplitude.

Explore delay one in Bitwig, a delay with a feedback chain that sustains repeats, with time by note value or 16th notes and up to 33% offset, and VST plugins.

Explore delay 2, two stereo delay instances with cross feed and ping-pong options, enabling left-right interaction, detuned LFO vibrato, and feedback chains that sculpt space and movement.

Explore complex delay networks in Bitwig's Delay 4, using four synchronized delays with different pre chains, feedbacks, timings, and panning to create reverb-like ambience and expansive soundscapes.

Explore Delay+, a swiss army delay with stereo options, ping pong, repitch or fade, and a flexible feedback chain with crossfeed and ducking.

Explore blur in Bitwig audio effects, using stereo all-pass diffusers with feedback to place sounds in a space and add subtle roominess.

Learn how the chorus effect copies and delays a signal, modulates the delay with an lfo to create pitch variations and a wider, multi-voiced sound.

Explore chorus plus in Bitwig, mastering its four styles and key controls—speed, depth, mix, width, tone, balance, and time—to add depth, stereo width, and dynamic textures.

Explore the flanger effect in Bitwig: a short delay with comb filtering, adjustable time, feedback, and width to sculpt metallic, chorus-like textures, with LFO-driven, retriggered modulation.

Explore four chorus-flanger presets in Bitwig, adjusting speed, depth, color, and feedback, and compare paddle-style, tf-x, and other character flavors with stereo and invert options.

Explore how a phaser uses all-pass filters to create a notched and comb-filter effect, with controls like lfo, feedback, and stereo offset, offering a softer, wetter alternative to the flanger.

Explore phaser+ in bitwig, adjusting color (center frequency), feedback, speed, and depth to shape peaks with phase invert and flanger-like modes; use before distortion for movement and stereo width.

Explore how to shape a reverb in bitwig using early reflections, tail, and late mix, with diffusion, pre-delay, tank effects, wet effects, and eq to sculpt frequency balance.

Explore convolution by applying impulse responses of real rooms to audio, producing realistic reverbs and textures, and shape results with start/end points, pre-delay, gain, and automation for hi-hat synthesis.

Explore the chain as a container for effects with a dry wet mix and gain learn to match levels before and after, and save the chain as a default preset.

Discover how to build parallel effect chains in the fx layer, using dry/wet and send controls to route reverb, eq, and saturation, with macros and multi-layer presets.

Explore the fx selector in bitwig to automate input to effect chains and crossfade between them, using modes like round robin, random, and key switches for per-node dynamics.

Explore using the stereo split to treat left and right channels separately for stereo widening, with optional LFO-driven movement and dynamic balancing on guitars and pads.

Master mid-side split in Bitwig, where mid is the mono center and side the difference; process mids and sides separately with EQ to widen the stereo image while maintaining compatibility.

Explore Bitwig's multi-band fx two and three to split sound into highs and lows, adjust per-band gain and mix, and create band-specific compression, saturation, or distortion.

Explore frequency split in Bitwig, a four-band spectral device with linear phase, routing bands to separate chains, and modulate with effects, LFO, and envelope follower for creative spectral textures.

Explore the harmonic split in Bitwig, which analyzes the sound to find the fundamental and sorts overtones into fundamental, harmonics, and noise, then shape each chain with tilt and EQ.

Explore loud split as a frequency-based gate that separates loud, mid, and quiet bands, with threshold, knee, and rise/fall to shape resonances and enable selective distortion and reverb.

Explore Bitwig's transient split, a spectral device that separates a signal into transients and tones using percussive and noise modes, with mix, tilt, and a spectrogram view.

Explore how the tool in Bitwig controls gain, pan, width, and phase options, and how custom macros and modulators optimize gain staging and stereo imaging.

Dual pan lets you treat left and right channels as separate mono signals and pan them independently, with hybrid or equal gain. Demo uses 100 Hz left, 200 Hz right.

Learn how DC offset creates a zero hertz signal to bias audio and CV signals, transfer data between tracks, and influence saturation, while warning of potential speaker damage.

Apply time shift in Bitwig to move sounds forward or backward, enabling look ahead in compressors via sidechain, and timing across samples, libraries, and orchestral recordings using milliseconds.

Use the audio receiver as a routing tool to pull audio from anywhere in Bitwig. Output it on a track, apply effects, and route to reverbs or instrument buses.

Explore a beginner-friendly introduction to the fx grid in Bitwig, building simple audio chains with filters, shapers, and mixers, and experimenting with parallel and multi-band effects.

Introduce a bonus lesson that presents a producer library of free YouTube tutorials on music production, sound design, DSP, and audio fundamentals, organized by category for quick access.