Logic has lots of great things about it, and it IS more efficient on macs, but the things I've mentioned can't be fixed, so if they are dealbreakers. Something as simple as a group inside a group (nested track stack) is technically possible in Logic, but it's a kludgey and inefficient mess to set up or edit. Want to shift around nested groups and complex routing? Drag and drop simplicity in Bitwig. Logic was flaky as hell when the complexity added up.ĥ) Grouping. Want to create a stacked set of claps across 3 instruments where some are shuffled forward and some backward in time? Takes no time it Bitwig and just works. SOOOOOOO much better.ģ) MIDI management via Logic's environment is like stepping back in time. if you want, you can even sandbox INDIVIDUAL plugins. If bitwig crashes, it just tells you a plugin stopped working. Sometimes a dozen times until I painstakingly went through every plugin on every track to see where the problem was. There are similar issues with buggy automation.Ģ) Sandboxing. They haven't even tried to address this after many years of complaints. Sidechain latency compensation comes to mind. I used Cubase for years and Logic for decades.įrom Logic to Bitwig, there have been a few key items:ġ) Logic has some things that have never worked and likely never will. It also happens to be fast to navigate, attractive in design, and fun to use, all very major things. The fact that you can modulate pretty much any parameter on any device, and create chains of behavior which reach across tracks/devices, like in a modular, is huge. (Arguably Live with Max devices, but the implementation is far from seamless there.) And certainly if you’re making electronic music, it’s the best option for the way electronic musicians structure music. Main reason: Bitwig is the only DAW that is a musical instrument in itself. So when I say I should have switched earlier, you can trust… because it’s been a long strange trip and i’m happy to have arrived at Bitwig! Would never use v11 live, too unstable/memory inefficient. It’s just become clunky, which is a surprise because Ableton was always the lean mean performance machine you could trust onstage. But, Ableton started losing the plot around v9 (i started Ableton on v1, and got a very close look at the whole history of that DAW). Have used everything from all-hardware/tape (before DAWs) to Logic, PT, Reason, Ableton, Cubase, Digital Performer (& Deck, anybody remember it?) For years i was composing in Ableton & mixing in Harrison Mixbus (which is great for mixing!). It took me quite a while to switch to Bitwig, but i’m not going back.
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