Thank you for downloading Bitwig Studio 2.3.
This document lists the changes since
previous versions of Bitwig Studio.
Changes in Bitwig Studio 2.3
Released on 28.02.2018.
| NEW | Phase-4 Synthesizer. |
| NEW | Instrument and FX Selector Devices. |
| NEW | Voice Stacking and Voice Stack Modulator. |
| NEW | Zplane Elastique time-stretching engines in three flavours. |
| NEW | Time-stretching mode: "Slice". |
| NEW | Retro time-stretching mode: "Cyclic". |
| NEW | Formant note expressions (time stretching modes Slice, Cyclic and Elastique Pro). |
| NEW | Coloured indication of stretch amount between beat markers in audio editor (no color means neutral playback). |
| NEW | Time Signature Changes. |
| NEW | Expanded Device View. |
| NEW | Preference to enable/disable updating of play-start marker from arranger selection. |
| NEW | Added a preference entry to reverse the direction when zoom-dragging the mouse. |
| NEW | Open Sound Control API for extensions. |
| IMPROVED | Updated English user guide with v2.3 features. |
| IMPROVED | Oscilloscope: Trigger on Notes now follow wave cycles according to the pitch. |
| IMPROVED | Add command for setting loop region to selected region (Ctrl/Cmd + L) to the menu. |
| IMPROVED | Indexed Controls can now be mapped with the action "Cycle Next" and "Cycle Previous". |
| IMPROVED | Mapping an enumerated control (like a filter type or effect selector index) to a button/key will map the "Cycle Next" action by default. |
| IMPROVED | Automation override gets turned on for a parameter when changing it even though there is no automation on the arranger and arranger is playing sometimes. |
| IMPROVED | ControlSurfaceAPI: Device.isWindowOpen() works with BitwigStudio devices. |
| IMPROVED | Added border to our windows which provide better contrast to the outside and indicate if the window has focus. |
| IMPROVED | Show modulation mapping on modulation source mouse-over. |
| IMPROVED | Allow to remove projects from recent projects list. |
| IMPROVED | Order of collections in the package manager was random. |
| IMPROVED | Remove the minimize button from any floating window. |
| IMPROVED | Open/close of drum-pads and instrument/FX-layers now only require a single mouse click. |
| IMPROVED | Automation is now updated when setting the play start marker of the transport (when stopped). |
| IMPROVED | Recording clips from clip launcher to arranger could sometimes record incorrectly when the start marker in the clip was not at time 0. |
| IMPROVED | Preview player should stretch according to the long / short samples stretch preferences. |
| IMPROVED | Add track color on the layered header when editing multiple audio layers in track view. |
| IMPROVED | Add information to the manual about real time bouncing (eg when using hardware instruments and effects). |
| IMPROVED | If the audio engine has an error writing an audio file while recording show this to the user as a notification. |
| IMPROVED | You can now choose between onsets and a fixed rate for stretch modes transient preservation. |
| IMPROVED | ControlSurfaceAPI: add color setting. |
| IMPROVED | Hold mode for the random modulator. |
| IMPROVED | APC40 MKII: record toggles clip overdub and session toggles clip automation recording. |
| FIXED | Recording audio on the arranger in a loop results in audio clips not having the duration of the loop. |
| FIXED | Drum machine only has 127 slices while it could have 128. |
| FIXED | track name in VST GUI window title not updated when moving VST to another track. |
| FIXED | ControlSurfaceAPI: Device.hasSlot() was returning true only if the slot had chains. |
| FIXED | Under certain circumstances an extra note will be played outside clip boundaries. |
| FIXED | LFO phase/crushing problem when not using "retrigger". |
| FIXED | Send settings pre and post are lost when duplicating or copy/pasting a track. |
| FIXED | On a retina screen, you can resize the dsp graph window bigger than available data frames. |
| FIXED | Device that contains missing modulator causes app crash when clicking the modulator slot. |
| FIXED | Pulse audio output not working by default on Ubuntu systems. |
| FIXED | It should not be possible to slide the waveform under the first or last beat marker. |
| FIXED | Activating the engine for one project while another is playing asks user and selecting no left engine spinning wheel. |
| FIXED | ALSA audio backend may allow user to choose some buffer sizes that are not supported. |
| FIXED | Using double height cells on the clip launcher in the mixer view caused files to be dropped to the wrong scene when dragging to a new track. |
| FIXED | Onset analysis could fail randomly. |
| FIXED | Selected beat markers don't appear selected while dragging. |
| FIXED | Transpose expression zoom-scrollbar does not line up with timeline content by default in audio editor. |
| FIXED | Run out of memory if a script writes lots of messages to the console window. |
| FIXED | Controller API: Scrolling a bank by pages would not scroll by exactly one page if there was not a full page of items to show. |
| FIXED | Steps Modulator doesn't work in "Loop off" mode, always loops. |
| FIXED | MIDI Modulator has no Omni mode, which leads into trouble when used inside of a Instrument Selector Layer with MPE. |
| FIXED | Crash when closing project while having meta clip selected. |
| FIXED | Better timeline grid contrast. |
| FIXED | Tags not saved when adding tag by pressing space bar instead of enter. |
| FIXED | Controller help documentation does not open anymore for the Keylab scripts. |
| FIXED | Default stretch mode on record remains on "Stretch". |
| FIXED | Scaling an audio clip by 50% or 200% could crash the engine and cause problems on undo or redo. |
| FIXED | Program changes don't work for VST3 plugins. |
| FIXED | 25 frames MTC only really sends 25 frames when being freshly selected. |
| FIXED | Clicking on an invalid wav file in the browser stopped the browser preview player from being able to play any other selected files. |
| FIXED | When editing device page for an instrument layer it is possible to map to a control in a layer chain mixer. |
| FIXED | Regression since 2.2: Issues with the Arturia Keylab scripts. |
| FIXED | LFO modulator in instrument selector sleeps if not being in focus. |
| FIXED | Changing the EQ parameters using the mouse wheel creates thousands of undo steps. |
| FIXED | Queued arranger playback jumps (scheduled by double clicking in the timeline ruler) sometimes do not fire. |
| FIXED | A controller with no mappings should not show itself in the mapping browser. |
| FIXED | ControlSurfaceAPI: clip notes don't show their full length. |
| FIXED | Clips in arranger start numbering at 0 instead of 1. |
| FIXED | Duplicating a device might not initialize polyphonic modulations properly in certain case. |
| FIXED | Clip launcher clips could leave their loop region if the arranger loop button is on. |
| FIXED | Crashed when hitting the escape key in the sample zone editor. |
| FIXED | Minimizing a window may cause a crash on macOS High Sierra depending on selected display profile. |
| FIXED | Saved scenes and clips are not played back with their configured tempo when previewing. |
| FIXED | Arranger does not repaint a clip when it's displayed title changes. |
| FIXED | Time selection in layered audio editor is always across all lanes when only single lanes are selected. |
| FIXED | Deleting time in arranger note editor header area should affect clip timeline instead of clip content. |
| FIXED | Raw mode's "Play Stop" value doesn't update in real time. |
| FIXED | Wrong clip length for "return to arrangement" post recording action. |
| FIXED | Timeline grid painting was slow when zoomed out and using a fixed-grid setting. |
| FIXED | Painting of automation curves in GUI was inconsistent with engine playback. |
| FIXED | Crash when trying to paint timeline background while closing project. |
| FIXED | MIDI Running status was incorrect on Linux. |
| FIXED | Various issues with MIDI Timecode. |
| FIXED | When switching between projects while one is playing using the Jack backend unwanted audio could be output. |
| FIXED | Jack server crashed sometimes when using Bitwig Studio. |
| FIXED | A script that logged lots of information continuously could lock up the application. |
| FIXED | Dragging the length of an audio event longer than the contained audio may delete parts of the following event. |
| FIXED | Random engine crashes when switching audio system and devices in the audio preferences. |
| FIXED | Floating windows and popup windows stopped the keyboard shortcuts for transport play, undo and redo to stop working. |
| FIXED | When bouncing or recording audio embed time stretch information into the wav files so that they are always correctly time stretched when they are used in Bitwig Studio. |