Essential Information About the Bitwig Studio Crossgrade Plan Software
- Crossgrade intended for users of an eligible DAW to upgrade to Bitwig Studio under advantageous conditions (existing license required).
- Creation, production, and live performance in a single workstation: arrangement, clips, advanced modulation, and real-time performances.
- The Grid: complete modular environment (instruments and effects) for sound design, synthesis, and experimentation.
- Modern workflow: hybrid tracks, sandbox for plug-ins, flexible synchronization (Ableton Link, MIDI, clock).
Requirements According to License Type
This Crossgrade (CG) version requires a registered license of a DAW software compatible with the upgrade. Eligible DAWs: Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Avid Pro Tools, Cockos Reaper, Image-Line FL Studio, MOTU Digital Performer, Presonus Studio One, Propellerhead Reason, Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo. Without an eligible license, crossgrade activation cannot be validated.
What Bitwig Studio Is For
Bitwig Studio is a DAW designed for composition, production, and live performance, with a strong focus on "clips" and modulation. It caters equally to electronic music producers and beatmakers as well as musicians recording vocals and instruments, thanks to a fluid environment for arranging, editing, automating, and mixing. Its major strength: turning quick ideas into finished tracks while staying stage-ready with solid MIDI control and synchronization.
Main Features
A DAW Designed for Creativity and Speed
Bitwig Studio combines clip-based composition (ideal for improvising structures, testing variations, and triggering scenes) with an efficient arrangement timeline. Fast project switching facilitates studio sessions, soundchecks, and live sets. Hybrid tracks simplify workflow by avoiding traditional constraints between audio and MIDI, while clip automation and the Dynamic Inspector speed up daily editing.
Advanced Modulation and Sound Design with The Grid
Bitwig's strength lies in its modulation and sound design tools. The 5 MSEG (multi-segment envelopes) allow creation, saving, and sharing of custom curves to animate virtually any parameter. With The Grid, you have a modular environment of 186 modules to build your synths, processors, generators, and routings. Poly Grid is used to create synthesizers and custom sequencer patches, while FX Grid focuses on audio effects creation, with optional voice stacking for rich textures.
Modern Audio Processing: Spectral Suite and Slicing Tools
To go beyond classic editing, Bitwig integrates a Spectral Suite (Transient Split, Loud Split, Harmonic Split, Freq Split) to separate audio data and process certain signal components independently. On the sampling side, Slice to Multisample and Slice To Drum Machine speed up mapping your samples to quickly create instruments and kits. Operators add extended playback options and modifications to clips and events, and the Expression Spread function introduces controlled random deviations on playback parameters to humanize a groove or generate variations.
Stability, Hardware Integration, and Control
The Sandbox mode isolates plug-ins to protect the application from crashes, a real plus in the studio and on stage. Bitwig supports analog clock output and control voltage (with appropriate audio-MIDI interface), to integrate voltage-controlled instruments, as well as hardware instruments and effects via MIDI. Native MPE support will delight expressive keyboards and controllers, and the Open Controller API allows you to create custom controller scripts. Finally, synchronization covers varied needs with Ableton Link, MIDI clock and timecode, as well as support for analog clock signals.
Technical Specifications
Product Type and Delivery
- Type: DAW software for composition, intuitive production, and live performance
- Download product
- Activation code available on invoice after order processing
- Copy protection: online activation
- License validity: unlimited
- Simultaneous activations: 3
- Update plan included: 12 months
Project, Tracks, and Audio
- Unlimited number of audio inputs and outputs
- Unlimited number of audio, MIDI, and effect tracks
- Fast switching between different projects
- Clip-based composition with color coding of takes
- Synchronization options: Ableton Link, MIDI clock and timecode, support for analog clock signals
Plug-ins, Modulation, and Sound Design
- Supported plug-ins: VST and CLAP, with Sidechain support
- Sandbox mode for plug-ins (crash protection)
- 5 MSEG (multi-segment envelopes) with creation and sharing of custom curve shapes
- Spectral Suite: Transient Split, Loud Split, Harmonic Split, Freq Split
- The Grid: modular sound design environment with 186 modules
- Poly Grid: synthesizer creation, user sequencer patches, and more
- FX Grid: audio effects creation with optional voice stacking
- Slice to Multisample and Slice To Drum Machine: fast mapping of user samples
- Operators: extended playback options and clip/event modifications
- Expression Spread: random deviations on playback parameters
Control, MIDI, and Hardware Integration
- Support for numerous MIDI controllers
- Native MPE
- Open Controller API: user controller scripts
- Support for multi-touch surfaces
- 8 profiles for up to 3 screens
- Supports output of analog clock signals and control voltages, and integration of voltage-controlled instruments (with appropriate audio-MIDI hardware)
- Integration of hardware instruments and effects controlled via MIDI (with appropriate audio-MIDI hardware)
Included Content
- 13 instruments
- 46 audio effects
- 24 note FX
- 42 modulators
- 21 containers and routers
- 43 sound packs
Languages
- Available languages: Chinese, German, English, Korean, Japanese, Spanish
System Requirements
- Windows: from 7 (64-bit)
- Mac OS (64-bit): from 10.14
- Minimum CPU: Dual Core w/ SSE4
- Minimum RAM: 4 GB
- Minimum hard drive space: 12 GB
- Screen: 1280 x 768
- Internet connection required for installation and activation