I've been using Pro Tools rigs since 1999 and have thousands and thousands of hours of past professional engineering experience operating them.Well... if you see Bitwig Studio as a good Audio Editor, you obviously never has used a better one... and there are quite some out there... so even you're not really into audio editing at all (otherwise you would know a whole bunch of missing features... I'm no professional, but even I could count up some solely from memory and many more with it open...).
Bitwig is missing a metric shit ton of features for Post Production audio editing. I would not use Bitwig for that line of work. It doesn't even have a video track, let alone works with absolute time code etc.
But, if you give me group editing, anchor points, strip silence, and a bit more shuffle editing functionality (Bitwig already has some,) in addition to the great stuff they just added in beta 5.2, as a music editing program I would absolutely have the tools I needed to rock just as fast as I do in Pro Tools for music audio editing, and I can safely declare that I am very fast and accurate in Pro Tools. haha
This is why I say that Bitwig is VERY close to getting to a level of being a no compromises option for music production editing. It's almost there! Those things I mentioned are a big deal tho, but I absolutely can see them on the path of implementing them in the near future. It's obvious, at least to me, that they are actively addressing the editing aspects of the DAW currently. I can almost imagine the whiteboard in their office and them crossing out these features one by one as they get addressed haha.
There are alot of things I see Bitwig straight up lifting from "the Pro Tools way of doing things," and I think that is a brilliant move, because Pro Tools is the absolute workhorse audio editing software that has been getting the job done for decades now. It's straight forward, and extremely fast and accurate. I always refer to Pro Tools as "a word processor for audio," because you can edit things so quickly, we engineers sound like we're speed typing an entire novel out in Microsoft Word instead working on your track at times lmao.
Cheers
Statistics: Posted by Funk Dracula — Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:48 pm