Straight Trash DNB
By gify on March 8, 2026 11:56 pm
In before the lock! This song is total trash.
I spent forever trying to tweak this bass and I just can't get anything close to the kind of gnarly sounds from Bitwig that I can get out of Renoise. I also swear Bitwig's DSP is a little rough around the edges. I found the multi-band FX adds some phasing sound, possibly due to the kind of (unspecified?) filters it uses. I've found a bunch of other very subtle-but-painful bugs in their various effects too. Some of it is fantastic, some of it has very tiny bugs.
eg. sidechaining the compressor always gives you a click sound, unless you have the Studio version, in which case, you can use their lookahead device.... but the Dynamics device doesn't have the same problem. It's 100% a bug, but if you google around, nobody has realized it yet. You find all sorts of people reporting the issue but they think it's a technique problem, but it's not. It's just straight up a DSP bug. Same goes with the phasing on the multi-band FX splitter.
While I'm ripping on Bitwig, the built-in synths are great, but the presets are absolutely terrible. They are not a good assortment of sounds, and they even lack basic polish like having consistent gain. (The sample packs are good though!)
Anyways, sorry for the terrible mixing and mastering. The bass sound was completely changing until the last 20 minutes because I was dealing with so many issues and my key goal this week was to get a gnarly bass sound. Maybe back to Renoise? Or I'll try Redux or something as a plugin?
I'm usually so productive in Bitwig, but this week I was tearing my hair out...
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