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Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 50 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
Key Features
The Bitwig Studio Essentials is a streamlined and refined version of Bitwig's flagship DAW, balancing creative sound manipulation and ease of use. An extremely flexible and creative DAW, Bitwig Studio Essentials lets you manipulate your audio in unconventional ways to find new and exciting sounds that aren't possible in other traditional DAWs. The perfect solution for modern composers, electronic musicians and live performers looking for software which lets you express your creativity freely with no barriers to overcome.
Refined and simplified from other versions, Essentials provides you with everything you need to create music and mangle sounds. A total of 40 different sound devices are split into instruments, audio plug-ins and note FX and can be used on an unlimited number of tracks and scenes in your arranger. Essentials also employs signature Bitwig devices Polymer, Sampler, Delay+ and the Arpeggiator to provide comprehensive sound manipulation.
Designed to integrate with your existing setup, Bitwig Studio Essentials can expand your recording system or home studio. Native hardware integration with MIDI/CV compatibility plus full MPE support and multi-touch integration enables you to connect external devices and merge hardware and software seamlessly.
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With Bitwig Studio Essentials, you have the power to manipulate audio clips and craft your music precisely as you envision. The software offers diverse editing options such as onset splitting, repitching with curves, and various scaling and stretching methods. Any tempo changes are seamlessly matched by your audio through sophisticated time-stretching features provided by Bitwig and Zplane.
Bitwig's dynamic notes offer advanced functionality such as micro-pitch, pressure, panning, and more for each individual note. This enables true polyphony from Bitwig's instruments and allows these notes to be sent as MPE or CV signals. Additionally, you can introduce musical logic with Operators, modulating when and how notes play.
Comping, a streamlined workflow for recording and combining the best parts of multiple takes, is another key feature of Bitwig. It works on any audio clip in Bitwig, making it easy to switch between the Arranger and Launcher. You can even drag in long audio to create a new comp, opening up fresh ways to explore old tapes.
Bitwig Studio Essentials' advanced comping capabilities assign unique colours to each take, simplifying your recording management and organization. Its 'Fold To Takes' feature automatically loads the entire clip into takes lanes, encouraging experimentation and discovery of intriguing results. Whether you're a professional musician or an enthusiastic hobbyist, Bitwig Studio Essentials is an indispensable tool for achieving impeccable recordings.
Bitwig Studio Essentials offers a range of powerful tools and effects to enhance your music production process. Starting with Polymer, this tool simplifies the process of sound synthesis. You can quickly select an oscillator, a filter, and an envelope generator. Swapping Grid modules within this dedicated synthesizer is swift and easy, allowing users to create quality sounds with minimal controls instantly.
The Sampler in Bitwig Studio is an impressive tool for playing and manipulating audio. It features several playback modes, advanced looping capabilities with crossfades, limitless modulation options, an extensive multisample editor, and more, offering a comprehensive suite for audio sampling.
The Arpeggiator provides individual controls for step velocity, note length, and pitch, including 17 note patterns and three-octave handling modes. With full MPE support and the ability to modulate timing for shifting patterns, holding chords becomes an incredibly dynamic and musical experience.
Lastly, Delay+ is Bitwig's most recent boutique audio effect. By blending traditional controls with innovative new ones, Delay+ can subtly enhance or completely transform your sound as it navigates through a ping-pong pattern.
Bitwig Studio Essentials provides an innovative modulation system that is both advanced and flexible, while also being intuitive and genuinely enjoyable to use. Modulators, which are signal generators used to automatically control parameter values, can breathe life into a static sound by introducing movement.
Within Bitwig Studio Essentials, these modulators serve as freely combinable building blocks within every device, offering limitless flexibility. This includes Instruments, Audio Effects, Note Effects, and even VST plug-ins. Each device comes equipped with slots for modulators, prepared to accommodate any modulator you wish to insert.
The variety of modulators in Bitwig Studio Essentials is precise and succinct, with 10 different types available and more being added. The total number of modulators that can be used per device is unlimited, providing a wealth of options for users. From classic and creative variations of LFOs and Envelopes to all kinds of new and unique modulator concepts, Bitwig Studio offers everything you need to explore the dynamic world of sound modulation.
Blurring the lines between hardware and software, Studio Essentials gives you complete control over the hardware in your studio. Control hardware with MIDI, CC, CV, Gate, Analog and MIDI Clock and MIDI Timecode standards, letting you enjoy a collection of tools to help merge together both worlds and scale up your system easily.
Bitwig Studio Essential's advanced MIDI support is designed to meet the demands of ever-evolving MIDI technology. With Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE) capabilities, Bitwig Studio Essentials stands out as one of only a few DAWs capable of capturing every nuance of your performance, including micro pitch and sophisticated layer editing.
Bitwig Studio Essentials has taken a big step forward in music production software by partnering with some of the best sound designers in the business. This partnership brings you access to several thousand quality presets, clips, and samples right out of the box.
The library of sounds has been hand-picked by partners and artists who have specifically created loops, presets, and sampled instruments for Bitwig Studio Essentials. These offerings are all high quality and free to use, so you can take your music production to the next level.Bitwig Sound Packages contain sound content exclusively created by our sound design team. The library is more than 4 GB in size, and it comes with presets for synths, drum kits, and FX, along with an extensive variety of samples and clips - everything you need to jumpstart your production.
Moreover, inspiring artists and sound designers curate custom sound packages for Bitwig Studio Essentials. These packages can include presets for Bitwig Studio's instruments and effects, sampled instruments, and recorded sounds, providing you with unique options to fit your style.
Lastly, select industry partners contribute sound packages tailor-made for Bitwig Studio. They contain presets and multi-samples for Bitwig Studio's instruments and effects, high-quality sample libraries, loops, or one-shots. Bitwig Studio is committed to providing the best tools for sound production, whether you're just starting or already a professional.
