Bitwig – Amazing New Digital Audio Workstation Takes on the Mighty Ableton

Ableton revolutionised the production of music and, to a lesser extent, DJing. All of these commercial CD mixes you buy in your local music store – the odds are that they were made on Ableton and not by a DJ mixing live with a couple of decks. Anyway – BitWig is a newcomer to the scene that has been created by a couple of Ableton developers who moved on to do things their own way. It’s a multitrack recording suite that also does clip arrangement and launching (that’s the DJing bit), clip automation, per note automation and real-time sound stretching. It will be released on Windows, Mac and (yes!) Linux in 2012.