Massive changes and new features relating to automation and editing form the bulk of the headline new features in Bitwig 6.
Some of them are relevant to MPE. I will try to mention them all as I try each of them myself in the coming days.
The ones that really struck me and caused me to start this new thread involve the ability to add variation to the MPE data every time the clip is played back. To quote from the initial 6 beta release notes ( Testing Notes for Bitwig Studio 6.0 ):
- New features are also available for all automation points:
- Each point can have Hold behavior, staying at the current value until the next point is reached.
- Each point can have randomized Spread, setting a range where the point will land on each pass.
- Spread can be set from the Inspector, or by [CTRL]-[ALT]-dragging ([CMD]-[ALT]-dragging on macOS) up and down on a selected.
- For reproducible Spread results, automation clips have a Seed setting, as do automation lanes (for Arranger automation).
- Each point’s Curvature (the slope on the way to the next point) is now shown in the Inspector.
- This allows text entry for precise values.
- When multiple points are selected, this allows for group editing of the values, including use of the Histogram interface (with its Mean, Scale, and Chaos controls).
- Polyphonic event expressions and automation both have these new features.
So randomized spread in the context of MPE expressive data per note is the first thing I will be trying and reporting back on.