Bitwig Studio 6 - A Big Update Now In Beta

Bitwig today announced that Bitwig Studio 6 has entered the beta phase. With significant updates to automation editing and new automation clips, clip aliases, key signature settings, and a sharper interface. These UI tweaks allow you to see more information in the editors - (gain, pressure and other expression data), layered editing and more.

Improved gestures make automation editing quicker and more unified: 

• Clicking near a line now makes it possible to quickly move the line up and down. The interface cleanly highlights which part of the curve is in play before clicking.
• An automation point can be freely dragged past other points to overwrite them.
• A chunk of automation can be adjusted without affecting the points on either side by making a Time Selection and dragging up or down.

New automation behaviors:

• With the spread feature applied, an automation point will give a random value within a range on each pass.
• Points can also have a hold behavior, so they stay at a flat value until the next point is reached.
• Curvature for segments can now be controlled in the Inspector.

• Automation clips exist alongside traditional track automation, and going between the two is easy. 

• Tweaking a parent note/audio clip will seamlessly adjust the automation clips below – until the automation clip is edited directly, making it independent. 

• Automation clips can be saved to the library for later use. 

• Automation clips bring to the timeline what Bitwig Studio's BWCURVE devices bring to instruments and effects, so the browser offers automation clips and BWCURVE files together. Dragging an automation clip onto a device will even load that shape into a Segments MSEG.

Clip Aliases:
 

• Clip aliases work with audio, note, and automation clips, and can be used in both the Clip Launcher and Arranger.

• Users who still like to copy-paste can link identical clips as aliases later with the Merge Duplicate Patterns function. This function can also be used to tidy up existing projects.

• When needed, an alias can be made independent of the others with the Make Unique function.

Once released, Bitwig Studio 6 will be available to all active plan subscribers (as of 27/08/25)

If you log in, you will find the beta installers in your user profile.

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