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| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
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Key Features
Bitwig Studio Education is a professional DAW designed to let your imagination run loose. Going beyond the limits of traditional DAW's, Bitwig Studio offers an exciting and inspiring take on electronic music production, allowing you to transcend musical boundaries to create fresh and unique sounds. Offering the complete range of Bitwig's recording, editing, mixing, and mastering tools, this flagship edition combines 190 instruments and effects, over 20GB of sounds, and an advanced modular environment for designing your own instruments and processors.
With Bitwig 6.1, sampling takes on a whole new dimension. The redesigned Sampler introduces advanced slicing for transforming loops into playable instruments, intelligent pitch analysis for automatically tuning samples to your performance, and new Spectral and Fragments engines for time-stretching and granular sound design. Expanded multisampling, vintage-inspired playback modes, and a new Tuner provide even more ways to shape and monitor your sound.
Version 6.1.2 also introduces rekordbox integration, allowing you to bring DJ tracks, cue points, and musical analysis directly into your projects. Alongside flexible clip launching, detailed automation, and The Grid's modular synthesis tools, Bitwig Studio lets you experiment freely while keeping your entire production workflow connected.
Please Note: This product requires proof of education eligibility and comes in the form of a digital download code that will be sent to your email for activation. Please check below if you are eligible for education discount.
Product Ref: 177413
This product is an Education product, designed for Teachers, Students and Academic Institutions. For a full breakdown of what our Education Software is and to check your eligibility, please see our full guide on Are you eligible for Education Software? for more information.
Bridge the gap between DJing and music production with Bitwig Studio's new rekordbox integration, introduced in version 6.1.2. Developed in collaboration with AlphaTheta, this feature lets you access your existing rekordbox music library directly within Bitwig Studio on Windows and macOS. Browse your collection using Bitwig's integrated browser, with options to search and filter tracks by artist, playlist, file type, and more.
Opening a track automatically creates a project matched to its original BPM and musical key, making it easier to start remixing without manually configuring your session. Hot Cues, song structure information, and vocal placements are also displayed, giving you a useful reference when editing arrangements or creating alternative versions. Whether you're rebuilding drum patterns, adding new synthesiser parts, or restructuring existing tracks, rekordbox integration provides a convenient way to turn your DJ collection into material for new productions.
As the flagship edition of Bitwig's DAW range, Bitwig Studio includes the complete collection of 190 instruments and effects, providing the tools needed for synthesis, sampling, drum programming, mixing, mastering, and creative audio processing.
Polymer offers flexible polyphonic synthesis with interchangeable oscillators, filters, and envelopes, while Phase-4 uses four oscillators with phase modulation and phase distortion to create complex digital timbres. For rhythm production, the Drum Machine lets you build custom kits or explore hundreds of presets, complemented by dedicated drum synthesis devices.
A comprehensive selection of mixing and sound design processors includes EQ+ for detailed graphical equalisation, Filter+ and Sweep for filtering and waveshaping, plus reverb, delay, distortion, and modulation effects. Alongside mixer effects and plugins, a range of dedicated Note FX let you sequence, arpeggiate, randomise, and transform MIDI performances.
With over 20GB of included sound content, thousands of presets, and a flexible system of container devices, you can combine instruments and effects to develop custom processing chains and layered sounds.
Bitwig Studio 6.1 introduces a redesigned Sampler with expanded playback modes, intelligent analysis, and advanced editing capabilities. Built for both traditional sampling and experimental sound design, the updated instrument offers greater control over how recorded audio is divided, tuned, stretched, and manipulated.
Advanced slicing is now available across every playback mode, allowing you to divide samples by rhythmic intervals, detected transients, or pitch. Individual slices can be triggered through MIDI notes, velocity, or the Select control, with dedicated looping and modulation options for creating evolving rhythmic patterns and textures. You can also transfer clips directly from the Arranger or Clip Launcher into Sampler for immediate editing.
Intelligent pitch analysis automatically detects the changing pitch of recorded material, allowing samples to follow the notes you play without relying solely on manually assigned root keys. The same pitch-detection technology is also available in the new Tuner device, which can be used independently or within The Grid.
Two new playback engines in Bitwig Studio 6.1 expand the Sampler's creative capabilities. Spectral introduces real-time time-stretching that allows you to change playback speed independently of pitch, making it useful for tempo-matching loops, manipulating vocals, and reshaping recorded performances. Its Preserve Onsets function helps maintain transient definition when stretching percussive material, while automatic tempo detection allows samples to follow the project BPM. Additional formant processing, harmonic bending, and scale-based harmonic quantisation provide detailed control over the tonal character of your recordings.
For more experimental processing, the new Fragments engine offers granular synthesis with up to 256 independently controlled grains per voice. Adjust grain size, position, playback direction, and speed to create dense textures, rhythmic patterns, or sustained sounds. Grains can also be synchronised to the project tempo and repeated up to 16 times.
Existing playback modes have been expanded too, with Analog and Digital characters in Repitch for vintage-inspired processing, plus new pulse-width, phase modulation, and harmonic controls in Cycles.
Bitwig 6.1 brings significant improvements to multisampling, making it easier to build expressive instruments from multiple recordings. Dragging several samples onto a track can automatically create a round-robin instrument, while alternative drag operations allow samples to be layered and tuned together.
The updated multisample editor includes zone muting and soloing, simultaneous editing through the Histogram, and Live Select Updating for smoothly transitioning between samples using modulation, pressure, or other control signals. These improvements extend into The Grid, Bitwig Studio's integrated modular sound design environment. Available through Poly Grid, FX Grid, and Note Grid, it provides over 230 modules for building custom synthesisers, audio processors, and note-generating systems.
The redesigned Sampler is now available within The Grid, including additional functionality such as signal-triggered grains in Fragments mode. Optional module outputs also provide access to pitch, amplitude, and onset analysis data, allowing you to use recorded audio to control other modules.
Bitwig Studio combines linear arrangement with nonlinear clip-based production, allowing you to switch between structured editing and spontaneous experimentation. The Arranger provides a detailed timeline for recording and constructing tracks, while the Clip Launcher lets you trigger loops, develop ideas, and improvise arrangements independently.
Hybrid tracks accommodate both audio and MIDI, reducing the need to separate different types of musical material. Layered editors also let you view multiple parts together, making it easier to refine timing, harmony, and arrangement details.
Advanced audio editing tools include transient-based splitting, pitch curves, time-stretching, and clip aliases that link repeated sections throughout a project. For MIDI programming, individual notes support micro-pitch, pressure, and panning information, while Operators introduce controlled variation to note triggering.
Bitwig's modulation system includes over 40 audio-rate modulators that can control instruments, effects, plug-ins, and connected hardware. Combined with flexible automation clips, independent looping, and Note FX such as Dribble and Ricochet, these features give you plenty of ways to develop movement, variation, and expression throughout your productions.
Explore new approaches to mixing and sound design with Bitwig Studio's Spectral Suite, a collection of four processors that separate audio into individual components for independent manipulation. Transient Split separates the attack and sustained portions of a signal, allowing you to process sharp transients without affecting the remaining audio. Freq Split divides material into frequency-based components, giving you greater flexibility when applying different effects across the spectrum.
Loud Split separates audio according to its amplitude characteristics, making it possible to process quieter and louder elements differently. Harmonic Split distinguishes harmonic content from other signal components, providing additional options for tonal processing and experimental sound design.
These processors can be used for practical mixing tasks or more unusual creative effects. For example, you can apply distortion to selected frequency regions, add ambience to sustained material while preserving transients, or create layered textures by processing different signal components independently.
Bitwig Studio provides extensive hardware integration for producers working with external synthesisers, drum machines, MIDI controllers, and modular equipment. Support for MIDI, MIDI CC, CV, Gate, analogue clock, MIDI Clock, and MIDI Timecode allows you to sequence, synchronise, and control compatible hardware directly from your projects.
These connections work in both directions, so external equipment can control Bitwig Studio while the DAW manages sequencing and synchronisation. This makes it easier to combine software instruments with physical gear, develop hybrid production setups, and incorporate hardware performances into your arrangements.
Dedicated multi-touch support also provides an alternative way to interact with instruments and editing tools, while the configurable interface supports setups with up to three displays. Bitwig's modern architecture supports multiple open projects, simultaneous use of more than one audio interface, and open formats including CLAP and DAWproject. With compatibility across Windows, macOS, and Linux, it provides a flexible foundation for studio production and live performance.
Circle includes selected free plug-ins, training courses, and discounted products developed in collaboration with Bitwig's partners. These resources provide additional ways to expand your production setup, explore new techniques, and develop your knowledge of music production and sound design.
The selection of offers changes over time, so there's an opportunity to discover new tools and learning resources throughout your membership. Combined with Bitwig Studio's extensive built-in instrument and effects library, Circle provides further options for developing your sound and getting more from your software.
