For #BoardsOfCanada fans out there, you might be interested in this gem from 1996 as 'liberated' by an interested party and made available for enjoying through YouTube. This is called "A Few Old Tunes" and apparently, as the story goes, an original cassette was purchased at great expense from a music store, and then digitised with the finest contemporary techniques.

This is one of those places where #qpwgraph could be employed to play YouTube directly into #BitwigStudio to allow one to bootleg their own local copy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-e1EwccwRc

#LinuxAudio win. #qpwgraph making internal wiring possible is a sweet discovery - and means I can create a named input in #BitwigStudio and directly record out of Chrome.

This make SDR exploration recording direct to a track.
http://websdr.org/

Or pretty much anything else!

The connections in qpwgraph need rebuilding if you close the tab, but this is trivial to do.

@mosgaard I found that with Linux Mint that adding the PipeWire-Jack utility via the Software Manager offered a bit of backwards compatibility so that I can run #BitwigStudio v4.0 along side later versions (I primarily develop presets in v4.0).

And my experience is that everything just works, and quite seamlessly.

I've got a #BitwigStudio preset that is inspired by #MutableInstruments #Blades. It seems a natural offshoot of my #ShermanikFilterbank to explore other #TwinPeakFilter types.

I hope to have some demos and a web page for this in the next few days.

It might fit well on the #BonkWave #SampleChallenge

THEORY: Music Theory Basics Part #1 - Keys and Pitch

https://mytube.madzel.de/w/vJoTdRqz9GWvfkApb2TrNK

THEORY: Musiktheorie Basics Teil #1 - Tasten und Töne

https://mytube.madzel.de/w/cxJU8Dg7fj1uYWfDd2yVrx

CONTROL: Akai & Arturia Linux SysEx Controls | Bitwig | EN

https://mytube.madzel.de/w/tfLSY16d2jPXtDSK22pLC4

CONTROL: Akai & Arturia Linux SysEx Controls | Bitwig | DE

https://mytube.madzel.de/w/948gkAAF3sitsSrvExHjP8

THEORY: Spectral Tools: Time versus Frequency Domain | EN

https://mytube.madzel.de/w/raArUQCtGPvXiddfLKj7Gb

THEORY: Spectral Tools: Zeit versus Frequenz Domäne | DE

https://mytube.madzel.de/w/f7EivBCFHWiqpDzGMV97wM

Are any of you good #linuxaudio or #linuxmusician humans thinking about buying a #bitwigstudio license?

I have five (5) 10% #discount #voucher (s) to give away. 😎

https://bitwig.com/

I’m pleased to have had a good session of studio time today. It might be #BonkWave made in #BitwigStudio on #Linux.

This is how I am coping with recent events. Make #music. Made with #LinuxAudio tools in #BitwigStudio - it might be #BonkWave

https://bandwagon.fm/6960b81c2f0f56fdcee52f6e

It is most reassuring that I have been able to get my workflow back in place for #BitwigStudio for #Linux #ElectronicMusicProduction again.

It's been just over 3 months since I moved away from Windows and there were some moments where overwork at the brewery and holiday business fatigue had me worried that I had might not find my muse again.

I am pleased to report that #weird sounds are again flowing from my fingertips.

Is it #BonkWave or #NotBonkWave - time will tell and I want to finish it first so I don't want to spoil the surprise.

Who doesn't like #reverb on their tracks? I sure do. But what has frustrated me for the past 2 years of using #BitwigStudio is that the stock reverb device has felt not as smooth and silky, or easy to manipulate as I'd like. The Lexicon 224 sound is something to strive for, and those clever engineers found a way to make an incredible sound with not amazing spec digital audio (12-bit with a max frequency of 10,400Hz).

I think the secret sauce is the selective bands and delay times where you can have the the reverb swell into brightness or dwell into darkness with some simple tone controls.

I have found that if you stack two Bitwig Reverb devices in an FX-3 Multiband Device on the Low and Mid bands that you can get a really sweet sound. Here is my example with some Airwindows to round it out.

A new track is emerging.

Is it #BonkWave or #NotBonkWave? It's got #BlippooBox, #AccessVirus, and #weirdness. A holiday study of found sounds, tones and synthesised harmonies. #ElectronicMusic made in #Linux with #BitwigStudio with lots and lots of #AirwindowsConsolidated and #AirwindowsConsoleH for tone and character.

I am smitten by the #AirwindowsConsolidated plugins. They add a really nice colour and character to my sound that I have been trying to find. #Tape #Tube #Saturation #SoundDesign all in #BitwigStudio on #Linux and sounding really good.

The sound sculpting possibilities for bass, drums, pads and more are blowing my mind.

I want to put it on everything. It also plays nicely with my #distortion explorations with my #ShermanikFilterbank preset.

Here's a little beat that I cooked up as I ponder the world.

Dry at the start, DubSub comes in first on the bass and then my Shermanik Filterbank is added by 00:33. Filterbank drops back at 01:10, and ramps to full intensity at 01:30.

There's MackEQ on the bass drum and the whole drum set is being run through Tube and VerbTiny. The whole mix is then run through Tube again with a Peak Limiter to keep things in check.

I’ll try again and see if *starting* with a manual install of #BitwigStudio v4.0 is the way to get this to work. Maybe. I hope.

I've been trying to find my muse. I've liked moving to #Linux for making #ElectronicMusic and there is something liberating in saying "I'll make it work with what I have, only what is it that I want to actually do?"

This apparently. Made in #BitwigStudio and lovingly using a source that is very dear to me as a backbone to arrange to, only with my own twist to it. We'll see where it goes - for the moment is it is good to be regaining some muscle memory for producing.

I’ve been waiting weeks 🫣 to finally announce my #bitwigstudio Jungle #retreat in Koh Pha-ngan, #thailand! But today is the day! 😎

You can find all the details here:
https://amadeuspaulussen.com/blog/2025/bitwig-studio-jungle-retreat

PS: I'm working on so many things at once at the moment… Should you spot any mistakes or oddities in the retreat info, please give me a heads-up! 🙃

Thank you for all your support! 🥰

#musicproduction #linuxaudio