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He got a chance to speak with Bitwig CEO Placidus Schelbert for a couple of minutes – thanks for talking with us, Placidus!

When asked about their relationship with Ableton, he said that they (Bitwig) admire Ableton a lot, and want rebuild some good parts of it and extend upon them. Live is a big chunk of software nowadays, and Bitwig wants to create a more focused experience and added features they consider important. They’ve been working on Bitwig Studio for two and a half years already, having invested their own money and being partially backed by a Berlin-based investment bank.

When asked asked if they’re concerned about legal issues arising with Ableton, Placidus assured us that the Bitwig Studio team wrote all the code themselves and that they don’t think they’ll be sued- but he was careful to note that he couldn’t tell for sure that it won’t happen.

Hedgehog also asked about the promised feature of working together via LAN or internet, and learned that while on LAN you all use the same audio-output, collaborating on internet every user will have his own audio settings. That means while your friend has one channel muted you can have totally different settings. Seems like a great way to not have to be emailing project files back and forth, though!

As of right now, there’s no firm release date, but Beta testing will begin in a few weeks. Try as he might, Hedgehog wasn’t able to get any information regarding the price (not even hints!).

DZA wrote:http://www.djtechtools.com/2012/01/12/b ... mpetition/

Try as he might, Hedgehog wasn’t able to get any information regarding the price (not even hints!).

Promise One wrote:Ableton must be really pissed off with this. Gotta say it looks good I like it already and I'm a Live user. At least this will keep Ableton on their toes, they'll both steal ideas from each other, pushing more features from both companies under pressure from one another. Features like Live only being able to open one project at any one single time, they'll change that now to match Bitwig's multiple open projects I reckon. Live never had any direct competition, it does now.

Promise One wrote:Ableton must be really pissed off with this. Gotta say it looks good I like it already and I'm a Live user. At least this will keep Ableton on their toes, they'll both steal ideas from each other, pushing more features from both companies under pressure from one another. Features like Live only being able to open one project at any one single time, they'll change that now to match Bitwig's multiple open projects I reckon. Live never had any direct competition, it does now.

hxczach wrote:I'm pretty sure that you can have multiple instances of live running. (on windows at least) Dig around in your prefs and look for the option.

JTMMusicuk wrote:Repost man, loads of threads about this already

Divane wrote:

LAN multi-user jamming
Multiple users can jam on the same document, and everything can be captured in the document's arrangement.

omg

CaveLvl wrote:Im sure if they can they will try. Its on in full as far as competition goes. Someone from Ableton mentions Bitwig a little in this

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=177041

Disco Nutter wrote:

hxczach wrote:I'm pretty sure that you can have multiple instances of live running. (on windows at least) Dig around in your prefs and look for the option.

Yeah, but as far as I know, you can't move things around between them.