18.3.0 (Bitwig 4.3+)

• All devices
  • New: Drum sequencers: When changing note range up/down the offset is now shown on-screen instead of the range (which was wrong anyway).
• APC40, APCmini, Fire, Launchpad, Maschine JAM, Push.
  • New: Added setting 'Start with session view'.
• APC40
  • Fixed: MkI: Pads in Drum and Play mode did sound wrong notes.
• Generic Flexi
  • New: Added new functions: 'Device: Toggle Parameter 1-8'.
  • New: Added new function: 'Master: Select'.
  • New: Added several new functions to control layers (e.g. in a Drum Machine).
• Launchpad
  • Fixed: Record and toggle overdub did not work in Shift view.
  • Fixed: Loop area was not drawn when extra function buttons were active.
• MCU
  • New: Switching devices or parameter pages shows the device and page name as a notification.
  • New: Control+Jog Wheel - Change loop start (press Shift for fine adjustment)
  • New: Alt+Jog Wheel - Change loop length (press Shift for fine adjustment)
  • Fixed: X-Touch - Notification messages might not be seen due to black displays.
• Push
  • New: When changing loop length in Clip view, the second pad can now be pressed multiple times without the need to press the first again.
  • Fixed: Changing loop length in Clip view did not work with 1/16th resolution selected.
  • Fixed: Clip view was not selected on startup if an audio track was selected.

18.2.0 (Bitwig 4.3+)

• Added header to manual.
• Play position can now be changed during playback and is adjusted to the grid.
• APC40
  • New: Footswitches are now configurable in the settings.
  • Fixed: Cursor left/right to select the previous/next browser tab did not work.
  • Fixed: 12th page pad was off in drum mode.
  • Fixed: MkI: Drum pads in Drum Mode did not send notes.
• Generic Flexi
  • Added new functions: 'Device: Reset Parameter 1-8'
  • Added new functions: 'User: Reset Parameter 1-8'
• Komplete Kontrol MkII
  • New: Added detection for VST3 version of Komplete Kontrol plugin.
• Maschine / Jam
  • New: Footswitch options contains now the option to send sustain (CC 64).
• OSC
  • New: Added message: /device/param/{1-8}/exists
  • New: Added message: /device/page/{1-8}/exists
  • Fixed: Fixed velocity should not be applied to aftertouch.
• Push
  • New: Changing play position now show also measures in the display.
  • New: Select + Master knob: Zoom in/out of arranger.
  • New: Clip view is now the default for audio tracks.
  • New: Note edit mode has now presets for recurrence patterns. Press Shift and use the 1st row buttons.
  • New: Footswitch options contains now the option to send sustain (CC 64).

18.1.0 (Bitwig 4.3+)

• Fire
  • Fixed: Regression introduced in 18.0, button LEDs did not update.
• Generic Flexi
  • Fixed: 40th label in the Number field was named indexed as 30th.
• MCU
  • New: Added functions to browser mode:
    • Arrow up/down - Switches to the previous browser tab (if any)
    • Arrow left/right - Switch to insert a device after the currently selected device (if any)
    • Zoom - Switch to replace the currently selected device (if any)
    • Jogwheel - Scroll the results
• Push 1
  • Fixed: Browser mode could crash if presets contained non-ASCII characters.

18.0.0 (Bitwig 4.3+)

• Added support for Yaeltex Turn.
• APC40 mkII
  • New: Selected notes in sequencers are now yellow (instead of white).
• Fire
  • New: Alt+Select Knob changes the note repeat in note edit mode.
• Maschine
  • Fixed: Source Aftertouch messages were always sent additionally to the setting of Convert Aftertouch.
• MCU
  • Fixed: Crash when Master fader was touched in flip mode.
  • Fixed: State of Flip LED was not correct.
• Novation SLMkIII
  • New: Improved the layout of the recurrence pattern edit screen. The steps can now be toggled with Shift and the buttons below the display. The length of the pattern can now be changed with all knobs.
• OSC
  • New: Added /scene/color
  • New: Added /device/page/{1-8}/name for consistency reasons
  • New: Added /device/sibling/{1-8}/exists
  • New: Added /device/sibling/{1-8}/bypass
  • Fixed: /track/bank/{+,-} did not report the track selection as Off if the selected track went out of the page.
  • Fixed: /device/param/bank/page/{+,-} did not jump 8 pages but only 1.
  • Fixed: /device/param/{+,-} did not jump 1 page but 8.

17.6.0 (Bitwig 4.3+)

• APC40 mkI/II
  • New: Drum mode provides functions to select, mute, solo and browse drum pads.
  • New: In note editing the parameter Release Velocity was replaced with Velocity Spread and Pitch with Chance.
  • New: Note Repeat can now be used in the play and drum mode.
  • New: Added note repeat settings.
  • New: Added settings Display clips of record enabled tracks in red, Action for pressing rec armed empty clip and Turn off empty drum pads.
  • New: Renamed Note Input to Pads.
  • New: Shift + Tap Tempo: Inserts a new marker at the current play position.
  • New: Cursor right: Move track bank focus 8 tracks up
  • New: Cursor left: Move track bank focus 8 tracks down
  • New: Shift+Cursor right: Selects the next marker to the right of the play cursor.
  • New: Shift+Cursor left: Selects the next marker to the left of the play cursor.
• Fire
  • New: Alt+Resonance knob: Changes the velocity spread of the note.
  • New: Alt+Filter knob: Changes the chance of the note.
• LaunchControl XL
  • New: Note Sequencer: RecArm + Send A knob: Changes note chance.
  • New: Drum + Note Sequencer: RecArm + Send B knob: Changes velocity spread.

17.5.0 (Bitwig 4.3+)

• Support for Novation LaunchControl XL
• Beatstep
  • New: Toggle Window button uses different colors depending on window state (blue = closed, pink = opened).
  • New: Removed the useless track navigation functions in the track mode and added rec arm and toggling folders instead.
  • Fixed: Prevent view change on track change, which is confusing on the Beatstep since it leaves Track view.

17.1.0 (Bitwig 4.3+)

• All
  • New: Only color existing session slots red (for which a scene exists) for recording.
• Fire
  • Fixed: Knobs did not work after leaving note edit mode.
• MCU
  • Fixed: Touch state for touch automation recording was not always set correctly.
• Push
  • New: Push 2: The 4th button above the display now moves to the next sends page. Combine with Shift to move backwards.
  • Fixed: Internal Drum Machine Sends were not handled correctly.
  • Fixed: Do not switch to drum channel when browser is open (when playing pads).
  • Fixed: Push 1: Layer panorama mode - value bars were not setup as panorama.
  • Fixed: Push 1: Layer send modes could not be accessed.
• APC40, APCmini, Launchpad, Launchkey Mini, Maschine, Maschine Mikro, Maschine JAM, Push
  • New: Renamed 'Behaviour on Play' to 'Behaviour on Pause' and renamed the options as well.
• Fire, Force, HUI, Kontrol mkI/II, Launchkey, MCU, MPC, SLmkII/mkIII
  • New: Added additional setting 'Behaviour on Pause' triggered by play button.

17.0.0 (Bitwig 4.3+)

• Fire
  • New: Added a new drum mode, see manual for details.
  • New: The last selected note/sequencer view is remembered when switching to session/mix and back.
  • New: All LEDs are full turned off on shutdown and a Goodbye message is displayed.
  • New: Session mode: ALT + pad selects clip (without starting playback).
  • New: Bank button + Touch knob: Resets the knobs value to the default value.
  • Fixed: Black pads were not fully turned off.
  • Fixed: Do not leave Mix mode on track selection.
• Fire, Maschine JAM, Push
  • New: In Session mode hold Select to immediately launch a clip. Release the clip pad while holding Select, to return immediately to the last playing clip. To select a clip use long pressing the clip pad instead.
• Fire, Launchpad, Push
  • New: Shift+Record turns off the recording of the selected slot on the selected track, if it is recording (instead of toggling clip launcher overdub). Enable Select clip/scene on launch and Flip arranger and clip record to make this work best.
• Komplete Kontrol MkI
  • New: Works now on Apple Silicon.
  • Fixed: USB resources were not freed on shutdown.
• Launchkey
  • New: Added detection for Launchkey 88
• MCU
  • Fixed: Knob LEDs went off when panorama was panned fully left.

16.4.1 (Bitwig 4.1+)

• Requires Bitwig 4.1+
• Generic Flexi:
  • New: Added setting to directly route expression (CC 11).
• MPC
  • New: Q-Link knobs are working now (requires MPC Firmware 2.11).
  • Fixed: Volume, pan and parameter indicators were off in Bitwig.

16.4.0 (Bitwig 4.1+)

• APC40, APCMini, Fire, JAM, Launchpad
  • New: Added setting for the preferred default note view (e.g. Play, Drum, Sequencer, ...).
• APC40, APCMini, Fire, JAM, Launchpad, Push
  • New: Added new scale layouts: Staggered Up and Staggered Right
• Generic Flexi
  • New: Added new functions 'Layout: Zoom in arranger timeline' and 'Layout: Zoom out arranger timeline'.
• Komplete Kontrol Mk1
  • Fixed: Expression pedal triggered start/stop instead of sending expression data.
• Komplete Kontrol A/M-Series
  • New: Send and Parameter modes could be activated on these models as well by pressing Shift+Stop (=CLEAR) which was not intended. The labels are now adjusted to make this usable on these models as well. Only drawback is that the display always shows 'Vol' or 'Pan' but everything else works nicely.
• MCU
  • New: Layers and drum pads can now be edited (Volume, Pan, Sends, Mute, Solo). Press Select on the already selected track containing the instrument with the layers/drum pads on the top level to enter. Use Mode buttons to select the different layer modes. Long press any Select button to leave layers modes.
  • New: Pressing a knob can now be combined with modifier keys: SHIFT - set parameter to center value, CONTROL - set parameter to minimum, ALT - set parameter to maximum.
  • Fixed: Previous/next mode function for function keys did not display the selected mode. Also the modes do now wrap around at the beginning/end.
  • Fixed: Previous track mode was not restored when leaving master track.
• MCU - X-Touch
  • Fixed: In Master mode audio engine and project displays were off. In parameter modes displays are now switched off for not existing parameters.
• Novation SLMkIII
  • New: Let program changes pass through to Bitwig.
• OSC
  • Fixed: Several formatting issues in the manual.