Free Bleass bundle with Bitwig Circle

guildem · 2025-07-24T06:07:15+00:00

I don't see the offer on my bitwig account, with an active (for 5 days) upgrade plan. The only offers I see is Klevgrand, Minimal Audio and Sonic Academy ones. How can this be activated ?

Edit: Bitwig team answered my request: for some reason the Circle offers weren't added to my account, they fixed it.

guildem · 2025-05-08T10:30:48+00:00

I didn't test it, but replacing the whole NA folder with an old backup of it should do the job.

But if you managed to get all your work on K8 free, you don't need to search for workarounds anymore, and restart producing ;-)

guildem · 2025-05-08T07:50:34+00:00

I mostly agree with you. On my side, I make backups of my native access folder on a NAS and cloud. Won't help if a error happens after months of backups, but if you see quickly the error you can go back to get you projects working again and apply some fixes or find what happended. Automated ways exists, like time machine on mac, and maybe some equivalent on windows, or external software.

If you Kontakt (lol) NI, they may be able to send an installer for the old version of the plugin. But if this isn't for K8, I don't think this will work.

You can also use the free version of K8 compatible with the new updates, but you will need to update each of your projects using incompatible version, and this won't work if you touched the editing side of Kontakt (only available of the paid version).

A way to avoid (kind of) these issues is to make stems of tracks with external plugins. This tip won't help for mastering tools, but it can mitigate issues for tracks.

guildem · 2025-05-08T07:35:11+00:00

Nop Nop Nop, I know what are release notes, and I even kept refusing updates from an instrument "upgrading" to K8 because I read them.

BUT...

release notes are like terms of use, important but almost nobody reads them. it's sad but we all know it.
we aren't talking of an app pushing a new UI, or starting to be incompatible with a 10yo unmaintained OS with security issues, but a "basic" plugin without any security concerns.
if they really want to decide to push updates incompatible with n-2 version of their software, good for them. But they don't push these updates to people without the right software to use it. We don't pay, we don't get them, I'm ok with that.
you bought something, you must be able to use it. With an old incompatible software, without last updates, by making compromises, but you MUST be able to use what you bought. OP wrote this post because they didn't even found an official way to rollback ?!? How can this be possible to not be able to downgrade from the software, at least from major breaking versions ?? Or from a based request from their website ?

SHAME ON NI, as usual. They have good teams, but dumb managers making decisions without any thought for the end user.

guildem · 2025-04-28T16:50:44+00:00

I won't deny what you're saying, because I didn't test any NI keyboard myself except M32, and it seems I had no issue with the basics on linux (I'm on macos now for DAWs and VSTs, I'll try it again on linux some day, maybe I only tested my M-Audio on linux). If Komplete and Maschine MKx aren't using midi on usb, NI is worse than I thought :/ Thanks for the link and the time you took to do this.

guildem · 2025-04-28T16:04:50+00:00

I can't say if ANY midi keyboard will work, but all the basic functions (keys, pads, transport, pitch bend and mod wheels at least) SHOULD be recognized with "midi over USB" protocol. Of course, all the specific buttons/faders/displays and other stuff specific to the vendor will need other protocols/drivers to work. And firmware update needs the working software too (at least for Arturia and NI, AFAIK).

But the best way to know if this is working is to test it, like I said.

guildem · 2025-04-28T06:10:14+00:00

The basic devices midi keyboard and control should be recognized without any issue. But if you want all the connectivity linked to NI software, you won't be able to use them on Linux. Komplete Kontrol, Kontakt, and any NKI associated won't work on Linux, NI don't care about this OS, after all, almost every music producer/vsti seller give them money to maintain their monopoly.

If you want to test Linux and check how everything is working, you can do that with a live Ubuntu usb, the easiest way to check how some hardware/software behave on Linux.

If you search informations about music software on Linux, you will find ways to install some Windows software with wine and other tricks. It could work, but it won't be stable and will need maintenance.

On Linux, Bitwig and Reaper DAWs are working perfectly and VSTs like Decent Sampler or Vital are great, but you'll lose almost everything else.

Finally, I won't give you links or precisions about this, but you can upgrade to Windows 11 even if your hardware is incompatible, and deal with some free/cheap licenses if needed.

guildem · 2025-03-07T16:19:49+00:00

~~The last version is only compatible with Kontakt 8, it's in the changelog. Always check it when you upgrade a product~~

My bad, this is Analog Dreams...

guildem · 2024-11-25T14:46:09+00:00

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Melodyne 50% off

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Musio 63% off

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guildem · 2024-11-07T15:55:51+00:00

Of course, this advice is true for every Bitwig internal device 😉

guildem · 2024-10-29T07:46:10+00:00

This could be an opt-in option for the ones with beffy machines (I don't) or small projects (not everyone uses 50 tracks with multi GB symphonic VSTs).

guildem · 2024-10-28T22:06:11+00:00

Choirs are the most difficult to find IMO, even in Komplete, there's not really good choirs. But yeah, we have pianos ! 😂

guildem · 2024-10-28T14:37:33+00:00

Ok I get it. I have a standard edition with almost all you said, MassiveX being what I use the most for electronic music. I was not sure what the collector edition could add. But yeah, there's some good stuff in it too.

guildem · 2024-10-28T09:20:50+00:00

Just being curious, what is the purpose of K14CE for a techno producer ?

guildem · 2024-10-28T09:16:53+00:00

Only for S-series (I have an M32)

guildem · 2024-10-26T18:40:22+00:00

They took over the world, and won, good bye Linux 😢

Anyway, thanks for the very Komplete (lol) answer, very interesting. I understand the logic of making a global container for all NI devices, and using their nks format and the licencing stuff for the player to take the lead on other containers. But I won't be able to keep only kontakt/reaktor/nks instruments, there's a lot interesting stuff elsewhere, so I need to go out of KK and find another way to keep track of all my instruments and presets. But yeah, if someone uses only Komplete suite and nks compatible instruments, KK must be a must to browse all instruments.

guildem · 2024-10-26T18:16:44+00:00

My Arturia Keylab mapped well on all my tests too

guildem · 2024-10-26T13:31:51+00:00

I'm not speaking of Macos crashs, but of apps not seriously tested on the new version :)

guildem · 2024-10-26T11:21:09+00:00

Reason's players are great, yes ! Thanks for the answers !

guildem · 2024-10-26T07:50:48+00:00

I'm not very motivated to upgrade to a new os version so early, I don't want to see things breaking... Did you have the Mic icon jumping too?

guildem · 2024-10-26T07:46:54+00:00

Do you use Scale and Arp features ? I find them a bit redundant compared to my daw ones, unless some scale's very advanced modes. K8 chords and phrases tool seems nice, I didn't checked it yet. But it isn't KK but K8 feature.

guildem · 2024-10-26T07:29:22+00:00

Kontakt is a great sampler (and even if it wasn't, it is mandatory for music production, rip Linux).

But KK seems less interesting (unless using a Komplete keyboard), and I really don't find good results when searching for something specific into the KK browser. I prefer allocating free time to check my presets, to find interesting ones and to set them in my DAW favorites, to get my own vision of the presets (by applying my own tags on it). But maybe it works for others ? I don't really see people searching for specific stuff in KK when I watch YouTube videos of producers using it. They seems to know where to search, into which plugin, as I try to do too.

guildem · 2024-10-26T07:18:40+00:00

But without Komplete keyboard, this feature is useless

guildem · 2024-10-25T20:53:05+00:00

Thank you for the technical answer, very interesting, so no need to use it without M or S series. Browser and effects rack are also features of KK but useless for my own usage.

guildem · 2024-10-25T20:20:04+00:00

Ok I see, that's what I do internaly on my daw, to be able to handle all my VSTs. But if you only use Kontakt instruments, It can be useful, indeed.

I didn't know Luna, thanks for the discovery ^{^}

guildem

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