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Sunday Mood: I was playing Star Citizen while making Ambient in Bitwig

Kind of an experiment to play #starcitizen, enjoying the great view and making some random ambient bits in Bitwig. 

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Loomy / New Order (Bitwig Projects)

Hi, here are the two Bitwig Projects for Loomy and New Order. Plugins I used: 

  • Loomy: dpmeter, dseq, fm8, gullfoss, ozone 8, rc-20, reaktor, side minder, smartComp, smartReverb, valhalla supermassive
  • New Order: CS-80 V3, dpmeter, dseq, fm8, modnetic, spitfire originals felt piano, ozone 8, rc-20, side minder, smartComp, smartReverb, valhalla supermassive

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Loomy / New Order

Once again I tried my luck at ambient inspired deep house / techno.  Loomy and New Order are the latest results from my sound lab.


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GODS OF NEPTUNE 2020-09-18 #bitwig #ambient Q&A live music production

 Today we are working on "AllThatMatters", "The Circle of Nine" and "I dont know" which is a deeper drum and bass draft. 

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Livestream Archive from 2020-09-14 Music is the best friend - Bitwig Q&A / Music Production

The first half of the 6h stream is mostly Q&A and less music. But later on there are still 2 funny designs. Working on "HolonMundi" & "HalftimeConstruction" and answering multiple questions by the users.

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Early Bird Bitwig Music Stream - Zaxx, Flatland, Heimat, Shitnfunk

This time I was a bit earlier with the stream. But I wanted to try out when most people are watching during the day or more or less find out when is the best time to stream.

This time I continued to work on a design I started offstream, a future bass/ambient design from start to finish is also included. Have fun watching it and drop me a line if you have any questions.

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Livestream 2020-09-14 Bitwig, Q&A, Basslines, Pads and Funny Faces

This time I worked on some Psytrance "AllThatMatters" and answered some Bitwig questions. 

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🤓 Workflow, Solutions, Groove - Tips & Tricks Part 4

Some new Tips :) 

0:00 Intro 

0:30 swap Phase-4 oscillators with modulators 

4:29 vst blocking note information solution 

6:17 duplicating clips is fast than looping clips 

9:25 odd grid divisions for nice grooves 

11:12 modulators on fm8 

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Percussion Creator II

I wanted to make a second video on this random percussion creation workflow. (members only). You can find the first video here.

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Percussion Creator

New video about percussions (visible only for members, goes public later today) and how to create loops & stems with randomization.


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Mudpie Tools - 35 presets for Bitwig

Today i want to share 35 small Bitwig presets with you for creating random "mudpies" for resampling or messing around and having fun.


Download, add the presets to your boring old sounds and  create new ones. Repeat until happiness occurs. After download you can  unzip the files, double click the presets, drag them into bitwig or just  copy them into your documents/bitwig/presets directory and search for  mudpie in the browser. Questions? just ask!

You c...

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Livestream 15.08.2020

Made 2 sketches, someone made da D#Polarity logo, and listened to some community tracks form the bitwig discord

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Hard Clip - Bitwig native

In this video, I explain my preset 'hardclip', a solution I created for Bitwig Studio to avoid using the external VST, FreeClip. Here's a summary:

  • Purpose of Hardclip: To clip peaks in audio without going into the red or causing intersample issues.
  • Construction: It's made using Bitwig's Bit8 device and includes two tool devices. Simple and effective.
  • Application in Drum & Bass: Essential for maintaining punch...

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Quick Look: Sonible Smart Reverb

I tried out the new @sonible smart reverb. how does it sound? 

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Youtube Memberships

You dont need to leave patreon, but if you want you can also subscribe on youtube itself (there should be a button below every video). Ill keep all the content in sync. Everything thats posted here, will be available also on youtube (the community tab), so you dont need to subscribe twice, its just another option for people that dont want to use patreon. 

Thank you to all my current supporters again, i never thought to make it this far in terms of subscriptions. Pretty mindblowing ...

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🤓 Turn your realtime audio upside down with two modules and this Bitwig Grid Tutorial

Its basically your go to patch if you want to pitch realtime #audio or  you want to modify the playback speed of audio streams in #Bitwig  Studio. #Tutorial 

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Voxengo CurveEQ VST Overview - super creative freeform & match eq

Video sponsored by #Voxengo. Checkout #CurveEQ: https://www.voxengo.com/product/curveeq/ 

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🤓 Bitwig grid patch love for drum loops

Sometimes you have to combine static things with dynamic ideas. Today i  want to show you what you can do with 2 small fx grid patches and a drum  loop. 

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🔊 Generative-2020-07-29 - 5ths Up 4ths Down- Bitwig #Gridnik #Ambient

Just stepping 5ths up until I hit the ceiling/range limit, then stepping  4ths down until I hit the floor limit then stepping 5ths up again.  additionaly changing the direction by chance to make it less boring. 

 âœ… You can download this patch in my repo  https://github.com/polarity/polarity-music-tools/raw/mast...

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a deeper look at signals and how to fake them - Bitwig Grid Tutorial for Beginners

If you havent watched the last video, do it nau!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTpyYgeC2H0 This video takes all this a  step further, and shows how you can fake some of the signals used to  generate notes and gate signals. 

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🤓 Transform your Synths into generative Patches with this Bitwig Grid Tutorial for Beginners

I often notice in conversations that the basics are not in place for  everyone. That's why today we are refreshing everything from the bottom  up. We start with a simple synth and turn it into something generative.  

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Launch Window / Trotzdem (Bitwig Projects)

Hi, here are the two Bitwig Projects for Launch Window and Trotzdem. I bounced all the tracks down to audio and just disabled the original tracks so you can enable it if you have the plugins installed. Ask if you have trouble downloading or using the projects!

Launch Window / Trotzdem

Normally known for Drum & Bass or Ambient, Polarity is trying his  hand at his first House / Techno release. Generative melodies meet a  dancefloor groove of smooth bass and a tight kickdrum. 

  • wav download of the release is in the attachment
  • bitwig projects for premium subscribers up soon

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Kalimba Tommelklaver

I sampled my small Tommelklaver Kalimba as a Bitwig preset! Let me know if you have trouble installing it, or somethings missing. Otherwise: have fun!

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Generative-2020-07-07 - Stille Post

The first patch on the top is creating the notes, the stuff below relies  more or less on audio followers and pitch detection. just to get a bit  of inaccuracy into the patch. 

Zero Crossings

 wtf is the zero crossings module? 

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Video Previews for Community Presets

You can add videos to your already submitted preset in the #your-presets channel of the discord chat server. The video must be hosted on youtube (can be hidden) and should show how your preset sounds. but its up to you in the end. the videos will be shown on the https://bitwig.community/presets page as a cover. Visitors can click the cover and watch the video.  to add a video to your alread...

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VOD: Livestream 2020/06/30 - a bird song + Q&A

Small 3h stream where I tried to create a tune with some bird noises :D

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VOD: Livestream 2020/06/26 - Shenanigans + Q&A

The Livestream yesterday was fun. 6h, 3 tunes and lot of questions answered. Thank you to all new and old subscribers watching the stream, asking questions and beeing humble in chat!

The vod is also available on Twitch.

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Magic Carpet Ride Bitwig Projects

There are now the Bitwig 3.2.1 projects for the Magic Carpet Ride release available for all my premium tier members. You can download them here:

Drop me a comment if you have troub...

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