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Tune your 808 in Bitwig Studio

Drop the 808 you are putting into Bitwig's Sampler. Read its note here, save it tuned, then set Sampler's root note, so the key you press is the note you hear.

Mika, the resident

Mika hears the drop and lets it go by. Bitwig's Sampler only needs the note after it.Pick a WAV, AIFF or MP3 of one hit. It is read in this browser.

or drop a file on this card

In Bitwig Studio, step by step

  1. Read the 808 above. Leave the target on the nearest note and save the tuned WAV: the cents are gone, the length is the same.
  2. Load the tuned WAV into Sampler on an instrument track.
  3. Turn keyboard tracking on, 100 %: at 0 % every key plays the sample at its own pitch.
  4. In the ROOT settings, set the root note to the note the line under the result names, and leave its cents at 0.
  5. Play that note: the 808 at its own pitch, and every other key the distance from it.

Keeping the original file instead? Put the cents this page reads into the ROOT cents with the same sign, so 23 cents sharp is +23: Bitwig plays each key by its distance from the root note and its cents together.

Checked against the Bitwig Studio User Guide (Going Between Notes and Audio: Keyboard Tracking, Root Note, Fine Tuning in cents; Device Descriptions, Sampler: keyboard tracking 0 to 100 %, the ROOT settings of root note and cents, Pitch ±36 semitones, Glide, zones; middle C named C3).

Why Bitwig says F0 when this page says F1

Bitwig's user guide calls middle C, about 262 Hz, C3; this page calls it C4, with A4 at 440 Hz. So every note name in Bitwig is an octave lower than here: an 808 at F1 (43.65 Hz) is F0 in Sampler's root note.

The line under the result gives the note in Bitwig's numbering. Counting by hand: take one off the octave.

Glide and pitch in Sampler

Sampler's leftmost section has Pitch, from −36 to +36 semitones, and Glide, the time each new note takes to slide from the last one. With the root note right, every slide ends on the note you wrote.

In multisample mode each zone has its own root key and fine tune. An 808 is one zone, so one root note is all it needs.

Then make something of it

The note goes into Brumm as a bassline on an 808, in a running club track. The WAV is yours: 24-bit, mono; a WAV keeps its sample rate.

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