It’s been quite a while since I tested this. In early days of DAWProject support, it was…messy, but MAN…
Now this might be a combination of what both Bitwig 6 team and what Steinberg have done in their latest releases, but I took a pretty old Bitwig 5 project that I created a couple years ago. exported to dawproject and imported into Cubase 15 and I could not believe my eyes.
FOLDERS and their tracks were in intact…
Instruments and equivalent fx pretty much all loaded without any errors…OR CRASHES…
MIDI events look in place…
If anyone else wants to jump for joy with me…or wants to share a similar experience.
I am now going to try out the FULL project with audio tracks…once I can locate all the files and see how that goes.
Also make sure all pre instruments or (what does bitwig call them…player devices? no that’s reason…well same thing. They would be MIDI inserts for cubase) are removed since Cubase does not play well with that layout.
This is a good sign for experimenting in Bitwig, then finalizing and recording in Cubase which was my original hopes.
Letdown…audio pitch and tempo on import is all over the place. These were all recorded at 100bpm and somehow it both pitched them without any indication of transpose change for each event and changed the tempo metadata which was all showing up fine in bitwig. Oh well…maybe in the future this will all get working right. Until then, don’t import projects with audio with this format.
If they were pitched, could it be a sample rate mismatch?
Tempo for audio files: This is not something that DAWproject will solve, as the DAWproject file simply stores references to whatever audio file was used, and the .wav files would have need to be saved as Broadcast wave files with the respective metadata.
But what threw me off is Bitwig, is able to playback all those files with no pitching issues. Cubase, on import should try to convert those on import as it would do with all other audio files, right?
So, one of two workarounds I am noticing,
Convert them all and replace right in the pool
OR
close the project, delete them from the folder, open project, find missing files, and force Cubase to convert them properly?
