Get Bitwig 8 Track FREE from Waves

[locrian 671]

BTW, how is Waves involved in this promotion?

[Fleer 8,015]

You get RBass as a Bitwig owner and you get Bitwig 8 as a Waves user. 

[locrian 671]

1 hour ago, Fleer said:

You get RBass as a Bitwig owner and you get Bitwig 8 as a Waves user. 

Sounds like a Catch-22...

Seriously though, where do I show that I'm a Waves' user to get Bitwig 8-Track (maybe that's what I'm missing)?

[Magick 25]

Guys, here is the correct link:

https://www.bitwig.com/reg/?promo=MTo0OWQ0MWExMi0wZDdlLTRjODgtODQwOS03MGJiODEzNjk5NWM6aS15MlVtYndhRmlCOVhXM091SnBkY3VHRXJv&utm_source=wnletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vocal-special-nl8-bitwig-may-2021

[locrian 671]

1 hour ago, Marat said:

Guys, here is the correct link:

https://www.bitwig.com/reg/?promo=MTo0OWQ0MWExMi0wZDdlLTRjODgtODQwOS03MGJiODEzNjk5NWM6aS15MlVtYndhRmlCOVhXM091SnBkY3VHRXJv&utm_source=wnletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vocal-special-nl8-bitwig-may-2021

Thanks -- that worked!

[cclarry 24,216]

I've updated the OP with that link...a one step, rather than 2 step, process

[paulo 3,450]

3 hours ago, aidan o driscoll said:

Mine was TASCAM but a 4 TRACK .. back in the 90s .. happy simple days

I still have this one 

I figured that if I kept it long enough it might become worth something, but failing that it still looks like a thing that someone clever would have and gives me the perceived aura of someone who knows what he's doing. Either that or the aura of someone who keeps too much old crap for too long. I prefer the first one.

 

[cclarry 24,216]

And that is the Yamaha one that I had...it's like reliving the past!

[aidan o driscoll 753]

8 minutes ago, cclarry said:

And that is the Yamaha one that I had...it's like reliving the past!

@cclarryOn foot of our chat here about 4 and 8 track units I decided to add a post on this over at the BL Facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/333570523387557/permalink/4001389469938959/

Did not think I would get much of a reaction, I was WRONG  ... lots more nostalgia over there in the replies now

 

[pbognar 141]

Do you remember the joy and amazement of being able to record 4 tracks, overdub and bounce, all in the same machine?  🤩

[Hidden Symmetry 1,394]

I bought a Teac 144 in '79 & took it on the road for 10 years. It finally wore out but still I have about 200 cassettes of tunes & jams. Cool unit for the time...

 

[fpoir 95]

10 hours ago, aidan o driscoll said:

Problem though might be getting the 4 track recordings off them? Would they need the portastudio to do that, not just a normal tape deck?

What I did, at the cost of some sound quality;

1) Connect a standard cassette deck to e.g. Cakewalk

2) Play the 4-track tape forward, record it to tracks 1 and 2

3) When it ends, turn it over and play it (backwards), record it to tracks 3 and 4

4) Reverse tracks 3 and 4 (I think I used Audacity)

That gave me all four tracks, though I may have had to do a bit of time-stretching to make them line up start to finish. But they did finally, and the process helped me appreciate again the wonders of DAWs.

 

Edited May 8, 2021 by fpoir

[Cristian 86]

On 5/7/2021 at 7:02 PM, Sander Verstraten said:

I think my Bitwig 8 copies equal my Live Lite copies now 😂

It's the opposite for me. Bitwig 8 tracks has been handed out for free so many times, with magazines (Computer Music, Beat), various promotions, etc.
Kind of how Live Lite used to be given away by everyone and their dog in the 2000s.

[telecode 101 1,262]

On 5/7/2021 at 10:32 AM, cclarry said:

I had an 8 Track player that looked like a Detonator...this one exactly...in the same color!

that thing looks so fuggin cool. you know, if someone released a player that looked like that they would sell a ton of them.

 

i remember the 8 track in my parents car back in the day.

 

The thing abot 8 tracks where the colors were bitchin'!!! I remember thing one.

 

[cclarry 24,216]

And don't forget that 8 Track brought 4 Track "Quadrophonic"...the precursor to 5:1