{"id":148543,"date":"2025-05-02T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=148543"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:18:58","slug":"melbourne-instruments-and-bitwig-announce-integration-for-roto-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/05\/02\/melbourne-instruments-and-bitwig-announce-integration-for-roto-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Instruments and Bitwig Announce Integration for Roto-Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-148544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Melbourne-Instruments-Roto-Bitwig-Studio-May-2025-728x482.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Melbourne-Instruments-Roto-Bitwig-Studio-May-2025-728x482.png 728w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Melbourne-Instruments-Roto-Bitwig-Studio-May-2025-320x212.png 320w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Melbourne-Instruments-Roto-Bitwig-Studio-May-2025-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Melbourne-Instruments-Roto-Bitwig-Studio-May-2025-453x300.png 453w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Melbourne-Instruments-Roto-Bitwig-Studio-May-2025.png 1336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melbourne Instruments<\/strong> and <strong>Bitwig<\/strong> are pleased to announce that Roto-Control&#8217;s deep integration with Bitwig Studio is now available as a public beta.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second and most advanced DAW integration for <strong>Roto-Control<\/strong>, allowing <strong>Bitwig Studio<\/strong> users to take full advantage of this innovative controller&#8217;s features. Melbourne Instruments brings its revolutionary touch-sensitive motorized knob technology, high-res LCD displays screens, and adaptive haptic control to Bitwig Studio projects.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Truly the most Controller of all Time\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kjPsaEwRxCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-147009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Melbourne-Instruments-roto-control-midi-controller-320x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Melbourne-Instruments-roto-control-midi-controller-320x197.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Melbourne-Instruments-roto-control-midi-controller-728x447.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Melbourne-Instruments-roto-control-midi-controller-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Melbourne-Instruments-roto-control-midi-controller-488x300.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Melbourne-Instruments-roto-control-midi-controller.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melbourneinstruments.com\/rotocontrol\">Roto-Control<\/a>, launched in January 2025, follows Melbourne Instrument&#8217;s motorized synths NINA and DELIA. Powerful, compact, and portable, Roto-Control features three main modes of operation: MIX, PLUGIN and MIDI with Motion Recorder. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitwig.com\/overview\/\">Bitwig Studio<\/a> users can streamline their creative workflow and quickly develop ideas with responsive physical control through Roto-Control&#8217;s MIX and PLUGIN Modes.<\/p>\n<p>In MIX Mode, the colors and track names in your Bitwig Studio project will instantly appear on Roto-Control&#8217;s displays, and those names and colors will update automatically when connected to an active Bitwig session. That means there&#8217;s no need to save or edit labels in the device.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-147221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bitwig-studio-320x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bitwig-studio-320x216.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bitwig-studio-728x491.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bitwig-studio-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bitwig-studio-445x300.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/bitwig-studio.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>In PLUGIN Mode, plugin parameters and labels are taken directly from Bitwig Studio with one touch, one time. That means Roto-Control only needs to learn plugin parameters once \u2014 and you can select parameters to map directly from a third-party plugin&#8217;s GUI. Since all learned parameters are stored locally on Roto-Control, it will remember the mappings the next time you open Bitwig Studio \u2014 even if you&#8217;re in a different project file. And all remote controls in Bitwig Studio get mapped to Roto-Control automatically, including step parameters.<\/p>\n<p>The Bitwig Studio integration for Roto-Control is a public beta, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitwig.com\/stories\/melbourne-instruments-a%20stynd-bitwig-announce-integration-for-roto-control-367\/\">visit this link<\/a> for more info and to download the beta firmware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Availability.<\/strong> Bitwig Studio&#8217;s integration for Roto-Control is a public beta. Please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melbourneinstruments.com\/roto\">Melbourne Instruments website<\/a> for more information and to download the beta firmware. You need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitwig.com\/overview\/\">Bitwig Studio<\/a> 5.3 or higher to make use of the Roto-Control integration.<\/p>\n<p>The Bitwig Studio \/ Melbourne Instruments Roto-Control integration will be on display at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superbooth.com\/en\/\">Superbooth<\/a> in Berlin next week at the Melbourne Instruments (H220) or Bitwig booths (Z105).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Instruments and Bitwig are pleased to announce that Roto-Control&#8217;s deep integration with Bitwig Studio is now available as a public beta.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/05\/02\/melbourne-instruments-and-bitwig-announce-integration-for-roto-control\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melbourne Instruments and Bitwig Announce Integration for Roto-Control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,7,8],"tags":[23371,23370,34359,35560,31068,35364],"class_list":["post-148543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controllerism","category-software-sequencers","category-software-synthesizers-samplers","tag-bitwig","tag-bitwig-studio","tag-melbourne-instruments","tag-melbourne-instruments-roto-control","tag-superbooth","tag-superbooth-2025"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Melbourne-Instruments-Roto-Bitwig-Studio-May-2025.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148546,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148543\/revisions\/148546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}