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This is a test of a possible walk-through style video showcasing what my #ShermanikFilterbank for #BitwigStudio is able to do. In this instance I've made a quick ramble through using it without gates or triggers (pretty much as a twin peak filter), but with some LFO.

The video is also my first time using #KDenLive - it is totally usable, and I was able to fix a bug thanks to the excellent #KDE support side.

Mind your ears.

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Chris Mills 11h ago

Anyone interested in using my #ShermanikFilterbank #BitwigStudio preset may also find that downloading a copy of the Sherman Filterbank manual may help them to better familiarise themselves with my preset.

A few features are missing (hardware wiring, the octave/quint, and tracking), and have added some features that I've written up.

Chris Mills 1d ago

Here's a little demo of my #ShermanikFilterbank as an effects send in #BitwigStudio where the bass and drums are being processed and the various controls are being automated, or performed. There's a bit of reverb added. This was made with v4.4.0 EX of my preset (I did not engage the extra filtration).

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Chris Mills 2d ago

Here's a demo of the #BitwigStudio preset of my #ShermanikFilterbank where v4.2 is compared against v4.4 EX (current as of 6 Feb 2026). It's loud and screechy. It's also got flashing lights.

Chris Mills 6d ago

For #BoardsOfCanada fans out there, you might be interested in this gem from 1996 as 'liberated' by an interested party and made available for enjoying through YouTube. This is called "A Few Old Tunes" and apparently, as the story goes, an original cassette was purchased at great expense from a music store, and then digitised with the finest contemporary techniques.

This is one of those places where #qpwgraph could be employed to play YouTube directly into #BitwigStudio to allow one to bootleg their own local copy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-e1EwccwRc

Boards of Canada - A Few Old Tunes (1996)

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Chris Mills Jan 31

#LinuxAudio win. #qpwgraph making internal wiring possible is a sweet discovery - and means I can create a named input in #BitwigStudio and directly record out of Chrome.

This make SDR exploration recording direct to a track.
http://websdr.org/

Or pretty much anything else!

The connections in qpwgraph need rebuilding if you close the tab, but this is trivial to do.

websdr.org

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Chris Mills Jan 29

@mosgaard I found that with Linux Mint that adding the PipeWire-Jack utility via the Software Manager offered a bit of backwards compatibility so that I can run #BitwigStudio v4.0 along side later versions (I primarily develop presets in v4.0).

And my experience is that everything just works, and quite seamlessly.

Chris Mills Jan 25

I've got a #BitwigStudio preset that is inspired by #MutableInstruments #Blades. It seems a natural offshoot of my #ShermanikFilterbank to explore other #TwinPeakFilter types.

I hope to have some demos and a web page for this in the next few days.

It might fit well on the #BonkWave #SampleChallenge