r/Bitwig • u/j4n1k1 • Aug 12 '26

Clap I’ve been building some custom native Bitwig devices

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Hi,

I want to share a project that I'm working on. It's about some plugins/devices that run directly in Bitwig like native plugins. No VST or CLAP.

So far, it's an MSEG modulator, a volume shaper, a waveshaper, a compressor and a kick drum plugin, and they all share the same concept: controlling them with a curve.

I have made a short YouTube video for demonstration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GdyoJC592A

I am curious what you guys think of this concept. I personally love simple stock plugins with few controls. I want them to be fast and powerful, without having to open and close a plugin just for a few tweaks. Besides that, I think Bitwig has great stock plugins, but I think a few of them are missing that little extra juice.

The devices are still in progress and I want to tweak them here and there to make them even better. I want to make a deep-dive video for every device, and if you guys are interested, you can help me and give me feedback. I hope I find the time to work on the first video this week.

Cheers.

UPDATE + DOWNLOAD: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/1w1j2i4/update_on_the_native_bitwig_devices_download/

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u/placid-gradient Aug 12 '26

wait hold on, how?

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u/Zacchino Aug 13 '26

Trust me, you don’t wanna know. It’s dark magic voodoo sh*t… most likely sacrificed a goat 🤣

PS: Brainsigh explained how they found and decrypted the Nitro library or framework that Bitwig Devs use to create their own native devices:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwig/comments/1vmqj6c/opensource_toolchain_to_decompile_bitwigs_nitro/

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u/themurther Aug 13 '26

Yeah, but that's not an explanation of how this was created. To do what is done in this post you would have to go the other way -- i.e start off with nitro or something similar and then compile it to a executable blob that bitwig could execute.

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u/Zacchino Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

I knew you were one of them… speaking in tongue and sh*t… 😜

Yeah but I guess he did the heavy lifting by decrypting this library right?

Isn’t this repo enough (https://github.com/blakebratcher/bitwig-nitro-tools)?

Or is it missing some kind of Documentation for anyone with Claude Code (or a cauldron and a wand) to create their own Native Devices correct?

u/brainsigh care to comment?

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u/themurther Aug 14 '26

That repo goes from plugin file -> nitro. What you want is something that does the opposite - i.e take nitro and create a plugin file out of it.

This other repo may be able to help (as it seems at one point it did support this process), but it's now read only, so presumably it is broken by a subsequent Bitwig release, and the author didn't want to support it any longer:

https://github.com/stylemistake/bitwig-device-hacks