Bitwig Studio vs Magix Samplitude X

Makes use of the Seaboard, Linnstrument, Continuum and other modern expressive controllers.

The easiest DAW to do automation in. All you have to do is press record and start moving knobs, and that's it.

The ability to run two sequencers at the same time, while swapping out sounds gives you great flexibility to complete a song.

This software has big, responsive, easy-to-handle controls that work really well on a touchscreen. Additionally, it has a tablet mode that re-organizes the UI to make it much simpler and perfect for smaller screen devices. This is both a mobile touchscreen app and a DAW at the same time! It even has a built-in keyboard/drumpad.

The Bitwig DAW runs on Mac, PC, and, Linux. This DAW also has the distinction of being one of the only DAWs that can run 32 bit and 64 bit plugins at the same time.

Being able to add multiple midi instruments on the same track is a nice feature. It allows for much easier setup for VSTs like Cthulhu. It's also nice to be able to have multiple instruments setup that can be toggled.

There is an instrument called Sampler which can correctly load sf2 instruments as a multisample preserving all individual sub sample settings and zoning. You do NOT need a VST to play soundfonts and you don't need to extract the sf2 samples! This is unique among all popular DAWs.

Create any style synth, wavetable, fm, analog, and fx in the grid.

Plugins can be sandboxed.

No other DAW provides Object FX automation.

Cutting, slicing, duplication, control, effects, wave editing and more.

You can organise your work space. All windows are ready to put wherever you wish. Samplitude also support docking and skins.

MIDI is a breeze in this program, especially with the MIDI editing tools and object based editing, it makes the workflow so much smoother.

Plugins and software included like isotope elements and sound forge .

Elastic Audio is fast, simple and effective.

Nearly everything is possible. Even the onboard plugins are excellent. Multitrack recording and automated mixing at the same time. All plugins are usable object based. Depending on the capabilities of the computer, it's possible to providing headphone mixes with very low latency right through the machine. Even using the onboard Variverb.

This feature is not found in other DAW's novadays. You can just drag'n'drop, copy/paste objects, tracks, whatever inbetween multiple projects. You might have 4 or more projects where you want to interchange content. Nothing as simple as that in samplitude.