Bitwig was founded in 2009 in Berlin by four people who envisioned a digital-audio workstation (DAW) that's reliable, innovative, and that makes helpful suggestions – and then gets out of the way.

 

That was the idea behind the launch of our first product in 2014, Bitwig Studio.

Our mission to create a beautiful DAW that thinks outside the box has earned us numerous awards and made Bitwig Studio the audio program of choice for musicians, sound designers, composers, film scorers, and artists from various fields. It also drove the development of our sound-design environment The Grid, which won accolades like Music Tech Magazine's Excellence Award 10/10 in 2019 and the Computer Music Editor's Choice Award and Performance Award. 

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While our company has grown and Bitwig Studio has evolved, our approach hasn't changed. In 2025, we brought that same approach to our first hardware product: Bitwig Connect, an award-winning three-in-one audio/MIDI interface, monitor, and DAW controller with unique functionalities. 

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We are also committed to creating and supporting free, open standards for music-making, as demonstrated by our Open Controller Extension API and our work on CLAP (the open-source plug-in standard) and DAWproject (the open file format).