BiCoTa – Episode #5 – Claude Young Jr

11. November 2025 /

In this fifth livestream episode of Bitwig Community Talks on Odo Sendaidokai’s YouTube channel, we Odo Sendaidokai] and Jürgen Mossgraber spoke with Claude Young Jr from Detroit (USA), a legendary DJ, music producer, Bitwig Certified Trainer and a Detroit original.

Claude talked about growing up in Detroit with a father who was the first black radio DJ to play a wide variety of music. He recounted meeting famous personalities such as David Bowie, Elton John, Falco, and many more. He also discussed how he went to Australia to work instead of Ritchie Hawtin.

His life journey from Detroit to London, Hamburg, Berlin, Tokyo, and now back to Detroit is peppered with many interesting stories and wonderful people such as Takasi Nakajima Daniell Bell, Robert Hood, Anthony Shakir , Christian Vogel, Westbam, and many well-known names from the 90s techno scene who are still active today.

We talked a bit about Bitwig and the new version 6, which is still in beta, and we also geeked out about various controllers and workflows. But listen for yourself and, above all, subscribe to his exclusive social media account on Bluesky and, of course, his YouTube channel.

Because there’s a lot in the pipeline on YouTube and maybe even in the real world, with a real place where the community can meet. Keep your fingers crossed or help out so that Claude can come to Superbooth in Berlin.

It was a great pleasure to talk to Claude. He’s a wonderful person with a very infectious positive vibe that we should all try to emulate, at least a little bit.

Claude Young Jr Studio in Glasgow Scotland

Daniell Bell , Claude Young, Robert Hood, Anthony Shakir

Links and more information about and from Claude Young Jr

Social Media – Claude Young

  1. Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/claudeyoung.bsky.social
  2. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ClaudeYoung

More infos

  1. Bitwig Certified Trainer https://www.bitwig.com/de/artists/claude-young-7/
  2. Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/879-Claude-Young
  3. Bandcamp: https://claudeyoungjr-celestialbodies.bandcamp.com/
  4. Short Documentary “Claude Young: Living In the Now” https://shortfilmsmatter.com/7028/claude-young-living-in-the-now
  5. Groove “Interview”Claude Young: Charts from the Past (Juni/Juli 1998)” https://groove.de/2023/07/13/claude-young-charts-from-the-past-juni-juli-1998/
  6. Interview on World Techno Nation with Claude Young https://web.archive.org/web/20020808103045/http://worldtechnonation.com/ClaudeYoungInterview.htm
  7. Resident Advisor Interview (2011) https://de.ra.co/features/1398

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BiCoTa – Episode #4 – Italo Brutalo

26. August 2025 /

In this fourth livestream episode of Bitwig Community Talks on Jürgen Moosgrabers YouTube channel, we (Odo Sendaidokai and Jürgen Mossgraber) with Vincent aka „Italo Brutalo“ from Berlin and Passau.

Vincent talked about his beginnings in music, how hip hop and rap such as Run DMC and Public Enemy shaped him in the early 1990s. Since there was no internet back then, he had to teach himself everything through trial and error. From scratching, the Korg DTM 110, to discovering the game-changing pitch fader on his first Technics turntable, the sampler Akai S2000 Sampler, Akai S3200 Sampler (with High Pass Filter) , Cubase on Atari 1040 ST to his first album releases in the mid-1990s.

Vincent has a very interesting car, namely K.I.T.T. from the 1980s series Knight Rider with David Hasselhoff, and the car can be seen on his album covers and in his videos from time to time. He tells us how and where he got it in his very personable way.

He recently released his latest album, “Second Horizon,” not just once, but several times (on vinyl, Bandcamp, and other streaming platforms). And remixes of this album are coming out one after another. He also gave away three albums to people in the very active live chat. Congratulations to the winners!

We talked about the gear and hardware Vincent uses and how he only discovered his love for effects after a long time. And, of course, he also told us about his live performances. What setup he uses and why he uses these particular devices.

What’s next for Vincent “Italo Brutalo”

Many thanks to Vincent Vincent “Italo Brutalo” for his time and this wonderful interview, his perspective and his insights into the big world of music, music production, the DJ world and sound tinkerers. And hopefully see you soon.

We also came up with a few things we would like to see in Bitwig. We’re not sure if all of them will be included in the Bitwig Beta 6 version coming out on August 27, 2025, but maybe they will be in a later version.

Feature Wishes for Bitwig

Bitwig Wishes – Mono, pitch correction (ARA), drag and drop Linux, automation drawing improvements, exchange between automation and MSEGs, audio routing, better automatic coloring, more automatic labeling (bouncing), more intelligent bouncing (using the same target audio track), classic v1 kick retrigger, monitoring room, slicing in the sampler.

Further infos und links

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BiCoTa – Episode #3 – Creating Spaces

27. May 2025 /

In this third livestream episode of the Bitwig Community Talk on Odo Sendaidokai’s YouTube channel, we (Odo Sendaidokai and Jürgen Mossgraber) talked to Wim from Belgium, who is known as Creating Spaces.

Wim switched from Ableton to Bitwig for his live sets. He runs a YouTube channel Creating Spaces Producer . There you can find videos of how he sets up his live set and you can also listen to some of his live sets.

A special feature of his live sets is a self-developed Bitwig extension called BitX. The idea comes from an already existing tool ClyphX .

Simply put, BitX allows you to write commands instead of just giving clips a name, telling Bitwig what to do when the clip is called up. For example, presets or drum racks can be loaded, the BPM changed or a message window displayed. Of course, the extension recognises many more commands and is being continuously developed.

Wim has several videos about the BitX extension on his YouTube channel, in which he explains how it works step by step.

Wim presented his idea that he would like to see many more live meetings and concerts organised by artists. So that everyone from beginners to professionals can perform. As a kind of grassroots movement for self-organised concerts and maker spaces. A bit like the EMOM (Electronic Musicians Open Mic) coming from the UK.

Many thanks to Wim ‘Creating Spaces’ for this wonderful conversation and his perspective on music, Bitwig and the community.

Social media and music from Creating Spaces

Bitx And Liveset Videos

Further information from the interview

  1. BYOB – Bring your own Beamer https://byobworldwide.com/
  2. EMOM Electronic Musicians Open Mic https://electronicmusicopenmic.com/welcome/
  3. BongoBoulevard Jean-Michel Jarre & Richie Hawtin: Blind Date with Sushi (deutsche Untertitel)
  4. Superbooth https://www.superbooth.com/
  5. Arturia Astrolab (Synthesizer) https://www.arturia.com/de/products/hardware-synths/astrolab-61/overview
  6. Frap Tools Magnolia https://frap.tools/magnolia/
  7. Morphor Echon 6 https://echon6.com/
  8. Quray Air Midi Controller https://quray.music/
  9. Neuzeit Instruments “Drop” Controller https://www.neuzeit-instruments.com/Drop
  10. Bitwig Connect 4/12 https://www.bitwig.com/de/connect/

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BiCoTa – Episode #2 – Polarity

3. February 2025 /

In this second episode that took place on Jürgen Moßgrabers YouTube Channel we could welcome Polarity also known as PolarityMusic , who is probably the most known person in the Bitwig Community. He is creating Videos, Tutorials, Livestreams mostly in englisch, but here and there as well in german. And as well he is creating Presets, Grid Patches, Generative Music, replication of already existing plugins with Bitwig tools, talking about music and music theory and encouraging people to make music and much more. He operates a Discord Channel, several web sites, some YouTube and Twitch Channels and as well a Fediverse Mastodon server. Lately he created a script to enhance the Bitwig Pianoroll possibilities. I surely forgot a lot more things, but you should go and figure it out for yourself.

We realized that the time between the two episodes was far too long and will of course bring it back to the originally promised time frame. And we will continue to stream alternately on the YouTube channel of Odo Sendaidokai and Jürgen Moßgraber.

Reach out for the audio podcast via web or podcatcher here https://hyperblog.de/bicota/

You can find the second Episode on Youtube on Jürgen Moßgrabers Channel here

Further Information mentioned in the Podcast

  1. Polarity Resources
  2. The new Bitwig Connect 4/12 Audio-/Midi-/CV- Interface and Controller https://www.bitwig.com/de/connect/
  3. The upcoming BitwigStudio 5.3 Version (sorry there is no dedicated link) https://www.bitwig.com/de/whats-new/
  4. Bitwig Studio 5.3: Nice Drums! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYv0GxSu3KU
  5. Learn Stepwise, Bitwig’s Step Sequencing Device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmA_Bb3CH8
  6. Rick Beato on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato
  7. Software
  8. Access Virus C https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/access-virus-c / https://www.amazona.de/test-access-virus-c-indigo-2-und-kc/
  9. Robert Babicz https://www.masteringworks.de/studios/robert-babicz-studio/ / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Babicz
  10. Muzak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak /// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_music
  11. Superbooth https://www.superbooth.com
  12. The Game „The Signal State“ https://signalstate.io/
  13. Pipewire https://pipewire.org/ and ConnectEdit qpwgraph https://flathub.org/apps/org.rncbc.qpwgraph
  14. DrivenByMoss for Bitwig/Reason and more https://www.mossgrabers.de/Software/Software.html
  15. ARM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family / Snapdragon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon
  16. Steamdeck https://www.steamdeck.com/en/
  17. TouchOSC https://hexler.net/touchosc
  18. Anthony Marinelli Music „Ableton Spent HOW LONG Designing Push 3?“ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgF4IhWkan8
  19. MP MIDI: MP Controller – Touch display and MIDI controller combination – Does that work? Let’s test! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-9nzsUr3s8
  20. Roto-Control https://www.melbourneinstruments.com/rotocontrol

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BiCoTa – Episode #1 – Pat Cupo and Beat “Synthmill”

18. July 2024 /

Welcome to our new podcast BiCoTa, the Bitwig Community Talk. For each episode, Odo Sendaidokai and Jürgen Moßgraber invite people from the community that you should get to know and introduce them. And of course we also talk about the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) Bitwig for Linux, Windows & Mac and what’s going on in the community.

The episodes will be released every 2-4 months a little depending on the Bitwig release schedule and some other dependencies. It will be streamed alternately on the YouTube channel of Odo Sendaidokai and Jürgen Moßgraber. And of course the audio will be published here afterwards with one or the other bonus material.

We were able to invite two great guests for the first show:

We had to struggle with technical problems in the first show, but it still turned out to be an absolutely great show. We hope you will enjoy it and that you will recommend us to others.

Reach out for the audio podcast via web or podcatcher here https://hyperblog.de/bicota/
The Episode on YouTube is here

Further Information mentioned in the Podcast

  1. Pat Cupo Training Example with Milo Melodies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01BWbjdQMC8
  2. Happy Knobbing 2023 – 19 Moss + Synthmill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EctUzLgWf7I
  3. Happy Knobbing Modular Meeting https://www.sequencer.de/synth/index.php/Happy_Knobbing_Modular_Meeting
  4. Dave Linnenbank # Modular Concepts: Signal Function & Flow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab1xlaWI0_A
  5. Dave Linnenbank Website http://davelinnenbank.com/
  6. Thavius Beck Bitwig Certified Trainer https://www.bitwig.com/de/certified/thavius-beck-14/
  7. Thavius Beck: Bitwig Prototype on Surface Pro 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoBSP5Pnmps
  8. Bitwig Studio 2 – Thavius Beck’s Favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgQZ35VrDk
  9. 10 Years of Bitwig Story https://www.bitwig.com/de/stories/10-years-of-bitwig-studio-305/
  10. The Computer Music Tutorial, second edition – by Curtis Roads https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044912/the-computer-music-tutorial/
  11. Pat Cupo – Comping in Bitwig Studio 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DANWf9gG8Vg
  12. Pat Cupo – Understanding Bitwig Studio 5.2’s New Compressor+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fSFzDL3GsY
  13. Pat Cupo – Learn Bitwig Studio 5.2’s Hardware-Inspired EQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV8ePzXaNGo
  14. Polarity https://www.youtube.com/user/polaritydnb/videos
  15. Dash Glitch https://www.youtube.com/@DashGlitch

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