Remote possibilities
The Macros panel has been replaced in Bitwig Studio 2 by the new Remote Controls system, improving on v1’s Device Mappings Panes. Bitwig’s devices have always featured menuselected pages of eight MIDI control slots each, assignable to any of that device’s parameters, for instant switching of MIDI controllers between related banks of knobs. So, Polysynth, for example, has a page for each Oscillator, a page for the Filter, etc, and moving between them switches the first knob on your MIDI controller between controlling oscillator Pitch, filter Cutoff, etc, the second knob between oscillator Shape, filter Resonance, etc, and so on. You can edit and add to the default pages (most devices only start with one) with your own custom controller banks, and save the whole lot with the current preset or for all instances of the device.
In Bitwig Studio 2, not only has all this been made more readily accessible, but buttons and selectors are supported as well as knobs, and it all just feels more polished and obvious. The old Panel Mappings Editor has been upgraded to the Remote Controls Editor, giving a far nicer editable overview of all pages together, and the whole thing makes for a supremely easy way of building and storing studio and live performance MIDI control schemes.
Macros, it’s worth noting, are still available as modules (in one- and fourknob varieties) in the modulation system, for one-knob control of multiple parameters.