especially if the Bitwig coders ‘borrowed’ some of the underlying code from Live when they left Ableton… would be difficult for Ableton to prove and would make sense considering how close they look to each other…
Exactly! How many 1.0 versions of any software have been released that have not had pretty big issues up until at least a 1.1 patch though 
Beta testing like so many things depends on how we go about using things in our various ways, and judging from the screenshots there is a shitload of variations that can be made (more than Ableton by a longshot), chaining things, mapping things etc .. so I hope they get a wide and varied Beta Testing Team and not just people who use Ableton for production every day.
Of course maybe they are holding off for a merger from Ableton 
Maybe we’ll all be pleasantry surprised, but I’ll let a few others take the reins before splashing out (unless of course I get a beta invite at which stage I’ll test to hell).
So, apparently they finally sent out the first beta invites. I got their newsletter (stating that beta testing has started) a wooping 3 times (to the same email), but no invite for me yet 
Did anybody get lucky?
I haven’t even gotten an email saying beta testing has started.
I’ve never gotten an email from the either.
Haha, now I got the newsletter a fourth time. Somebody sure does NOT now how to send out emails on their side 
edit: ffs 7 times now
If this is going to be somewhat cheaper than Live, I am so on it !
New video looks quite promising. Hope it has decent external MIDI sync, otherwise it’s useless for me on stage.
If they were smart that’s how they would do it- they need to develop a strong base and it would be foolish to price it around $500-$700 with live.
logic is (or was) $199 in the app store. If they price bitwig more around there they could do some damage.
Also I finally got a newsletter, but it looks like no invite.
4 newsletter duplicates - no invite boohoo
Anyone else have a mini heart attack when they saw “Beta testing has begun!” in their inbox?
Such cock teases… 
I’ve had three newsletters now.
I was overly excited when I recieved the email! And then it was just an announcement
Still very exciting though!
It looks almost exactly like Ableton, which would certainly make the transition easy if I switch over. Hopefully Bitwig is a lean and efficient daw from the ground up.
I hope one of us gets in the Beta testing phase!
Finally had email from Bitwig!
Did it say beta has started like the 3 more i recieved today?? lol
Got the email, saying hi were in the beta phase, gee thanks
Release frequent newsletters or die.
also multiple newsletters 
ive been signed up for a long time and never receive anything. some wonky ass email distrobution.