I just purchased Bitwig after evaluating all the big ones, and the decision fell on Bitwig because it just felt like a "better" Ableton. I think the Bitwig team is actually former Ableton developers that just felt they could make a better DAW if they started from scratch. They could. It's just hundreds of little paper cuts in the other big ones, that are fixed in Bitwig. If something is clunky and unintuitive in Ableton, it's most likely better in Bitwig. And there aren't just a few things that are clunky and unintuitive in Ableton.

The unfortunate counterpoint is there are an equal number of things that are clunky and unintuitive in Bitwig. It's also not nearly as friendly and intuitive when being used as a live looper.

How many bitwig users here use it in a live performance context?

Not sure if it’s even possible, my evaluation was for my use cases only of course.

I probably use 10% of bigwig and 2% of Ableton. So the important factor is whether something is missing in Bitwig, and how polished/intuitive the bits I do use are.

For what it's worth, the superb modulation options in bitwig are what lead to me attempting (and failing) to replace ableton with it.

With the new grid it’s fantastic.

Also they should call it Bigwig since everyone’s autocomplete seems to insist on it.

Are you programmer and hobist or you make professional producer?

Programmer/hobbyist. I dabble with writing VST's so mostly wanted to explore that, but also wanted to get into writing tunes. I also do some amateur guitar/vocal stuff so it's nice to have a recording software (Although for that task there are obviously good free alternatives).

When Bitwig was on sale, I got it (and as a nice surprise found that my Bitwig 2 license also included Bitwig 3 now)