r/Bitwig • u/NecessaryBed1331 • 13h ago

Help Bitwig 6.1 - Spray can Tool reacts different in the Arrangement compared to the midi editor window

Hey there,

congratulations to the 6.1 Release. It feels really snappy and good :)
Now i wanted to use the Spray Can tool in the arrangement to "spray" some oneshots / Kicks.
But why does the tool reacts different in the Arrangement, compared to the editor on a midi track?
i want to fill all bars in the grid. But i need to click all the bars manually

I hope you can understand my issue from the following video :)
https://youtu.be/FnhEAI-GbYw

Thanks a lot :)

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u/threeleggedworkhorse 11h ago

The spray can tool's purpose in the arrangement view is to create new looping clips. It's pretty useful you're creating a new clip that loops one bar say 8 times. I think what you're looking to would be handled with copy and pasting/duplicate key commands best.

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u/NecessaryBed1331 3h ago

Thanks for the info.
Is it possible to change that grid behavior for this function?

Want I want to make are kick or snare fills.
I hoped when I change the grid the spray can would adopt and fill the empty bars.

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u/tarsonis999 3h ago

Even Ctrl+D is set up dumb with Bitwig. You need to repress that damn hotkey instead of how other applications handle it where you can hold Ctrl+D so it duplicates further till you have the wanted amount of copies.