Hands-on control of Bitwig Studio from your iPad or iPhone. Wireless, low-latency, and built for the way you actually work — in the studio, anywhere.
R-KONTROL is the hands-on remote for Bitwig Studio. Mix, launch clips, ride faders, tweak remote controls, and shape grooves from your iPad or iPhone. Wireless, immediate, and built for the way you actually work.
R-KONTROL puts the parts of Bitwig you actually touch right under your fingers, anywhere in your studio. No MIDI workarounds, no controller learning curves. Install the free R-KONTROL Connector extension in Bitwig, open the app, and you're connected.
WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL
Transport: Play, stop, record, loop, punch in/out, scrub the timeline, toggle the metronome, manage automation, jump between cue markers.
Mixer: Volume, pan, sends and crossfader on every track. Mute, solo, arm. Stereo VU metering. Main and effect tracks share one unified bank, always visible. No bank switching.
Clip Launcher: Launch and stop clips, fire scenes, retrigger all playing clips with a single button. Tap a selected clip launcher track again to reveal pan, volume, mute, solo and arm, with no detour through the mixer.
Remote Controls: Eight touch-friendly faders per page for the selected device or track. Two-value parameters toggle on tap. Page through parameter pages and the device chain without leaving the view.
Groove: Shuffle and Accent with Amount, Phase and Rate, right where you need them.
Scenes & Cue Markers: Trigger scenes, jump between markers, page forward and back.
Devices: Browse and select devices in the current track's chain. See what's selected at a glance.
HOW IT CONNECTS
R-KONTROL talks to Bitwig over your local Wi-Fi network using OSC. Install the free R-KONTROL Connector extension in Bitwig, launch the app, and it finds your machine automatically. A shared secret keeps the connection yours.
UNDER THE HOOD
GPU-accelerated VU metering and animation. Native SwiftUI. Built for landscape use on iPad and iPhone, with a dark interface that gets out of the way.
REQUIREMENTS
• Bitwig Studio (with the free R-KONTROL Connector extension installed)
• iPad or iPhone on the same local network as your Bitwig machine
Not ready to review the functionality yet, but I wanted to update my one star review, now that I finally figured out how to connect.
Kind of a buggy mess
DJ Control Freak
There’s issues, mostly about how the app seems to update the current status of project. Makes it annoying to use beyond basic control. Response time is noticeable slowe when compared to other OSC applications I was really hoping this app would be like the “Touchable Pro” app for Ableton which is fantastic, but this just under delivers and fails occasionally when doing simple stuff.
Yes please
Rian Diasporah
Grabbed this when it dropped and forgot about it after using it for a bit. Boy did I sleep, this is essential for Bitwig Users and highly recommended.
Just what we needed!
DS App Reviews
This app is great and very easy to use. Perfect for those of us recording ourselves and need mic stand access to start / stop recording.
This update brings two fixes:
The master track A/B fader now correctly reflects the current state when switched via the A/B buttons.
Track levels are no longer hidden after swiping left while already on the first page of the track bank.
Version 1.7.1
The developer, Marko Krueger, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Marko Krueger
Size
5.5 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.