Bitwig is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arranging, mixing, and mastering.

Bitwig supports both traditional linear music arrangement and non-linear (clip-based) production.

[6][7] Bitwig was founded and developed in Berlin by Claes Johanson, Pablo Sara, Nicholas Allen and Volker Schumacher in 2009.

[8] Since 2010, Placidus Schelbert has been the CEO after he left his position as an International Sales Manager at Ableton, in the same year.

[9] In 2022, Bitwig GmbH was one of the main sponsors for a new audio plug-in interface, CLAP.