Bitwig's tutorial channel walks through Next Actions, the Clip Launcher feature that lets clips automatically trigger other clips after a set duration, without ever touching the Arranger timeline. It's a practical tool for both live performance and the composition process, letting you sketch out song progressions with more flexibility than a fixed linear arrangement allows.
Setup lives in the Inspector panel. Selecting a clip reveals two fields: After, where you set how long the clip plays before handing off, and Due, where you choose what happens next. Supported time values go down to one hundredth of a sixteenth note, and the action options only become available once a duration is set.
The available actions cover a range of playback behaviors. Play Next, Play Previous, Play First, and Play Last move through clips in order. Play Random picks any clip in the track, while Play Other does the same but prevents the currently playing clip from repeating immediately. Round Robin is a shortcut that assigns sequential playback across all clips automatically, looping back to the start.