NEWS
August 27, 2026
Discovery Pro 9.1, Bliss 3.21 released
Discovery Pro 9.1
Version 9.1 adds the Smart Preset Generator and ships the factory programs as flat packs.
What's New
- Smart Preset Generator: A preset generator that learned from the sounds you already love. Use MENU > Edit > Generate Layer to get a new, playable layer, trained on more than six thousand hand-made layers from the Discovery Pro factory library. The model runs on your machine, inside the plugin and your session, no cloud. Perfect for starting points: a bass you did not have in mind, or a pad that moves in a way you would not have programmed.
- Flat Factory Packs: Factory programs now ship as one flat pack per category instead of thousands of loose files, so installs are much faster. Your own presets still live as files next to the packs and take priority over factory presets with the same name. Untouched factory files from earlier versions are moved to Presets > Programs (Ported) on first install.
- Multicore Voice Processing: Work is split from measured per-voice cost instead of a load threshold, for steadier CPU use at low polyphony.
This update is free for all 9.x and 8.x customers.
Bliss 3.21
Version 3.21 brings an iPhone layout, iCloud Drive saving, zone list improvements and a set of editor fixes.
What's New
- iPhone Layout: Three switchable pages: main, master and filters, envelopes and LFOs. Arrows and side gutters page through, Back returns to main, and the visible page is kept when the editor reopens (iOS).
- Save Program To: A menu with the library folder tree up to three levels deep, Save Here and New Folder entries per folder, and an iCloud Drive target. A Bliss folder in iCloud Drive makes saved programs show up in the Files app. Relocate Original Location restores the default library placement (iOS).
- Zone List: Root note and velocity range chips, with root notes colored by octave and chips hidden when the list is too narrow. Added Sort by Round Robin. The list hides with a single zone, fits its width to the content, and the Range line is hidden with an empty program.
- Zone Audition: A play/pause button in the sample editor auditions the current zone, released when any other note plays or the editor is hidden.
- Sample Editor Layout: Zone properties rearranged with key and velocity ranges on a top Range row and the Advanced button under Group. On iPhone the close button moved into the menu bar, out of the rounded screen corner (iOS).
- Library and Sampling: Manage Library now includes the Instrument and Sample Library locations, and library menus rebuild in the background after saving. Automatic Sampling runs faster with shorter audio session waits and no device rebuild between takes (iOS).
- Bug Fixes: Fixed EXS files written by Logic Pro 11 failing to import, library menus opening unrelated dialogs after reinstalls and updates, library paths left pointing at a previous install, stereo pair listing for multi-channel USB interfaces in Automatic Sampling, the on-screen keyboard staying stuck on the auditioned zone key, zone list auto fit width and resizer bouncing, the Recall menu labeling Exit as Cues, and the Windows build with the virtual MIDI output.
This update is free for all Bliss 2.x and 3.x customers.
