NEWS
March 23, 2025
Bliss 3.8 released
Bliss is a professional sampler with VST/AU and hardware instrument recording capabilities, Visual Key Mapper, built-in wave editor, and comprehensive format support including AKAI S1000/S3000/S5000/S6000, NKI, EXS, SFZ, SoundFont2, and CD-ROM disk images.
Version 3.8 introduces keyswitch, round robin, and CC crossfade zone editing with full SFZ import/export, redesigned themes with a new Blue theme, a Recall menu and Cue button in the Sample Editor, and performance optimizations.
What's New
- Zone Advanced Dialog: New dialog for keyswitch, round robin, and CC crossfade editing. Keyswitch (sw_last) support with SFZ import/export. Round robin support (seq_position/seq_length, lorand/hirand) with SFZ import/export. CC crossfade group support (xfin/xfout) with SFZ import and export.
- Sample Editor Recall & Cue: Recall menu for quick access to recent actions. Cue button with smart playback-aware cue insertion.
- Redesigned Themes: New Blue theme with modern light blue accent scheme replacing Default. Updated Orange theme colors. Previous Default theme available as Classic. Themeable button gradients, dark tooltips, and disabled focus indicator across all themes. Subtle vertical gradients on GUI components for depth.
- UI Improvements: Replaced OFF, ON, and SYNC button text with power-off icon. Replaced power icon with OFF text in filter type combo box. Reordered sample editor zoom buttons. Keyboard octave up/down shortcuts with persistent setting.
- Performance: Lazy bank loading and dirty state tracking for programs. Optimized DAW state saving to store only parameters with bank file reference. Replaced temp file bank saving with in-memory buffer.
- Bug Fixes: Fixed AU multi-output bus configuration in Logic Pro showing surround instead of stereo pairs. Added Pro Tools stereo I/O support for plugin registration. Fixed zone output display in multi-bus mode. Fixed toggle button gradient overriding enabled/on colour state. Fixed menu bar buttons rendering as opaque pill buttons in VST3. Fixed knob background cache not refreshing on theme change. Fixed AKP importer failing to parse keygroups.
This update is free for all Bliss 2.x and 3.x customers.
