discoDSP News

Bliss, Discovery Pro, OB-Xd, FX Bundle updated

We're pleased to announce updates across our product line, featuring host-wide plugin delay compensation, higher-quality linear-phase offline rendering, a new Custom unison mode, and reverb and delay refinements.

Discovery Pro 8.24

Discovery Pro is the ultimate virtual analog synthesizer and sampler with 4 layers, 12 oscillators, SFZ/WAV/SoundFont support, PADSynth re-synthesis, and Nord Lead 2 SysEx import/export.

Version 8.24 adds a Custom unison mode with a hands-on detune and pan editor, restores the four Layer outputs to the AU, VST3 and VST plugin formats, and reports oversampling latency to the host for sample-accurate delay compensation.

What's New

Custom Unison Mode: A new unison type with an in-editor overlay where you drag up to four voice dots across a detune x pan plane, setting per-voice pitch spread and continuous stereo placement by hand. Settings are stored per bank and mirrored globally. Open it from Poly ▸ Unison Detune ▸ Custom…
Multi-core Classic Wavetable Generation: The first-run Classic oscillator cache is now built on a background thread across every CPU core, so plugin load and the interface never block. Output is bit-identical to before.
Higher-Quality Offline Bounces: The bounce oversampler now uses linear-phase FIR equiripple filtering for cleaner offline renders, while realtime playback keeps its low-latency polyphase IIR path.
Plugin Delay Compensation: Oversampling latency is now reported to the host, so oversampled playback and bounces stay in sample-accurate sync with the rest of your project.
Bug Fixes: Restored the four Layer A/B/C/D outputs to the AU, VST3 and VST formats, fixed a bounce oversampling sample-rate miscomputation, a MIDI Out feedback loop, and a Windows-only hang on plugin unload.

This update is free for all 8.x customers.

FX Bundle 3.9 released

FX Bundle is a collection of ten audio plugins for mixing, mastering and sound design: Distortion, EQ10, FFT Analyzer, Finalizer, NightShine 2, Samurai Delay, Schroeder Reverb, Scope, Spectrum and ThrillMe 3.

Version 3.9 adds Finalizer, a complete one-window mastering chain modelled on the classic TC Finalizer, joining the bundle for the first time.

Finalizer 1.2

Finalizer runs your mix through a fixed serial order of eight stages — input, de-esser, gate, three-band multiband compressor, five-band parametric EQ, look-ahead brick-wall limiter, soft clipper and output — entirely oversampled, to get a mix to finished, competitive loudness inside a single plugin instead of stacking six.

What's New

Eight-Stage Mastering Chain: Input, de-esser, gate, three-band multiband compressor, five-band parametric EQ, look-ahead brick-wall limiter and soft clipper in a fixed order mirroring the TC Finalizer signal flow, every stage oversampled to keep crossovers, dynamics and clipping free of aliasing.
Auto-Makeup Gain: Automatic makeup gain implemented to the original TC Finalizer spec, so pushing the chain harder raises loudness without chasing output level by hand.
30 Factory Presets: A full library reproducing the classic TC Finalizer 96K program material, from transparent mastering to loud, streaming-ready masters. Every parameter is fully DAW-automatable.
Adaptive Oversampling: 4x during real-time playback for efficient tracking and mixing, automatically stepping up to 8x for offline bounce and render so final exports get the cleanest possible processing.
Horizontal Metering Panel: Peak-hold input/output metering with cell-level ballistic smoothing, plus SOFTCLIP, LIM and Normalizer LED indicators showing which protection stages are engaging.
Resizable Interface: The plugin window scales proportionally with a raised maximum size and reliable size recall across sessions, over a cached gradient-and-vignette background.
Stability: Fixes for IIR crossover and limiter crashes during preset switching (including on ARM64), NaN/denormal and division-by-zero guards throughout the chain, corrected multiband low-end behaviour, and elimination of an audio-thread heap allocation and a metering data race for glitch-free real-time performance.
Licensing: Finalizer joins the bundle's serial activation with demo restrictions consistent with ThrillMe, Schroeder and NightShine — the demo runs in real time while bounce and offline rendering are disabled until activated.

This update is free for all FX Bundle customers.

Discovery 8.23, OB-Xd 3.23, Bliss 3.16 released

We're pleased to announce updates across our product line, featuring full multicore voice rendering, additional GUI sizes with crisp Lanczos resampling, and new sampler key mapping tools.

Discovery Pro 8.23

Discovery Pro is the ultimate virtual analog synthesizer and sampler with 4 layers, 12 oscillators, SFZ/WAV/SoundFont support, PADSynth re-synthesis, and Nord Lead 2 SysEx import/export.

Version 8.23 upgrades the previous dual-core engine to full multicore, spreading voice rendering across every CPU core for far more headroom on big polyphonic patches and stacked layers.

What's New

Full Multicore Voice Rendering: A new cross-layer voice thread pool shares active voices across all CPU cores instead of just two, so heavy patches with high polyphony, multiple layers, and oversampling reach the CPU protection ladder much later and keep more of the notes you play.
Edit Workflow: Reorganized Edit submenu grouping Copy, Paste, Randomize, Reset and Unison, snapshot-based undo/redo for menu and preset edits, standard keyboard shortcuts, and a richer layer right-click menu.
Improvements: Native DPI-aware text dialogs on Windows, faster vectorized PADsynth rendering, SIMD-optimized Advanced Limiter, and assorted GUI refinements.
Bug Fixes: Fixed crashes when switching presets quickly with PADsynth layers and when closing during a PADsynth render; rendering now runs in the background with a "Rendering..." indicator.

This update is free for all 8.x customers.