Bliss Paint - 2.4.1

this remarkable program a while and considered buying it. I should think it's good for people who make visuals for nightclubs and rock concerts, or psychedelic types who need accompaniments for their pharmaceutical adventures. I can't imagine why anyone else would want to spend $150 on this today, though. It's maybe worth $50 as it is. Example: If I have a monitor set to 8bit (necessary for the display) and a 2nd monitor set to 24bit (for controls and other apps) nothing works. This doesn't exactly ooze professionalism. I'm happy to see some updates in the last few months, after a long hiatus, but it really needs more than just surface polish. Surely they can start moving into true color and not just rely on the old palette cycling trick. Yes, I know this is not a trivial task, but most of what Bliss does (and much more) can be achieved with Director 8 and above - with some half decent imaging lingo code - and in 24bit colour, even alpha channels. The most interesting BlissPaint feature - hooking up the visuals to an audio CD / MIDI - doesn't seem to work, or maybe it's the docs which are poor/incomplete. iTunes has raised expectations about this kind of thing, and BlissPaint has dropped the ball. Why can we only hook up audio to the color synth and not to (say) the settings of the scribblers? More patching possibilities and maybe Applescript support would really improve things. It's dying for a proper scripting language. This was a *very* nice program in the early 1990s, but now it's sadly slipping into obsolescence. The novelty wears off very quickly. These days Max/Nato has the edge for generative/realtime multimedia. For a long time I have dearly hoped Imaja could extend their technical creativity into the 21st century, but I am still waiting. A couple of stars for a unique and visionary design, but not more than two, because they've been resting on their rather tired laurels for too long. Sounds harsh? It's because I care!