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thelizard · Post by **thelizard** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:38 pm

Sandman 1.3 was quietly updated a month or two back. I think PA sends email directly to owners, unless you're unsubscribed from their e-mails. I'm not sure though. Maybe we need to make more noise when these are released =)

Here are the update notes:
Sandman 1.3 introduces an expanded Options Menu, featuring screen resizing and “Legacy” options.

Enable Tooltips: When active, helpful tooltips will appear over each control if the mouse cursor is left on top of the control for around 2 seconds.

Legacy Filter: In Sandman 1.0-1.2, the lowpass filter only acted upon the feedback line. This behavior is kept if Legacy Filter is active. If Legacy Filter is turned off, the lowpass filter acts upon the entire wet signal (except for the Sleep buffer).

Legacy Sleep: In Sandman 1.0-1.2, clicks could occur if the Sleep buffer looped while the user was manipulating the Start time. When active, Legacy Sleep keeps this original behavior.
If Legacy Sleep is turned off, the Sleep buffer no longer resets automatically if the Start time is ahead of the playhead.

100/150/200%: This determines the amount of scaling applied to Sandman’s interface

cron · Post by **cron** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:32 pm

That Dent update looks immense. Delighted to see that Dent is now allowing you to inject different distortion types at various points in the chain. As much as I love Indent, I'm delighted to see this ability (and then some!) added to its bigger brother.

Looking forward to the update releases, and of course SpecOps which I'll be all over in a microsecond.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:44 pm

thelizard wrote:Sandman 1.3 was quietly updated a month or two back. I think PA sends email directly to owners, unless you're unsubscribed from their e-mails. I'm not sure though. Maybe we need to make more noise when these are released =)

Here are the update notes:
Sandman 1.3 introduces an expanded Options Menu, featuring screen resizing and “Legacy” options.

Enable Tooltips: When active, helpful tooltips will appear over each control if the mouse cursor is left on top of the control for around 2 seconds.

Legacy Filter: In Sandman 1.0-1.2, the lowpass filter only acted upon the feedback line. This behavior is kept if Legacy Filter is active. If Legacy Filter is turned off, the lowpass filter acts upon the entire wet signal (except for the Sleep buffer).

Legacy Sleep: In Sandman 1.0-1.2, clicks could occur if the Sleep buffer looped while the user was manipulating the Start time. When active, Legacy Sleep keeps this original behavior.
If Legacy Sleep is turned off, the Sleep buffer no longer resets automatically if the Start time is ahead of the playhead.

100/150/200%: This determines the amount of scaling applied to Sandman’s interface

Thanks for the heads up. No email from PA here

thelizard · Post by **thelizard** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:38 pm

cron wrote:That Dent update looks immense. Delighted to see that Dent is now allowing you to inject different distortion types at various points in the chain. As much as I love Indent, I'm delighted to see this ability (and then some!) added to its bigger brother.

Looking forward to the update releases, and of course SpecOps which I'll be all over in a microsecond.

It's so much more enjoyable to use. I was never fully satisfied with 1.0, and this eliminates every issue I had with it. The two things I'm happiest with are AGC mode and the left/right arrows on our drop-down menus. That may sound weird, but the workflow is much faster. Previously with Dent, switching the modes could be finicky. When using the more extreme bitcrushers modes (AND/XOR especially), you basically had to move your mouse from the bottom-left of the screen (BITS) to the top-right (TRIM). With AGC enabled, you can get these extreme timbre shifts without having to automate the mix constantly. Also, creative abuse of AGC is rewarding!

In related news, we recently posted Unfiltered apparel on our website. We have a great shirt featuring an image generated by SpecOps:
https://unfilteredaudio.com/collections/apparel
All shirts are manufactured and printed in the US. The shirts are printed on demand by Printful, so they can take about a week to ship.

simon.a.billington · Post by **simon.a.billington** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:59 am

I see all this talking and all these features, but not one mention of an added Coffee Feature

Just sayin'...

jens · Post by **jens** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 11:15 am

That function has been there as an easter egg right from the beginning...

simon.a.billington · Post by **simon.a.billington** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:22 pm

Haha!!

tl · Post by tl » Thu May 04, 2017 9:14 pm

how are things progressing?

i'm so excited about specops...

and i'm looking forward to work with the updated sandman pro because on my rather old machine some plugin optimisations and the ironing out of cpu problems related to the gui would be big steps up the ladder.

thanks for your work, your highly innovative plugins.

cheers,
tl.

thelizard · Post by **thelizard** » Thu May 04, 2017 9:50 pm

Thanks! Sandman Pro 1.1 and our new mini plug-in are officially scheduled for May 18th. PA's QA approved it as an engineering release, so that is a 99% definite release date. Dent and Indent are rapidly approaching beta. Fault's alpha has been more problematic, but we're making progress there.

Jax Pok · Post by **Jax Pok** » Thu May 04, 2017 9:52 pm

I've only just discovered Unfiltered Audio their Sandman Pro is the first delay plugin I've liked enough to buy since Soundtoys Echoboy mainly because it is so different from any delay I've used, I'm getting sounds I've never heard before and they are nice. Their other plugins are great and so different too. I was saving for a new computer build but I'm blowing the lot on all the Unfiltered plugins soon as the demos run out.

3lu5iv3 · Post by **3lu5iv3** » Sun May 07, 2017 11:29 am

huge fan of Sandman Pro. Can't wait to try this new plugin.

here is a demo of what I'm working on.

3 instances of Sandman Pro.

https://soundcloud.com/user-779234787/sandman-pro-demo

DJErmac · Post by **DJErmac** » Thu May 18, 2017 9:07 pm

thelizard wrote:Thanks! Sandman Pro 1.1 and our new mini plug-in are officially scheduled for May 18th. PA's QA approved it as an engineering release, so that is a 99% definite release date.

Well... there are things you can forget and things you can't... Anything new ?

thelizard · Post by **thelizard** » Thu May 25, 2017 5:08 pm

Looks like Plugin Alliance spilled the beans a few hours early!

This comes out later today. The main news that I was keeping secret is that we added in full, native ROLI Lightpad support to all of our plugins. This means you can connect a controller directly to the plugin for realtime performance modulation. Sandman Pro 1.1 features the modulation system updates (including the step sequencer and LFO phase controls) along with a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements. Updates for Indent, Dent, and Fault will be released over the next two months.

Today, we're also releasing a mini-plugin called Instant Delay. It will be free for all owners of Sandman Pro. If you already own any ROLI products, check your e-mail

Instant Delay is a cool blend of Indent and Sandman Pro's "Modern Instant" mode. It combines the artifact-free delay of Sandman Pro with Indent's gain staging and (upcoming) multi-mode filtering. Sandman Pro already uses the soft clipping algorithm from Indent, but it has a much more polite gain knob setup. Instant Delay changes that and uses the gain knobs from Indent. This can get super gritty and aggressive.

The multi-mode filter is an alternative to Sandman Pro's more polite serial filters. There are three modes (LP, HP, and BP) along with a deep Resonance control. We'd love to hear which setup you prefer. If you prefer the new filtering strategy, we would be open to bringing it to Sandman Pro in a future version.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Thu May 25, 2017 5:26 pm

Any idea when Instant Delay will be available? I have Sandman Pro, but haven't received any email yet. I checked my PA account, but its not there either.

thelizard · Post by **thelizard** » Thu May 25, 2017 5:30 pm

thecontrolcentre wrote:Any idea when Instant Delay will be available? I have Sandman Pro, but haven't received any email yet. I checked my PA account, but its not there either.

Probably around 3-5 PM PST. That's been the typical release window for our previous products. The e-mails usually come later in the evening or the next day, so I'd say check the store this evening!

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