There's not a single significant element of Sandman that hasn't been radically overhauled for its Pro transformation.
Lastly, the stereo Width knob and M/S button enable narrowing and broadening of the stereo image and mid/side encoding, and Soft Clip applies analogue-style saturation to 'overs'. When the Modulation panel is open, a small input 'socket' appears on all viable targets (every knob and slider, and almost all buttons), and to make an assignment you drag a virtual cable from the modulator output to the target parameter's input.Ī single source can modulate as many targets as you like, sources can modulate each other, and modulated parameters are representatively animated in the GUI. The signal types available to each source comprise Sine, Saw/Triangle and Square LFOs, an envelope follower, Sample + Hold Noise, and a Macro knob.
Sandman features a pair of LFOs for wobbling a handful of parameters, but Pro swaps this for the same superb modulation setup as Unfiltered's Fault.Ĭlicking the Modulation button pops out a panel into which up to six modulation sources can be loaded. It's an awesome graphical aid, although it could do with an option to zoom in on the active Start/End range, as without that, it's effectively useless with very short buffer sizes. When not in Sleep mode, this simply shows the input signal in Sleep mode, though, it visualises the left and right channel buffer contents and the 'playhead' position within them in real time, so that modulating the delay times, for example, causes the waveforms to stretch and compress. Perhaps the coolest new Sleep Buffer feature, though, is the waveform display. Hit the Sleep button and Sandman Pro's delay buffer is frozen and looped, freeing you up to get creative with the plugin's other parameters and some dedicated controls.Įxclusive to the Sleep Buffer in Pro are buttons for Reverse (a one-touch alternative to inverting the Start and End points), Smooth (similar to Sandman's Remove Clicks button but with different operation) and Sleep Filter. It sets the sample rate for the entire plugin, rather than just the input, so it has an effect on delay times (although there's a Lock button to counter this) and pitchshifting. Sandman's big, central Sample Rate knob has been reduced in size and moved to the bottom left, but it's still a key part of the effect. The filter's been doubled up too, with a 12dB high-pass running alongside the original's low-pass - but we're surprised there's no 24dB option, and that they're not multimode. Feedback and X-Feed control the amount of each channel fed back into itself and the other channel, while Diffuse dials in an all-pass filter that 'smears' the delays for a blurring effect. The new Echoes section contains further delay-shaping parameters.
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