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In several hours there would be a link available for the next big thing. We are gonna break into the 2k19 with a stable (well, sort of, some people would have issues as usual:p) SAURON MKIII. While last preparations take place, I'd like to summarize everything that happened in the passing year.

Growth hacking

In 2018 year we hit huge amount of newcomers - from less than a thousand people in telegram chat, we score 2000+ members during MKIII beta testing. Making some rough maths, there are around 3000-4000+ people allover the web, that at least heard something about what we do here. That's huge, considering this is just a modification.

Team skills

Throughout whole MKIII progression team was breaking it's limits to deliver you the best audio mod. Nothing would happen if not our fellow [MENTION=6037748]Zackptg5[/MENTION] - his mad skills in scripting brought Unity installer we use into it's new state. Lots of features I needed are real thanks to him. I would also remind, that [MENTION=470400]michi[/MENTION]_Nemuritor and [MENTION=6815443]JohnFawkes[/MENTION] made DTS headphone:X port, which shows that accurate usage for various blobs might result in solid and working sound effect port. [MENTION=7836278]LazerL0rd[/MENTION] also made dts kernel port, that is required for proper work for both the "hardware" Hexagon DSP dts to work, as well as software DTS HPX mentioned in the prev sentence. Looking forward into 2019 this might bring lots of new goodies and deepen developers abilities and skills.

Massive support

The MKIII won't be possible without community help. When my old m9 died, all the fellow users supported me with donations. Although I decided not to spend them on a new device, I invested those into website support for hosting and domain & got new headphones to play with. Names (and nicknames) for all the people who make the next big thing possible, are showing during installation, as my personal thank to all of you guys!

Future plans

I'm looking forward for new stuff to come. First of all the long awaited Narsil is planned to nuke in 2019, as the website update now states. BUT pls, don't bother with questions when exactly it will be here - we are talking about plans and wip, which has no date yet. I know that [MENTION=5796885]james3460297[/MENTION] is working on JDSP update - hopefully with fixes as well as maybe some new stuff. We'll keep you informed on every new bit.

Finally, the next big thing

MKIII is almost there to kick into new year. The installer was redesigned to support new cpu's, such as MTK, Exynos & Kirin. Though their audio subsystem is different and they lack for content, compared to Qualcomm. Still, the MKIII opens a new chapter in experimenting with new platforms. SFX libraries replacements were updated too with new blobs and better separation between older android versions, and newer starting with Oreo, which brought changes to this part. We've also tried to rework some UO components regarding codec forcements - resampling & bit depth for Qualcomm have slightly modified patches, as well as minor additions for Hexagon DSP which seem to play bigger role, than I previously thought. I've also tried to expand speaker amplifier dsp's calibrations for newer devices, as well as debugging older bits since MKII times, this one is still wonky, due to lack of much info about those parts, but we'll figure this out. I'm hoping MKIII is a solid update, that evolves way, that has been chosen several years ago with very first Pandora mod, enjoy;)

Wish all of you luck in new year!

Don't drink too much (I will, so I won't be able to debug issues in at least couple of days;))!

UPD

MKIII is live!