r/Darkglass

Loving my Anagram for the past few weeks I've had it for both bass AND guitar. The one biggest feature issue I've had or been missing from the Quad Cortex is a legit noise gate. The noise surpressor is good but not as good as a real gate for high gain guitar. The ideal would be the QC Adaptive Gate that acts as a 4CM Noise Gate. What are the odds this would be a future addition or someone make a plugin in the marketplace? Feels like it would be easy to do but I'm not a coder.

Learn how to manage gain and volume using the Mixer, Input Gain, and volume of your presets when using the Anagram.

I know this is very much a niche use case, but I'm trying to figure out what's up with the Tuner midi command from my Pirate Midi Bridge 6. I'm needing to do quick mutes to swap basses in the middle of songs and instead of using a gain knob that toggles to mute, I'm using CC 86, value 1 and/or 127 to get to the tuner for the mute. It works, but only kind of. It always goes to the tuner, but sometimes it's acting like the message is being sent twice. So the tuner comes up, then goes away like it's flickering. But then if I click enough times, it finally gets to the tuner like normal, but then won't go back to the main screen because it's now toggling the other way.

I could hold the footswitch to get the tuner, but i have like, 8 bars of music to swap and I can't be thinking that hard. I might just change this to a full mute gain knob again since that worked as intended, but i didn't want to use an additional block for this.

From the midi controller, I've tried both as a Toggle On/Off send and as a Press (momentary) switch command but they both do the same thing. I've also made the adjustment in the Midi settings for the toggle logic and neither options changed what happens. It's possible that it's my midi controller and i don't have another one for testing, but wasn't sure if anyone else has had this experience.

I've been thinking about getting an anagram but a worry of mine has been the screen being so close to the footswitches. For example about accidentally scratching or otherwise damaging the screen while triggering effects and such. So has anyone experienced that being a problem of any kind or am I worrying about nothing?

Today it is my first time using Anagram in a full band practice session. I found that my preset I have been using at home sounds very bloomy, loud but blur and no punch at all in band room with a real amp head and speaker.

At home when I use my Anagram connecting to a computer with Audio interface it sounds perfectly fine when I practice.

What would be potentially gone wrong? I set my physical amp in the room all flat, should I disable my amp head and speaker sim in my preset when there is already a real amp I am using? And only use the sim when I connect with DI?

Hi, I have a Microtubes 900v1 head and I’m about to pick up a DG 4x10 cab.
I have no experience of Neutrik Speakon cables so I’m wondering if anyone has some recommendations they can share.
Thanks in advance!

How do you read the sliders which indicate the note you are currently playing, I can't seen to find any guide no matter what I search.

Its just the first 3 sliders which are supposed to indicate the note currently being played. The lights dont resemble any letters and I dont understand how you are supposed to interpret them.

Hello all, does anyone know if the anagram marketplace or even any standard blocks, have a feature that’s similar to the Electro Harmonix freeze? Hoping Darkglass come up with something like this in the future but for the moment does anyone recommend any type of delay that’d do the same thing??

Hello all, I try my best to explain how I installed the darkglass suite and updated the Anagram firmware on linux, in case someone else needs some tips, I won't paste every command here but explain the general steps.

I am on CachyOS and installed the suite with wine.
I had empty menus at first and the Anagram was not detected. What helped was installing fonts with winetricks corefonts.

Then I had to add a udev rule to give the user (me) reading and writing permission for the usb device since it was at first limited to root. I also had to add a udev rule for HID access (I didn't even know what HID was).

Now the Darkglass Suite can see the Anagram.
Updating the firmware through the Suite doesn't work yet (it says unable to open the serial port).

But I could at least on the Anagram go to menu/about and select manual update and just get the .tar of the firmware from the website (support / Download Software) and copy it to the anagram usb device directly.

I just tested it and could load featured presets through the suite

Is there a way to minimize the audio dropouts that occur when switching presets, especially when they’re complex? The interruption is significant, making complex presets impractical to use for recording, live performance, or with a looper.