r/Darkglass

Curious what people’s thoughts are on this for modern direct bass rigs.

I’m running a Darkglass Anagram with a crossover split:

clean compressed low row

effects on the top row (pitch/octave/chorus/envelope etc)

then HPF > EQ > Gentle preamp after the merge.

I originally moved the pitch and octave AFTER the crossover so my clean low-end stays untouched and tighter through FOH/IEMs, and it definitely feels punchier and more controlled.

But I know the traditional advice is usually to put pitch/octave BEFORE the split for best tracking.

Has anyone compared both approaches live in a band mix?

I’m tempted to also try removing the crossover entirely and just running one full-range chain to compare feel/simplicity vs the cleaner parallel approach.

Will test it properly live soon either way, but interested to hear what people prefer in real-world gigs.

Doom lovers rejoice! As I was playing with the new noise gate trying normal metal riffs, I cranked the % gate up to 100% for fun. I started to hear some sputtering as it was opening and closing on small changes of sound. Took a Hizumutas NAM file going into the new gate with it at 100% gate and achieved a gated fuzz effect on a modeler pedal! It was sputtery with slight velcro texture and unpredictability to it. I spent an hour just riffing and building on it with shimmer reverb and flanger to create noise. ❤️ Thank you Darkglass!

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Following the launch of the Anagram Marketplace, some thought we would stop developing Anagram.

However, we assured you that we would continue developing the platform, and we intend to keep that promise.

Today, KosmOS 1.15 brings a collection of new effects and features, as well as an overhaul of existing ones.

New Blocks 🎛️

• Nembrini Audio Noise Gate
• Spring Reverb

Improvements 💻

• • Gentle preamp (full sound engine rework)
• • Looper
  • Click-free operation
  • Keeps recording while moving from input/pre-chain to output/post-chain
  • Multiple slots
  • Play and Record on foot press instead of release
  • Persistent storage

New Features ✨

• Hide / Favorite blocks
• Added trial overlay on trial blocks
• Show Trial block behavior when adding a trial block to the chain or loading a preset with a trial block

Update now!

Overview video: https://youtu.be/2_dGMSPyeRk

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Tomorrow. 3 PM Helsinki.

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.

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.

Hi there!

I just received my Darkglass Anagram. I am trying to setup preset change if i select a song within OpenSong 2026 on my iPad. I got it working using the Helix Stomp before.

So i am using the usb c port to connect it with my iPad. I setup a midi channel on the anagram (9). In opensong i have setup a Program Change midi event, with the same midi channel and with program number 1. This should change to my preset 1 but nothing seems to happen.

Did anyone setup this with success? Do i need to setup the Bank msb/lsbs?

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

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?

Hi all!
Got an AO 500 head from reverb. I was aware of them overheating for some people. After 20 minutes of playing, started to shutdown for 1-2 second intervals.
Contacted DG support and the reverb seller asap (he states that he never had issues like these).

People who had this issue - how did you solve this? Send it for repairs?

Specifically bought this for upcoming large gigs, though that this would be reliable 😔

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.

What's the feasibility of creating some modern electronic bass sounds like 808 sub basses?

I've seen the whole midi bass to Serum route, but is it possible that these "pedals" could potentially make their way over to the marketplace in the future?