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don’t know what you do for living, nor what’s your experience in the music industry, but what I find hilarious is yours as well as otherSpeaking of hilarious negative comments about the marketplace, I was trying to reason with someone in YouTube comments about it yesterday (I know, absolutely pointless). They just continued saying we're all sheep feeding the big corporations and how we need to wake up and that Korg will probably fold Darkglass within a year.
It was at this point I just chuckled to myself and was glad I have a brain
posters that, assuming don’t come from teenagers, leave a lot to be desired. I use it for presets, waveform generator (LFOs), binding knobs, basically stomp. Tap tempo doesn't work yet.
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That's like saying you'd never support Apple which sells (or allows the sale of) plugins and DAW software because it has Garageband and it should be all you need.
I'm somewhat hopeful that DG being Owned by Korg, as well as señor Ivan having his own Tonehammer and being so kind as to lending his gear to some of his friends in Helsinki that a TH model will eventually make it's way into the Anagram
As with every piece of equipment, it all depends on how you treat and package things. If you use this or something similar I doubt anything bad will happen to it, even during transport. And when you're doing a paid tour, I wouldn't even considering settling for anything less than a proper case. On stage it's just a matter of keeping it away from any liquids. The band I'm in has several of these for different pieces of hardware, and they served us well the past 5 years.
Thanks for the response. My Helix is basically bulletproof, which is great, but it's also large and a bit last gen from a sound perspective, plus I use NAM professionally in my studio, so being able to recreate nam based sounds live would be killer.
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You may share your credentials in both the music industry and business so to publicly validate your hilarious disagreement for my statements.
Or, since I feel this is not gonna happening, a simple question: what do you find so funny, exactly, of a post about strategy?
don’t know what you do for living, nor what’s your experience in the music industry, but what I find hilarious is yours as well as other
Just to clarify, I have a responsibility role in an industrial corporation and I do believe I am qualified to talk about business, production models, revenue streams, resources/costs allocation, and all you can imagine as being part of manufacturing something from scratch.
What I wrote about the marketplace was not negative, or against it at all. I stressed the fact that Darkglass would be better off to control the environment that directly affects the success of their investments. I am pretty sure this in not easily imaginable by all, but let’s mention an easy example: Nio. An electric car maker in China with a proprietary battery swap technology. They invested a lot on this but the success of their findings (Elon Musk did it even before but didn’t believe enough in this strategy) is very much related to if, when, and how such technology will be adopted by other car makers. If you got the sense of what I say, then you perfectly got the difference between having a marketplace, and leaving such marketplace to determine the success of your efforts as manufacturer. At Darkglass they are small enough to have thought that external help was needed, but big enough to understand that the product had to reach a sort of completeness quickly, make a future proof product, and continue to watch our back as bassists, so that their success doesn’t simply depend upon a marketplace (if not without their control).
Hope this clarifies.
Again, I support Darkglass, I am very happy of their strategy and I hope they will not stop to be by us as bassists. This is why I am talking about strategy.
Ps: My Anagram will arrive on tomorrow and I am very much excited about it!
This is all great info!Honestly with any stompable computer I’d want 2 on tour.
I’m fortunate that my live tone is fairly simplistic so whilst I enjoy the Anagram, I can get by with the Element using some eq and a preferred IR.
The fact it takes 7 seconds to boot which is still a lifetime mid song is such a huge win over the QC taking well over a minute. But end of the day it’s a computer you step on it, you want some level of redundancy in the rig you go for.
I had a friend have a QC fail on a gig recently and his solution was to rush out and buy a new one, restore it within minutes and be ready for the gig all within 2 hours of total failure of it.
Subsequently he got the original QC home and it of course now works fine
The Anagram is no more delicate than any of these other units but I wouldn’t gig any of them without a backup nearby, be that a full unit or a decent DI I can swap in, in seconds.
I am 43, but your derespectful comment about older people just confirms who you are.
@IvanBassist is a touring bassist in Europe (not sure about UK/Ireland) and uses his Anagram on tour. He seems to be doing ok with it. You might reach out to him about your coming tour and Anagram.
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