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Darkglass Anagram Multi FX Announced
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I stole a pic from Ivan’s video that could help answer some questions
While there’s no Q, you can shape the bands with the Hi-pass and Lo-pass filters which kinda acts like a Q
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Gotta say right off the batr...Entropia is freaking awesome!! Man that Carnivore setting with drop tuning just slams!! Nice work Darkglass!!
Thanks for this!I stole a pic from Ivan’s video that could help answer some questions
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While there’s no Q, you can shape the bands with the Hi-pass and Lo-pass filters which kinda acts like a Q
It does, indeed.
I am doing something similar with KMA Tyler Deluxe on my large (analog) pedalboard. My setup is only dual-band, though...
The added third band (mids) looks promissing...
Wow, I love it, thank you Darkglass, very cool!!! The announcement got my even more hyped as it says first ever plugin, more to come and exciting times ahead 
I've been playing with the Entropia for a bit and wow this plugin is pretty great. The included templates all sound good as well.
IvanBassist
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Hope you guys have fun with it 
First impressions are that this is one powerful plug in. In short: splits your signal in 3, each of which you can independently control the volume, and high/low pass filters (define the frequency sweep). lows you adjust compression, mids and highs you set a drive for each. So you can use one pedal drive for highs, another for mids. wildly powerful.
pretty safe to say that the anagram will cover all your drive/fuzz needs.
pretty safe to say that the anagram will cover all your drive/fuzz needs.
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@IvanBassist - Entropia is the first 'plugin' we've seen released for Anagram. Is there some sort of official definition/description of a plugin vs a block? What makes something a plugin vs an effects block?
I can see obvious differences between what Entropia is doing vs all the other existing effects blocks, but I'm just curious to understand Darkglass' definition/explanation.
I can see obvious differences between what Entropia is doing vs all the other existing effects blocks, but I'm just curious to understand Darkglass' definition/explanation.
IvanBassist
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Entropia has a custom user interface, much more complex algorithms and processing going under the hood and regular Anagram blocks. It also has starting templates which is a unique feature.
And if you guys haven’t seen it yet, here’s the Entropia: Overview video 
(hint, hint 
)
if they made it a standalone plugin for DAW use without re-amping…
(hint, hint )
IvanBassist
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And if you guys haven’t seen it yet, here’s the Entropia: Overview video
if they made it a standalone plugin for DAW use without re-amping…
Wouldn’t that be nice?
Most of it, but two things missing for me:
Stereo Splitting so I can change drive on left/right channel basis.
And potentially also add delays to emulate some kind of multi-tracking.
Currently doing that through a OBNE Beamsplitter.
And for Fuzz I am missing a non-NAM Mammoth equivalent (and the knobs). With the NAM I am getting too much noise after an FX loop.
Did play with Entropia yesterday and it’s awesome - kind of its own Anagram by itself.
Tinkering more and more and really appreciating the Entropia implementation, it is very intuitive…. No doubt in my mind that a c4 like synth plugin is doable here without the need of a computer. Wishful thinking
I think the transparent integration of the plugin makes it challenging to discern the difference, the way I see it, the plugin sits on a different "layer".
Whereas all of the native blocks are akin to a huge pedal board with predefined blocks with direct control*, maybe think of plugins as a piece of external rack hardware plugged into the fx loop.
Ot think of the Anagram as DAW with native effects such as compression and eq, and plugins are literally like DAW plugins, that integrate seamlessly but are like a mini application of their own and often replicate native effects, such as Helix Native that can also do a whole signal chain with compression and EQ.
*Whilst I haven't tried it myself yet, I understand that the new plugin doesn't respond to scenes the same way as the native blocks do. So this is an important distinction to make.
you can run a parallel chain and make one output go stereo left, one stereo right. each side of the chain can have its own effects including the entrophy.
and i believe it can accept stereo in via two inputs (one takes and effects loop port however)… but i admit to not having done this yet.
So far with my rics i stereo solit and run the neck pickup clean, and the bridge dirty into the anagram.
if we cant do what i understand we can above, let me know.
