Six short guides for using the 80s Suite on Darkglass Anagram. Start with a plugin's quick start, then use its page tables while editing on the unit.
| Product | Guide |
|---|---|
| 80s Compressor | Compression, character and parallel Mix |
| 80s Chorus | TRI, DIM, stage order and Mix |
| 80s Detune | Classic and Micro stereo thickening |
| 80s Color Delay | Circular and Pan Delay patterns |
| 80s Sync Delay | Three voices, timing, modulation and ducking |
| 80s Reverb | Programs, space, early reflections and decay |
Working with Anagram
Open a block's Settings to edit its controls. Tables run left to right in the same order as the six physical encoders. Page descriptions in these guides identify the controls; Anagram supplies the actual pagination. An empty slot is intentional. Defaults describe a newly inserted block, not a saved preset.
An inactive control retains its setting and can still be adjusted. It affects the sound when the relevant mode or stage becomes active. Changing a Mode that recalls starting settings is a separate action and may replace those values; each guide explains what is recalled.
Save the Anagram preset to keep your edits. Recalling an edited preset should restore its saved controls rather than reapply a mode's starting settings. All visible menu controls are available for scene assignment, including Mode and Trails. When editing a scene, choose its Mode first, then adjust the sound and save the preset. Scene recall restores the stored settings.
In Chain View, a fresh Compressor uses Thresh as its Quick Pot; the five wet effects use Mix. Saved or user-selected Quick Pots keep their assignments. Bindings identify the effects as CMP, CHR, DET, CD, SD and REV.
Mix and routing
In a series chain, begin with the plugin's default Mix and adjust by ear. In a parallel branch, Detune, Color Delay, Sync Delay and Reverb can use 100% Mix when another branch supplies the dry signal. Chorus has a different DIM Full Wet behavior, explained in its guide.
The dry contribution preserves the incoming left and right channels. Several wet algorithms combine or crossfeed those channels to create their effect, so 100% wet does not promise preservation of an upstream stereo image. Check the complete chain in the output configuration you will use. Taking only one side of a stereo output can lose echoes or other content from the opposite side.
Mix position is not an output-level guarantee. Match listening level when comparing sounds, especially when blending related dry and processed signals.
Trails
Color Delay, Sync Delay and Reverb have Trails, default On. Bypassing with Trails On stops new audio entering the effect while the existing tail continues over unity-level dry audio. Off fades out and clears the tail. Trails concerns block bypass; it does not provide spillover when a preset change destroys the block or when the block is removed.
Bypass passes dry audio even if Mix was 100%. In a parallel rig, account for that additional dry return; mute the branch's return instead when you need silence from the effects path.