Darkglass launches guitar-focused Anagram Essentials with Sweetwater and Andertons
Darkglass turned its bass-first Anagram into a guitar-only limited run with Sweetwater and Andertons, packing 15 models into a blacked-out workstation.
Darkglass launched Anagram Guitar Essentials on July 1, putting a guitar-specific spin on the company’s bass-rooted Anagram platform and doing it as a one-time production run with Sweetwater and Andertons. The hardware lands as a matte black chassis with shiny black knobs and a premium leather carrying case, while Sweetwater priced its exclusive blacked-out version at $1,299.99 and Andertons listed the limited edition at £999.
The real hook is the library inside it. Guitar Essentials ships with 15 total models, split between 12 amplifiers and 3 pedals, and Darkglass names the curated sounds as Leonardo Deluxe, Leonardo Twin, Admiral Supreme Drive, Admiral JJM800, HiWoltt 103, Patchless C-III Emerald, Patchless C-III Crimson, Victory Deputy, Phoebe SiSO, Magner Delicacy Blue, Magner Delicacy Red, Infante Triode Current, Kentauri, Indigo Carrier and Valve Crier 808. Darkglass says each amp and pedal gets its own exclusive 3D-rendered interface, so the user is looking at the original hardware rather than a generic grid of icons.
That visual approach fits the broader pitch. Darkglass says Anagram runs on a modern operating system with a six-core DSP architecture for low-latency real-time processing, and the platform supports NAM and AIDA-X neural models plus impulse responses. The company has also tied Anagram into Darkglass Suite for presets and IR management, with the wider ecosystem clearly built to keep expanding rather than locking users into a fixed snapshot of sounds. A June 30 KosmOS 1.16 update, along with new bass models, showed that the platform is still being actively developed after launch.
For Darkglass, the guitar push is more than a side quest. The brand is still best known for premium handmade bass gear from Helsinki, Finland, so a guitar-focused Anagram release marks a deliberate crossover into a much bigger effects and modeling market. Partnering with Sweetwater and Andertons makes that move feel curated instead of opportunistic, especially when the pricing puts the guitar edition above the standard bass Anagram at $1,199.99 in the United States and £899 in the United Kingdom. The blacked-out limited run makes the statement plainly enough: Darkglass wants guitar players to see Anagram as a serious platform, not just a bass box with extra presets.
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