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ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE
OWNER'S MANUAL
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  • Page 1 ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE OWNER’S MANUAL...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    QUICK START GUIDE BASIC OPERATION EDITING AND SAVING PRESETS CONNECTIONS TUNER INPUT BYPASS AUX IN PERFORMANCE LOCK HEADPHONE OUTPUT BLUETOOTH PAIRING BALANCED OUTPUTS DIRECT OUTPUT MIDI IN ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON AS A USB AUDIO INTERFACE SETTING UP THE DRIVERS SIGNAL CHAIN USB AUDIO SIGNAL ROUTING BLOCK DIAGRAM DARKGLASS IR LIBRARY...
  • Page 3: Quick Start Guide

    ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE QUICK START GUIDE CONNECTIONS Connect your instrument into the 1/4” INPUT. INPUT This is the primary instrument input on the Connect a compatible power supply (9V center Alpha·Omega Photon. Connect your instrument or negative, min. 500 mA) to the power connector. output from your pedal board to the 1/4”...
  • Page 4: Direct Output

    ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE If you feed an unbalanced input from these outputs, use an instrument cable with a mono 1/4” plug. DIRECT OUTPUT An XLR output with a ground lift switch provides a reliable standard connection to a mixing desk or an external audio interface for a guaranteed low-noise signal.
  • Page 5: Compressor

    ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE COMPRESSOR BLEND This control allows setting the input The blend control allows you to mix the distorted gain compressor that will signal with the clean sidechain signal. translate into how much the signal is compressed while our intelligent make- up gain algorithm keeps the output of Last in the signal chain is a programmable 6-band the compressor at usable levels.
  • Page 6: Smart Potentiometers

    ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE The DRIVE potentiometer adds distortion and TOUCH SENSITIVE SLIDERS drive to your signal. Crank this knob to apply the At the center of the Alpha·Omega Photon are the Alpha·Omega distortion to the distorted part of the touch-sensitive sliders that control the 6-band signal chain.
  • Page 7: Rotary Footswitch Encoders

    ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE ROTARY FOOTSWITCH ENCODERS 4. Alpha·Omega with GROWL and BITE Below the touch sliders are three rotary footswitch 5. Alpha·Omega Studio Rig with GROWL and BITE encoders A, B, and C, which can be pressed or rotated. These footswitch encoders...
  • Page 8: Tuner

    ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE Presets can also be saved, edited, shared, loaded, and When tuning, the two rightmost sliders will update to managed in the Darkglass Suite. show how close your tuning is from the note’s perfect pitch. Distance below the center line indicates that For instructional videos on editing and saving the presets, the note is tuned flat, and distance above the center https://www.darkglass.
  • Page 9: Bluetooth Pairing

    ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE This mode prevents any accidental parameter Recording a stereo track at the same time from the changes or edits to your presets. You can still change Aux input is also possible. between the saved presets A, B, and C, and enter the tuner or bypass modes, but potentiometer updates, The Alpha·Omega Photon supports 48 kHz and 44.1 slider touches, or encoder rotations will not respond...
  • Page 10: Darkglass Ir Library

    ALPHA·OMEGA PHOTON: USER GUIDE The level of these outputs is controlled by the small · When using headphones, volume volume potentiometer at the top of the Alpha·Omega controlled in the same way, with one exception: Photon. The other outputs have no volume control on the headphone volume potentiometer acts as an the Alpha·Omega Photon.
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