Love the Kemper and am amazed every time I don't have a chance to play my electric for a week or two and then go back to it. Two of the best features for me are its profiling technology (vs. imitating) and its amp-like U/I.
With that said, one of my personal challenges has been to use the Kemper like an actual amp. In other words, selecting an amp - e.g., Marshall JCM - and then dialing in the sound with the knobs. The problem is that I know the more that I deviate (with certain knobs - e.g., gain) from the original profile, the less likely it is to sound like a profile that was actually made at that new (e.g., gain) setting. Now I haven't A/Bd this to audibly hear the difference because I don't have the gear to easily do that. Please LMK if I am wrong here.
So what happens is, if I want more gain, I need to select a profile that is closer to what I want (hard to do without a librarian of course) and then possibly adjust that one as well (although maybe less so). This requires me to think more along the lines of what "profile" I want instead of what "amp" I want.
So I got to thinking, what if the next generation Kemper would allow the unit to dynmically adjust between different profiles as you adjusted certain knobs (again, e.g., gain). In other words, if you start dialing up gain from a clean profile it would eventually switch to a higher gain profile once the unit deemed that that was a better profile to use. Settings on the KPA that are not "profile" based (e.g., EQ) could be carried over into the use of the higher gain profile (certain settings could be locked in a profile of course so they wouldn't import from another profile). This would allow users to simply select an amp and then dial in whatever sound they like with knobs as opposed to "changing profiles".
Now comes the fun part - the profiling. If the above were feasible, then profiling becomes a bit more like sampling. In other words, if you have a lot of profiles of the same amp with different gain settings, it is probably going to be more accurate (sound better TBD of course) than if you have a few profiles of the amp. You could even have one of the pre-amp slots be something like a "lead" vs. "clean" channel if profiles were tagged appropriately to simply do something akin to a flip of a switch (or changing the input) on an amp.
Finally, the user could then crate "snapshots" of the amp at whatever setting they like for their guitar and then use those in the same way as a single profile.
Thoughts?