Ok people, I have been thinking about this for awhile and I can't figure it out. I want to go 100% kemper and get rid of my delay and reverb pedals once 4.0 comes out with the new delays. Probably going to have to keep my overdrive pedals and compressor because I sold my amps before profiling the overdrives into the kemper. Oops. I'll deal with that later on.
Anyway, let me explain how I use my kemper in conjunction with my delays and reverbs.
1) I always use a basically clean profile. I switch up which profile I use from day to day or show to show, depending on how I feel, but the gain is always relatively low, never more than 3 LEDs.
2) I run my entire pedalboard into the front of the kemper.
3) Delays: I use the eventide timefactor. How I have it set up is: 99% of the time I use the same 4-5 delay presets, and just tap in the tempo of the particular song. These presets are: Quarter light, Quarter Heavy, Dotted eighth light, Dotted eighth medium, Dotted eighth digital U2, slapback (16th note low repeats), heavy tape ambience for swells. For solos I usually just use the quarter light preset or slapback if it's country. ALL DELAYS MUST HAVE TAILS, meaning the trails die out naturally after switching the effect off OR switching presets. Abrupt changes drive me nuts.
4) Reverbs: Strymon bigsky: presets are small, medium, and large, that's it. I'm not married to the bigsky, I just have it for the quick access to the presets so I don't have to turn knobs. Fine with using the internal kemper sounds for these. Again, ALL REVERBS MUST HAVE TAILS.
5) Modulation effects: Sometimes I use vibrato, less often I use tremolo, that's about it. Need to be able to turn these on and off independently at any time. Again, fine with using the built in kemper sounds for these, and almost always use the same settings.
6) Volume pedal. Planning on getting the Mission EP1-KP for this function, but I'm not sure I need that extra toe switch since the kemper remote already has the 4 switches built in. It would really be nice to turn on and off my "swell delay" preset using that toe switch though!
I need to be able to switch all of these independently as I play 3-4 shows weekly with different sets and prefer switching my delays and reverbs on the fly, per song, rather than programming everything in advance.
So, is it possible to set all this up internally in the kemper and use the remote or another midi controller to turn stuff on and off? Or would I have to use the timefactor & big sky in an always-on kemper fx loop and control them via midi to call up the presets? If this is the case I'd rather just keep them on my board, otherwise midi doesn't help me simplify and lower the weight of my rig.
Is any of this possible or is the kemper restricted to 1 reverb sound, 1 delay sound per rig?