Midi wiring with footswitch AND audio interface

Hi,

I'm using a Kemper now for quite a while, mostly for recording with Logic pro. Among other connections, my audio interface is connected via midi out to the Kemper (midi in) to be able to have a timely exact control of effects. Incredible feature of the Kemper

Now due to Corona, we can't play with the band in the same room, so we perform it over the internet. Another use case for the Kemper. Obviously I need a footswitch for this, so I bought a FCB1010 and a UNO4KEMPER chip (hopefully arriving soon). Again I need FCB out to Kemper in (and FCB in to Kemper out)

I'm not very familiar with Midi and I don't like to plug and unplug connectors for different use cases, so I'd like to understand if there's a permanent solution for the wiring using Midi Thru or any switch box or similar.

Thanks in advance for your help !

Cheers,

Christof

Thanks to all of you !!!! I didn't expect to get so many answers in a short time !

Sollazzon : Do you think Midi Thru is disabled with the UNO4KEMPER chip? And with your solution: How do you get the feedback from the Kemper to the FCB? I guess this is not possible, right? You have to use the FCB one way, I guess.

Thanks again for your comment.

In the manual of the UNO4KEMPER I found the following sentence: "If you have MIDI in one direction only (from FCB1010 to Profiler), due to a hardware malfunctioning or because you only have 1 working MIDI cable available, you can still use the FCB1010 for Kemper Profiler control. To do so, start up the FCB1010 while keeping following switches pressed..."

That sounds like it would also work with one cable, but with convenience loss. But I agree that your proposal is most likely the easiest and independent solution, unfortunately another piece of HW with power supply...

This was my understanding also. But if I'm using the footswitch, I'd probably not try to interfere directly at the Kemper...

In any case, I got enough hints to try different solutions. Thanks to all of you !

Ah, thanks for the info. Hmmmm, this is quite important. Now I understand your previous comment. Using one cable is rather a fallback solution is case of a wire failure than a permanent solution...