Posts by quemper

  • Can I do this with a Player?

    There is no locking on the player which it sounds like you might want to keep some of the effects the same across the presets in the "performance".

    You can have up to 5 actions on the footswitches (three single and two where you press two buttons together) ... but there are some limitations as to what you can assign (that I don't think will get in your way).

    You can add an external footswitch for two more buttons (would be nice if that was three with a combo press that some three footswitch devices emulate on the 3rd button) at the expense of the expression pedal. You can always add a midi controller.

  • M Britt Kemper Profiles

    I wish there was a standard block that would handle this need to adjust profiles per the various scenarios. Probably too simplistic.

    Alternately, the idea of channels (ala Fractal) give you multiple variations of settings across all blocks that you can customize. Morph could be used for some of that, but it's only two choices for continuous params only (would be nice to have a hack that allows that even if it's a compromise in some situations), and morph has lots of other uses that people would prefer.

  • Reassign Kone button on the Player

    Would be very useful to reassign the Kone button on the Player to control alternate functions (and display status via the LED).

    There are very few buttons and led's on the Player available. This unused button (for me and likely a large percent of other users) has no value.

    I will always be using the Player through an FR or monitor that needs the profiled cabinet. I'm not going to have a Kabinet, Kone, or powered cabinet. This button/led is a wasted precious resource (but if I do, I can remap it back to its original purpose).

  • How much better are 2.0 Profiles than v1?

    Quote from dgburns

    Now if I could only find a way to make a guitar played through a kemper sound realistically like a cello, viola etc

    The EHX 9 Series pedals are probably your best option unless you go back to the 90's and go midi. You can approximate by using transpose and envelope (swell) effects on the Kemper. Nothing is going to be perfect, but might work in the mix.

  • Rig Manager with DEMO/TRIAL-mode for commercial Profiles

    There's a recent post saying there's a battery backed clock in the Kemper (even in the Player) which would be helpful for this feature.

    A check of the absolute value of time now minus the trial start (profile install time?) would work even the event of a battery pull/replacement. Maybe a edge case if no battery at all (disable trial if boot time is same as no battery time).

    Would need some mechanism to seal (sign) the trials. Kemper could provide that feature on their website. In the simplest case, anyone could use it and it would take a profile and return a version that have the tamper proof signature. More complicated versions could have signature keys per vendor, but that's overkill. Maybe just two keys out there (to allow key rotation). Maybe it's all integrated into rig exchange and only provided for profiles on rig exchange. That would be a nice way to handle key rotation.

    More complicated would be a profile marketplace where Kemper would also handle payment to unlock the trial (buy the unlocked version) and get a percent of the revenue. Slightly related, we're starting to see Anagram offering a marketplace of paid effects.

    Naysayers, I understand this may or may not be aligned with Kemper's strategy and/or core competency (but AI solves a lot of the latter these days).

    I would have written a shorter post with more time.

  • Leaving Player on

    Woah! Wonder what that battery backed clock is used for if it's never displayed?

    Maybe to help with rig manager sync? No that's not the model used (imho that would be very useful along with offline editing).

    If that's truly a reliable, rtc, then it would help with some limited time trial/demo of the profiles. Any so many minutes/hours difference (use the absolute value to cover battery replacements), the trial would be over.

  • What you hear is what you get?

    Profile Trials?

    Would be really helpful if Kemper provided some trial based mechanism where Trial Profiles would only work for a limited time, glitch occasionally, or something annoying/unusable for anything other than a quick evaluation of the profile.

    Don't you hate buying a pack and then realizing it doesn't work for you. I hesitate to buy profiles because of this risk.

  • Profiler vs Player

    Player has quasi-performances. It's soooooo close it's surprising.

    I think the main gaps of performances on the player are:

    • move a performance from RIg Manager to the Player as a set of 5 in a bank (aka performance)
    • a performance name (in addition to 5 rig names)
    • some parameters that can be set across a performance (e.g., BPM).