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It would be really handy to have hover-over tooltip explanations of what the parameters do in rig manager rather than having to search through the manual. There is an 'enable tooltips' option in the rig manager preferences menu, but it does not appear to do anything when checked.
Have you tried enabling it with "morphing" ?
Hi where is christophe . I already use morphing for other things, but you are right .. I could use a pitch shift expression pedal instead. I have not gone down that route as I worry I might accidentaly knock the expression pedal and put my guitar out of pitch. I currenlty put a -2 semi-tone transpose effect into effect slot A and set the looper switch to turn it on/off.
Edit. Wish list item No 4 added to my original post, to enable the use of the rig transpose effect without the need to allocate an effects switch to turn it on/off.
Thanks Grooguit and Wheresthedug for your comments. Yes it's the Kemper workflow that is keeping me on-brand. I'm sure all the other units sound great, but they look like they need a lot more tapping to get the same functionality.
I love the idea of having multiple morph groups!
I've just upgraded to the MK2 rack+remote so I can take advantage of the new fixed effects and be ready for the upcoming features when they’re released.
I made a backup of my MK1 Rack and loaded it into the new MK2 Rack — the switch was completely seamless. All rigs, performances, and settings transferred flawlessly.
After going back and forth between my MK1 and MK2 using the same rigs, I noticed slightly greater clarity and improved dynamics on the MK2, particularly on my crunch-style rigs. This was with a compressor before the amp and EQ/delay after the amp. I understand that the amp/cab should sound identlical but maybe the effects are being processed at a higher fidelity on the MK2?
The fixed effects are very usable, and I was hoping to free up some effect slots on my main rigs by moving the compressor, transpose, and chorus into the new fixed-effect blocks. However, since the fixed effects can only be linked to Effect Switches I–IV I find I’m no further forward, as I don’t currently have any unused effect switches on my main rigs. I guess Kemper’s philosophy is that if we want more flexibility, we should create more rigs — but I prefer keeping things simple and get the most versatility from a single performance that I know inside out and can easily level balance.
For my use case — and I’m sure I’m not the only one trying to maximise flexibility within a small set of core rigs — the following enhancements would make the new fixed effects significantly more useful:
Edit : wish list No 4 added.
Thanks for all your responses. It is really interesting to see that the majority of live users are in the 3 performances + categories. I had expected the poll to show that most people are like me and keep it simple with a single performance to cover all sytles when playing live. I play in a function/festival covers band and use a single performance to cover a wide range of pop, rock, country, indie & soul songs, with 5 rigs that I know and love and can jump to easily for the sound I want. I find there are so many distractions when playing live that I need to keep my rig a simple as possible to avoid mistakes.
My 5 rigs are Ambient acoustic sim - Vox Clean - Vox crunch - Marshall Crunch - Marshall high Gain.
Each rig is set for rhythm tone/volume in the un-morphed state and for lead tone/volume in the morphed state (with 3db lead boost in the X slot studio EQ, more gain and adjusted effects settings). So I have 5 seperate rhythm tones and 5 seperate lead tones, each with effects that be used to alter those tones & pitch. I use an expresison pedal for morphing which makes it simple to switch from rhythm to lead and back again without having to concentrate on tapping the correct rig switch. The expression pedal also allows to me set in-between volumes to raise the rhythm guitar in the mix a little when needed.
I appreciate that different types of bands (tribite vs original vs function/cover ) and different genres will have a big impact on the number of performances needed, so just asking for the number of live performnaces that poeple use does not gove the whole picture, but this simple poll has helped me to get a basic understanding of how prevalent single performance users like myself are in the Kemper community.
You have been watching.... BM Profiles Friedman BE100 pack. 
Specifially the gain on 10 profile [ BM F-Man N G10 B ] which I converted into to a liquid profile and reduced the gain for a rhythm tone. I then made that into 2 rigs with two different flavours of lower gain rhythm and both with the same morph to a lead tone with gain as per the original profile. After the amp I have an always-on single delay and a switchable vintage chorus and dotted 8th delay. plus a bit or reverb in the mixer.
Plus for clean and Vox crunch rigs, the AC15 from Mbritt pack 3
The band uses a silent stage system with an awesome custom kit in the Roland TD50x module from the drummer's own catalogue of studio session samples.
It would be really interesting to know how the majority of us set up our performances for live use. Are the majority of us squeezing as much flexibility as possible out of a single performance or at the other extreme using a separate performance for every song?
You probably will never get it. Now I have thought about proposing a feature request of adding certain parameters to certain low dsp effects. For example, what if the equalizer in addition to its own volume control had a separate pure boost? And this pure boost within the EQ effect could be assigned to a different switch, the same way infinity can be assigned inside the delay effects. this would save a slot for something else.
The problem with being able to toggle multiple effects of any variety within the same slot is that it would essentially make the signal path longer than it already is. At some point in increasing the number of simultaneously available effects, and those that could be toggled without a gap, will hit a DSP limit or necessitate more latency. From day one Kemper has prioritized the ease of switching between rigs, providing a negligible gap and spillover and not requiring a change of modes to either toggle effects or switch rigs. Their answer, especially after adding seven additional fixed effects, is for us to copy and paste the rig in the same performance and swap out any effects you want there.
Now that said, it might be feasible for them to offer something like you suggest, but there needs to be a logical way to implement it with the GUI of the current hardware. And most likely they would need strict limits on the type of effects that could share a slot like this. Perhaps only available to the effects that use less DSP.
but given the current Kemper layout, the most logical way to organize our sounds is not to try and live in one rig that has everything we need. That’s the line 6 and neural DSP philosophy. A perfectly valid one, but not the way the Kemper was organized.
Good point. It would be really interesting to know what % of Kemper users only use 1 performance live for everything like I do... and hence the repeated request to get more flexibility out of the 4 effects switches .. against the % who are happy to create lots of perfromances for all the effect on/off permutations they use.
what i want is for the footswitch to control two states of the same pedal. as in a 'mini' morph. So for example i can have a short and long delay using the same pedal. The pedal is always on, it's either state a or state b. I don't want to waste my morph for just one pedal as I use it for lead tones in each rig. But the ability to have two settings on an 'always on' pedal in a rig would be great.
You do currently have that option, although you would need to use up two effects blocks on the rig with different versions of the same effect. You can then link both effect blocks to the same effects switch and set it so that the swtich toggles between A on & B off and A off & B on. It would be neater if we could link a single effect block twice to the same switch and for that to automatically create a local switch specific morph version in the B slot that could be adjusted in the same way that we currenlty create a morphed version of the effect.
Another thought. Could we have the option on a per rig basis to change the behaviour of the long press on the I-IV effects switches, so that a long press takes us directly to the effects linked to the B slot, with the effects linked to the A slot switched off? A second quick tap would turn the B slot effects off again, just at it would if the A slot had been selected. So the sequence would be :
Starting point : A & B slots off, then either..
1) Short press = A on and B off, or
2) Long press = B on and A off
3) then a short press to switch A & B off again.
The long press on those switches is currently used as a hold function on some effects, but I think it would be very useful to have this alternative option. We would then have individual access to 8 seperate effects slots from the 4 effects switches, IA, IB, 2A, 2B etc.. with each effects slot able to hold one or two effects..
There's already a four way toggle of sorts. If you combine two effects on one switch you can get one on or the other on. If you then toggle one of them on the unit itself then the footswitch now switches from both off to both on. But you need to hit one of the buttons on the profiler itself. If there were some new function that allowed one to assign that toggle function to a *different button* then you could switch between A - B and AB - nothing. The lights would keep you straight on what state you're in.
Thanks. I had not thought of that. It suggests that there is already a 4 way toggle of sorts available in the unit :
1) Both off
2) A on B off
3) A off B on
4) A & B on.
We just need an update to make them simple & intuative to access from the remote. That would add a lot more options to each rig for turning a greater number of effects on & off. I would think that mark 2 users would find that even more useful, with the greater number of effects/stomps available.
Wouldn't it be even better if we could have the option to set an effects switch to a 3 stage toggle?
1) Both off
2) A on and B off
3) B on and A off.
Then we would not need to use up the rig morph to get the flexibility you are looking for and the selected effects can be applied to both the unmorphed and morphed states.
This is a great request (State 1 = All off, State 2 = A on and B off, State 3 = B on and A off)
To give myself an extra switch I am using the looper mode switch. I set the looper switch to turn on/off stomp B.
But, as mentioned in the original post by Djdyer, to have the 3 states for each effects switch would be much better.
I also use the looper switch for this purpose. To be honest, having the looper light turn on/off with the effect on/off was the last Kemper update that I have found any real use for! lol.
I've edited the original post to make it a little clearer what I am asking for, and changed the title of the thread to open it up for other suggestions.
I'm a long term rack+remote user for live use and I'm now looking to switch to a Stage. In the UK the MK2 stage is £1600 (Andertons) and a good condition second hand Stage is about half that on ebay. So I am wondering whether the extra price of the MK2 would be worth it and would appreciate some feedback.
I understand the MK2 has more effects per rig, but without any additional functionality to switch more effects on/off with the I-IIII effects footswitches I don't really see the benefit of that for me as I use 1 performance for everything to make life simple and don't want to create extra rigs to add different permutations of effects on/off.
I also understand the MK2 has a quicker boot time and could possibly have better profiles in the future.
Question for Kemper : Are you planning to add more functionality to the 4 effects switches on the MK2 to turn the additional effects on/off?
Question for MK2 owners : Did you find any other improvements on the MK2 that made it a worthwhile purchase?
Here's a suggestion for getting a lot more use out of the 4 effects switches we already have.
Seems like a simple upgrade to me that would allow us to make better use of the extra effects that we can now allocate to each rig in the MK2.
For users like me that try to squeeze all my sounds out of a single performance this extra functionality in the effects switches would be the most useful upgrade since the release of the remote!
I have the transpose loaded into stomp A on every rig and re-assign the looper switch to turn it on & off. It is set to a whole tone down, so if I need anything else I need to go to the adjust manually at the gig. To work across a whole performance I would need to lock block A.
A better method i think would be for the performance up/down switches to change function when you are in tuner mode, to rig/performance pitch up/down switches. Each press of the up/down switch would move the pitch a semi-tone So in this case to transpose down 3 semi-tones for a song you would firstly engage the tuner then press the performance down switch 3 times, then switch the tuner off. We would then have complete flexiblity on the fly.
Yeah - same impression here. Directly compared both units this morning , mk2 is way better/less latency and sounds better too (transpose function) .
See this thread where I suggested to use the extra power of the MK2 to improve the transpose effect. Kemper's response suggests it has not been changed, otherwise I think they would have made it an upgrade selling point.
The Kemper is still No1 for practical live use I think, even after all these years, and the MK2 adds more options with no price increase, so what's not to like. The layout of the remote & stage (with 14 switches!) and the logic of 5 rigs to each performance, each with their own effects and morph, remains functionally ahead of any other unit I have seen. Absolutely no need for a fancy touch screen. I have been tempted by the great reviews of the FM9, but when you look at the tap dancing required to get the same functionality as the remote it does not make sense, and I know if I did get the FM9 I would only be tweaking presets to get back to the same great set of tones that I already get from the Kemper Mk1.
Improvements to the MK2 I would like to see to enhance its live use even further:
1) Make better use of all 8 pairs of lights on the 4 effects switches, so we can allocate 8 effects to the 4 switches (2 per switch) and be able to switch any of those 8 effects on/off individually. The Mk2 allows more effects per rig, which is great, but its not a lot of use in a live situation if you don't have additional options to turn the additional effects on/off individually.
2) Building on the 1st point, allow an effect to be allocated twice to a single effects switch with the automatic addition of a local rig & switch specific morph when you do that. We can then, for example, allocate a Kemper drive twice to a single switch and have the option live of having it off, having it on with low gain and having it on with high gain.
3) Improve the performance of the transpose effect, if possible.
