Maybe are my ears....but I find the tones awful...as the original rigs. I mean: they sound pretty identical, but to me both terrible...
I am not into high gain so i only checked low gain, but i find they caught very well the raspy sounds of tweed amps pushed to saturation. That's a tone one may like or not, but that the Kemper can't really do ATM IMHO.
Another tech that allow to mimic a rig ala Kemper
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/aimachinemodeling/
Demos seems pretty good.
What?
Since this unfortunate event, my workflow is now to do my settings in RM, then i hit "store as" on the profiler (where the feature actually exists) and then copy and paste the rig on my hard drive in RM. Not ideal.
I don't understand your suggestion and what you think is missing.
For the one object that is loaded (displayed on front panel and marked by headphones icon in the list) you have the choice to
- Store, which is a replace
- Store in Local Library, which keeps the ooriginal and stores a new item at the highest level of the Local Libary from where you could move it to any location.
- Duplicate, which is a Store As with a predefined name at the same location as the original - it just adds "copy" to the Rig Name, which you could modify at any time.
Which problem would a Store As solve?
This is incorrect. Sometimes, hiting "store in local library" overwrite the existing rig, as i demonstrated here : Prevent accidental overwriting of rig
Yes, when you are using imprints ("monitor cab off" enabled) you are not using the cab part included in the profile.
If that were the case, you would have double filtering and it would sound probably muffled.
If you want to use the included cab in the profile, you have to use the Kabinet in FRFR mode, disabling "monitor cab off".
That's the same thing if you are using a true guitar cab with your profiler.
Currently I'm working on Logic pro X, with 44.1kHz both in Kemper and the focusrite 8i6. I have also the setup with the Scarlett done with the Focusrite control and it shows green light as if everything is synced, so if anyone has any idea of where could be the problem please let me know.
The Focusrite software is a PITA.
Does the spdif channels shows up in the Focusrite mixer ? If they don't, you have to add them there.
That would be amazing. Looking forward to trying it out once it reaches release level.
It just did.
Maybe have a pedal with a buffer closer to you and run the longer cable after that? I think that would help here.
Nope.
I think the Amp X is vaporware at this point. In one recent video T Blug implied between the lines that the software was still to be developed.
I would be very surprised to see it available in 2022.
This is a scenario that happened to me more than once :
- Open Rig Manager with kemper running
- Fiddle with the actual rig loaded on the profiler
- Find some settings that i like and want to store as a new rig on the hard drive
- Hit logical choice "Store Rig in local library"
=> boom, actual rig on hard drive is overwritten with new settings, with no possibility to get it back. (even the undo queue is empty)
IMHO, what could be better would be to have usual commands of softwares-> "Save As"
It has been said: If you monitor full-range (headphones, in-ear, studio monitors, stage wedges, PA, home entertainment,....), there is no sound difference between Studio and Merged. So, you just don't need to care.
I understand that there is no benefit for full-range users.
But there is no drawback for those users either, and it's supposed to be "more authentic" for cab users.
So this should be in theory the universal, always chosen solution.
But obviously this is not the case so there should be another technical reason for the paying profiles to be so rarely merged.
I suspect that the results don't meet the promises.
I wonder why commercial profile makers don't sell more merged profiles. Is the benefit not that great ?
The new (?) bugs make me think they are refactoring their code for something new.
I suppose by now you have seen the various youtube clips about the three new amps pedal from UA (one Blackface, one Vox, one Tweed). In the demos, i really think they sound ace. I wonder if all of those sounds can really be reproduced so well with our Kempers.
517138682526ce5895215d56f87e1ce93cc8da6e all of this you wrote makes sense, however i already have a Kemper which i'm enjoying through my headphones.
I wanted to know if it was possible to get a close approximation with the Kemper, with added benefit of a "true" master volume.
How does it sound when you re-render the ripped tracks?
I havn't tried, i have just played over the software playing with the guitar track muted.
I tried today Ripx which is really impressive.
We may not be able to agree on this, but I believe that for MOST people, the difference between the guitar going through a Kemper and a FRFR and guitar going through a tube amp rig is that tube amps are LOUD. Way louder (at the frequencies they emphasize) than a FRFR.
Why would the tube amp be louder than the FRFR ? Both can output dangerous levels.
The so called amp in the room sound is really about the sound source being loud enough to bring out the 'room' part of the equation.
All your points make sense, but are you not leaving the "open cab" part out of the equation ?
