There are different kind of banks.
You might be referring to banks as layers of buttons on a foot controller. Banks of five buttons correspond well with our five Slots per Performance. But you could also work with a foot controller offering four, three or ten buttons per bank, if you wanted to. Some foot controllers even allow to configure the number of buttons per bank.
I was referring to MIDI banks. Many people are used to MIDI program changes. But those are limited to 128 (7 bit). So the 625 Slots of our Performance Mode could not be addressed with just those 128 different program change numbers. MIDI allows to extent the address room to 128*128*128 by using a combination of bank select MSB + bank select LSB + program change. We don't use bank select MSB (always needs to stay at 1). We are using bank select LSB (between 1 and 5) plus program change.
Any button of any bank of your foot controller could for example load Performance 67 Slot 4 by sending MIDI bank select LSB 3 plus program change 78.
By the way we offer the Remote, which is plug and play - no MIDI hassle.
Burkhard,
Thanks for your response. I just found it 2 days ago. Not sure why I don't get email notifications anymore, but that's a different topic.
I had to chew on your response for a moment but I got it working now. This was helpful.
This is my 2nd KPA. I had the toaster with the foot controller and exchanged it for the stage. The reason I still need a midi controller is because I control the lightshow and video projection with it. I used to read the midi out from the Kemper when I changed sounds on the KPA and that triggered changes in the lightshow. 80% of the time that was ok but a bit limiting. The Mastermind is an ingenious device and now that I understand the KPA a bit better I actually control the lightshow with the Mastermind and when it suits me it changes the sound of the KPA.
Thanks again for your help,
tom