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I agree that the aliasing issue is ongoing and tends to reflect negatively on the current KPA package - the Kemper profiling technology is truly groundbreaking, but it is implemented alongside a rather dated box of code. The KPA profiling deserves better than it's current packaging, IMHO...

Quoted from "Radley"

the Kemper profiling technology is truly groundbreaking, but it is implemented alongside a rather dated box of code.

What on earth are you talking about?

Quoted from "eatapeach"

Quoted from "Radley"

the Kemper profiling technology is truly groundbreaking, but it is implemented alongside a rather dated box of code.

What on earth are you talking about?

+1....???
How can a "groundbreaking" software technology have a "rather dated" code???

Quoted from "eatapeach"

Quoted from "Radley"

the Kemper profiling technology is truly groundbreaking, but it is implemented alongside a rather dated box of code.

What on earth are you talking about?

I am talking about a 'support system' with very weak Noise reduction, Stomp ODs with unacceptable amounts of aliasing and noise, an unreliable OS, and totally unrealistic startup times for performing. Now what are you talking about?

FWIW, audible aliasing is now a thing of the past for even most moderately priced modelers - it is normally considered a result of poor/incomplete programming.

Im not techi...but is aliasing same thing as oversampling?

Quoted from "Radley"

I agree that the aliasing issue is ongoing and tends to reflect negatively on the current KPA package - the Kemper profiling technology is truly groundbreaking, but it is implemented alongside a rather dated box of code. The KPA profiling deserves better than it's current packaging, IMHO...

Forget about Profiling, how does the KPA produce it's pristine clean tones and organic distortion if it's "box of code" is old & dated?

Lance,

Please don't take me wrong - I believe you and everyone else who has read all my posts know that I want to see the KPA and Mr. Kemper become a worldwide success with this concept! As great as the main Profiling part is, it is laden within a containing OS that does not do it proper justice. The noise, the aliasing, the instability, etc point to the overall system, not specifically the Profiling section, which is the truly new and quality aspect of the KPA...

You could say the same about the stratocaster. It's noisy, the trem doesn't stay in tune when you bend more than a little, the sound can be too harsh, to work on the circuit you need to take off everything and some more dowsides. You hear digital artifacts but do not complain about pickup noises, right? Users got around the strats problems somehow or they live with it. The question is always if these points are that important that you can not work with it at all. Now is it a dealbreaker or just one more backroundnoise?

Quoted from "Froschn"

You could say the same about the stratocaster. It's noisy, the trem doesn't stay in tune when you bend more than a little, the sound can be too harsh, to work on the circuit you need to take off everything and some more dowsides. You hear digital artifacts but do not complain about pickup noises, right? Users got around the strats problems somehow or they live with it. The question is always if these points are that important that you can not work with it at all. Now is it a dealbreaker or just one more backroundnoise?

That's not a fair comparison. I understand what Radley is saying. If you are trying to replicate something your main goal is to be as accurate as possible but most important of all is to do not introduce undesired results in the process, like the ones described by Radley.

I don't agree with the way he express it though and I am pretty sure he has no clue what he is talking about when he says the KPA is a "dated box of code".

The KPA is the first of its kind and even if some of the issues are similar to the ones in some modellers, I doubt the causes of those issues are the same and can be corrected the same way. If that were the case that would mean that Kemper have no clue what they are doing. When you see what the KPA does and how it does it, that thought simply cannot cross my mind.