Hi all -
long time kemper user here. My new music project requires that I set all my performances to change via midi. I've never used midi but figured out how to use program changes to move between performances and slots in performance mode. When playing along, I notice there is a slight lag between when the midi sends the change and when my Kemper stage actually changes slots. It is a bit of an issue when going from a rhythm part to a solo, for example, because the first beat of the solo is still using the rhythm patch as the kemper performance slot changes. When I manually switch performance slots using the buttons it has always be instantaneous (to my ears anyway). But with midi there is a noticeable lag.
My current solution is to set the midi PC to about a 16th note before I want the performance slot to change, and that pretty much makes up for the lag. But I'm wondering if this is typical, or if there is a method I should be using that makes midi changes pretty much instant.
To the extent it matters, I'm using Ableton to run the midi, goes to a soundcard with midi out to kemper into midi channel 16.
Thanks in advance for any help here.