Can Kemper at least confirm or deny an editor is in the works?

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I can't tell you in which thread exactly you can read about it, but I am sure that it's official that they are not planning on an editor - the only thing that is considered to be done is a profile manager. I for one am not missing an editor because it's so simple to tweak the parameters.

An editor should be fairly straightforward once a 2-way MIDI spec is public. I wouldn't want to make one without it.

id love a librarian which ive read is on the cards. Not 2 fussed either about an editor. When i first got my KPA i thought it was a right pain editing profiles but now im becoming quite a wizz But a librarian would definatly help with organising profiles and finding the one you wnat quickly

Almost one year of using the KPA let me become a fast operator.
However, tagging and naming is still way more time consuming as it should be.

+1 for an editor programm!!!

I think Christoph confirmed last year that they are already working on a librarian feature.
A full editor is not important for me but it would be good for some users and they have a great editor integration with their Access Virus synth so I would guess that might come in the future. Creating a full featured flawless editor is much harder and time consuming than a librarian option though. Just look at how big problems other companies have with their editors.

Any form of direct connection between computer and kemper would be good. Honestly, you don't need a dedicated librarian software if you can just treat the Kemper as an external disk (though you might want to modify the info panel for the files to show their metadata). But it would be very nice to have an editor, a-la Pod HD edit or Axe Edit.

So if it,s still missing the editor and the librarian, and we have a built in power amp in the new version, it seems that the Kemper team it,s focused on live using......, but in this case I don,t understeand why is still lack the Performance mode, the foot controller is missing, and in the last case why it,s not fully programmable, assignable, configurable on pedal/effects and other functions C.C. assigning, and why do not have full two way midi communication????......
Maybe because even this perfect sounding instrument can not be perfect????

Im sure these things will come very soon. Its Obvious the CK wants things right first before he just releases them. Im happy to wait if it means what ever they release will be the best they could !!!!

The problem with an editor for a product like this is every change to the unit is a change to the editor. Much more effort to try and build an editor for a product who's feature-set is constantly changing.

The KPA is so easy to adjust parameters that I think the only reason I would want an editor is to name/tag presets. Scrolling through the alphabet sucks.

Quote from Will_Chen

The problem with an editor for a product like this is every change to the unit is a change to the editor. Much more effort to try and build an editor for a product who's feature-set is constantly changing.

Depends how the interface is constructed, hard coded or via resource files, the latter would mean it would automatically keep up to date as you updated via the shared reference, the former would be a big issue though.

I would like a simple USB keyboard interface to be able to type when saving patches.

So we can count on a Librarian/rig manager first, but no one knows if an editor is in the works, right?

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So we can count on a Librarian/rig manager first, but no one knows if an editor is in the works, right?

They said it's planned, but gave no timeframe, so I wouldn't count on anything with regards this. Unfortunately even for third parties I doubt that they'll release 2-way midi communication info until some time after they've released their own footpedal in order to give them a healthy sales headstart, even though I'm unlikely to get he footpedal this is actually the reason I'm itching for them to get on and release it already.