Posts by citizengain

  • What FX are covered by your KPA.......

    Quote from strabes

    Thanks for the help but I don't think this will fix my problem. For example, let's say on one song I want a small reverb on one part with a light slap delay, then later on maybe a big heavy reverb with a big tape delay for some ambient thing. But I might also want one of those settings on a different song combined with a different reverb or different delay. So basically I need to be able to access all delay, reverb, drive, and modulation settings at all times without having to program "for this song I need these settings, for this song I need some different settings". With the timeline (or my old timefactor) for example I just have a light and heavy dotted eighth, heavy tape, slapback, etc, programmed in there so I can call them up at any time in any song, and the tempo I tapped in for that song persists across presets (it's called "global tempo"). Same thing with the BigSky: I have a small plate, medium plate, large hall, spring, etc presets that I can call up at any time during any song depending on the part of the song I'm in. Hopefully all that makes sense.


    This is a common problem with multieffects. Kemper is kind of like a multieffect in that sense. With Kemper, I use three, or max four different amp sounds and the rest is made with effects etc. It is much more cumbersome to have each sound with different variations versus to just click the needed effects for three different amp sounds.
    Presets and multieffects are useful when you are playing the same set in the same way and in same tempos each night. But when you have to make sounds on the fly, for example when substituting in a band, multieffects are not so useful. Especially when some distictive sound effects are needed.
    The ultimate multieffect would be something that you could choose an amp sound and then choose from a number of different delays, reverbs, modulations and drives etc, with a global tempo and also an ignore tempo setting for lets say a slapback delay etc. All this in addition to the traditional preset approach.

  • hi pass and lo pass filter..

    Although this is an old thread, I agree with some previous poster that incorporating hp and lp in the cab section would be very useful. Firstly, not having to use a slot for hp and lp and secondly, keeping the monitor out sound untouched when using a regular guitar cab.

  • Would it be possible to replace the flimsy network connector in the back of KPA with a locking one?

    Quote from paults

    If you have a toaster, you could mount one of these in the "cable storage area" :)


    That is a great idea, unfortunaly on this matter, mine is a rack version.


    Even if the locking connector would fit in the back panel, it would require cutting the metal etc. so I quess I'll stick with the feed-trough. This would still be a good improvement if the is going to be an upgraded version of KPA some day.

  • "Paste as alias" as in Mainstage

    Quote from viabcroce

    Yep, thanks, this was clear to me :)
    So you see the original patch name with the addition of an "Alias" mark, don't you?


    Yes. And the all the changes, apart from the tempo and "master volume", will affect all the aliases and the original one, no matter whether you tweak the original, or the aliases.

  • "Paste as alias" as in Mainstage

    Quote from viabcroce

    Great idea, but I would not want this to function by default. I love Performance mode because I can morph a single ring in as many different instances I want, and if everything was reverted to a single version when I edit the "source" file I would definitely start coursing like a Southern Italian (bad show, trust me) :D


    So, since I understand that the function you're describing is precisely an optional behaviour, my question would be: how to remember, after months or years, what was an alias or, from another perspective, where all the aliases of a given rig are?


    Trying to understand how to use this possibility :)


    On Mainstage you can choose whether to paste the patch normally or as an alias. And aliases are marked with a little arrow so you will know which one is alias which is not.


    Of course this would be much easier to manage with an editor than from the Kemper's screen. If only there was an editor for Kemper...


    I gave a little misinformation about the Mainstage: you can only copy-paste as alias the whole channel strip or Patch.


    The paste as alias feature would be extremely helpfull and it would make the workflow faster. For example, now I have my main lead sound in 12 different performances. Only difference being that the tempo setting is different in different perfomances. Now, if I want to add a little bit of gain or sometihing, I have to repeat the tweaking and saving -process 12 times. If the 11 lead patches were aliases, I would only have to do it once. As I said before, on Mainstage the tempo and fader are independent, so they don't follow the changes.

  • "Paste as alias" as in Mainstage

    Mainstage has this very handy feature which let's you copy-paste an amp sim or any plug-in as an "alias". This means that whatever changes you make to the original plug-in or any of the aliases, will affect the original and all the aliases.
    With Kemper this could be, let's say you have the same rig as a part of Solo patch in many different locations, for example in different performances. Then one day you notice that you could use a little more gain or mids or whatever. If you had copy-pasted the Solo rigs as aliases, you wouldn't have to change the settings on but one of the patches and it would affect all the patches, both the original and the aliases. This would save the trouble of going through all the patcher and saving them. This paste as alias feature could be used also for an effect or anything you can copy-paste.
    In Mainstage only the tempo and the fader volume are independent and don't follow the changes you make to other aliases.