Posts by Job Posthuma

Quote from SteinbergerHack

OK, to respond to the OP, it seems that it CAN be done, sort of, but it would require a MIDI controller and you'd still have to program each individual rig combination.

You could use a separate performance page for each FX preset, with the 5 rig slots used for the different amps/profiles/gains.

Ex:, Slot 1 as JC-120 Clean, Slot 2 as Fender Super Reverb slight breakup, Slot 3 as a dimed Plexi, Slot 4 Bogner XTC Blue, Slot 5 XTC Red. Copy these 5 plain profiles with no FX across all performance pages.

Next, build your FX presets. Put them in all 5 of the rig slots for a given performance page.

Now, set "Performance Load" to "Keep Slot".

In this config Selecting the slot with CC50-54 changes your amp but leaves the FX. Selecting the Performance Page with CC47 changes the FX but keeps the amp (same slot).

You still have to build them all, but having a no-FX performance page template and FX presets makes it fairly easy to do. 128 performance pages covers a lot of ground.

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yeah...it’s possible indeed, but there’s to much complications to my taste.

Managing so many presets, current state of expression controllers, a quick tweak of your amp sound takes adjusting a dozen rigs....to complicated!

I hope they consider my suggestion....and be the first in the market to support oldschool methods in a unit of today

Quote from Burkhard

What is hindering you to organize your 4 amps in 4 Performances and the 5 effect configurations in the five Slots of those Performances?

Performances n is amp n, and Slot m is effect configuration m. You then use the Rig Buttons to change the effect configuration and the Up/Down button to load the amp. MIDI wise that can be achieved with CC#47 to preload the amp and CC#50-54 to load the effect configuration.

Im sorry, I cant be more clear then I have been, and I hope you read my post with care.

#presets to manage, #of switches to step on , and flexible/intuitive control of your sound during a performance are the key components here.

I didn’t mention 1 other thing...ie If I changed the volume of an amp with an expression pedal..as soon as I switch effects following your suggestion ..I would start at the setting of the preset...that’s not what you want in the middle of a performance.

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Quote from Burkhard

You can do that and even include the amp and cab module by loading another Rig with one MIDI program change.

I know, but that’s not what I’m after. Lets say, for argument sake, I want to able to use 5 effect configurations on 4 amps. With “old school” 4 channel amp and effectunit...I got that with 9 swithces. If I were to have the same options in the kemper, id need 36 presets, and id be switching banks like a madman. If I wanted to change my “clean sound”...id be editing 5 rigs.

Thats a lot more complicated then managing 4 amp sounds and 5 effect presets.

The result of what I’m proposing is switching effect chains like you would in an amp + effectunit set up.

The way to get there that I propose is basically....allow the user to group i.e. a drive preset, a verb preset and a delay preset in a [give it a name] and assign a CC+ value to that [give it a name] to trigger load and activate whatever is in there. So its based on using how users can store presets at this moment....group IDs of those in a table/file...and recall those on CC+value trigger.

Quote from Sollazzon

I don t rember the number but there s a CC to turn on/off at once all the Stomp section and another one for the Effect section. Maybe #16 and.. check the manual.

So You can save a group of fx ( pre or post Amp and Cab) and then turn them On or Off with one switch.

that’s nice....but different from changing the content of what’s in the effectblock...and activate that.

As a user I want to be able to activate a userdefined group of effectpresets with 1 CC message/switch so that I can change all my effectslots with one click, without changing my amp sound/switch rig, so I don’t have to make presets for every amp / effects combination I use.

In other words, I want to be able to load a group of effect presets with on click, without changing my amp sound/switch rig. Example: on preset/rig A with only verb, I want to temporarily add a compressor, a delay, and change the verb mix with on click. After doing so want to be able to change to preset/rig B with the same effects. After that I want to go to the effect settings as they where defined in preset/rig B by deactivating the “temporary called group of effects”.

in other words....a stomp button/cc msg can trigger loading several userdefined existing effect presets and activate them.

I can imagine it could work like this:

- add an “effects- container” where user can add ID,s of existing presets, and give a name to the container.

- add functionality where user can link this “effect-container” to a stomp button / CC as triggers. (CC number + values that link to 127 containers?)

- at trigger of a footswitch or CC msg, all presets in the container are loaded, and activated.

- container gets status active and the used slots get locked so a rig change won’t interfere.

- when a container is active, all effectslots that are not in the container are disabled.

- when a container is deactivated, the effects in the preset are reloaded. (So a toggle between effects as defined in the preset, and the effects in the “effects container”.

The gain knob is nothing more then a clean boost...resulting in a more gainy sound when you dial it up... because you hit the input of the amp harder.

Quote from CelticGibson

Since it is in the output menu, it makes sense that it is post all effects, just like a real guitar cab. The main outs would still retain the stereo full range sound.

judging by where its in the menu you are right.

But it would also make sense putting it before the effectblocks so their output would be fullrange.

Post or Pre the last 4 effectblocks?

Quote from ckemper

Hi!

The Acoustic Simulator in its first incarnation was done quite a while ago. I have not put a huge emphasis on it, which was a mistake, but maybe not.

When we showed it on the NAMM show, there was an overwhelming interest and feedback for it, also on the social networks, which we did not expect.

At the same time, some of my team (especially Tom from the videos) expressed the potential for further improvements and refinements, which then seemed definitely worth the efforts. So I kicked the ball back to my team.

Give us the time to finish this work

You will like it.

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add a nylonstring version while your at it?

The setting you mention is the one to use...and disables the cab on the monitor output which should be feeding your poweramp

Any indication on when Kone will be available?

On a budget for “amp in the room”...get a used combo with a decent powersection and effectsloop..stick the kpa in the return. Works great!

Older l6 amps, fender mustang, have decent powersections, nobody wants those for good reason..so very cheap.

Else..get a 1x12 cab and velcro a ss powersection to it.

Else..get a 1x12 cab and add a camplifier to your kpa. (Retro fit ss amps)

I think the reason for a heading towards including the poweramp in the profile, is that only that will capture what you are hearing. Some preamps need the poweramp section to sound well....so they say.

Personally, my “go to” sound is a profile of an amp using the loop...added a cab from a different profile I liked...done! Works into a powersection+cab (obviously)...but also “direct”, where theres no powersection included.

Probably trial and error, where the odds are that big MV irons where the powersection doesnt do more then “power”...are gonna turn out fine.

Profiling an amp through its effectsloop worked quite well for me.

I added a cab from another profile, works both direct as well as into a powersection for me.

I used it on the lead part of this track:

Since you already have power for 1 channel in your powered kpa, why not use the return of a combo for the second channel? Youd probably need one with a MV after the return.

Or swap for a nonpowered and check the stereo amps from camplifier.

Maybe a 1x12 frfr can reach the same volume, maybe the same cutthrough in a mix...but no way its gonna be the same experience as a 4x12.

To reduce weight and size...maybe consider a 2x12 loaded with neo speakers.

Its defenitely possible through midi...I do so using an ms3 as midi controller for the kpa...fwiw.

Does seem strange its not possible using the controller.

Quote from dmatthews

Ah, I have the 180 = 2x90

I have to crank all the outputs and the speakers I've tried, there's no way I could keep up with a drummer. Maybe mine's not working right...

I have the same amp and gigging it with drummers.

Not loud ones...but I always seem to have quite a bit of volume left.

I would consider it less powerfull then i would expect from a 180 amp (feels like the input could be driven much harder then the kpa can)....but i feel its adequate for any situation I want to get myself into volumewise.

So my 2 cents..either you dont drive it hard enough, or its a faulty unit.

Quote from LiamUK

Well my maths, as awful as it is, has the anomaly at £73.62 GBP...

It seems, within the past ten minutes, their price is now £1423.00 GBP..... Odd

Isnt this a result of the pound dropping?

Retailer got it at an earlier rate of the poind, Kempers website is probably compensating automated based on Exchange rates.

Quote from GearJocke

Honestly do you think the kemper team will release anything mediocre? Have Christopher Kemper ever released anything that is or is close to mediocre? The answer is obvious. I don't mean to be harsh but any such negative speculation shouldn't have been written here.

Well....actually they have...the kpa bag

Although im confident about the quality of the speaker...prob order as soon as available.