Posts by soapmak3r

Quote from Monkey_Man

I don't think you have to be a new user to "relate" to at least one of his viewpoints, as I suspect you'd agree, Charvelguy. That is, the view that an editor would be great.

It's some of the accusations and assumptions he made, however, that are ill-founded, untruthful low blows that many here would feel offended by. I won't quote them all as there are a few, but here's one:

I was being facetious in response to someone saying that they 'love' Kemper as a company, and insisting that I must too, because I bought and enjoy their device.
This is an idea that I find completely irrational and kind of perverse. Why would anyone 'love' a corporate entity or be under the illusion that that company loves them back, or cares about them at all? You really are a peculiar bunch.

Quote from 808illest

You said it man, clear as day - "I love the Kemper"
Now you're being unreasonable, better start back-peddling or you won't find much "love" here for you!

I didn't realize that by buying a Kemper I was swearing undying, unquestioning allegiance to the company that made it. I thought I was just buying a decent guitar amp profiler...Silly me, eh?

I am not 'backpeddling' anything, my points stand, and will continue to stand as long as there is no support for an editor.

This is just sad...Do people just hang out in the feature request thread, attempting to derail it and get it locked? To what end? Fighting against useful, practical features? Makes perfect sense...

Quote from 808illest

Having modded a few boards in the past I think this forum does a damn fine job in keeping things clean and organized, there are much worse forums out there.
Everyone has a right to express their opinion, definitely, but hacking the company/product you love isn't helpful. It aids in negativity and fuels the fire for conflict and is counter-productive in achieving results.

This is the thing though, the product is generally great, but under supported/neglected, as evidenced by the complete lack of an editor. Going back through various threads, I see that this has been an issue left completely unaddressed for years. Years. That is not good business sense.

It does not inspire trust, or foster loyalty, and does not justify people respecting the company, never mind 'love' them. Why you would 'love' any company is beyond me though. Clearly, Kemper do not care about you, or the needs of the community, so you are technically in an abusive relationship with one-sided 'love'. They 'love' our money. Bottom line.

Stockholm syndrome comes to mind.

Maybe they should add a forum slogan "An echo chamber of yes men fighting against any kind of meaningful progress."

I get why this forum has such a bad reputation now and why I have avoided it.

I love the Kemper, but it is not as good as it could be, because of the lack of practical, standard features such as a computer based profile editor.

I was not unfriendly to anyone. I did say that it was shameful and embarrassing that a company has neglected the needs of their community for years, to the point that other individual users have taken it upon themselves to create a working editor for us.
That is a statement of fact that reflects very poorly on Kemper as a company. No need for anyone to get overly defensive about that and start lashing out. It is what it is.

Quote from grappagreen

Why did you buy a device that didn't meet your requirements?

If an editor was a show stopper then you bought the wrong thing.

Perhaps you can return it and get whatever meets your requirements?

As for Kemper letting users down I completely disagree.

Oh and whilst an editor might prove useful the interface on the KPA is do well designed (and I've studied the manual) I don't need one. I can do everything I need with the push of a couple of buttons and tweak of a few encoders.

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Quote from Sharry

Who told you it's a hack? And why bizarre?Everybody can make a MIDI-based Editor. All MIDI function for that are documented.

BTW: Please don't bring the facebook communication style in this forum and stay where you feel comfortable in this way.
Or did'nt you know what you have purchased.

It was the sound of the Kemper that sold it to me. It has 2 USB ports, so an editor or some kind of computer based editing software is assumed. Rig Manager is a bare bones attempt, at best.

It was put together by a member of the community, ie 'hacked' together. Non-official. What exactly is 'facebook communication style' even supposed to mean? That is a nonsensical statement.
If I am communicating with text, it will be the same regardless of where that text is posted. Nice attempt to push me out of the forum because you don't like what is being discussed though. Really friendly of you...I guess they don't like well reasoned, constructive criticism around here.

Quote from Finally

You think 1000 profiles on the device at a time is a serious limitation for any professional? Sounds more like collecting hockey cards than pro music gear.

Can you give an example of the Kemper letting you down and what was the impact? Did you have to give up on a session because you couldn't find one rig in 1000 that would capture the sound you're after and you didn't have the energy to look through Rig Manager? 1000 profiles?

Yes, as there is no computer based editor, we are having to remove profile packs from the Kemper, in order to put other profile packs onto the Kemper to edit them. It is a massive inconvenience that would not exist if there was an editor because tweaking profiles could be done quickly and easily, then they could either be saved locally on the computer and the Kemper.
When I bought my Kemper, I got TAF Vol.1 half price. I think it filled up the majority of the available profile space on my Kemper. Many profile packs on the market contain hundreds of amp profiles. That space disappears very quickly.

I am not saying that there are not great profiles, of course there are, I am talking about being able to tweak/fine tune them to my personal tastes and then save them without having to have them on the Kemper, using Rig Manager, which without an official editor, is not possible.

I am not sure, but I'd imagine I probably have at least a couple of thousand professionally made profiles on my computer. The Profiler can hold 1000.
With Rig Manager I can quickly and easily 'preview' profiles, but I cannot tweak their gain, EQ, or effects from within Rig Manager to suit the particular guitar that I am using and then save them (or save a new edited copy), meaning that profiles that might sound excellent with a little tweaking are often rejected because in their default state, they are not immediately usable.

When recording in a Studio environment this is an even more important feature set to have access to, because getting the best possible sound at source is paramount, and being able to save profile states for quick and easy recall is just as important.

Even for people not in a studio environment, being able to use a mouse and keyboard (or touch screen if you are fancy) to edit and save profiles would be massively more intuitive and time efficient than doing it on the Kemper. The majority of my profiles are NOT on the Kemper.

What sense does it make to have to move profiles from the Kemper, to make room for profiles not on the Kemper, just so that I can edit and save them? It defies reason.

Well, this does not work with MIDI to USB cables that do not transmit Sysex data, so it will not work with what I have. It would work if Kemper developed a USB MIDI driver for the Kemper, but they don't appear to care about the needs of their customers at all. So frustrating.

Quote from HCarlH

They did this for free....as a hobby.I'd rather have $$$$$$ spent for new features.

In the meantime, you have an option posted above for an editor. You should try it and let us know how you like it. It may do everything you want.

Trying it now. It isn't working at all for me with a MIDI to USB lead. I have another that I will try. The 'Toaster' app worked for me for adjusting gain, EQ and wet/dry reverb. This one doesn't appear to want to work for me at all though.
There haven't been any new features in about a year, so...

Quote from Elantric

KPAEditor Community Project(vst, standalone, win, mac , linux ) - based on http://ctrlr.org/ .

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The very fact that a single person was able to put this together in their spare time (not sure how long it took them, but still) and in several years Kemper have failed to deliver their own official editor that works over USB...Is shameful and embarrassing.

Quote from 808illest

Most everyone I talk with does know about the forum and gains knowledge whether it's before purchase or after! Doesn't mean everyone does, but the majority do.
BTW - welcome @soapmak3r

Cheers. I am more active on Kemper Facebook groups. I have stayed away from these forums until now because they have a pretty bad reputation for various reasons.
There is currently a poll on the "Kemper Profiling Amp / KPA User Group" on Facebook, and the vast majority of those that have contributed thus far said that they would find an editor useful and practical to have.

451 in favour of an editor.
13 against (for whatever reason)
79 voters don't care either way.

The poll is about a day old at this point, but certainly reflects that there is a significant desire from users for an editor. I just find it bizarre that it is being left up to members of the community to hack one together. It reflects rather poorly on Kemper as a brand.

Quote from 808illest

Assuming you own a Kemper, you'd probably know this has been covered extensively in many threads.

It'll come when they're ready to release it, simple as that

Are there any actual official statements from Kemper, progress updates, feature lists, projected release windows? I have not seen one single thing, other than speculation by Kemper users.

Why is there no way to edit the EQ, gain, and effects of profiles from a computer connected over USB and then save them?

This would be an extremely practical thing to have. Individual Kemper users are now resorting to programming their own (that requires a MIDI to USB cable) for the Kemper community. Why has Kemper so far failed to deliver such a simple, useful and practical feature?

It doesn't really make sense or inspire much confidence in Kemper as a company that actively supports their device or that listens to the feedback of people keeping them in business.
It's kind of embarrassing that it is being left to users to add such basic functionality to such an expensive device. Very strange all around.

Just a run through of the various profiles in this pack. Playing on the various pickup positions on a Gibson SG with P-90s. Good solid tones. Fairly raw, and not over produced sounding. Plenty of gain dynamics.

It is kind of absurd that there no Mac/PC GUI front end to control the settings of the Kemper remotely via USB. For studio work this is an essential feature.