Posts by cags12

  • Selecting front or back input via each rig

    +1 to this but with workaround below.


    "hardware-wise" I achieve this by using the return(reamp) input selection. I toggle between front/aux and return to being able to select different inputs. obviously this sacrifices the effects loop but in my case I do not use it.

    I connect a regular guitar in the normal input and my Boss GP-10 on the return. I wish I could select this setting per rig.

  • Display tuner note in default screen of performance mode at all times

    As we have the tuner leds displaying at all times whether or not in Tuner mode, I would love to be able to see as well the tuner note in the main default performance screen for quick checks in the middle of song without going full tuner mode.

    Use cases (in performance or browse mode):

    1. Quick Tuner note reference when no remote present
    2. Quick Tuner note reference when tuner footwswitch reassigned to other function
    3. Quick Tuner note reference when in middle of a passage/jam session where perhaps you are not sure of the key (fretboard knowledge aid)
    4. Tuner note reference when far from remote but close enough to see the KPA screen

    The note can be displayed in the left black square section in the performance screen in the KPA and it could be displayed to the left side of the Remote screen opposite to the clock.


    This would be a quick win and simple enough change since the tuner is running in the background at all times anyway. It could be an optional setting (similar to clock).

  • {Mattfig}. FREE Profiles for review on this thread

    I finally managed to browse through the BE100 and BE100 2.0 profiles. I definitely like the 2.0 much more and the multiple cabs is a great addition. I am a modern high gain aficionado and wanted to give a try to the classic tones and I found myself spending a lot of time in almost every single profile of the BE100 2.0 with a guitar with split coils. Super recommended.

    I also like the fact that for each profile settings group, Matt includes the DI profiles so it becomes very easy to combine with other cabs.


    Thanks again Matt.

  • Level meter of Input within Input menu

    While the led light is useful as a quick reference, I really wish we could have a more accurate graphical meter within the input menu section where we can visualize how hot the guitar input is.

    This would help a lot as informational of different levels of our different guitars and also as a more accurate reference to set up Clean and Distortion sense.

    I myself have different pedals and multi-effects hitting the input of the Kemper and I sometimes struggle to normalize the input without a better reference of how hot we are hitting the Kemper.


    I guess the same can be implemented in the output section and loop return?.

  • OS7 Public Beta Discussion

    With just a few minutes after updating, a few bugs I have experienced, anyone else?:


    - When saving performances, KPA freezes for about 1.5 minutes, Remote disconnects and nothing responds. It comes back after the 1.5 minutes and applies whatever actions where queued. Audio works all the time.

    - Getting into Input menu now takes a medium/long press to get in, otherwise nothing happens, is it by design or bug?

    - Noticed that studio eq presets do not show in the new added functionality ("display name of effect preset recently loaded")

    - Tunes Says -+n cents cents (two times cents)


    What's the best method to report this back?

  • Show current FX preset name on Profiler's LCD screen

    I believe that the preset name should display as long as it has not been modified from its values, if the user makes the slightest change then clear the screen as it is no longer a present.


    The other day I was struggling to verify whether or not I had saved my rig with the preset I wanted so had to go back and forth presets and be sure it was the one I wanted.

  • Question Regarding Wah and Expression Pedal

    Quote from Noisenet

    I’ll check it out when I get back home after the weekend but I don’t think I’ve locked any slots. I use the toe switch on the Mission pedal to activate/deactivate the wah. I tried reversing the polarity but that had no effect. After doing that, though, on the nex power up, the way was on as usual but as soon as I moved the pedal it turned off.

    This exactly happens to me and with the troubleshooting I have done it seems that the Footswitch assignment is causing this. And definitely seems like a bug.

    When the Kemper boots up all is Ok as it should. However, as soon as the Remote finishes booting and connecting, the Wah or whatever effect is on Slot A (footswitch assignment) on whatever patch happens to be selected, gets enabled automatically. So it appears that the remote sends to the KPA a footswitch press action. I am using a TS cable with the Mission EP-1.


    This is easily replicable Burkhard

  • NAMM 2019: Kemper Kabinet and Kemper Kone

    Quote from Atlantic

    Regarding FRFR it is a concept that makes sense when you want a device that plays anything that you feed in the most linear manner possible.


    But so many people here in the forum have spoken about a somewhat underwhelming feeling about this kind of solutions. Because we don't want a linear speaker. We want a guitar speaker. And a guitar speaker is not linear, ever.

    I have a different opinion/understanding to this: "We want a guitar speaker. And a guitar speaker is not linear, ever"


    I think this misses the point of the need of an FRFR speaker completely. When you use a linear speaker it is not to flatten the response of a guitar speaker you want to reproduce (not sure if this what you meant t say or not). In contrast, if you have a guitar speaker A and capture its IR with a Microphone "M", you will end up with a sound sound "AM", the need of the linear speaker "L" is in order to then get a faithful reproduction of "AM" and not a colored sound "AML". In other words the linear speaker is used with the aim to un-affect the original signal.


    One problem with the Mic variable and one of the reasons why a speaker/cab reproduction never feels like the original speaker (apart from the color it introduces), would seems the introduction of more frequencies that were not present in the original signal coming form the guitar speaker. Hence the existence of PureCab and GRFR and other DSP tricks. CK is trying to address this with the speaker imprints.


    The other problem that CK is trying to address with the Kemper Kabinet is the dispersion of the signal and the beam effect. The Beam effect is what everyone mostly attributes to the Amp in the room effect whereas due the position on our ears in respect the signal beam, make us hear a different sound. Most FRFR speaker I believe have greater dispersion thus making us hear more frequencies than we really want.


    In conclusion. I do not think the "linearity" of a speaker is the problem at all, but instead other physical effects as per above.

  • NAMM 2019: Kemper Kabinet and Kemper Kone

    Quote from benvigil

    $299 is a great Kabinet price . . . for making sure Kemper goes out of business.

    Perhaps $399, but more than that I personally would look at getting more from it and not being locked down to just one use with one device.


    The Kabinet will boost sales of the KPA and viceversa. If it is not priced competitively, I believe other options become more compelling, including the new Celestion speaker or the Kabinet speaker on its own. Remember that a lot of the RnD investment will reside on the KPA and not the Kab itself.


    I just do not want to see it priced ala Apple style just for the sake that is coming from Kemper and it is green. But that's my opinion.

  • NAMM 2019: Kemper Kabinet and Kemper Kone

    Quote from shizzaq

    I figure the Kemper Cab will be 6-700 bucks. Mission and XiTone charge at least 500 for a passive FRFR speaker. I looked at doing one myself and was going to save maybe a hundred bucks. Not worth the effort. I hope it is $599. That seems like a real reasonable price for a speaker designed by Kemper to work best with the profiler.

    I do not know but to me $599 would be overpriced for what the Kemper Kabinet will be on its own.


    If you compare with its direct competitor, the Line6 PowerCab (not the plus) which is priced $599, you get much more than what you will from the Kemper Cab with what we know so far.


    Line6 PowerCab:

    • Active Cab
    • Speaker models ("imprints") in the actual Cab
    • Flat setting in the actual Cab
    • Microphone emulation for the XLR output
    • Kickstands
    • Amp in the room
    • Being able to use everything above with any other modeler/profiler/etc

    Kemper Kabinet

    • Passive Cab
    • Speaker "imprints" done by the KPA DSP
    • Flat setting achievable by the KPA DSP
    • Amp in the room
    • Only really usable (accuratelly) with the KPA


    Do not get me wrong, I am really interested in the KKab and I'd like to remain on the same ecosystem but come on, it needs to be priced accordingly. $299 (edit: perhaps $399) or $349 seems to be more inline with what it is.


    If you think about it, I do not think Kemper is looking for big profits from the KKab by itself but from its dependency to the KPA. It will boost sales of the KPA.