Posts by Wheresthedug

That is actually one of my previous feature requests - to be able to change the lfo shape.

The difference between vibrato and chorus is simply that vibrarato has no dry signal whereas chorus is a combination of the vibrato and dry signals. Therefore you should be able to achieve the desired effect by reducing the mix in the chorus effect instead.

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I wonder how did you come to this 10% likes in this post? Please don't count mine, I hit "like" instead of "quote" by accident. I can see only 2 likes in your opening post of this thread. Majority of responses were rather negative.

one of those likes was mine and I was liking the concept of a loop around function for use in a totally different context

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,despite switches-lovers are so agressive to explain their love in ... metal button-pushing :)'

you still need to at least as many button pushes in your scenario as everyone else's. The only difference is you need to puch the one button 5 times instead of pushing each of the 5 buttons once. Its still 5 button presses no matter how you look at it. The only difference is the tried and tested 5 button method is reliable and user friendly.

CK has said in the not too distant past that he will add sweetened tunings at some point so it seems to be on the development list. I’ve no idea how far down the list it is though.

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And now : imagine ultime solution :

Most of time songs need just :

1 rig for tone

2 slots or morphing for solo

Boths could be done by the only "mission" pedal

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I still can’t see how your one button scroll through slots within a performance would be of any interest to anyone but you as it takes a logical functionality and turns it into a primitive workaround.

however, in the scenario above, with only two sounds (core and solo) you can already achieve this with just one switch in a logical manner. You only need one rig and the effects for the solo sound. You can either set your one switch to toggle on/off an effect slot or set it to toggle morph state to control multiple fx and settings. So your one switch if set to morph could engage, overdrive , delay, eq and boost rig volume for solos. Second press would take you back to the base state of just your core sound.

I totally agree with Ruefus that the idea of a one button option makes absolutely no sense and is a recipe for disaster on stage. If that's your bag then OK but you are probably in a minority on 1

However, I do actually support the request for a simple loop round option! I think this would be very useful for things like a large number of rigs loaded in the Browse Pool or large set lists of Performances where users currently need to scroll all the way back to the beginning instead of simply looping back to the beginning with a single click.

I have requested a feature previously where loop option would be combined with a rig/performance limit so that a user could select a start and end point for looping. Lets say you have 100 performances loaded in the KPA for some strange reason. However, tonight you want to be able to create a set list with just 10 performances from that pool and you want to be able navigate between them as quickly as possible. You would set the lower limit as say 22 and the upper as 31. When you reach either end the list would simply loop back to the beginning.

It would still be safer and more efficient in most cases to create the set list in RM and only load the actual performances needed onto the KPA but still be able to loop round at either end of the list. This would work well in the vast majority of cases but what about a situation where a set changes at the last minute and you don't have the performance on the KPA? A possible solution might be to have a larger performance pool and a set list sub pool but have the ability to exit the sub pool at any time. All of this sounds really useful but every time I think about one part I find another part that makes it more complicated than I initially thought. Therefore, this stream of thought is really just a long winded way of saying. I would probably just be happy with a loop round at either end option for simplicity

I see the value in this option but there seems to be two schools of thought as to how it should work.

on the one hand some people want the drop down list to show only oresets that are actually loaded on the KPA itself already.

on the other hand some want it to show all presets in Rig Manager (but limited to those for the effect type in question)

I can see pros and cons for both.

The limited to on the KPA version would stop the list being too large to manage in a contextual menu. However, it would also severely limit access to presets as you would need to manually add the preset to the KPA for it to be available. The time taken to copy the preset to the KPA would be the same or greater than the time to copy it derectly to the Stomp or FX block in RM using the current methodology.

The full access to RM preset list would remove the need to copy presets to the KPA which would make more sense to me. However, the downside is that the preset list that appears on the contextual menu could be massive and potentially more hassle than using the current drag and drop method.

It would be interesting to hear how others perceive the pluses and negatives of each option.

Another option that has just occurred to me might be to have the dop down contextual menu only show presets on the KPA but simultaneously add a filter to the full RM list so that only presets for the selected effect type are visible in the full list. This seems sensible to me. How would that work for others?

thanks for taking the time to explain the situation Nicky and reminding me of the need to be more considerate of others mental health.

I for one would like to apologise for my smart ass post with the Dale Carnegie book cover.

i hope the OP is alright and gets through this episode and returns to the forum in due course.

Afraid not but I’ll give it some more thought. And test it at my end if I get a chance tonight.

I haven’t tried it but if you go into the rig menu and adjust the delay/reverb balance. At -100% it puts the delay and reverb slots (whatever is loaded in them) in parallel. See page 230 in the manual for more details.

just sayin’ ?

If you are using Rig Manager look on the right hand side where the 5 Performance Rig slots are listed. At the top of that section there is the ability to Name the performance. Below that you can set a tempo key etc.

On the KPA itself in performance mode look at the screen and you will see the first soft key light is titled edit. If you press this you can enable performance tempo and select a tempo. You can have rigs apply their own tempo or have all rigs follow the performance regardles of their own default tempo

Do you have a tempo set in you Performances? If so the delays etc will conform to the performance’s tempo.

Do you have tempo enabled in the Rig Settings? If no tempo in performance (or if working in Browser Mode) the rig tempo will prevail if sync to tempo is enabled.

OOOOFFFFFFTT !!!

Nice ???

Damn those are some ugly tones mate ?

you need new tubes. New tube is always the answer ?

seriously though, nothing should have changed soundwise from the updates so unless you have accidentally changed a setting like clean sense or distortion sense etc there must be a problem specific to your individual KPA. Have you opened a support ticket? If not, I would do so straight away.

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I've never had a so called plug and play item actually be plug and play in my entire life and no company in this space has ever given me any kind of reasonably timely customer service if they even have customer service at all.

I’m really sorry to hear the problems you are having. I know it doesn’t help you but my experience of the KPA was exactly what I expected -total plug and play. I considered and tested Helix, I thought about Fractal. But in the end I went Kemper because I just wanted plug and play without all the deep dive tweaking that can completely take over your life. I have to say that the Kemper has provided exactly that and SPDIF with my clunky old Focusrite Saffire Pro has worked pretty much flawlessly from day one.

on the rare occasions that I have had to contact support they have always been extremely efficient and helpful.

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Far as I can tell the general attitude is buy our stuff and then aimlessly and randomly search for answers you'll never find online. Why they can't have a customer service agent here in the forum is beyond me.

My experience of their attitude has been the total opposite. They are a company that seem to go out of their way to help existing customers an keep providing updates and upgrades at no additional cost.

They do have several customer service agents in the forum include Christoph Kemper himself and they tend to be super helpful. They often answer queries and contribute to the forum out of work hours (such as Sunday afternoon or evening).

i don’t know the cause of your own problems but they seem unusual for Kemper. i hope you get everything sorted out soon.

i reckon there are enough amps in existence to provide profiles for many years to come ?

as for pure digital innovation, that should be easy. Instead of programers starting out with “how do I replicate XYZ amp?” they start out with “how do I create the sound I have in my head?” There shouldn’t be any need to try and create that sound by first trying to create an analog type signal path in the digital world. Instead, just go straight to sound manipulation in the digital realm.

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Didn't some of us think the same when the first red bean, aka Line6' POD came on the market (and some other first approaches in the digital realm).

the difference this time is momentum. Sales of digital solutions are now a significant portion of the market (if not already the majority).

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I'd think that clever amp makers need to look into a way to use their great knowledge and how to transfer it into the digital world. I was thinking of those who could just build prototypes which are further developments, enable new sounds etc., then profile them, sell the profiles and actually never put the physical amps into mass production.

I don’t see the need to design valve amps whether prototype or full production in order to have them digitally captured or modelled. Why not just go straight to digital and bypass the analog pre-production version?

I smell BS.

Apart from the claims of copyright protection they are trying to charge $20 for a single profile and claim some form of “proprietary refining” method which nobody else does ?

I would have to agree with you on that one.

Valve amps are undoubtedly set to become an extremely niche boutique market (and probably much sooner than we realise). However, I can’t see DRM making any difference to that future.

Rather than trying to make additional income from licensing recreations of physical valve amps to sustain the development of valve designs, i think the future will be digital amps designed from the ground up which don’t try and emulate any physical amp.

There is a whole generation of players (some of whom talk about valve amps and digital comparisons in forms) that have never actually played a real valve amp. Many of them have absolutely no desire to use a valve amp either.

There are whole genres of music where the amp tones are actually so extreme that valves aren’t necessarily the best technology to create those sounds in the first place (even though the players are currently still emotionally attached to valves - metal is an example).

The sooner digital amps move beyond just trying to emulate and start innovating the better.