Posts by dango123

Quote from davec69

Looks interesting. Can you give more details on how you are using/connecting the extender?

Sure - the unit comes with 2 connectors, a USB connector for power and an Ethernet connector that goes into the footpedal jack - just plug in, turn on the Kemper, and the Vonets unit will be automatically powered up.

- at that point, you can immediately see the Vonets wifi hub on your iPhone when you go to wifi settings - select the hub, and then start up the iPhone Kemper app and you are basically good to go.

I found this initial approach works, but was a little intermittent for me (connection was dropped from time to time).

The other option is to use the Vonets software to connect directly to your home wifi - then you connect your iPhone to your regular home network, and the app still sees the Kemper. This is a little easier to use at home (don't need to switch networks), but won't work if you take the unit out of your home network (e.g., at the gig).

Hope that helps!

Hopefully they can address this in an upcoming update.

I'm also wondering if it may be noise introduced by the mechanical switch itself (the pops seem to happen when I add/end the overdubs)...

Hi - in case anyone is considering this device - here is a quick review/update:

Pros:

- easy to setup - you can have the WIFI bridge functionality (i.e., connecting to your home network) working in about 2 minutes, and then the IOS app will detect the Kemper rack/toaster straight away

- CHEAP - found it for 18 bucks on Amazon in the US - you can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V…_yo2_dt_b_product_details

- small/light, with all necessary cables built in

- when using as a WIFI bridge (e.g., connect to your home network), it worked well and held a stable connection to the Kemper

Cons:

- when using as a dedicated WIFI hub (i.e.,the out-of-the-box mode, where it behaves like a mobile hotspot), I experienced intermittent connection issues where the IOS app would lose connection with the Kemper - in this mode, the Kemper also kept trying to sync with the IOS, which was a bit of a PITA. This is a slight bummer, since I'd like to be able to use the mobile capabilities during gigs to tweak settings. I'll continue to experiment with this to see if I can somehow improve performance in this area

Not quite a Pro or Con:

- current draw on this device is in theory under 500ma, so based on what I've read in the forums, this is within the limits of what the Kemper USB jack can provide... but I'm using this thing very sparingly at the moment, just in case... If anyone has any further details to share on this point, please do!

Hope this is helpful to someone out there - enjoy

Thanks paults - appreciate the response! Didn't realize that there were basic amp presets in the OS. There is no "from rigs" type of select option in the IOS app, so I guess at this point I'll just work with the amp in the underlying profile and use the editor to manage all the other elements around it.

To the IOS app designers - this could be a great feature add, to allow selecting amp modules from other profiles, as we can today directly from the UI on the device itself. So basically you could see how your overall profile would change when swapping in different amps (for example, A/B a marshall vs. a boogie with all the other parameters staying the same, so that you can fine tune the full set of variables).

Thanks again,

Dan

So, I bought a Vonets wifi hub for 17 bucks on Amazon that was delivered overnight (that in itself... wow!) - plugged the hub into Kemper ethernet/USB jacks, connected hub to iPhone via wifi settings, started up the new Kemper IOS app, and it recognized my Kemper within 10 seconds - amazing!

I then ran into an issue that I'm wondering if others have experienced: when editing a profile (in either browse or performance mode), when I go to the amplifier module and try to change amps, I'm presented with a fixed list of 8 amps, starting with "Black Stone Max Ton" and ending with "Robots Gainy" - none of which I'm currently using, and none of which are related to the profile I'm editing. Please see picture below (note - while this is from "Demo mode" - it's the same screen I see when connected to the Kemper):

I can't figure out how to see/select any other amp profiles in the drop down. I'm hoping I'm missing something here and doing something wrong.

If anyone has any suggestions to help me out with this, I'd hugely appreciate it!

Best,

Dango

Just searching the forum for this issue and saw your note... I'm having this issue as well - it's intermittent, but occasionally on the overdub I'm getting loud audio clicks which makes the looper almost unusable when adding overdub layers.

I'm a huge Kemper fan, not trying to create a fuss... but just letting you know I'm having the same issue. Kemper admins - any thoughts on what's happening and/or if a fix may be coming in a future update?

I use my H9 occasionally in the Kemper loop, as digbob describes above - works really well. and I like that you can switch it on/off from the Kemper like any other onboard effect.

Would be great if Kemper could also send midi change control commands to Eventide as you change profiles (for all I know this may be possible already, but would require additional midi cabling which I haven't gotten around to experimenting with just yet... now if they could do midi change control via bluetooth....that would be something!).

Frankly, the effects on Kemper are good enough that 98% of the time there is no need to use external gear IMO. Kemper even has the Eventide-inspired Ballerina/crystal type arpeggiated delays built in.

Some of the H9 programmable pattern arpeggiations are not available in Kemper yet - hoping they can add stuff like that someday, really fun to play around with these effects, particularly when playing solo, to set up pads/accompanying grooves. Some day...

Quote from AndredenDekker

They have no software testers at Kemper. I'm sure. Or if they have, then they are not kicking some developers ass. That's why I think in the end Kemper will fail with their product. I have worked at various software development departments but I never seen so unstable software.

I have had all kinds of guitar gear and this device is really the only one that keeps dissapointing in stability. On the device itself with the original footpedal, its all doable. Still some ignorances and bugs. But when you start using the rig manager to get stuff set up. It's absolutly unusable. And they already spent a decade to develop this product. I really spend nights of tweaking to find it is all corrupted (again!) after closing the rig manager.

I am an IT professional as well. Could things be better? Always. Is RM the most intuitive editor/librarian, definitely not. Do I have some development items on my wish list that I'd like to see prioritized, absolutely (e.g., sweetened tunings, customizable speed settings on the Leslie effect, a cool polyphonic synth module, External midi clock sync with the looper, better wireless remote options, etc. etc. etc.).

But those are minor asks in the big picture (...sweetened tunings... pretty please!?). I'm EXTREMELY impressed with Kemper's commitment to the platform, their ability to wring so much goodness out of legacy hardware, the free (!) and fairly frequent updates, and the bottom line results from the product. The Profiler has been about as stable as any piece of gear I own (reminder, tubes go bad and strings also break from time to time) - I haven't been out of action long enough to complain about anything on this front.

The most glaring issue at the moment for me is the delay in patch changes that has crept into the latest builds - that's something they should really try to address ASAP... and I'm guessing they will figure it out.

The product has been on the leading edge for a decade... and the company kept its original clients in the mix all the way through. That's unheard of in the MI industry (something Roland would never consider in a million years).

Nothing here to complain about IMO. Oh, and about those sweetened tunings...

Quote from TomR

There is an older thread about that topic...

Mr. Kemper also chimed in.

Customized tuner settings in Kemper

Thanks - good to know that this concept is getting some attention at Kemper

I personally feel that this is low hanging fruit for the Kemper developers that would have a big bang for the buck. Programmable offsets, across all 6 strings, saved as a custom set, that could be called up on demand (so, for example, custom tuning 1 = EVH running with the devil for 6 individual strings; custom tuning 2 is Buzz Feiten offsets for 6 individual strings; custom tuning 3 is sweetened offsets for bass guitar, focused on EADG, etc... users could either create their own set of offsets, or select from preset sweetened tunings.

Mr. Kemper - lets make it happen!

FYI - this article describes some of the claimed tuner offsets used by EVH on various songs - as mentioned earlier, this makes an enormous difference, and I think some folks will be very pleasantly surprised at the improvements...

https://www.vhlinks.com/vbforu…on-strobe-tuner-reference

Apparently Eddie always tuned with a Peterson which is how he was able to consistently reproduce these custom tunings. Check it out!

It's amazing how much difference the tiny offsets can make.

As an example - if you try to play certain Van Halen tunes with standard/unsweetened tunings (forget for the moment that EVH also tuned down to Eb...), songs as simple as running with the devil, just do not sound right... until you VERY slightly flatten out the b string. Suddenly everything sounds MUCH better. You can easily prove it to yourself next time you have a guitar in your hands.

I remember reading an article recently where Eddie talked about how he had his own personal offsets, including the slightly flat B, to do what he does. I think he may have even revealed what the offsets that he used were... I'll see if I can find that again.

BTW, AxeFX already offers this ability to store custom tuning offsets - so clearly alot of people benefit from this functionality. Building the tuner was the hardest part... adding the ability to store custom offsets would hopefully not be nearly as major an undertaking (but of course I'm not a Kemper developer, so perhaps they can weigh in on this?). Mr. Kemper - lets make it happen!

+1 - would be so great to have more control over speeds - the magic sweet spot (for me at least) is slightly faster than the slowest setting - at the moment you can only get there for a few seconds when slowing down from fast to slow - to be able to have fixed speeds between "low" and "hi" would be amazing...

Quote from dango123

I have the same issue - up until recently I had 2 performances for my core live profiles so it wasn't too noticeable, but in the last few weeks I've started experimenting with a number of new performances, and the lag in switching between slots (across performances, and within a performance) is significant. Having said that, I'm usually connected to Rig Manager when I am managing my profiles... wonder if that may contribute to the lag? I'll experiment in the next day and let you know what I find out

confirmed, even without rig manager connected, the lag when switching performances/profiles remains.

It's been a while since I've seen a dedicated thread on this (and please forgive me if I somehow missed it) - would be SO GREAT to get Peterson-stye offsets/sweetened tunings as selectable tuner options on the Kemper. I recognize it will require a bit of software design/development (and IT is my day job, so I get that it will take some time to properly implement this feature) - but I think the payoff would be huge for a lot of players out here, even those that have never explored sweetened tunings before. The subtle improvements translate to a quantum leap in enjoyment as a player, when playing alone or with others (when they also tune to the selected offsets).

Going to the Peterson on my live gigs a few years ago was a revelation for me and the other guitarist I was playing with - everything just sounded better/sweeter/"righter" ;).

Mr. Kemper... PLEASE PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE can we get this in an upcoming update?

Quote from OhG

I don’t experience any lag when switching between performances. My Kemper does however skip over performances when I use the buttons on the unit rather than the remote. And it skips them not matter how slow I hit the buttons. I just have to keep trying to get to the skipped performance (usually takes 2-3 tries). This is annoying as hell and it would be great if Kemper took the time to fix it. And yes, I submitted this issue via a ticket over a year ago.

I also experience this issue constantly - it's a minor PITA, but still a PITA. If it means anything, my powered toaster was built in 2018. If there is a potential fix for this, I'm in!

Another odd issue that others on the forum have already noted is that the button flashing is not in time with tap tempo - since it's not in sync with anything, not sure why the flashing is even necessary - I'd suggest that if Kemper can't fix it due to a hardware issue that they just turn it off in the software, since it's more distracting to have an off-time flash.

Note that I'm not complaining about anything - LOVE my Kemper as is - if more can be done to improve it, I'm all for it, but no problems whatsoever if it stays exactly as is

Quote from rehmo86

Hi Kemper community,

I got in fact two problems.

First is that I sometimes have big lags between performance changes and sometimes it even skips a performance (from 6 to 8 e.g.)

Also foot pedal (pitch shift via Mission Pedal) sometimes reacts delayed.

Second issue is with the Kemper remote. During the last gig it restarted all the time and i couldnt change presets/rigs anymore in this time.

Restart and change of patch cable didnt solve it.

Any ideas?

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I have the same issue - up until recently I had 2 performances for my core live profiles so it wasn't too noticeable, but in the last few weeks I've started experimenting with a number of new performances, and the lag in switching between slots (across performances, and within a performance) is significant. Having said that, I'm usually connected to Rig Manager when I am managing my profiles... wonder if that may contribute to the lag? I'll experiment in the next day and let you know what I find out

Hi - I'm new to the Kemper, and the forum nice to meet you all!

I updated my toaster to the latest OS7 public beta last night - after several hours of playing with both the floor board connected as well as rig manager running on my MacBook, I ran into a weird glitch - on the assumption that the dev team is watching this thread, I thought it would be helpful to post my experience.

• Everything seemed to be going fine for a few hours - but at one point, after switching rigs via the foot pedal, the screen on the foot controller froze, and no further changes would be recognized when tapping any of the buttons. The foot controller then attempted to reboot itself, and went into a repetitive up/down cycle where it would go dark, light up, the kemper loading screen came up, and then it would go dark again.
• Next i noticed that the patch I was playing on suddenly dropped volume

• I thought I'd try to power down, then power back up the toaster itself - when I flipped the knob to off... the unit stayed on and did not respond. The Toaster screen was frozen for another 30 seconds... and then shut off abruptly.

• Powering the unit back on seemed to restore the unit to "normal" (at least for the last 30 minutes...)

Apologies if this has been previously reported (I'm guessing it probably has), but extra data points are always a good thing

Thanks - and looking forward to participating in the forums!

Dango