It is practical to swap back and forth between slots in a performance while adjusting without having to save every little change separately. This works fine when using the rig "cursor-keys" on the front-panel, but if you use a midi-command (pedal or otherwise) to switch between slots in the same performance all unsaved changes are lost once you switch to the neighbour-slot and back. It would be nice for consistency if the user-interface would behave the same way regardless of which method is used to switch between slots while editing. I'm normally using a FCB1010 with uno4k, but it seems to work the same with any MIDI device. When you use MIDI to switch, the content of the target slot seems to always be loaded fresh from what is previously saved.
Ability to use MIDI to switch between slots in one performance without loosing temporary edits
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The MIDI Standard dictates that a device receiving a MIDI Program Change on the matching MIDI Channel respond to the command.
It does not have exclusion provisions for a program slot that had unsaved edits performed on it the last time it was active.
If you are editing Slot 1 of bank 1, a MIDI program change 2 loads Program 2. Sending Program 1 again will call up the Slot, in its last saved state.
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The MIDI Standard dictates that a device receiving a MIDI Program Change on the matching MIDI Channel respond to the command.
Yes, but all manufacturers don't do this consistently with all types of equipment. I have both a synth and an effects unit where switching between slots don't trigger reload-from-memory, while bank-switching do. It would IMHO make sense if the KPA also deviate from the standard in this way. Even better would be if it was implemented as a system-level MIDI-attribute where the user can choose this or the other behaviour, not to offend the MIDI-standard purists. I think most guitar-players would be best off with consistent behaviour regardless of which type of control is used to switch between slots.
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Kemper intentionally set it up to be different with MID commands:
In a performance situation where you use MIDI commands to switch between the slots in a per- formance and to alter the status of stomps that are assigned to certain rigs any changes which were applied on the fly during performance will be lost when switching slots. That way when you return to a certain slot in a performance it will sound exactly like the first time you selected that slot. The rig will sound like when the performance was originally loaded. This is a safety measure to prevent you from getting all confused on stage
