Reamping with Kemper in Pro Tools--something's changed!

  • Folks, I really am stumped here. And I am going mad! I am using all
    settings that have worked before: I/O settings in Pro Tools, same
    session with same track properties, etc., same routing settings in my
    Focusrite Scarlett 8i6, same Kemper settings/connections. When I tried
    just using the previously successful session in order to have another reamping
    session, it wouldn't work (I'll explain below). So, using the same
    session, I tried reloading my previously successful I/O settings file
    into that session. When that didn't work, I tried a whole new session
    starting from scratch (I have videos showing all settings/connections
    which I hoped would end this nonsense). Replicating everything from my
    videos (it also shows those settings reamping successfully)
    did not work. I have also tried other previously successful sessions
    which are set up to reamp. I've also tried different things like
    different rigs, restarting everything, reconnecting everything,
    unplugging all but the necessary connections, also reinstalling Pro Tools 11.3.1 and the Focusrite software/drivers--you know, when you go to
    the freezer to look for your car keys, that sort of desperation, but I
    get the same results:



    On the Kemper, as the clip-to-be-reamped plays through it, both input
    and output lights are flashing yellowish, as I've seen before. So that
    part of the chain seems good... And when I listen to my Kemper through a
    Main Out into a monitor, I hear the clip being reamped. But it's not
    hitting the Reamping Track at all! If I
    switch the output on my Pro Tools track to my monitors, I can hear my
    dry, un-reamped clip, but as soon as I switch the Output back over to
    the Reamp bus, it's gone. I realize this may be a Pro Tools question,
    and I'm heading over to the DUC after this, but I wanted to post here as
    well, in case I am doing something wrong Kemper-wise.



    As anyone gracious enough to look will see, I think my connections and
    settings are correct? I haven't shown the S/PDIF connection, but it's reamping,
    through my monitor, so that should be fine. I do have the tracks armed
    to record, and I can record on these tracks if I switch my inputs to my
    Scarlett inputs as usual.



    What gives? Anything look wrong? Thanks in advance.

  • nightlight, thanks for responding: I had dialed through all of the possible Output settings and just landed on that one when I finally gave up. I do generally use the Stack setting and add Effects in my DAW. Reamping will work on either of these settings, though-it's just that you convert analog to digital when you don't even need to, if your signal's loud enough, so why do it? If I understand, I believe that was your question.


    I figured it out! It was a routing issue on two points:


    1. I have my Focusrite S/PDIF out settings on DAW 5, which means that you count down 5 outputs in the Outputs of the I/O sections (counting each stereo output as two, a mono output is one, etc.) and drop the Reamp Output in there at position 5. Just because it's set to DAW 5 in the Focusrite Scarlett mix software. So, the new screenshot of Input Settings shows the Reamp input in the correct position.


    2. I had the Profiler L/R Input routed on Analog 1 and Analog 2, instead of S/PDIF 1 and S/PDIF 2, as can be seen in the screenshots.


    Nothing was wrong with the Bus settings, although they do need to be weeded out a bit.


    So, it would've been that the track recording the reamped signal was looking to the Profiler Input, which was never actually receiving a signal from the Kemper's S/PDIF. I knew something was up when this morning, I hit the PreFadeListen button in the Focusrite software, and I could hear the reamp, just like yesterday I could hear the reamp when I ran straight from the Kemper into some monitors.


    Thanks again!