So I tried out my new Kemper at a festival last week. My guitar rig has several midi devices all set to Omni mode and they are being controlled by a Mastermind GT16. My knowledge of midi is quite basic and so is the midi setup which only does two things......
1) Send Program change messages to select different guitar sounds for different songs.
2) Use an expression controller set to CC10 to control multiple tasks depending on the sound/song within the several midi devices. (Eg Digital mixing desk, rack multi FX etc. Guitar pre-amp.)
The issue is that whenever I use the expression controller the output audio from the Kemper pans from hard right to hard left. Eg: If the expression controller is controlling the input volume in my guitar pre amp and I’m riding the volume up and down it annoyingly pans the guitar from left to right.
I have tracked it down to the Kemper’s ‘Panorama’ feature but I haven’t been able to find a way of disabling Panorama within the Kemper. The Panorama values are all stored at zero and when I first select a guitar sound the audio is in the centre, but as soon as I touch the expression pedal the audio starts panning severely and the audience look like they are watching a tennis match.
Another ‘get around’ would be to set the Kemper to ignore any CC10 commands but alas I haven’t been able to find a way to do that either.
Ultimately I’m trying to avoid having to reprogram all of the other midi devices in my rig as I use 100 different sounds with most of those sounds having several functions controlled by a CC10 command so it would involve many hours of reprogramming.
Surely there’s an easy fix within the Kemper? Any ideas?