Hello! I just purchased a Profile Player after a lot of deliberation on how to move forward with my guitar setup and I think it's pretty cool but so far I haven't really figured out how it is going to work in my setup without having to use ASIO4ALL.
Currently I have a Windows 11 PC (12900k + 4080 + 32GB RAM), and I have a couple of midi controllers (ableton push 3 and an arturia keylab essentials) and an audio interface (scarlett 2i2). From the interface I have it going into a mackie and into my monitors. I've been using amp sims and recording my guitar and bass through my interface into various DAWs, and recording amps directly when I have the opportunity to use them in the right conditions. Everything has been great with all of the DAWs I've used, I use ASIO that was installed with my focusrite in the same way I always have and everything is fine.
I was worried about the player not having SPDIF outs but I was assured by staff at the store that I could use the profiler as an input into my daw and have my audio output through, I just figured that it could somehow make use of the same drivers as my other audio devices but it seems like that isn't possible.
Is my only solution for latency free recording and playing using ASIO4ALL or just going XLR out into my focusrite? It seems people think that the latter solution is less than ideal? I'm really trying to love this product but it seems like I literally cannot use the USB audio on windows without ASIO4ALL currently and that feels like it can't possibly be right. Is going XLR-> the focusrite going to give me everything the kemper has to offer? should i take it back and maybe get a helix? Again I love kemper and I've wanted one for years, I'm just worried it's not what I want, which is something to be at my desk and allow me to get sick tones through my studio monitors in my acoustically treated room.
I hope this doesn't come off as too whiny, I really do think these things are cool, I just think if I'm right and it needs ASIO4ALL for USB audio that the current player is rather limited especially when half of the community seems to think that the digital conversion is bad. It's even potentially not usable for windows users who don't want to go finding deprecated and unstable drivers.
Thanks for taking the time to read and respond, in the meantime I'll just put headphones on and drool at the sounds.