I think building dedicated controllers for computer software is a logical thing.
'Push' for Ableton Live comes to mind but also Akai or NI or Korg as you mentioned.
The days of 'only generic' controllers are over, at least when you want to take software plus realtime performance to the next level.
Could you expand on that?
What does a dedicated foot controller do that a generic one does not?
I feel handicapped, i can't think of anything beyond a couple of expression pedals and on/off switches.
Who do you mean? Deny or me?
Deny, actually. You said you didn't think the difference was as drastic with your gear, so...
Display MoreMy brother still got the kemper and he did try to profile
the Periphery presets but unfortunetly the results where awfull.
He's a great guitarist but he's a novice at profiling.
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He said that he will soon try again. Hopfully with better results.
Be patient.
I remember Armin saying that XFXII presets need a lot (really, though. A LOT) of refining to sound right. I believe Armin quoted an hour or so but i might be wrong.
Thanks for the tip - I'll give it a go.
For curiosity's sake - what kind of player are you? Shredding, rhythm, old-school, jazz?..
I'm wondering if cranking the input gain would be the equivalent of using high output pickups or using a really clean boost - i do tend to like low output pups better, maybe you do too 
The KPA most certainly produces higher levels than a passive guitar, at the very least, but these are mostly burst noises.
The rating on your speakers is a max continuous rating and is a measure of their ability to disperse heat - it's nothing to do with a 50 second noise.
It should be very, very difficult to break a speaker by playing a sharp sound through it. You can't even tear the cone - you'd have to make the voice coil break free and i've actually never heard of that happening - but maybe someone else has had a different experience.
Agreed. Just occurred to me this morning
Haven't tried the Zoom, but pretty much anything MIDI should work. Or am i missing something? 
You can always go hunting for an old ADA MFC-1 on Ebay. They can be had for 40$ if you're persistent, and work like a charm.
I actually had a battered, non-working one that came with my MP-1 back in the 90's and died on me a decade ago.
I butchered it for the PCB and built my own DIY foot controller out of stray bits of wooden flooring and some momentary switches. Looks like sh**, but works like a charm -
and the expression on the soundman's face when i got up on stage and plugged a piece of parquet to a toaster was priceless 
Nothing to add but a thumbs up 
" i don't expect to have to compromise anymore"
Good luck with that. Life is compromise
EDITED: Sorry. I've no reason to be an a*hole.
No offense, man, and i hope i got you wrong and you were kidding, but when you buy a 100W tube head you don't expect to compromise on volume, right? That's why you're buying a 100W tube head.
If i buy a high-end digital piece of gear, i don't expect to compromise versatility or ease of workflow - and for the most part, i don't.
I've no complaints, anyhow. Laurent's tool should definitely do the trick for me until performance mode is up and running.
I do the same thing. Store the amps with different names in the device. Are you actually changing the tags or just the profile name?
At the moment, just the names - but that's very limiting for me.
I'm still getting a little weirdness i need to take care of with Laurent's tool (corrupt amp names), but once i get the hang of it i could, say, change the author of modified rigs to a song's name -
then i could have a list of 60 or so basic profiles i'm using with their real details,
and i could search by author to see all the rigs associated with a particular song to make set my MIDI parameters for a particular gig, which should save me a ton of time and trouble ('did i set the pre-chorus lower, or is the wrong song?' kind of thing)
And as for your other question, when i worked simpler setups i'd compromise. I couldn't drop volume for certain parts of songs and couldn't have more than one delay setting (i worked analog before the KPA).
The KPA is worth every penny, no doubt - but having dropped such an amount on a piece of digital gear, i don't expect to have to compromise anymore
Even with (sort of) comparable products you'd have separate footswitching for every effect on every preset, which isn't available on the KPA at the moment.
There is a third party tool that takes the files Guitarnet70 mentioned and puts all their info into an spreadsheet -
then allows you to edit, write the changes back into the files and copy them back into the device.
This is only for information (no actual parameters) but is very handy for rig management.
Display MoreThe reason the tag editor didn't get tons of feedback is it's a very limited tool as compared to a librarian. editing tags is really only helpful to those who are creating lot's of profiles. For the players consuming profiles rather than making them, the tag editor isn't a tool many would use.
A librarian would be nice, but then again what exactly does one mean when we request it? editing a backup file can be done today rather easily. What librarian features are we hoping for? A more robust ability to edit backup files or something more in which the KPA is connected to a computer? This would require 2 way communication with the KPA which might take some time to think over and decide exactly how to implement it
For an editor, this would also require 2 way communication with the KPA with potentially even more integration. Someone might be able to accomplish most of this today with some type of NPRN editor. Again, while there are people who likely sit a KPA on a desk and keep it constantly hooked to a computer there are other users like myself who would be happy never to connect it to a computer.
This is one of those hot button topics which could potentially result in a lot of anger and frustration from folks whose high expectations are not met...
I don't know. I do regular gigs and also session work -
so long as performance mode doesn't work, i might need 5 or 10 variations of each amp with names that are appropriate to song parts for live use, and also the stock amp, dry, under it's own name for use in the studio.
That means all the profiles i got from the rig exchange have to be tagged consistently and that i'd want to load up different profiles based on what gig i'm doing - all are easily doable with Laurent's tool and simply impractical with the KPA's interface.
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Quitty,
If you search for "Performance Mode" in this forum, you will quickly find the tread "FEATURE REQUEST FINISH THE GOD DAMN PRODUCT I BOUGHT NEARLY 8 MONTHS AGO AND RELEASED A YEAR AGO!" in upper letters!
There I have clearly explained myself.
Posts like yours have changed our company policy already.
In the future we will avoid to prepare features in hardware, that we are not about to finish in short term. This does not improve the product, but not promising and announcing future features will take the pressure from us and avoid remarkable discussions like these. I am sure you would have never asked for a Performance Mode and Undo/Redo, if it wasn't printed in the manual and labeled on the device.
The Performance Mode and Undo/Redo are not crucial tools for running the profiler. There are rarely such features in competiting products.
Anyway, due to earlier discussions about this, we have changed our schedule and order of software developement already. We have more attractive features on our ToDo list, but we will finish Performance Mode etc. first. This is not the best schedule for the product itself IMHO, but probably the best for the well-being of the users and eventually me. This is pure politics, but will hopefully prevent our product being called a beta product.
Let me tell you, we are urgently working on these features, and will release it as soon as possible.
First off, a sincere thanks. That's all i (and i assume, many others) wanted and it really is appreciated.
I have to say, though - while you may have a vision for your product and i wouldn't dare argue with it, the features you printed in the manual and put on the rotary knob are the very reason we bought the KPA -
the fact that they aren't common in other products or that you think something else might be more attractive at this point is irrelevant - i think we deserve to get the base product we were offered and paid for before anything else.
Please don't consider this an attempt to force your hand - i wouldn't dare impose on your vision of the product, but what you don't believe is crucial for running the profiler at this point might be crucial for some of your users.
Performance mode, for example, is actually remarkably crucial for me as a gigging musician that also works in the studio. I'm sure i'm not the only one.
Anyway, it's just good to see you are indeed involved in the forums and the discussion. This product needs the support of it's community and management and it really was all about knowing we aren't alone in this so again - thank you.
Display MoreHI,
A long time ago, i started to write a tag editor , some notes can be found here : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/74887749/kpa_tag_inspector.html
it was simply providing a way to edit tags from rig files, waiting for a more complete product from the mothership, but as I got almost no feedback about building a platform independent installation package, i stopped its development.
Like Armin said, it's a lot of work
More information can be found in an old thread called "Basic Rig Tags Extractor/Editor" in the "Introduce Yourself" part of the public forum.
Laurent
So, Laurent, now might be a good time to say thanks! I've been using your tag editor since i got my Kemper and it's a lifesaver.
Seeing as you got the tag reading and saving done, it was a pity development stopped. It worked brilliantly and the only thing missing from it was XML import/export and we could do batch-editing - then we wouldn't have had to wait for Kemper to release their own solution.
I see where you come from. OTOH, the Kemper site has stated since day one that Performance mode and Undo\Redo are on the work.
I know, "a user is not supposed to have to visit a forum to be informed about what they're buying" etc. But my point is that I can't see the relationship between a work to be finished and a timeline to be owed. I can understand your wish to know more, your pleasure to know more, your curiosity to know more, your urge to know more and even your frustration not to know more. But this is different from being owed something, at least the way I feel it.
OTOH, knowing a release date won't give you anything in advance or better. Honestly, this seems to me a waste of time. But I don't want to criticize anyone for feeling impatient, and, again, this might just be me
No, you actually do have a point there - but i'm not going to demand CK does this sooner or later - just to know someone up there in management cares about the customers, because as it stands it doesn't seem so.
I think the "problem" (or my problem) was the "Range" parameter. On a high setting (Max for instance) the sound goes far beyond an audible frequency... on a lower setting there is no muting at all.
Ice cream cone for my forehead please...
Thanks anyway guitarnet70!
That's pretty much it. Sorry for chiming in late, i've encountered the same deal with an analog expression pedal.
There's a certain 'range' value at which the KPA cuts your volume before 'bypassing' the expression pedal on the heel or toe positions.
Luckily, these 'range' values are rather large.
Now that, i really can't understand.
You own a manual that stated that there is a performance mode that does certain things it doesn't.
It's advertised on the site which i checked thoroughly when deciding to buy a KPA unit - i'm assuming you did as well.
How does that not count as a commitment?
And if we paid for it - which we did - why are we not owed a timeline?
Again, I'm just peacefully expressing my opinion.
Which is the point of a forum and is appreciated, but how is timeline disclosure on already promised and advertised features (performance, undo/redo) risky?
Again, this thread might have started out as a (legitimately declined) feature request, but 8 out of 11 pages are discussions on response to requests, even for features we were already promised.
Display MoreOk, here are my 2 Cents as a newbie on this forum (I'm a newbie here, but as Ingolf I was a moderator over at the german Line6-Forum for 10 years...so I read it all before): The problem with all those feature requests, gimme this, gimme that, why can't we save more than 1000 rigs, we want a whammy, a pitch shifter, a librarian and so on is the attitude behind it. All over the planet we're heading towards a 1-Click-Society, where we can get everything at the touch of a button. And now with the KPA even amps (I mean, do you remember the time, when we had to lift our asses out of the chair to switch channels on TV?). But behind the "1-Click-ordering-of-everything" there's still some work to do to get it running. The work behind that isn't 1-Click! We should never forget this.
If we believe, that Kemper owes us something, we're wrong. Kemper owes us nothing but a toaster, which is running and has the features, that were advertised, when we bought it. We gave the money, we got the toaster. Simple and fair as that. It wasn't like: If you buy a KPA, you get a librarian, or a whammy, or a pitch shifter. And it wasn't like: If you buy a KPA you can store as much rigs as you want or you can run two profiles at once. It wasn't like: If you buy a KPA, the developer will read and comment all your posts on the forum. All we get above the toaster we bought is a gift. I mean, we don't go to the supermarket to say: Hey, I bought a bread yesterday and if you don't give me butter for free now, I'll get very very angry.
The second point on all those things is: Nobody of us users know, how the KPA works in detail. What do we know about the problems of developing e.g. a librarian? Nothing do we know about it, that's the simple truth. And if somebody of us knows, why don't you create it?
Third point: What do we know about Kempers time management? I mean, there was the NAMM, there will be the Musikmesse, maybe they have families, wifes, children, friends. Maybe they are ill on a few days like we all are sometimes. Maybe they're just happy to sit down and drink a beer after a day full of work and not to read posts on a forum, where everybody cries for a different thing.
Sorry for the long post. I don't want to offend anyone of you, just to make it clear. All I want to say is, that maybe all of us must change our mind on certain things.
While i do get your point, that's not really true.
Performance mode was indeed advertised. It still is, both on the site and in the manual. So is redo/undo
.
Furthermore, and regarding your second point, i don't think we're asking for features.
If so, i don't think we should be - and i say that as an engineer in trade.
What we're asking for is disclosure. Honest, polite communication at face value. And i don't think that's much to ask, regardless of CK's schedule.
Anyway, i believe this thread has run it's course.
It hasn't really been derailed, but the OP who came here to ask about 2 profiles was concerned with CK's response so that's what has been discussed.
Trolls and rude people are irrelevant, don't let them deter from the potential usefulness of this thread.
I appreciate CK chiming in with an answer but i don't understand why - if you've got so much to say - not open a thread and explain? That's all anyone was asking for, really.
I hope, at the very least, this thread shows that some of us are bothered by things that could be easily solvable.
Let's hope they are indeed solved soon.
