Posts by JAC

So who's expecting the new reverbs to be available before the end of next week? Surely they'll have to bring something new to this year's NAMM, after not announcing anything at last year's Winter NAMM (I'm going by the Andertons interview). Or do people believe we'll be waiting several more months even after an announcement for something to drop? If they've finishing working on the preset management already, maybe they'll wait to finish the next feature, whatever that may be.

I'm optimistic about a new update happening soon, but, that said, I've been optimistic since September

Quote from Gary_W

I’d love it if we got the ability to easily create / store effects chains.

If I'm understanding this correctly, you can already save groups of effects by long-pressing the "Stomps" or "Effects" buttons and pressing "Save", and recall saved effects groups with the Browse knob while in those screens.

Quote from TonyGring

EHX SuperEgo.

Just bought the superego+ and a freqout, there's a lot to wrap my head around. That Bill Ruppert has a lot to answer for!

Am I correct in thinking that this has been the longest time between firmware updates yet? I'm guessing that the new update will be labelled V6 and will arrive before the end of the year. The preset management will be worth the wait, considering the amount of development time that's gone into it so far.

Quote from patrick2099

Is the high damp moving in the opposite direction of the knob, for anyone else?

Yeah, looks really cool when morphing! The new reverb sounds just great, and fairly obvious that it wasn't a trivial thing to implement. Nice surprise on a Friday evening!

Quote from Skibob

If he’s selling it more than once he’s making copies and not destroying his copy. He’s distributing copies.
I can’t imagine this is legal if there is any kind of user agreement. Especially with paid profiles

But I’m also not a lawyer.

I agree; he'd be legally allowed to sell no more than a single copy, if he did buy the original profiles. It's akin to passing on a property deed. And yes, it does seem unlikely that he bought 31,000 profiles. No doubt a lot of hard work and expertise went into creating them.

Im not a lawyer, and I don't know about other jurisdictions, but my understanding is that under EU law somebody can sell on the software as long as they delete it from their own devices, and this would trump whatever is in the licence agreement. There was a case involving the software giant Oracle a few years ago: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/g…a-digital-distribution/1/

Now the question of whether the seller actually does destroy their own copy or not, and whether the seller going against a purchase agreement (even though not legally binding) is morally just or not, is up to the prospective buyer to ponder.

On a not-totally-unrelated note, how would people feel if somebody had a second kemper, and made profiles of existing commerical profiles for sale? For what it's worth, I dont have a 2nd kemper, and I don't plan to do this!

Another thing you might like to try is to using morphing with the wah's 'manual' parameter. So, you can pick any two wah frequencies and morph between them.

Thanks for your quick reply Bill. These are the best kind of problems! I think I'm edging towards the EHX Tortion. Your demos are great by the way; your playing convinced me to get a C9 last year and it's been a lot of fun

Hello,

I'm a hobbyist. I've no complaints about the Kemper whatsoever, but I'm looking for a distortion pedal to match an old solid-state practice amp at my parents' house. Two Electro Harmonix pedals have caught my eye: the EHX Tortion and the Operation Overlord, which is newer and cheaper but seems to have less tonal options. The JFET circuitry in both seems to produce great results on youtube, but does anyone have first-hand experience with either or both of them? I guess I'm interested in the overall differences in distortion/overdrive quality, responsivness and general opinions. Thanks in advance!

Ps. My setup wouldn't be too complicated (isn't that how it always starts) - I'm thinking guitar -> distortion pedal -> reverb pedal -> amp (clean)

To address your points, you cannot currently use the kemper usb inputs in the way you described, and to use the s/pdif output on the kemper you would need to buy an audio interface that supports it. I also haves an audio interface (focusrite saffire 6) without an s/pdif. I just plug the kemper's two main outs and my headphones into the focusrite. I know it's supposed to loose something in the extra digital-analog conversion but it sounds good enough to me.

One thing they could do with the Kemper 2 is to allow profile makers to create 'mega' (for want of a better term) profiles that contains multiple profiles of an amp, each with different settings. So, instead of having 12 profiles for different gain and mic settings on a particular amp, you would just have one mega profile, and adjusting the gain dial would essentially morph between each sub-profile.

I find the interface great, but, as previously stated, a new display wouldn't hurt. Also, a built in drum machine would be great!

I have a Vox twin looper connected that I don't use enough. I've got a Boss Gt-8 that's stored away. I'm thinking I should connect it up since it's got some great effects, but I'd probably spend more time tweaking them than actually playing.

Quote from chu

Erm.... Sorry, I can't face going back and reading everything again for this one question!! <img src="http://www.kemper-amps.com/forum/wcf/images/smilies/confused.png" alt="?(" />

Does anyone know if you can use just one expression pedal for wah on a rig and then on another rig for morphing?

Cheers my dears.

As far as I know, the pedal assignment can be either Volume, Wah, Pitch or Morph and that's set in the system menu, independent of whatever rig you're on. But because the Wah effects have a "Manual" parameter, you should be able to use the Morph assignment to alter that parameter only, and thus control only the wah on a given rig.

I;ve just installed 3.5 and find the search bar on the top right to be very unresponsive now. It takes 2-3 seconds for it to register a key stroke when I first click on it, and then another 1-2 second delay every time a new character is inputted or deleted. I'm running Win 7 here, with the 64 bit Rig Manager Installation.