Anyone that's seen the morphing setup: can you set the morph time in beats/measures?
That's an interesting thought. someone said it can be controlled via midi, so that might be one method, but i'm guessing a tap feature would not be that hard to implement. It looks like you can sort of toggle it with a foot switch now, so set rise and fade time to zero, and tap it out while playing. not ideal, but would be better than nothing if you needed it for something. Once this gets out into the wild, more ideas like this will pop up and ppl will start to use it in all sorts of ways. Or not, impossible to predict such things 100%. But with the amount of ppl already interested in whats on the menu, and looking at Kemper's history of not releasing gimmicky things, it is far more likely that it will be used in some really new and interesting ways.
There does seem to be a bit of a wide array of opinions on whats coming out lately. In a way this is a good thing because it shows the diversity of the KPA and the ppl that use them, from jazz cats to metal heads. This should not be a cause for argument, or concern, it is a very good thing.
I think some of the comments that are pointed or favor one thing over another can sometimes be unproductive, even limiting, such as old is better than new, or the other way around.
There are artists, musicians, and critics, all of various quality, those 3 are not the same, but a person can be 1 or all 3. To limit your own point of view to what is useful or not etc. is limiting yourself. You may not be interested in something, but you should be able to understand and appreciate art in any genre or form. This will only make you a better artist... was reading some very interesting thoughts in Kempermainaics thread about modes, and some good comments from Nikos about scales, their emotions and students. He mentioned that some of them could play well solo, or technically, but were underdeveloped when it comes to jamming etc. Why is this? Because they are under developed as artists. Music is art, and all art is the same in some basic ways, regardless of the medium. Both are very old. The best musicians are always artists and critics also. Simply put, artists create, new or even a different statement on something old, proper critics (not the payola/ratty journalist review kind) look to what is done how, why, how it works. Objectivity is needed here, especially when it comes to unfamiliar or uninteresting things. Instead of looking at something as not useful etc. a better way would be to ask a question like what's in it for me? Doing this gives the ability to take more ideas, and gives more material for creativity, something that can only be learned, not taught. Ideas are not limited to genres, and genres are only generalizations to describe something in a vague sense, because there will always be people that push and redefine them. A death metal worship band? why not? Call them memento mori, lately a popular term, from a very obscure place.
All the gear in the world won't help either, you can write an epic work of art with a free pen from a hotel, and some napkins from mcdonald's.
However music is different, since the tools used to make it are also works of art, especially the better ones that take a lot of skill to create. But being snobbish about gear, like gibsons own/suck as a guitarist example, or which standalone ad/da's are the best in the pro audio field can also be limiting. Great art has been done with bad gear to be sure, but decent gear is essential from day 1 to learn music well. And for day 1 guitar, I think C maj is not as bad as Nikos thinks. High E, F, G, A, B, to C .. From here you can play 2 complete C scales from high to low E. All within 4 frets, teaching hand placement, proper fretting, a delicate touch, and avoiding sharps or flats, use that to focus on metronome and basic picking, down down, then up down. The idea is not too much at once. But everyone learns differently, some by reading, others by hearing, or touch, infants by taste, and Hendrix played some licks with his tongue...makes me wonder...
What is happening with the KPA and various debates right now makes me think of a very clever quipp titled : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage
The wiki is a decent summary of the general concepts that describe and predicted some complex things happening that help clarify art in our age. An oversimplified statement from there reads :
"By playing on words and utilizing the term "massage," McLuhan is suggesting that modern audiences have found current media to be soothing, enjoyable, and relaxing; however, the pleasure we find in new media is deceiving, as the changes between society and technology are incongruent and are perpetuating an Age of Anxiety."
This relates to what is happening here, and many other places, along with something predicted as the global village, a worldwide product, with folks from very different places with different ideas. A lot of ideas are exchanged here, and there is some worthwhile debate on them. I don't see argument or anxiety as a very big deal, and there is not that much of it
here anyway. This place has that rare vibe of something new is happening, which for me is cool to watch, for some it may be an uneasy feeling. Different tastes? Who knows? The wiki link is worth reading, McLuhan was a genius.
It should however go into more detail of The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, (not just delays or verbs 
which is a picture book as a response to criticisms of his ideas being hard to comprehend. The most relevant parts of it to this are a series of statements that follow a path, the wheel being an extension of the foot, the book an extension of the eye, electrical circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.
That last one... ever hear ppl talk about how an amp feels when playing it?
If the last statement is true, it would follow that software is an extension of the mind, a relatively new and not fully understood media...
What I am still wondering is if this means the KPA is "morphing" into an instrument or work of art in its own right? I am curious to see what ppl think of this idea, because to look at it as a digital tool, or an automation system is too simple and incomplete...it has a feel, and increasingly interacts with the player...
here is a link to the book, it is a cool read:
https://godsaveprint.files.wor…hemediumisthemassage2.pdf
(and mankey mon, if you are reading this.. not sure if you use them, but there is a part about clothing being an extension of the skin--and yes McLuhan included a set of tatas--just for you
And as an environmentalist I can only say: "save a tree, eat a beaver"...
