I've used and continue to use the Fractal gear and Helix as well again, because each thing brings something to the table. Its too bad that this kind of gear was around when I started playing!
Yeah, it's a great time to be a musician.
I mean, you know, unless you want people to actually pay for your music. 
Welcome - used to own all kinds of POD's as well - great tools in the days - but nothing compares to the Kemper
I heartily second that! I went through a number of Line 6 stuff but never could warm up to it. Part of it was the "not quite there yet" sound, which gets better with each new product, but a large part of it was really down to modeler versus profiler.
With modelers I had to spend a lot of time in software fiddling with tones, which I don't enjoy. With a profiler I leave all that to more talented people, pick a profile and just play guitar.
Yes mate good points, but to me a beta is a pre-release of an intended official release, to sort out bugs. CK said the verbs were cooked and was waiting for the preset management which is not part of this beta, I think that’s the part that bugs me a little, but it’s not the end of the world for me. I suppose I’m just impatient. ??
Ah, so you're just itching to get the rest of the toys! This much I understand. 
Awesome! Glad you've got it sorted. Now go play guitar.
I noticed the latency too, which if I recall gets more pronounced the greater the transposition. At the time I poked around and asked questions and this seems to just be the way things are due to the processing power or whatever that it takes to do the transposing. That's how I understood the answers, anyway.
I can't say that I noticed a difference in tone because I couldn't deal with the latency and just moved on.
Before buying the Kemper remote, I first tried the Tech 21 Midi Mongoose, very similar to the Moose. They make great stuff, built like a tank.
Midi out of the Mongoose to Midi in on the Kemper. What I'm guessing is tripping you up is a fundamental concept. The Browser doesn't respond to Program Change (PC) messages (which is all the pedal sends, at least for the Mongoose). Only Performances can be navigated.
Each performance has five slots, and you can load a different profile in each one. Each slot has an automatically assigned Midi PC number. Here's how it works:
Performance 1
Slot 1: PC 1
Slot 1: PC 2
Slot 1: PC 3
Slot 1: PC 4
Slot 1: PC 5
Performance 2
Slot 1: PC 6
Slot 1: PC 7
Slot 1: PC 8
Slot 1: PC 9
Slot 1: PC 10
and so on.
And I'm working from memory so this last part may be off, but I believe that a slot has to have a profile assigned to it or it just ignores the PC.
Anyway, make sure you have profiles assigned in all five slots of Performance 1, then make sure your Moose is starting at 1, and your first five buttons should then change the slots on that Performance.
I spent money on the Kemper remote because it does a lot more than a regular Midi pedal does and is tailored to the Kemper - it's very nicely done. That said, the Mongoose worked perfectly with the Kemper for me, so if this doesn't get you going let me know and we'll do more debugging.
Oh, and I hate to mention the obvious, but be prepared to swap out Midi cables. The Mongoose didn't work for me right out of the box and it was actually a bad Midi cable. Second cable worked perfectly. D'oh!
At least, you can remember the 70's.....
200 watts blowing through sixteen 12s, at a time when if you wanted the sound you had to dime the amp, is an experience that not only etched itself into my brain and survived the hazy memory of the 70s but will probably remain a cause for therapy in lifetimes yet to come.
You can be the most meticulous person in the world but without the testing of a wider audience, you will never catch as many bugs in time...
Sing it, brother!
I didn't mean to sway anyone this or that way, it's just that in my situation, it was a very logic conclusion to revert to what suits me naturaly inspite of all the love I have for the Kemper and it's excellent community...
Never came across to me as swaying or negative in any way. In fact, it seems typical of the group here.
Normally, when someone leaves the building they lob a few snarky remarks over their shoulder on their way through the door. You did just the opposite, which I find classy and in keeping with the vibe here.
I prefer brunettes to blondes. That doesn't make blondes bad, or make me a "hair-ist." For your situation, you found gear that works better, and you went out of your way to clarify you didn't think that made Kemper "bad." You get serious style points, wishing you happy travels.
They are heavy, take up "strutting" space, directional, not quite big enough to balance a rack KPA on top of, force me to have an estate car etc....but they look freckin cool..
In the late 70s, I ran two 100 watt heads stacked on four 4x12 cabinets. In my defense, it was the 70s after all, and my state of (possibly altered) consciousness was exactly what you think it was. 
I now have this tiny little green toaster, a Yammy cab that's not much larger, and a sound bigger than the all houses I've lived in combined. I don't miss the 70s at all.
Okay. Maybe just a little.
something went wrong which is cool, shit happens, but now we are getting this half baked update.
Playing catch up on this thread and noticed this. Not picking on you, many others have reflected this sentiment, yours is just the one I happened to see over morning coffee.
We haven't received an update of any kind thus far - only a beta, which is just another test build for this version. It's supposed to have problems. If it didn't, why the heck would they need us to test it?
If the actual production release sucks (unlikely), then I'll call it half baked as well. That said, until it shows up on Rig Manager without the "include beta" box checked, it simply doesn't count as a release. People seem to think that a public beta means they get a sneak peek at the final product before everyone else. Wrong.
It means you've volunteered to be an unpaid member of Kemper's software development QA team. Your job is to catch and report (with steps to reproduce) the bugs that they didn't catch in their own environment / use cases. I said "unpaid" because you don't get money for your work, but you are compensated. You get to play with the new toys before they're released. You also get the badge of honor that you contributed to the ultimate quality of the final release version.
So (and this is said with tongue firmly in cheek), stop whining about the problems with the bloody beta, and just do your job as testers! For those not in the biz, perhaps you don't know that BETA is an acronym. It stands for Bugs Expected To Appear.
Yep, and that brings me to a point, seems like they have rushed the latest beta for NAMM.
The fact that Burkhard (and everyone else I'm sure) was working last weekend to put up a new version of the beta highlights a bit of truth to your observation.
Things like NAMM have fixed dates. If a company sets a goal to show something off at a trade show or any other hard, physical date, it's a gamble. Here's the typical internal dialogue.
Marketing: "Hey guys, let's show off this new feature on the xyz date!"
Programmers: "Dude, we have no idea how long it will take to get this designed, coded and tested. We just got started!"
Marketing: "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you because I was talking on my cell phone to all my news outlets about how we're going to show off this feature on the xyz date. Gotta go, k, thx, bye!"
Some months later The Date nears. Maybe the software is done, completely tested and bulletproof. Maybe not. If it's the latter, the programmers are screwed. The company is going to show it come hell or high water. All that's left to do is work nonstop nights and weekends between now and The Date to try and make it as stable as possible. Because, you know, we do our best possible work writing code at 3 AM when we've been sleep deprived for the past month. 
Yeah, releases get rushed when marketing commits to firm dates before the software is 100% complete and tested. In other words, always, no matter what company or industry. It's incredibly stupid. And everyone, and I do mean everyone in the software biz, does it. Then they bitch and moan about buggy software.
Welcome to my world.
Don't let those grumpy men suffering a mid-life crisis keep you from your Kemper rig glory!
\m/
Chevette has lots of room in the back set!
Now where did I put that pitchfork...
And for the love of mercy, don't skimp out and buy generic chickens!
Also, remember that the various deities are sensitive to local customs. Here in Atlanta, they prefer their chickens fried.
Sounds like you need to buy a cargo trailer for the Corvette
They do have enough power if I'm not mistaken
I made the mistake of making such an observation once in a group of Corvette enthusiasts. Apparently that's high blasphemy.
I still have tender spots from the pitchforks and torches.
half of me hopes you're wrong, because the other half of me knows I'd have to get one of those, probably in stereo, so that'd be two.
Fortunately for me, it looks bigger than my DXR-10 so it won't fit in the Vette. Mischief managed.
I'm starting to think I'm some kind of wacko because I literally hate 4x12 cabs
It's okay. There are plenty of treatment centers, many of which are covered by your insurance policy.
Ask your doctor if Cabinet Attitude Adjustmenttm is right for you.
I have always had a three inch wide leather strap on it to spread the weight around.
I tend to leap about quite a bit so I would have doubtless yanked my shoulder out of its socket by now.
Do you know you can plug a USB keyboard into the back of the KPA itself and type names, tags etc directly?
No, I didn't. Very cool, thanks!
But if you are looking to fix that like that SNAP !!! It's impossible, it's not Harry Potter down here it's reality
Thanks, man. Yeah, I know that there's no magic leveling button so you have to step through the performances one by one. But I was going about that the wrong way, which made it more difficult than it needed to be.
I think in 90% of all cases, the KPA will do the job very well. But if you are in the 10% ballpark, nothing beats a full tube amp + 4x12 cab.
I enjoy a couple of additional benefits of the KPA, which others may not need.
I've owned some decent tube amps but embarrassingly, I've never been great at dialing in that killer tone. Someone else walks up to my amp, turns some knobs, it magically sounds awesome, and I just stare at them like a caveman looking at a Bic lighter in fear and wonder.
In a similar fashion, unless you're doing a small enough gig where you're not going through FOH (or don't do studio work), microphones are involved. Fortunately I have fewer deficiencies in this area as small moves have major consequences, but it's another part of what the audience hears.
So, part of what I paid for was a great hardware concept (profiling versus modeling) with a very solid build quality. However, equally important to me was the ability to find profiles others created that already have the tone dialed in and the mics properly placed so I can just find the sound I want and play guitar.
but I couldn’t for the world get a true three- dimensional tone, with depth, balls and precision when using the Kemper through a power amp into my cab ( a Marshall 1960b) or via FRFR (tried alto’s, DXR 10’s).
I started with the powered toaster going to my 1960a. It sounded great. But somewhat different. Ultimately I enjoyed what was coming out of the studio reference monitors so much I got an FRFR to reproduce that level of detail. Again, sounds great. But somewhat different than a real tube amp (with someone other than me twisting the knobs).
I'm adjusting to the differences and I haven't been dissatisfied with my sound since the Kemper landed on my doorstep. Quite the contrary, regardless of what it says about my limited tone skills, my guitar has never sounded better.
However, there's also a caveat to all this. I've never done the rich and famous, play the big stages thing. Best I've ever done is large rock rooms in Long Island, but I just play cover band stuff. And the problem with cover gigs that recording artists don't have to fight is that you're expected to sound "just like the record" when you're playing a night of wildly different guitarists with different styles through different gear. No matter what I've used, it's always been the art of compromise. Or, to use a technical term, "close enough for rock and roll."
For years my solution was a Voodu Valve pre -> power amp -> cab. It has a tube plus digital fx, so I could dial in credible tones, then hit a midi pc and be on a completely different planet. It did a pretty good job, but all sounds were still a compromise versus using the exact same amps and pedals that the recording artist used.
So, I come to the party already willing to compromise a bit in some areas in the name of practicality, because I'm subject to the rules of cover bands. In that regard, the Kemper is the closest thing to a no compromise solution I've ever heard. 100% accurate? Not usually, but still a really, really good sound.
That said, if I was doing an originals gig, tribute band, or any situation where I could take one amp, dial in the sound and roll with it all night, the subtle extras that a real amp offer might win the day so I can certainly dig it. I mean, you know, if I ever actually learned how to dial in a decent tone.
