Kemper Profiler MK 2

[OneEng]

It's possible the interconnect with the external memory is improved ... which was not possible without a circuit redesign (with the same DSP chip) or needs the updated CPU to manage it.

Maybe there is some offloading from the DSP to the CPU (and wondering if the fixed blocks might be on the CPU as all but the pitch shifter are relatively efficient).

Interesting that the 724 and 725 run at a fast clocker rate/higher mips but that's a tradeoff on the internal memory. Often faster versions are just ones that tested they could handle the higher clock rate. Maybe those fast ones have worse yields on the memory at that clock so they reduce the memory to avoid rejecting too many.

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Definitely an interesting set of decisions on what they did and didn't change between Mk1 and Mk2 and how they rolled it out.

Hopefully they knock it out of the park so they can afford the deeper design changes that would close the gap between the Stage and the Rack/Toaster (which astonishes me they didn't make that investment in Mk2).

LOL. I nearly posted the same thing (guessing that the difference between 720 and 724 was part binning) while you were posting. I don't believe so because that would not effect the internal RAM size.

Also, I am speculating that they DIDN'T change the main board on the MK2's AT ALL. That is exactly why no WiFi was added to the Rack and Toaster and why neither one got "True Impedance" like the Stage did. Either one of these changes would have required a new turn of the main board (the one with the DSP on it vs the DIMM mounted daughter board having the application CPU).

I have a feeling we are going to get some visual proof of this sooner than later as this topic is certain to generate the curiosity in someone that has purchased an MK2 and any cell phone can capture the evidence one way or the other .

 

[paisleywookiee]

 

[Funk Soul Brother]

Yep.

I feel this is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.
Every 'react' based youtuber will keep spurring on the gold.
In a year or two, people will rehash it.

It'll be gloriously amusing.

Just wait until they ship the Kemper v2 units to the social media influencers & turn loose the forum shills...

It's gonna be an epic

 

[Funk Soul Brother]

I think Jon’s a good dude. But I just sat through an 11 minute video to realize it was only an unboxing.

Pro tip: Drag the YT time cursor to scroll thru vid snapshots, took less me than 5 seconds to see what took you 11 minutes

I also do this, when on rare occasions, I want to hear someone demo gear ~ Bypassing all the bull $hit, go straight to the actual demo.


P.S. That was some serious clickbait

 

[[Nathan]]

At this point I’m just keen to hear the new firmware/v2 profiles compared to real amps, v1 profiles, nam, tonex, qc. Until then it’s all armchair EE lols

Hopefully Jon SDS can include all of these in his inevitable shootout vid cause I think it’s really the big question all of us are curious about, a proper shootout compared to real world profiling competition.

If kemper released a vst companion plugin so I could use it across sessions in a mix I’d probably grab a new kemper to do my own comparisons, but as a standalone unit I just won’t ever use it.

 

[norminal]

Pro tip: Drag the YT time cursor to scroll thru vid snapshots, took less me than 5 seconds to see what took you 11 minutes

Yeah, I know how the controls on YouTube work. I likely threw on the video while I was doing other things. But yeah, it was “clickbaity.”

 

[Funk Soul Brother]

« Look at this design!! The cardboard itself is already a game changer, they did such a wonderful job »

 

[Funk Soul Brother]

Or a hooker.

 

[KingsXJJ]

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9.

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

armchair EE

lolz

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

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[timbuck3]

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“ I know no..th..ing”

 

[bucephalus]

Give all the kids pickles and some are bound to try and shove one where it shouldn't go.

Come on now, everyone knows pickles go anywhere. Dill for me though, none of that sweet nonsense.

 

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

Dill for me though, none of that sweet nonsense.

Also for oral consumption?

 

[Orvillain]

Also for oral consumption?

Ooooo, that's a bit naughty. Someone should tone police this man!!

 

[Joshual-L]

Pictures are popping everywhere… but absolutely NO DEMO… .

« Guess what I just received !! »

That marketing is not great for a MKII.

But what I know for sure is that Kemper has already prepared the next 5 years updates, delivering them slowly as usual.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Pictures are popping everywhere… but absolutely NO DEMO… .

« Guess what I just received !! »

That marketing is not great for a MKII.

Agreed. I'm quite astonished. As said before, in case you don't have *that* much to offer, you rather hit the streets with at least some sort of "bam" - but instead, they're withholding the most relevant new feature while people can already muck around how the old UI would not suit the new functionalities. Pretty lame.

But what I know for sure is that Kemper has already prepared the next 5 years updates, delivering them slowly as usual.

Well, regardless of your (or other's) disdain for the unit, I think their update strategy was pretty decent, if not great. The only thing I really thought was extremely strange (if not even bad manners) was the audio interface stunt. I mean, it's been in there straight from the start and people wished so much this functionality was available - and you have them waiting for it for - like what? - 10+ years. That's almost like a bad joke.