Kemper Profiler MK 2

JiveTurkey said:
Their forum is down for maintenance and says to check back in a few days?
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Jarick said:
Totally.

That's one of those areas that I think would make Fractal a complete killer device...if they can figure out ways to offer a very streamlined usage experience. But that goes kind of opposite of the design approach.

@DrewJD82 showed - if you know the unit, you can do super powerful stuff while using the editor and it's not that hard. But there's still friction there that pulls you away from the traditional experience of a handful of pedals and an amp, and the only way you interact is with knobs.

My dream is to have basically a virtual pedalboard and amp with a bunch of knobs that control whatever you select. Give me a touch screen that shows me my virtual rig like a Fender TMP, and then some control knobs off to the side with LED's to show position like Fractal AX8/Kemper but put scribble strips on them so I can see the parameters I'm adjusting, and then capacitive switches with scribble strips at the bottom like a Helix. Make the amp and effect parameters really useful like a pedal designer would and hide all the advanced options and parameters.
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Kudos to @Digital Igloo for announcing the product that I just described so quickly :p
 
They will now even lose the "but ours has a more compact size" race. The Stadium XL is just 22mm wider than the Kemper Stage, the Stadium vanilla is 62mm less.
 
I think it's still interesting to see whether the reverbs and maybe also the pitching stuff will hold up against the Kemper. So far they don't, but with all that new CPU juice, I'm sure L6 will come up with some nice stuff.
 
Mongillo19 said:
Nah I don't feel bad. What did they expect? Everyone else to not move forward?
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Fender is probably even more guilty of that. Coming out with a product that on day one is years behind the competition is a recipe for failure.

Anyway, for their sake, I hope Kemper sold a few Mk2 units last week. That might be all they sell.
 
Really sad day for kemper.
And honestly for all modelers…

Line6 just presented some type of alien technology floorboards….
 
Coming soon… where have I heard that before? How did that work out?

Oh yeah. But I’m sure history will not repeat itself.
 
Kemper reverbs and FX really aren’t that good IMO. Having better reverbs than Helix is unfortunately too low of a bar. I never enjoyed dialling fx in on the Kemper, there’s way too much page tabbing and scrolling encoders for too little payoff.

The new Helix platform desperately needs better reverbs, and if I’m brutally honest, I hope they bear no resemblance to most of the current ones.
 
Yeah…Helix was a leap forward and Kemper kind of shuffled a bit. Helix Stadium is another massive leap forward.

As close as I was to keeping the Player and getting the extra tiers that’s probably going to get returned and put money in the bank for the new Helix.
 
toneseeker911 said:
Kemper might as well throw in the towel now. It’s 2025, and they aren’t even in the same decade.
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Well, the good thing being that if the Helixes will stay at that price tag, Kemper will have to lower their asking price for yet another 200 bucks or so. At the end of the year you'd possibly be able to buy a Mk1 Stage for 600-ish or so (already seen one /w Mission EXP for around 900). Unpowered heads may even scratch the €500 mark. And at that price I may just get one as a permanently connected unit for my home noodling duties.
 
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