Kemper 2 Way Communication

MIDI Control
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Hi All,

The Kemper profiler doesn’t appear to output CC status messages (corresponding to button presses on the front panel) and I don’t think they are keen to freely distribute the information used in the uno4Kemper chip/Kemper Remote protocols.

Is there any likelyhood that Morningstar will be able to get this info and update the MC series in future as is the case with the Kemper Tuner?

It would obviously be useful for the Kemper to transmit the stomp status to the MC when a preset is changed so that the toggle status of any stomps matches on both systems.

Any thoughts?

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I am wondering if this is possible recently myself. Is there any way to have some integration that is similar to fractals. Select a preset & it goes into a state similar to scenes but actually is the effect block status on/off states with corresponding switches for each block. MC8 is setup perfectly for the 8 effect blocks of the kemper.

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We haven’t worked on this yet. Their third party documentation is quite complicated (or at least not as straight-forward as Fractal’s). We’ll revisit it again soon.

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Would love to see this feature.

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Kemper released new MIDI Parameter Documentation with sysex information and updated USB host capability. Does this help in the development of a Kemper enhanced integration mode? Thanks

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Just to confirm, are you referring to this? https://mojagitara.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Profiler-Midi-Parameter-Documentation.pdf

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I believe this is new.

KEMPER PROFILER MIDI Parameter Documentation 11.0.pdf (691.2 KB)

per Kemper 03/20/2024

" MIDI Parameter Documentation 11

The KEMPER PROFILER™ features more than 800 parameters. Of course, you can’t address them all with a standard MIDI controller message, where only 128 parameters can be adressed.

Therefor the PROFILER supports the NRPN (Non Registered Parameter Numbers) protocol additionally to the proprietary SYSEX protocol.

While the standard MIDI functionality is already described in the Main Manual this English document digs even deeper and focusses in particular on NRPN and SYSEX protocols."

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I don’t know if that document was helpful at all. I am, wondering if there is any hope of this becoming a reality. Thanks

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FYI, there is an open source firmware for all the midi captain devices called PySwitch that looks to be nailing the two way Kemper intregration. Might be a good place to look for inspiration here.

Slightly unrelated, the Kemper Midi implementation and docs are probably they most complete I’ve seen. Still a few gaps, but pretty good.