Kemper Rig Manager Tutorial, Shortcuts & Tips

[@carlmcandrew7449]

Simply the best guide I have seen on you tube. No waffle, really clear instruction. Thanks Dan!

[@DanLeggatt]

Thanks very much! Glad it's been so helpful.

[@TimThompsonNashville]

I love how you get to the point...no BS!

[@thormusique]

Thanks so much, mate, this was brilliant! I'm embarrased to say I've had my Profiler for a year and a half now, and I wasn't aware of more than half of all the great tips you've shared here. For example, I had no idea you could create performances in the Rig Manager. What a time-saver. Cheers!

[@DanLeggatt]

Nothing embarrassing about that at all. I didn’t even use rig manager other than for importing profiles for the first 6 months of owning mine. Glad it was a helpful video 👍

[@B2ph3met666]

I'm new to the kemper world just bought one after years if wanting one, and this is a huge help, thankyou🤙🏽

[@grichardanderson]

Your vids have been SO helpful in figuring this all out. Also, your profiles kick ass! Always looking for more insights and info... cheers

[@huttone]

Fantastic and very helpful. Thanks for showing this newbie the freeze setting!!!!

[@rickoshea4398]

Thanks so much Dan, this is incredibly helpful. You’ve saved me and others a LOT of time. Great stuff man!

[@DanLeggatt]

Cheers mate 👍

[@telesavalas1]

Nice one! This is a great video that helps me enormously. I find it easier to learn from videos than reading manuals. Subscribed!

[@DanLeggatt]

Cheers! Glad it was helpful 👍

[@joejustjoe3926]

good pearls of wisdom right here.

[@써니의일렉반주]

Thank you soooooo much ! From 🇰🇷

[@CentaurusRelax314]

Just got my Kemper Stage today. Your videos prepared me a bit, and now i'm continuing with them now that i can actually follow along with something in-hand. I'm subscribing right now-your videos are incredibly helpful. Thank you, sir.

[@DanLeggatt]

No worries! Glad it helped.

[@brettdiaz]

This really helps as I just picked up a Kemper Stage and I’m still learning how to use it.

[@johnpg3879]

Just bought a kemper, your videos has helped alot.

[@DanLeggatt]

Glad they have been some help. How are you liking the Kemper so far?

[@johnpg3879]

@@DanLeggatt I love it, had a positive grid bias head before and the kemper is another level. i use it with a fcb1010. Have a marshall 410 profile that is killer :) Do you always go direct or do you use a cab on stage?

[@DanLeggatt]

@@johnpg3879 On stage it’s almost always a cab for stage volume and in ear monitors. I’ve got a Kemper rig tour on here somewhere if you’re interested in any more info about how I set it up for live use 🙂

[@MikeWard70]

Thanks for the help, like the shortcuts!

[@jaklittlechild8833]

Great video, simply very informative. Cheers Dan.

[@DanLeggatt]

Cheers!

[@danbaker9368]

Really helpful video, thanks!

[@davidsong9229]

Great video. Helped a LOT.

[@mississippimules2079]

Just upgraded the OS on the KEMPER to 8.0x and am starting new on the Rig Manager. This was helpful - thank you. I think I will have to watch it a bit more while experimenting real time so I can absorb it all. But so far it looks exceptionally handy. easier then tinkering around with the knobs on the face of the unit. which is not too difficult once you get the hang of it.

[@DanLeggatt]

Glad it was helpful to you. Thanks for watching 👍

[@JoeGreenRocks]

Nice work dude. I haven't dabbled that much with doing it this way but now that's the rest of my evening covered!

[@DanLeggatt]

I got so used to working with the hardware I kind of overlooked it until being at home all the time 😂 It’s super handy!

[@WhereWolvesRoam]

Nice one Dan, keep em coming.

[@DanLeggatt]

Cheers! Will do 👍

[@rolandmengedoth2191]

Good explanations Tipps and Tricks. Thank you. Greetings from Germany

[@jasonalexander5253]

Great tips thanx Dan. I love the "T" for toggle effect off & on & using the arrow buttons for rig navigation & auto loading - Cheers. I am not sure if you can do this on a mac, but you can open a separate window from left side (especially useful with two screens) & drag drop a rig from one window to the other; for example, new performance slots.

[@DanLeggatt]

That sounds super handy! I’ll give it a try next time I’m on the Mac. Thanks for the tip 👍

[@sihrig]

Big help. Thanks. Just got a Kemper Stage.

[@DanLeggatt]

Welcome to the party pal 😂

[@1234mikeirving]

You are so very helpful, Dan! Thank you.

[@DanLeggatt]

No worries 👍 Thanks for watching.

[@AlanGeer]

Great video. Great content at a good pace. Apprecaite!!

[@DanLeggatt]

No worries. Thanks for watching 👍

[@GeorgeGreavesGuitar7]

Really useful and concise tutorial, thanks.

[@DanLeggatt]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@kennethmeeker6369]

Better than kempers official videos !

[@DanLeggatt]

Most kind!

[@lekcjegitarybochnia]

very usefull for me!

[@MrTupeloFlash]

Very Helpful

[@DanLeggatt]

Really glad it helped 👍

[@mackaFTW]

Great to the point content 👍

[@DanLeggatt]

Cheers!

[@barryjones872]

Hi Dan thanks for another great vid, after watching ,I plugged in the MacBook and hey presto 👍👍👍👍 I learnt about morphing from your vid ,but have been programming the head itself . Take care and keep up the good work Baz

[@DanLeggatt]

Awesome! Thanks man, you too 👍

[@mikemalm5923]

Thanks Dan. I lost my mojo to play two years ago but feel it's on it's way back, and lo and behold - rig manager's got a graphical interface now! Can't wait to install it and pick up one of my axes again :) Cheers

[@DanLeggatt]

Welcome back man! I think it’s important to take a break when it becomes a chore. Enjoy 👍

[@bobbyodell8676]

that opening lick profile has kind of a Lukenbach Texas sound to it.

[@Ray-um3if]

Hi Dan, "simply" Brilliant. Thank you for this Rig (manager) Run Down, I thought I had worked out all the ways of using Rig Manager but "No", yet again you have shown me some stuff I didn't know. I don't think your playing was up to much this time, Lol. Thank you again.

[@DanLeggatt]

😂😂 It felt very weird doing a video without a guitar on my lap! Thanks for watching mate and glad it was helpful!

[@evh22]

top vid Dan

[@Sutch66]

Good, on point video 🙂

[@DanLeggatt]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@kevinmac59v2]

Hello!! Great video!! Can I ask you a question? My band does around a 100 tunes. My question is that it seems that each rigs output volume to the board is never consistent. Our sound person has to tweak my volume on virtually every song. Any thought on how to level that out so it behaves like a miked amp? Thank you!!

[@jimsmith4611]

Dan a quick Kemper question for you when you get a minute. What speaker setting would you recommend for recording on a DAW. Pure cabinet on or pure cabinet off...? Cheers

[@DanLeggatt]

Good question. When recording I always take pure cab off. Live I leave it on. Seems to smooth things out when I use in ear monitors 👍

[@jaydriller100]

If there’s a lot out there on getting rig manager and the kemper hooked up on my MacBook, I’d be greatful for a link. I SIMPLY can’t find that anywhere!!

[@robertclarkguitar]

My son has an older axe fx and is now wanting a kemper. I would have believed axefx was just as good regardless of age for metal. I guess times are changing as always. New is new. Hahaha

[@lelcecc4793]

cool video👍. suggestion: if u open a second window u should be able to drag&drop a rig into a performance, wouldn’t thar work?

[@DanLeggatt]

Someone else has suggested that, I didn’t know it was possible but it could be. I haven’t been back on rig manager yet to check. It would be very handy.

[@MrUncuredporkpie]

This is super helpful and really opens up the Kemper effects. Could anyone help me with a morphing question? I press cmd on my mac keyboard and can then change the toe and heel values. I don't know how to exit this mode though. Every time I go to another parameter, I am still in morph mode. Would really like to know what I'm doing wrong. Cheers again!

[@MrUncuredporkpie]

​ok, i have found the solution. I needed to press 'm' to activate the morph. It would then let me edit as normal.

[@waynecarlson9168]

I do have a question. How can I change the value of the Transpose with the key board. Know how with th mouse, but can a bit hard hitting the right number. There must be a way the key board. Thank you...BTW Love your profiles wayne

[@MrTupeloFlash]

Thanks !

[@DanLeggatt]

No worries 👍

[@StevenScholten]

Hi excelent video thanks for posting it. Is there a way to change the amp in a performance? I can right click on the effects and change them but it seems there is no option to choose a different amp.

[@DanLeggatt]

You can drag the profile down from your library to the amp block. If you want all fx blocks to stay the same, make sure you lock them first 👍

[@jimsmith4611]

Dan I realsie this was an overview of the rig manager in general. I'm new to Kemper and was a bit dissapointed in some of the sounds available whenI first went into Rig Exchange as well as the Rigs already on the Kemper that I bought. Had discovered the Cabinet adjustment and your right very little movement makes a huge difference as does the Direct Mix and the Definition Key. Inthe end rigs that I wasn't impressed iwth became quite nice after I phaphed about with the various controls.. Have you done a video that goes into these controls in more depth same question for Freeze etc in the remote... Very helpful video thank you again..

[@DanLeggatt]

I haven’t as much for the amp modifiers but I have for the freeze etc. Check out a video on my channel called ‘Overlooked Kemper Features’ 👍

[@jimsmith4611]

@@DanLeggatt cheers Dan I think I did have a look at that one but looked at so many I'm in Kemper info overload...!! Will look again..

[@jeffreylewis8930]

thanks this was great i just got my stage also do you know where i could find good bass rig profiles

[@DanLeggatt]

To be honest I’ve not really used it for bass much. I’m sure there will be some decent stuff on rig exchange.

[@swagband]

Is morph rise and fall time adjustable via the rig manager? I can't seem to find this question answered anywhere.

[@AlanGeer]

OK, I've got a question for you. I'm using my Kemper stage and rig manager on a Windows PC. I sync back and forth update 1 to the other, seamless and easy. Then my laptop dies. I grab my ipad which has a different, outdated set of rigs from the same stage unit. No big deal, I keep working and editing as I always have . Now I get my Windows PC back from repair and I plug it in.... does the profiler PUSH TO the PC, or does the PC push the old versions to the profiler?

[@scottglasson1957]

FYI.. this is IMPORTANT... you can only DUPLICATE a LOADED RIG. You can't just duplicate a rig that is selected, it must be LOADED for PREVIEW with the headphones. This is does not work like a typical file browser. If the RIG is not not loaded, the DUPLICATE BUTTON will not appear. YOU CAN ONLY duplicate a RIG that is stored in you LOCAL LIBRARY.. so you would have to copy a rig from a RIG PACK to your local library before duplicating. Thanks for your tutorial.

[@christianfilouler]

Hello and thank you, I can only agree with everyone else. I've been using a helix so far. For a few days to "try" the Kemper. the presets alone are absolutely great. Turn on cool sound. Don't tweak so much until you hear something good. Top video about RigManager in German is hard to find, then came across this video. First understand the new terms. You think there are only a few buttons;) But then it's different. I only have very few amps under "All Presets>"? Is that correct ? How do I build my own new ones, uh, now it's called rigs (under Line6 Presets, ggrr) thx from German

[@DanLeggatt]

If you mean presets, on the Kemper that is for FX settings. If you mean you don’t have many amps in your rig folder. You can add profiles to your rig library from rig exchange or paid sites.

[@stuartmckay6777]

Hi Dan, is there any quick way to navigate through effects in real time to compare them? Anytime I select a reverb it just comes off the menu and if I wanna try something else I need to go all the way back into the menu. Cheers!

[@DanLeggatt]

Not that I know of, you can scroll through fx presets on the Kemper unit though.

[@jimsmith4611]

Dan great video for me as a newbie to the KPA. I just bought a 2nd hand kemper today and don't know how to add my profile / my kemper. Does it creat a 'file' when I link my Kemper with a USB Cable..?

[@DanLeggatt]

Once you have your Kemper plugged in via usb, rig manager will find it once it’s launched. As long as the Kemper OS and rig manager versions are compatible. All updates are available from the Kemper site if not 👍

[@jimsmith4611]

@@DanLeggatt thanks for that response Dan. Connected with a usb cable with the male A to Male B type connection but the profiler is a no show. I downloaded the latest rig manager and the Kemper is showing the relase version as 7.3.1.16224 Ill try to find out if the Kmper has the latest update on it.

[@jimsmith4611]

@@DanLeggatt Cheers Dan From what I can gleen I am currently running my 2nd hand kemper with 7.3.1so it looks like the previous owner didn't upgrade it recently. The Rig manager that I downloaded is the latest version 3.0.140. From what you are saying these are currently incompatable. I think what I have to do now is upgrade to 7.3.2 then I can go to the latest upgrade at OS 8.0.2. In turn hopefully, the rig manager will recognise my upgraded Kemper and it should be all good... Does that make sense to you. Thanks for the help so far

[@DanLeggatt]

@@jimsmith4611 yes that sound right and should do the job. You can actually download legacy versions (older) of rig manager on the Kemper site if I remember correctly. However if you go to the latest OS for the Kemper you do get some extra fx and stuff 👍

[@jimsmith4611]

@@DanLeggatt cheers I have a guy in the shop that I bought it from so going toget him to talk me through it Saturday so thast I don't screw it up before Iget a chance to use it..Thanks for support really helpful...

[@Fitzliputzli23]

The real shortcoming here is the storing process (at least in my system) Only sometimes the stuff I edit in the editor will be stored in my KEMPER Stage. Either the storing workflow is too complicated for my simple mind or there is something wrong.

[@DanLeggatt]

That does seem odd. I've had a few glitches using rig manager in the past but nothing major.

[@Journey_with_abhay]

Sir I have done gp rating course.... And have Indian cdc.......i will join as a roustabout and can I became rig manager without any bachelor's degree

[@bart413]

As a new user. Why did they place a restart to default in place of initialize button xd just lost some ready to go performance :p

[@guitarepalace]

Hi when i use the rig manager on the kpr i cant see the setting of the effect down of the screen any idea

[@DanLeggatt]

You are probably not running an up to date FW or rig manager would be my best guess.

[@skilletfan17]

I just connected my rig manager and updated it, there's a yellow warning sign next to my profiler and won't let me use it. Any idea what could be going on?

[@DanLeggatt]

Might mean that the actual profiler needs updating possibly?

[@amado5490]

How do I copy my local library to another computer? I have bought a new mac and I can't manage to keep the local library I have in my old iMac in my new laptop.

[@DanLeggatt]

Create a backup and send the file over should do it.

[@marc_leblanc]

I could never figure out why it wouldn't save performances. I even tried updating the firmware again but it just wouldn't save so I got rid of it. Too bad. It would've been ideal for me.

[@scottglasson1957]

I'm missing the DUPLICATE FUNCTION??.. nice tutorial btw.

[@DanLeggatt]

Cheers. Not sure why you wouldn't have it.

[@pm8278]

Ground control to Major Dan....can you hear me, Major Dan ?

[@DanLeggatt]

😂