Kemper KPA External Control

The KPA has extensive, intuitive support for external controllers, and some products are made specifically for control of the KPA. The three main types of control are analog expression pedals/footswitches, MIDI, and the Kemper remote.

Expression Pedals/Footswitches

The KPA has 2 stereo jacks on the back of the unit that can be connected to expression pedals or footswitches. Expression pedals should be stereo and connected with a stereo cable. Footswitches can be mono or stereo.

There are several places to set up your analog pedal or footswitch. On the System menu pages 5 - 6, you can specify what kind of device is connected and what it should control. Really, you are setting what it should act as - the KPA will map its input to a MIDI CC parameter. What the pedal (as well as the corresponding MIDI CC) controls is a bit more flexible, dependent on which effects are enabled, as well as "linking" settings on page 14 of the System menu. On page ? of the Rig menu, you can set additional per-rig settings for the pedal's range.

Note, if you link a wah pedal to volume, when you disable a wah effect on a rig, the pedal will not begin to control volume until you put it fully in the toe position - this prevents a jump in volume if your wah pedal is not in toe position when you turn it off. Similarly, if wah is linked to pitch, when you disable wah/enable pitch, the pedal will not begin to affect the pitch until it is brought fully to the heel position, again to prevent the pitch jumping on the transition.