Nobody said that Fractals are perfect, or that your wish is useless. You need to understand that we are trying to figure out exactly what you want, how you see it being implemented, and whether there are suitable workarounds. That is what helping others is about.
The majority of people here are not Kemper users, most of us never used Kemper, so we're not at all familiar with how Kemper does things, and until you finally explained it we still needed that information.
Based on the information you just posted, Fractal can do those things already. The difference is you're used to not having the flexibility of placing the block anywhere you want it, so you want Fractal to implement Kemper's way of doing it. Yes, Kemper's way is simpler and requires less work but there's that tradeoff with flexibility.
Pushing the looper location into a global setting is possible, and there is one existing precedence: A foot pedal can be used as a volume at input or output without adding a block, or, as is often used, a separate VolPan block can be dropped in wherever it needs to be. Kind'a similarly, a wah can be globally defined as a specific pedal input but it still has to have the block loaded into the preset wherever the user wants it. But, neither of those have the RAM or CPU demands of a looper.
@AlGrenadine might have a trick up his FracTool sleeve where it could do a batch insert, but it can't warn of CPU or RAM overload problems, and if you're going to buy and load 1000 preset packs and use a built-in looper, then you're
still going to have to go through them all to confirm whether the preset will function. So, one way or another that task will exist, and that's the crux of the problem; It's not going to go away whether this capability is global or local to the preset.
And, just for some background, here's what Cliff had to say
about loopers:
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FX8 does support the sort of global/fixed block processing you're talking about, but that's a different architecture.
IF the FM3 had dedicated memory for a looper and the appropriate processor it would probably be possible to do what you want based on what Cliff said, but it doesn't in its current incarnation.
If Fractal was to modify the firmware to allow the looper to work as you say, existing presets that are pushing the limits would most likely fail; Trying to fix them would require finding them, possibly having to reboot and start on an empty preset if the CPU is horribly overloaded, turning off the global setting, editing the preset then saving it, turning it back on and seeing if the preset behaved. Rinse and repeat. A lot.
If looping was important to me, and I didn't want to manually inspect or add it to presets or worry about CPU or RAM issues, I'd buy a dedicated looper and stick it before or after the FM3. From my experience, the small TC Ditto is a fun gizmo but any looper would work in this situation without any of the concerns.
