Case study

Zamphenom: running Kemper Profiler firmware in a DSP emulator

Zamphenom runs Kemper Profiler firmware in an instruction-level Motorola DSP56720 emulator and exposes its audio through a VST3 plugin. The repository includes update-file unpacking, DSP bootstrap extraction and rig-to-message-stream tools; the author reports a working amp path and delay stomp.

Targets: Firmware
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-08
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 19
Last commit: 2026-08-31
Language: C++
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

Copy as Markdown View JSON Cite

Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

How evidence classes are assigned

Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: An owner-supplied Kemper Profiler OS 14.2.1 firmware dump and the complete set of 18 DSP segments are required; a rig can come from the update package or the user's own files.
Prerequisites: A C++17 compiler and CMake 3.16 or newer are required for building.
Limits: The repository cannot generate the 18 runtime DSP segments from the update file; most effects remain incomplete.
License: GPL-3.0 license.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{zamphenom-case,
  title = {{Zamphenom: running Kemper Profiler firmware in a DSP emulator}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/andrezaiats/zamphenom}},
  url = {https://github.com/andrezaiats/zamphenom},
  urldate = {2026-11-08},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/zamphenom-case/}}
}

Plain text

Zamphenom: running Kemper Profiler firmware in a DSP emulator. https://github.com/andrezaiats/zamphenom (accessed 2026-11-08). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/zamphenom-case/

Useful? Star Awesome REA on GitHub2.4k

About this entry

The description was reviewed against primary sources.

Report an outdated entry Suggest a translation fix

Primary sources

README.md GitHub · andrezaiats/zamphenom · Revision e942abb