I’ve been troubleshooting this for hours and could use some help from anyone familiar with Kemper + Ableton on Windows.

Issue:

When I select ASIO → Kemper Profiler in Ableton, I get:

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What’s weird:

• Ableton detects the Kemper ASIO driver
• But it won’t initialize / open
• It falls back to Realtek ASIO if I switch devices

My setup:

• Windows PC
• Ableton Live
• Kemper Profiler (latest OS ~14.x)
• Latest Rig Manager installed
• Connected via USB (tried front + motherboard ports)

What I’ve already tried:

• Switching Kemper to Native Audio (ASIO) in Rig Manager
• Restarting everything (PC, Kemper, Ableton)
• Reinstalling Rig Manager
• Trying different USB ports
• Closing all apps (Discord, browser, etc.)
• Matching sample rate (44.1kHz)

Important clue:

In Device Manager, the Kemper shows up as:

👉 “Profiler”

NOT:
👉 “Kemper Profiler”

Also, when I manually try to update the driver, I only see:

• USB Audio Device
• USBMidi2-ACX

No Kemper ASIO driver available to select.

My suspicion:

It seems like:

• The Kemper is in ASIO mode
• But Windows is still using a generic USB audio driver instead of the Kemper ASIO driver

So Ableton sees the ASIO driver but can’t actually connect to the hardware.

Question:

Has anyone run into this where:

• Kemper is in Native Audio (ASIO)
• But Windows doesn’t install or bind the Kemper ASIO driver?

How did you fix it?

Any help is appreciated 🙏

I feel like I’m one step away from getting this working but stuck on driver recognition.