I'm with Vurnt on this one (and btw thanks again for your kind words about the TouchOSC editor!) I'm glad the KPA is "in the wild". Yes, a Kemper-sanctioned librarian would be helpful, but who can honestly say that the need is so great that it would have been better for Kemper to hold off on releasing the amp?? I'd have taken my KPA
sooner if I could have! Besides which, a few months is not so long for a product to be on shelves before some supporting s/w arrives. I think we need a little perspective here.
And I have to call out this quote from the first page of the thread:
On a more serious note, I'm starting thinking they had no clue about a guitarist's needs. Bad brainstormings? Bad customer analysis? Don't know.
I couldn't disagree with this sentiment more. I'm constantly flipping through the manual, or working with the amp itself, and thinking, "man, this just makes so much sense!" The lock feature has a million brilliant applications, the way they set up volume pedal configuration is so simple and yet so flexible, the way they name files and snapshots with clear timestamps so I don't have to stop and worry about naming conventions when I want to be playing instead... the list goes on.
This kind of brings me back to the cries of "we need a librarian/ editor!!!" ... I can only half-agree with this. The UI on the amp is so good IMO, and the amp is in many ways so refreshingly simple, I don't really see the need for an editor per se. A librarian to help you get your profiles and controls in order, sure. But the KPA is about playing music on great amps, not deep editing. (I've got plenty of other toys to lead me down that dark path...)
If our worst problem is we got giddy and downloaded ALL THE AMPS IN THE WORLD (because I did the very same thing LOL) I'd say we've got it pretty good.
My only complaint is the KPA didn't come with hundreds of hours free time so I could actually use it as much as I ought to.