firmware question.

telelogic · Mar 19th 2015

Hullo all,
I've only had the toaster for a couple of months and when it arrived I upgraded the fw to 2.7.4 (lucky for me) and the unit has behaved impeccably ever since.
The more I read about fw 3/3.1 the less I feel inclined to take the plunge. I am aware, that for whatever reasons, The people at Kemper have forced themselves into a situation where they have had to release a piece of hardware, and therefore software, that in reality, was not ready for release. And because of this, are having to fix umpteen issues at the same time.
My question (finaly) is this,
should I just stay in the happy world of working toaster and wait until the issues have petered out? Or, am I missing out on so much fun that dealing with some annoying glitches will be outweighed by my erection (physical or mental) at the awesomeness?

jazzfromhell · Mar 19th 2015

Im gigging quite a lot so there is no way Im switching over until its stable.

telelogic · Mar 19th 2015

Sounds smart.

jazzfromhell · Mar 19th 2015

Quote from telelogic

Sounds smart.

Id like to think so
Dont get me wrong, I want an erection too :D, but I DONT want to be standing at the gig with an amp that doesnt work properly.

telelogic · Mar 19th 2015

An erection isn't helpful in that situation.
I speak from experience.

paults · Mar 19th 2015

The most significant remaining issues in 3.0.1 involve the creation of certain types of profiles.

Using 2.7.4, you cannot use new profiles created in 3.0 format. If you are not planning on downloading any new profiles, there is no immediate need to update. If you want to try the latest profiles, you'll need to update.

Ingolf · Mar 19th 2015

OTOH 3.01 is stable of you're not using merged profiles.
No reason to not update.

Raoul23 · Mar 19th 2015

I gig every weekend a least twice and 3.0.1 has been very stable, not one issue live so I'd say go for it

telelogic · Mar 19th 2015

So, the only reason to update (given that I do not own the foot controller) is so I can use the new merged profiles,
but if I do update, and then try to use the new merged profiles, it will break!

Is that making any sense to anybody?

Booyah · Mar 19th 2015

I updated to 3.0.0 and then drove off and played 12 shows in 10 days and it worked out fine (once I got the Omni midi channel thing figured out). I will be updating to 3.0.1 either today or tomorrow and then doing 4 shows this week with that. Bottom line: all the firmware's sound great and work for most situations, I say do the update, give it a quick test, bring your backup files just in case and have some fun with it.

telelogic · Mar 19th 2015

But what will I get from the update that I don't already have?

sambrox · Mar 19th 2015

Faster rig switching.

Cheese,
Sam

telelogic · Mar 19th 2015

I can hardly wait

☺

viabcroce · Mar 20th 2015

OTOH, you can downgrade whenever you want, so no real risk unless you plan some critical use and you can't afford any failure.

PS: If you want to know what's new in 3.0, what about just reading the related documentation?

telelogic · Mar 20th 2015

I did read it.
Then I read the posts about either the new bits not working properly or all the old working bits no longer working like they used to.
I hope it's clear that I'm playing Devils avocado here?
it just all seems a bit odd at the moment.

Tonemasterus · Mar 20th 2015

Don't play the Devils avocado!! It will turn into unholy guacamole!!

lol couldn't resist??

telelogic · Mar 20th 2015

Very nice sir!

viabcroce · Mar 20th 2015

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I did read it.
Then I read the posts about either the new bits not working properly or all the old working bits no longer working like they used to.

I was answering to

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But what will I get from the update that I don't already have

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