Dear all,
I am still somewhat ambivalent about the KPA:
On the one hand it is a fantastic device and exactly what I wanted to have all the years. The form factor is also okay for me.
On the other hand there are crashes where the device only recovers after a long period of time (several minutes). This is completely unacceptable for a live situation. I am not too demanding here: I can bear with a system with occasional crashes (my band is just an amateur band 
). But any device for live use must be available after at most a minute of recovery.
This is currently not the case. In my opinion Kemper should have installed some sort of watchdog timer which totally resets the system when it is not live anymore.
Note that I was a bit naive about the function of the chickenhead switch because I thought that switching it off might reset the device. It cannot, of course, because is just a soft switch: it does not physically disconnect the computer from the current supply (otherwise there would be not shutdown process when turning the KPA off).
So the recommendation here is: when the KPA has a complete crash with a black display remaining, remove the power cord for some minutes.
Am I especially picky or do you have similar thoughts? I understand that this device is beta, but in one year's time after NAMM11 I would have expected more stability...
Best regards
DrTT
