Too everyone reading this ..... This illustrates the knee jerk reaction of the Kemper team that comes into focus whenever there omnipotence is questioned at all.
Agenda? The only one I have is hoping that KPA OS issues such as all these operational anomalies , crashes and any other weird unexplained artifacts are noted and addressed.
I even offered to help you solve them????
Did I not write the following
" As an end user like you for the time being I accept all these things because the KPA produces some great tone even despite the direct leakage. Would I rather it didn't have this issue? Yeah.... I know its there and it is mildly annoying but not to the point that makes the product unusable. Maybe someday somehow by some quirk of fate one of the programmers or engineers will just happen to discover that something from within the countless lines of code or even an internal interrupt or memory arbitration logic flaw within the MCU that yields an implementation of a firmware worked around that fixes many of the unexplained issues once and for all.
Just remember back to when KPA was first released. A milestone in of itself by Christoph Kemper as profound as those of Leo Fender, Les Paul, Jim Marshall and Mike Battle [Inventor of the ECHO-PLEX ] . "
Are these words of a TROLL ????
For the record I have over 20 years experience engineering Digital Pro Audio Guitar processors working with Moto ala Freescale 56K based ASSEMBLY code along with the User Interface Microprocessor assembly code as well. I am well familiar with the idiosyncrasies and unexpected issues that arise.. Now days your relying on your IDE to compile and assemble your code and most likely are trusting its output without question. That is the first mistake ! The second is poor interrupt handling protocols employed ! Midi Buffer overflows ??? Really ??? Never before have MCU's had more onboard memory ! There is no excuse for any buffer overflows ... That's your second mistake.... Its called sloppy programming or poor coding logic !
Bottom line: Instead beating people over the head and berating them when they bring attention to these anomalies maybe you should consider that maybe you have a real problem that keeps waving a flag that you will refuse to acknowledge. That will be your third mistake... I can tell you that these strange things are going to keep occurring within every official release of FW update until the root of theses issues are discovered. I have faced these types of bug reports and I know they are not fun especially when they cant be replicated by the programmers. It dose not mean they are not real.... We live in an age that affords FW upgrades which also creates a environment of end user beta testers.. I worked in a time where the firmware was internally beta tested to death before any release because it needed to be as close to completely debugged as possible. Flash programming was not an option.
As MCU's evolved with internal flash and more on board memory a lot of things became much easier !
I think I also said that I love the KPA and would not consider using anything else as its sonic quality has yet to be surpassed.
I am on your side ... If you cant take user comments objectively without attacking someones credibility maybe Kemper should do some serious staff house cleaning.
He's got the money to do it. The basic pre-amp core of the KPA is nothing less than pure genius ... The rest of the product should be held to the same standards.
There should be no excuse... How long has this product been out??? The operating system should reflect that don't you think? Midi Buffer Overflows ???? Your still having basic serial communications issues after 5 years of this products life ? That should tell you something right there... Its great that Kemper gave the OS programmers 5 years time to get up to speed. But maybe who ever is responsible for the current OS architecture should step down to a general programming position and someone brighter should be considered to restructure and optimize the Boot sequence, User Control Interface, General Main Routines , Interrupt handlers , Confirm MCU Memory buss arbitration via verification code , Thread management ect ... Basically tighten up coding logic and confirm the assembly output address declarations against the expected code map file. 5 years has been more than enough time to realize that some sort of change is needed.
You can not keep doing the same thing and expect a different result ! Crazy man.
My feeling is the current chief programmer is in too deep and has lost his way. I am not saying he is a bad programmer ... I am saying his program logic flow is really rough .... Its a talent ... There are programmers and there are others that have an expertise in operating system optimization and program flow execution.
As I have indicated I am keeping the faith that great improvements will be made in the operating system that will make this product unstoppable now and into the future...
So what kind of troll am I .... I am a proud Kemper-ite and will remain one until such a day that something comes into existence that surpasses the KPA's preamps sonic performance and user interface execution.
I'm done now.... Think and say what you will ... Oh before I forget hey Locrain ,
I mentioned the reverbs as a contextual metaphoric example ....
As in
Instead of finding and fixing the existing code .... More code is being written and being touted ... albeit a nice addition...
What good is more bells and whistles if the basic vehicle keeps breaking down???????
Has there been one totally stable official KPA firmware release? Why not ??? What precedent does this track record create.
KPA sounds great but unexpected issues may occur when you least expect them.... Not to mention taking 50 some odd seconds to reboot ! That's the fourth mistake !
Danimaetrix,
Your not crazy , I am not troll, neither is anyone else that dares to say that the KPA may have some issues....
The OXYMORON is that the KPA response exhibits the behavior of exactly what they claim to detest!
They proceed to demean and diminish anyone's credibility when they don't like what your saying like a gang of arrogant scheißekopf A-holes !
That is reason I have not commented in quite a while ... But this was an exception ...... I am always keeping tabs on whats going on here....
Its cheap entertainment !
Waiting for something good to transpire ... Like a 5 second boot ! That be a good start !
How about a Midi Buffer that never has overflow problems... Lockups , Freezes ect....
Best regards,
