The sound of a 1974 Marshall or VOX AC30 is still not "outdated" IMO.
I am not talking about the sound. I have no problem with that. On the contrary, I love the sound of the Kemper.
The sound of a 1974 Marshall or VOX AC30 is still not "outdated" IMO.
I am not talking about the sound. I have no problem with that. On the contrary, I love the sound of the Kemper.
This. It's like comically bad. Frankly I don't think the editor is much better.
I don't know about Fractal user experience and ease of editing. But the Kemper UI (Stage, iPad app and MacOS RigManager) leaves much to be desired. The user experience - at least to me - is outdated and incomplete. Just my two cents.
I am highly interested and I am in fact on the waiting list (not located in the US, so I will have to wait).
It will not replace my Kemper Stage, though.
I would be down for a Kemper 2 without any doubt. Wouldn't even think very long about it.
Besides all those good suggestions you have made (and were made in other threads), I would wish that my existing profiles would continue to work unchanged. Backwards compatibility is very high on my wishlist for Kemper 2.
User experience wise RM needs some TLC for sure.
... I wanted a purple powered head with a flamed maple shell and a cream colored leather strap and a silver sparkle backplate....
I want one of those, too.
So today it is no longer a problem to program for different operating systems if you use the right technology.
Yeah. I use a stove and a pan, but my meals are not on Gordon Ramsey level. Stuff is complicated and supporting an additional OS is hard work.
A shop loading paid profiles at no extra charge seems kinda suspect. I hope they're paying the profile makers.
I have seen/heard a Podcast where MBritt and HW (Tonejunkie) are promoting this deal, so they are cool with it and I would think that they also get something out of that.
I am using Linux professionally for 20 years now. 20 years on the server and for five years now on my main laptop that I use for work and most day to day stuff. So I would say I know a bit about the differences/advantages of Linux compared to Windows and MacOs. And also about the disadvantages.
My stance on Linux on the desktop: I don't think that it will ever become mainstream. A more user-friendly distro could be created, but I can't see it happening, there is just not that much of an incentive for a manufacturer.
For all music related stuff I use a Mac. And this most likely will not change. My DAW does not run under Linux. There are no Linux drivers for my audio interface. There is no rig manager for Linux and the list goes on. So much is missing. And I completly understand that there is no manufacturer too keen to support Linux. What would RigManager do good to me on Linux, when I cannot run my audio interface and my DAW simultanously?
The next point is, that there is no one "Linux". You have distributions. Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Suse, Arch and so forth. It is all highly fragmented. For a manufacturer a maintenance nightmare. What should Kemper do. It's difficult to support multiple Windows and Mac versions, but with Linux distributiuons, it get's tenfold complicated. And we only have talked about Linux distributions so far, we haven't not yet mentioned window managers at all.
So, as much as I would like to have a RigManager on Linux and as much as I would like to do all my audio related stuff under Linux - I am not counting on it in the slightest way.