Okay, I've had some time to play around and now I'm trying to learn how best to navigate this beast. There are close to 300 profiles on the unit by default. To get a feel for what commercial packs are like, I went to M. Britt and bought the 800 and Crank n Go packs. So, I now have 400+ loaded. Everything I've heard is excellent, but of course not everything is going to be relevant to the song at hand.
if I'm setting up for a specific band / gig / song list it's pretty straightforward. I can simply load the guys I'm going to use, save off and then delete the rest, and I'm set. Where it gets a bit more daunting is in the exploratory / inspirational area, and I'm speaking specifically of standing in front of the Kemper and 4x12 rather than sitting in front of a computer in the control room with Rig Manager.
Maybe I'm looking for a chimey Vox, or a crunchy 800, or Eddie melting glass. I'd naturally like to dial up that chunk of profiles to audition without having to wade through a lot of irrelevant ones in between. In normal computer stuff I'd have those grouped in folders, which is exactly what you can do with folders in the local library of Rig Manager. However, as best I understand, the unit itself has a flat structure regarding the profiles - it's just a 1 to x list. You can sort by a few attributes, but you're still down to scrolling / paging one at a time. There's no grouping or other organizational features that I'm aware of. Obviously, scrolling through hundreds of profiles when I'm really just looking for a batch of 30 or 40 is less than optimal.
I would imagine you guys have come up with best practices to make it as easy as possible to find and navigate your profiles. How do you organize things on the to make it easy for you to poke around and find the kinds of sounds you're looking for without sitting in front of Rig Manager?