I find it hard to understand why you allow yourself to determine what he might or might not need.
Don't get me wrong - for the most part i agree - but that's us, not him. Don't condescend.
Oh, and the rig switching latency is much, much longer than pretty much anything else on the market today. It is also very far from non existent.
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yes, exactly. Thank you. As I said it is like with the cars. Some drivers might love manual gearbox, some would prefer automatic. Some say that 0-100km/h acceleration in 10 seconds is plenty quick, some of us would prefer if things were little bit faster - and I don't think you have to be Lewis Hamilton to justify that you ask for a little quicker car. And (sadly) Kemper is pretty much only one model really (well yeah you have rack form factor and both version can be with or without poweramp), so Kemper should (that is my opinion) try to make everyone happy - not just people who think someone else doesn't need this or that. What if Kemper was made according to people whose ideal of guitar tone is: guitar-cable-amp. These people would ask you: "What exactly do you need your compressor/delay/whatever pedal for? It just ruins the tone, man!!"
If Kemper was made according to these people, it would never have effects built inside. But luckily, Kemper has them, and the tone purists have the choice not to use them, but all others can. The same with bass amp and power. Few years back, 500W bass amp was quite a powerfull beast. Now you can see many amps reaching more than twice as that. And many people seem to be very happy with such amps. And amp producers did not kept saying: "Hey, why would you need such powerfull amp, you better shut up and be glad for your 350 Watts". You can always turn 1000W bass amp down - but you cannot reverse it on the 350W.
Does anyone here remember dial-in internet connection? It was just a minute, some would say it is just enough to make yourself a coffee etc. Could you use it today? Yes definitely! Would you go back to dial-in connection? I don't think so. The same with booting up old computer vs new one with SSD.
If you think about it, everything can be taken as it is NOT a problem. String breakage - not a problem. Guitar going out of tune, tube changing, rebiasing, bad cables, moving heavy cabs and equipment - you can say why would you need lighter cab? Our fathers and grandfathers moved those heavy Marshall cabs all their life so I better get used to it too, right?
To sum up - yes, if power goes down and everything shuts then after that 30 secs is not the end of the world. The audience will understand, the bandmates will understand. Actually you could say that about the quality of the sound of the profiler - I mean who in the audience would really appreciate the sound of the profiler and could really tell if I'm playing cheapo Zoom modeller, Kemper or the real thing - 1-2% of the guys in the crowd? Then why bother?
Well I would say that Kemper should bother to satisfy its users. It's the feel thing - how satisfied you are and how this feel and satisfation make you relate it to your music. 99% of your normal listeners don't give a damn how did you get the sound and if there were tubes involved in it or not and 90% of them couldn't even tell the difference between Fender and Marshall. So in the end it's you who decide what's good. If the feel of the click on the switch and change of the preset is smooth and satisfy you or you feel something is not right (can be 50ms, can be 10ms, can be 200ms, can be 1sec) - and it doesn't matter to you that your audience won't hear it or wouldn't mind. What makes awesome tone differ from the good tone is actually not that much, it's tiny things, slight details - that add up. Most of the guitars made today are mostly good, but what makes great guitar are little things, little details. You buy expensive perfect guitar and then you find out that the pots are inferior - but who would notice it? So why we replace them with premium ones? I agree that booting time on the Kemper is just a detail, someting like a not that good pot in otherwise nearly perfect guitar and many users of this guitar won't probably notice it. Yes - it is a detail. Exactly.
The devil is in the details. And so is perfection.
Maybe I'm nitpicking here. But Kemper developers should be nitpicking as well. Kemper is awesome piece of gear but they should never stop improving it. That means even improving its preset switching lag and its booting time.
