Display MoreMdeerocks - my intent is not disrespect.
I think you've summed it up by saying that you use 4-5 amps, 50-60 profiles. From a memory perspective that's 5% of what it stores.
The Kemper has 1000 spaces. Perhaps you'd use more if it had a decent librarian
For years, I was fine with a single amp plus Redwirez impulses so I'm trying not to judge on the numbers
It's just that the Kemper gives us sooooooo much more. It is incredibly accomplished at every sound it makes (far better than anything the competition makes IMO). For those of us who have been around the block, it feels like a massive leap forward in almost every respect. The only step back is 'finding cool stuff and keeping tabs on cool stuff' and for that a librarian makes things much easier. There is, we can all agree, an abundance of cool stuff!!
An analogy for you.
The Kemper is like the best library in the world. It has thousands of books. 50% of the books are 'the best book you've ever read'. The other 50% rank will be 'good for someone, not for me'.
Trouble is that 50% of books are scattered all over the floor. You know that there are other great ones there but it's more trouble to go looking for them than to keep with the books you know...... So you stick with one or two books. You'll be happy because they are wonderful books but you could have hundreds of wonderful books as opposed to the few you stick with.
This isn't me threatening to go elsewhere...... It's me saying 'it's ALMOST perfect. The only thing missing is something that companies with inferior products made happen a long time ago.' In truth, a handful of 'perfect profiles' is enough for 98% of anything we all do..... It just seems crazy that it can do that extra 2% because of a feature we're all used to elsewhere. Asking for such a thing should not mean I am made fun of :). It's a reasonable, considered request to help me get even more out of a market leading product. That is all.
They'll do it eventually. I hope sooner rather than later. For anyone that owns a Kemper, the lack of a librarian is a 'weirdly incomprehensible annoyance' as opposed to a dealbreaker - it's so good at what it DOES do you'd be foolish to go elsewhere.
Making a librarian would make loyal customers happy and would stop POTENTIAL customers from writing it off due to a checkbox Excercise where it lacks what appears to be a 'basic' feature.
Just IMO of course
I get what you are saying and fundamentally I agree, we just need to be patient. A little poke from time to time like "a librarian would be nice" is more than enough I suppose. I don't know how many people Kemper employs, but it's not a huge team.
The thing is we don't know how having or not having a librarian affects Kemper business. My theory is it doesn't, your theory is it does, that's fine. But what I propose is to not irritate Kemper team too much (keeping in mind they said software is in the pipeline), because they do read these forums from time to time and answer our questions - that itself is something extraordinary. If we start pounding on them, they may chose to not to come here anymore, I have seen it too many times on lots of forums.
I am sorry if I am lecturing.. I just enjoy what I have and (I am still surprised) Kemper delivered everything what it advertised on the box -all other stuff is a bonus.
p.s. I'd not use more rigs than I use now.. maybe I'd check an amp or two here and there but that's it.
