Personally I also think it would devalue the product if sold cheaply.
£2k is a lot of money.....but not when you consider:
- I have access to sounds from £00k's worth of amps....and I'm being conservative. I just bought some new profiles over the weekend ( not done it in ages - needed the retail therapy!) and they cost me £12.....and the sounds are fantastic. There are no amps you can buy for £12, let alone high quality giggable amps. So once you have the hardware, the flex is unreal and cheap. Its cured me of my amp GAS and hence is the cheapest gear I've ever bought
- Cost of a boutique amp is over £2k e.g Boogie Rectifier...and that's 1 amp,. with a couple of channels and no effects.
- This is pro level gear - Mark K uses one for flips sake! Yes some people can't afford it but many people can't afford a Les Paul Custom either.
To me its not about price but about value.
To make a stomp version with less functionality would require them to redesign the software to account for this in updates etc . What would you remove, ability to profile ? That is the whole point of the KPA.
How would you restrict the number of amps? The profiles themselves take up little space so I suspect that the amount of hardware saving they would get would be minimal i.e. it takes the same amount of processing to run 1 profile regardless of form factor so you might save some memory but where would the savings come from in manufacture? I suspect ( but don;t know) that its probably more viable for Kemper to drop the price of the KPA...but why should they as they need to continue to re-invest.
Nice thought but I suspect its a non starter.