I am Hardly childish folks, as you imply! save that line for kids who buy Line 6 crap...I am quite frustrated and this is a great place to vent! besides being called childish - I have actually seen a number of responses from equally frustrated individuals. When you say the manufacturer does not owe me (or you) anything and has never made promises! that's a load of crap IMHO - I, just like you I suspect, paid a BUTT load of cash for this device - they have been promising performance mode from day one - hell there is even a switch on the box for it - yet every rev of FW does not address it. As for an editor - someone said they could code it in a few minutes - please do - if you are going to put out a "software" based device then in my simple thinking, an editor should be a no brainier - even TC Electronics and Axxe have editors - makes life so much simpler.
My comment about "being in Germany" was only to say - non-USA - agree bad choice of words on my part did not mean to offed truly sorry about that - I love Germany - lived there for better part of 10 years - non-military related
As for making my Kemper sound worse - hmmm... I noticed with new release - it sounds very different - not always better - I am hearing "digital artifacts" and I can't hear anymore - so if I am hearing it then its gotta be there! I really dig the Uwe Vox amps - but after I upgraded to new FW - it sounds harsh and digital
It's impossible for the sound to change after doing the firmware upgrade...unless you're talking about the Monitor Out to poweramp/cab, but you're not...therefore what you're hearing is psychological.
Some of the worlds best most experienced guitarists/engineers/producers (link below) aren't hearing these digital artifacts, but a few guys on the internet are...who should I believe?
Listen to these clips.
I'm sure some guitarists with super ears will hear digital artifacts, the guitarist playing hasn't mentioned the word digital artifacts anywhere, not once.