I hate to be the conspiracy guy, especially after defending Kemper through that “The Player was a scam, it already has the ability to have more effects etc…”
But…
In that last Tone Junkie video, at 7:00 minutes he tries to explain why the mkII profiles can be played on the old firmware but it suffers quality due to ‘processing’ demands of the higher resolution mkII profile content. But a lot of people are convinced the only hardware component that processes audio has not been replaced. ‘DSP has not been increased’.
So if that assessment is correct is ToneJunkie doing a Baghdad Bob here or maybe he just making stuff up? Or maybe I just don’t understand this shit.
If the conspiracy holds true then Kemper might be the first in its class again, with the distinction that the old Kemper model becomes the first digital guitar amp hardware to be vulnerable to ‘jailbreak’!
If the whole lock is nothing but a bit of code in the MkII profile files…or some lock built into the new Rig Manager that connecting to a MkII hardware unlocks…well, you know someone is going to write a bit of code to unlock the old devices.