User Manual

KEMPER PROFILING AMPLIFIER60
External Storage
In the regular play screen of the KPA you can press the soft button labeled External Storage to create or
restore backups, import or export rigs or format a USB stick.
Pressing the soft button labeled “Backup” will take you to a page where you can either backup all of the
rigs and presets in the KPA using the soft button labeled “Backup” or restore a backup from an USB stick
into the KPA using the soft button labeled “Restore”.
A USB stick that has been formatted by the KPA will contain a folder called Shared.
Using the Import/Export soft button will take you to a page where you can import all rigs from the shared
folder or export your current rig or all rigs using the soft buttons.
When you download rigs from the internet or receive them by email simply copy them into the “Shared”
folder on your USB stick in order to import them into the KPA.
The “Format Device” soft button will take you to a page where you can format the USB stick that is insert-
ed to the back of the KPA. Please be aware that formatting a USB stick will delete all the data on it.
Managing large amounts of rigs
If you are a ‘rig collector’ you might be looking for a convenient solution to delete selections of rigs from
your KPA. While the KPA itself supports deletion of individual rigs, deletion of many can be time-consum-
ing and cumbersome. Let me share a methodology using your PC or MAC to clean up your data.
KPA backup archives are based on a standard file format, which is called tar. These archives can be un-
packed with standard freeware like for example 7-zip, Zipeg, GuiTar, GNU-tar and others. We are recom-
mending 7-zip for PC and GuiTar for MAC.
Unpacking a KPA backup archive on your PC or MAC will give you free access to the folders containing
the individual rig, snapshot, and local preset files included in the backup. The folder Stomp for example
contains all your local presets for stomps, but obviously not the program code for the KPA stomps. In this
unpacked state of a KPA backup on your you can easily select and delete rigs or local presets.