There's a hard lesson for hardware manufacturers to be learned in this drama.
If Kemper were supportive, they'd have a very clear road to a next-gen Virus TI (a "Proton"?) on the horizon .. but the word on the street has it that they're hostile to the effort of emulating the Motorola DSP ...
These days you can spend $1000 and get 8-16 voices without multitimbral feature. Hydrasynth Deluxe or Novation Summit in the $2k-3k range for 2 parts and total of 16 voices is considered good now.
Everything has moved to DAW centric workflows tethered to your computer and the hardware has really stopped innovating.
Its wonderful to have the Virus TI hardware working in a DSP emulator - one can only hope that eventually the reverse-engineering eyeballs will also tackle the TI plugin feature, some day ...
Lets see! An update for their synthesizer users is quite long overdue .. however, of course, the Kemper Profiling Amp is generating plenty of customers for them, meanwhile. Kemper Profiling Synthesizer in the future? One can only hope to see it, however it happens ..