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== Basics ==
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Rig Manager mainly consists of ''three vertical panes''. The left-most one contains a ''tree-view'' of KPA rig sources. These can be Rig Manager's local library folders, the Rig Exchange, your KPA itself, or KPA backup files. Clicking on any of these items will show a grid of rigs in the middle pane.
== Rig Exchange Connectivity ==
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Rig Manager can connect to Kemper's ''Rig Exchange'', so that the entire Rig Exchange library is at your finger-tips. You no longer need to download the rig file from Kemper's site, copy it to a USB drive, plug the USB drive into the KPA, and choose to import. You just click Rig Exchange in the left pane, select the rig you want to load in the middle pane, and '''double-click or press space bar to load it'''. The rig is not actually stored onto your KPA - if you decide you don't want to keep the rig, there is no need to manually delete it. Once you load another rig, the temporary copy of the rig is gone.
== Organizing ==
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Rig Manager makes organizing rigs much, much easier. Everything is '''drag and drop'''. If you find a rig from the Rig Exchange you want to load onto your KPA, you just drag the rig from the middle pane onto the KPA item in the left pane. You can create a hierarchy of local library folders in the left pane (right-click on the parent folder and choose to add a new folder). Then you can drag-drop rigs from the Rig Exchange, your KPA, a backup file, or other local library folders into that folder. You can hold Ctrl to copy the rig instead of moving it.
You can also condense and organize backups. Using the File > Import menu, you can select a .kpabackup file (most likely still on your USB drive) and it will appear as its own item in the left hand pane. Do this for all your backups, and copy all the rigs into a folder in your local library. If the same rig is saved in multiple backups, it should only appear once - Rig Manager detects 100% duplicates and does not import them. However, if you had tweaked the rig, so that there were different settings even with the same rig name between backups, you'll see all the multiples in your local folder. Now you can look at the last modification date and A/B them and delete outdated versions.
=== My Organization Method ===
I make folders on my computer for the following types of rigs, and I make corresponding local library folders in rig manager:
* Commercial Raw - unmodified copies of commercial profiles
* Commercial Mod - commercial profiles that I've modified
* Free Raw - unmodified copies of free profiles (packs posted to the forums, vendors' free samples, Kemper downloadable content)
* Free Mod - free profiles that I've modified
* Favorites - my personal favorite profiles, whether commercial/free or modified/unmodified
* Sub-Rig Exchange - Copies of great one-off profiles on the Rig Exchange that I want access to if I ever lose internet connectivity
In my computer file system, I break down commercial and free profiles by a level of sub-folders for author/vendor, then in each of those another level for each pack or amp. In Rig Manager, I don't go to that level of detail. I prefer to be able to copy my entire "Free Raw" or "Commercial Raw" folders into the corresponding folders in Rig Manager, and all sub-folders in my file system are imported - if the files already exist in Rig Manager, they are not duplicated. If I need to find a particular vendor or amp in Rig Manager, I simply use the search functionality.
I also keep these folders in my Dropbox folder, so they are available on every computer I use that syncs with Dropbox.
== Quirks ==
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Rig Manager does have some quirks, addressed below: