You can work around this yourself if you've got a serial connection to the Empeg. Sending it certain ASCII characters over the serial port will control it just like the remote does.

(I agree that it would be cool to have more transport controls on the Emplode panel, but in the meantime...)

I was thinking of writing a quick little "Empeg transport control" program. Because of the simplicity of the commands, the program would be ridiculously easy to write.

In fact, you can do it at a DOS prompt. "N" and "P" sent to the COM port do next and previous, like so:

echo N>com2:

Well, OK, I just tried it on my home system and it gave me an error message. But it works on my NT4 system at work, anyway. Or you could connect to it with a terminal program if you wanted and type the commands directly into the terminal window.

Here are the commands you can send via the serial connection. Enjoy!




-- Tony Fabris -- Empeg #144 --
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