Hi.

With some of my tracks, I get problems while playing them on the empeg. Here is what´s happening at some times (but not always):
During playback, I get a seemingly random mixture of the original sound plus artefacts that range from low pitched "bing" (imagine a high pitched bing (as from hitting two metal pieces (small pipes or something) against each other, than lengthen that sound to about 4 or 5 times its original length, lowering the pitch by the same rate, e.g. get a 5 seconds 200Hz signal out of a 1 second 1000Hz signal) to sharp edges (the same thing you get when turning on/off the empeg while the amp is already on). Sometimes, the empeg reboots and starts playing the same song again, which is a much better behavior than the old 1.0 software that simply crashed (hanging only to be re-vitalized by powercycling). After the reboot, the empeg usually plays the song completely, sometimes even without (audible) artefacts.
WinAmp and lame have no problem whatsoever with the corresponding mp3 files, so I guess it´s a problem with the xaudio engine. Do I remember right that 1.1 is going to use a different decoder engine?
I am able to send one or two of the mp3s in question to anyone that is interested in debugging this / trying to reproduce this behavior.

cu,
sven

It ight be worth carrying out a memory check on your machine with the CTRL-T trick, just to eliminate a RAM fault.

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015

This behavior should never happen. Contact [email protected], you might have faulty RAM or a hard disk problem.

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Tony Fabris

Same problem here.
However, the memory test did not resolve the memory issue (no errors reported), as mine would reboot with the new ver , and then go on playing. (it also took mine 5 minutes to boot up, and the audio artifacts would actually cause my unit to hang, and not reboot. All after about 30 minutes of playtime.)

So regardless, my unit is currently flying over the pond (as of this post), back to its origins, to get repaired.

I only hope I don't have to wait too long!

I think you will find the empeg-techies to perform ... far above average ... As you will no doubt find out browsing this forum.

Cheers,
Hans.

Mk2 - Blue - 080000431

Just to make Rob´s posting a bit more complete: What that CTRL-T trick is about can be found here.

cu,
sven