I'm also very interested in the voice recognition - if it works reliably, this will be the most outstanding new feature.

As I'm not sure if I can afford a Mk 2, and reading about the idea of a 'Mk 1a', would you at empeg consider making a little box with a microphone and a tiny amp in it that could be plugged into the empeg's aux input? Then, with a small change in software that would allow the voice recognition software to act upon the aux input signal, we Mk 1 owners would also benefit from the newly developped features. Please!?

Daniel