If you care about quality you will want your empeg to output 0dB

I know the theory, but I had the amp fitted and they didn't adjust it right. Now that you insist, I'll adjust it.
Sorry for being happy with the way it sound now

We may be getting close here. I have experienced this problem exactly once (using beta 9a), which means that for me it is a very uncommon occurrence.

I was driving, my wife was manning the remote. One of my songs was playing that I wasn't in the mood to listen to, so I reached to the panel and hit the "next song" button at nearly the exact same time as she hit a volume button on the remote. She swears it was the "down" button, but it might be the trauma: lord knows, she hit down quite a bit in the seconds that followed. :)

We all know what happened next: the unit flew into overdrive and ignored all inputs on both the console and the remote. I agree this is a serious bug: there was a very real danger of causing an accident or blowing out my speakers (neither happened: we pulled onto a sidestreet and yanked out the unit).

So could there possibly be a software bug tied into receiving simultaneous input from the different sources (remote IR and console buttons)?

Corby
SN#320, 6-Gig Blue

Interesting. I just tried inducing the bug with various combinations of IR and front panel input- holding one, pressing the other, releasing one, etc. And I think got it to happen once (in the down direction). But since I can't reproduce it, and I'm not sure what combination of button presses caused it to happen, I can't be certain.

I'll try it some more. If I find out anything else, I'll let you know. Anyone else want to try (with the unit disconnected from its amplifiers, of course)?


-- Tony Fabris -- Empeg #144 --
Caution: Do not look into laser with remaining good eye.

Sounds more like missed key presses or releases during other activity (playing a beep?)

Sounds more like missed key presses or releases during other activity (playing a beep?)

Interesting idea. I was able to reproduce it with beeps=off, but you could be on the right track. I once worked on a Quake mod that had a similar problem: Sometimes one of the client commands would get "stuck on" if the "off" command came in the same frame as another command. Our work-around was to send the "off" command twice, but we never actually fixed the bug.



-- Tony Fabris -- Empeg #144 --
Caution: Do not look into laser with remaining good eye.

They're debounced in firmware on the display board. There should never be a case where a button down/up is not sent from the display board to the main board as it just sends changes of state - the problem is if the main board misses the notifications (they come in as simulated IR streams).

Hugo

Hugo,

this sounds exactly like the bug report I sent to support@empeg.com on january 25th. It never happened before Beta9a, but by now (still in 9a), I also had the same problem within the playlist menu, but this actually isn't a big deal in there.

Felix

If it is actually missing button presses/releases, then this is, as I said, has not changed for the last 7ish beta releases.

However, the problem with the volume control is a problem with the way the volume control worked, which has been fixed mostly in 9b, and will be totally fixed in the next version (right John? :) ).

Hugo

All,

I managed to reproduce this twice, without using the remote. I'm on Beta9b.

I turned on the unit, selected a playlist and hit next-track. This caused the volume to go up very fast.

This seems like a resonably frequent bug too.

I've never seen this behaviour before today.

Just my 0.02

Paul.

Paul Haigh, 6GB, Blue
Reg: 4120 - Serial 00254