We saw a lot of new, and also old-but-improved visuals at the empeg owner's meet in Amersfoort. Some of the new visuals are truly excellent. Since they have been publically demoed, I am sure Rob wouldn't mind me describing a few I can recall (which also reminds me - I still have to write the report for the day! Another job for this weekend):

- several clock visuals. Some are static, and one is coupled to the music to make it active.
- a visual where a large (downloadable!) bitmap image is "windowed" in the display area, and bounces around according to the violence of the track you're playing
- a couple of truly excellent "trippy" visuals
- many tweaked and tuned originals. The sensitivity of the graphics to music is greatly improved - a good tweak.

Note that, what we saw was pre-release, so what we saw is not guaranteed to be in any coming release.

Rob did point out that there was not likely to be a great deal of change to the visuals set - but before you start to get all disappointed and start moaning about it, don't forget - 1.1 is a release which has a great deal of change under the covers (statistics, new decoder, etc.) and the graphics will in fact be all new in spite of the fact they look the same. The reason for this is that Toby is laying the groundwork to make the graphics open, so there are in fact major underlying infrastructure changes in place that means the next following release will be the one to watch for. Watch this space!

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