POLL: how many NM Classic (NM1 or G1) users out there?

kenl666 · Joined: May 12, 2004 Posts: 66 Location: Pacific Northwest

Yep. I have an ancient G4 on the network, all it does is run my micro modular and a Korg Oasys card via VNC.

DanielW · Joined: Sep 23, 2009 Posts: 31 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

I've started using my old MM again, simply because out of the blue someone gave me a beat-up computer that runs on Windows. It's a laptop without a working screen, but the NMG1 editor works just fine on it.

It brings back memories of that day when I heard the weird news that Clavia had discontinued development of the NMG1 editor on OSX. Music software made exclusively for Windows sure feels like something out of bizarro world...

v-un-v · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:53 pm Post subject:

Hey DanielW!

welcome

to electro-music.com! Very Happy

DanielW · Joined: Sep 23, 2009 Posts: 31 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Thanks!

Any hints about where to find patches for the Micro Modular is much appreciated. I've visited the NM archives, but they haven't been updated for five years.

I'm looking for aggressive, noisy stuff.

Wout Blommers

DanielW · Joined: Sep 23, 2009 Posts: 31 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

delay19ms · Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 29 Location: montreal

Expanded Key G1 and 1 MicroMod

I have a very small, silent and cheap netbook on xp to edit patch... 250$ (new)

I think it would be better for mac user to complain to Apple about their poor backward compatibility (poor, I should say inexisting, and not only for the modular editor...)... don't blame the small swedish synth maker but the big selfish Apple US corporation...

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oisin · Joined: Jun 16, 2009 Posts: 35 Location: germany

DanielW · Joined: Sep 23, 2009 Posts: 31 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Poster · Joined: Jul 19, 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Netherlands

Poster · Joined: Jul 19, 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Netherlands

the problem with Clavia is that they think in hardware but fail in thinking how software is part of the plan in the long run..

what Clavia should've done is come up with a roadmap for the software part..
something like 5/6 years of free support, then after that offering paid upgrades..

would you have bought the NM1 when the box said; software support will be discontinued after 4 years?

is there even a EULA for the NM? like something that says that says; seller is entitled to discontinue support at any given moment..
iow; could you demand an upgrade or money back by law? (< just interested to know)

blue hell · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject:

Poster · Joined: Jul 19, 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Netherlands

Wout Blommers · Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:02 am Post subject:

Well, I think we accomplished one thing for sure: Clavia will not think twice to develop software depending hardware again. After the 26th time thinking there will be a 'maybe...' Sometimes I have the feeling it all started when V3.03 was developed, the one which would also run on the Mac. In fact, V3.03 wasn't a real update at all, although it brought a new lay out and the Poly window... And introduced new users into the community…
Did sales increased? I think not (Clavia never publish figures, at least in public), mainly because the real MacMen (and women) already uses a Windows machine next to their machine. The OSX beta Editor wasn't meant to be released until the American distributor, at that moment, leaked it away to some users, including me. After some time Clavia decided to publish it 'as is'. Anyway the last time Clavia made the same move was recently porting the G2 into Vista.

Clavia is a rather small company. Poster, you may compare it with an Albert Heijn 2 shop Wink

So there is not much recourse available, but most employees know a lot of their costumers personal. But as soon they are in a situation there are troubles caused by outside factory forces, like Microsoft and Apple, they are not that happy. Leaving out the hardware-software coupling seems the best thing to do, because they can’t control these moguls. They are just a bunch of very friendly dwarfs, working in their mine and digging out those wonderful red diamonds…

Anyway, the Nord Modular was a kind of a side line, not really meant to be on the market. It was a dream, an idea, which was realized. Only not everybody’s dream, as can be seen on the market. And believe me, Clavia is still dreaming about new gear. But will these dreams be realized too? I think telling them to dream their past dreams again won’t set them in the right direction.

Whoever said dwarfs have an easy life?

Wout

delay19ms · Joined: Jan 02, 2007 Posts: 29 Location: montreal

Oli · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 3:36 pm Post subject:

+1 rack. New to me, and enjoying it.

crawling wind · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:35 pm Post subject:

Expanded keyboard. Did not buy G2.

KidQuaalude · Joined: Oct 23, 2008 Posts: 10 Location: UK

1 expanded rack and 1 micromodular

modulator_esp · Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:26 am Post subject:

1 unexpanded NM1 key, not used that much until recently

I plan on keeping an XP pc running for as long as possible

Ad · Joined: Sep 30, 2009 Posts: 4 Location: New Zealand

Unexpanded G1 rack and Micro Modular

paugui · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:22 am Post subject:

I got a Nord Modular G1 Keys Expanded yesterday.
As I don't have a MIDI interface I haven't yet tested the editor on my MacBook Pro.

If I want to get an old Mac Laptop to edit my new NM, in case I can't run Nomad or the Beta version from Clavia, which was the last version of OS and Powerbooks/iBooks, that were able to run the last oficial release from the Editor?

oisin · Joined: Jun 16, 2009 Posts: 35 Location: germany

i would try to get it running on your mbp first. otherwise i think its going to mean going back to os9. or over to windoze..

pyrosonic · Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 383 Location: Kent,Oh. USA

2 Micromodulars
unexpanded G1 rack
G2X kybd

Love them all

I run the G2X editor on a Macbook os 10.4.11
I used to run the G1 editor on an old Powerbook running 10.3 but went to running it all on the Macbook.But after a major studio reworking (adding midi interfaces,new gear,etc..) they won't talk to any of the "elders" anymore,so I'll probably go back to running it on one either the Powerbook or the old I book.
Unless I can figure out why in my copious free time. Wink

General Elektrick · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:35 am Post subject:

Expanded G1 keys
Micro Modular
Expanded G2 keys

Love the all!

klangumsetzer · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:10 am Post subject:

hi,

g1 keys exp., mm and g2x here.
(always itching when i see a mm for sale Rolling Eyes

)

using the 3.03. editor with xp without problems.

best regards

eike
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