Nord G2 editor in 64 bit for Mac OS X Catalina

xav

Hello everybody,

Does anyone have any idea of a solution to keep editing Nord G2 with Mac OS X Catalina, the new OS that only runs 64 bit apps?

Thank you for your tips
Xavier

blue hell · Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:10 pm Post subject:

A virtual machine like VMWare maybe, apparently older OSX versions can still run then .. USB could be tricky then, dunno.

grimley · Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:24 am Post subject:

Surely somebody has "wine bottled" the 1.62 editor, no? I gave Wine a try but got completely lost in the configuration and didn't get anywhere. I do see that there is an older version of the editor on the Wine forum though (1.24 maybe?).

337is · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 7:49 am Post subject:

I'm curious about this as well. Getting to a point where I'll possibly need to freeze the OS of one of my machines to ensure I can still access the editor.

Burp · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:01 pm Post subject:

Same here, cause eventually i have to upgrade due too my work.
I tried it with parallels running Windows7, but couldn't get it to work.

Maybe best solution is a dedicated (cheap old) laptop for the G2.

Rudt · Joined: Oct 06, 2019 Posts: 7 Location: Portland Oregon

Burp · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 12:38 am Post subject:

dorremifasol · Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:43 am Post subject:

Nowadays there are very nice chinese laptops and tables that would work well for dedicated G2 control. This one for example: https://www.amazon.es/CHUWI-Hi10-Air-Quad-Core-Bluetooth/dp/B07JB4S2QM/

RyanB · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 1:37 am Post subject:

Hi there,

I know this is an older post, but is there now a solution to get the Nord G2 Editor work on Catalina?
I try it with crossover but I can't get connection, cause I don't know the port name.

On the codeweavers page theres a distrciption how to get the port name but for me that didn't work. The terminal didn't show me any names of the ports only for my bluetooth controller.

For Infos here is the link: https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/mac/mactutorial/usbtoserial2

Maybe someone made it by now!
Thanks,
RyanB

tendril ferris · Joined: Feb 04, 2008 Posts: 37 Location: sf bay

I would love to hear any sort of update about this as well.
In the meantime, I'm happy to install bootcamp and dual boot; it's just a bit of an inconvenience. I will say that the list of apps I need to run on windows is growing by the minute as Apple dropped 32-bit support and many of these pieces of freeware/shareware/minimal-donation-ware were 32bit only.

Burp · Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:11 am Post subject:

I tried CrossOver, but indeed, no hardware connection Sad

For now i use Parallels running Windows7 and the Windows Editor. Works perfect (on macOS Cataline).

xav · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:46 am Post subject:

Thank you for the information.
Parallels seems seems to be the only solution tested with success, isn't it?

Burp · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:25 am Post subject:

shhh21 · Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 12:12 pm Post subject:

TEMAS · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 11:27 am Post subject:

I'm demoing Parallels at the moment and it seems to be working ok. I'll test it further over the next few days and if it passes I will buy the Desktop Edition (£69) and also the Parallels Toolbox (£16), which is needed to scale the resolution of the display screen, otherwise you are stuck with 1028 x 728 or something similar and thats no good for big patches.

So I'm using a 2017 iMac Quad-Core i7 4.2ghz, with Catalina 10.15.7 and have Mojave 10.14.6 loaded onto Parallels. The G2 is running 1.62 update and is connected directly to one of the 4 USB ports via a USB cable, which is about 1m (not sure if that makes any difference).

I have seen Major Error pop up twice, but once was because the computer was waking from sleep and the other time I was playing around with the USB settings. I think as long as the two operating softwares don't try to use the same USB port it should stay stable. But time will tell.

Anyway, so far so good. I really didn't think it would work.

bedhead777 · Joined: Mar 21, 2022 Posts: 1 Location: Austin, TX USA

Parkol · Joined: Jan 17, 2008 Posts: 40 Location: Russian Federation

Hey, everybody.

I'm still using High Sierra and the old Logic Pro X 10.4.4.
I have a Nord Modular G2 Engine and I don't update my Mac OS X because of Editor. To include all 4 instruments you need an editor, I don't know about the keyboard versions.

Has anyone had a similar problem, or am I stuck with High Sierra and Logic Pro X 10.4.4 for the rest of my life? I love this synthesiser very much and I want to keep using it.

I will be glad to any advice.

Thank you and take care.

xav · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2024 10:52 am Post subject:

Parkol · Joined: Jan 17, 2008 Posts: 40 Location: Russian Federation

Burp · Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:36 am Post subject:

I use an old dedicated laptop only for G2.

But once in a while i can't help thinking that it would be great to have an (opensource) editor for the G2 in the browser with use of webUSB (is this possible?). There are some developers here (including me) so.... But it will take a lot of our free time.