Nord Lead 2 - Trouble Loading New Banks of Presets

alexhall74 · Joined: May 12, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Florida, USA

Hey there everyone,

I recently bought a Nord Lead 2 and love it to all ends of the Earth. I am however having trouble loading it with any of the sample sound banks kindly provided by Clavia on their web site:

http://www.clavia.se/downloads/sounds/nordlead.htm

I know these sounds originally were to be loaded onto a PCMCIA card, and plan to buy one from Memorix as soon as I can scrape up $175.

My questions is, can these soundbanks be laoded into the internal memory of the Nord Lead 2 if I do not have a PCMCIA RAM card? I have set the global MIDI cahnnel to 1, and tried to load the banks to my NL2 with MIDI Quest 10XL, and nothing has happened.

I have a shoulder operation scheduled for this Thursday and was hoping to be able to jam out with my NL2 (with one arm) while recovering at home for a few days.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can provide any information as to how I can load new sounds into my NL2. Hopefully I'll be able to answer a few questions here after I've gotten up to speed with the NL2. My primary synth (at the moment) is a Virus KC.

Smile

Regards,

-Alex

Wout Blommers

alexhall74 · Joined: May 12, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Florida, USA

WOW! Many thanks for such a quick and comprehensive reply! I will certainly digest this knowledge this evening once I get home.

It looks like I am going to have to go without food for a few weeks in order to quickly order my PCMCIA RAM card. Wink

The good news is that once the presets are on the RAM card I can extract them with MIDI Quest 10 XL and manipulate them quite flexibly. Maybe I could even break them down into banks of 40 to allow others that do not have a PCMCIA RAM card to load the Nord Library presets? I will look into this as a means to become useful here.

Thanks for the well wishes on the operation. My other hobby besides music is weightlifting. I plan to LEAD a less damaging life once I recover from my shoulder VIRUS. Laughing

Wout Blommers · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

Wout Blommers · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:04 pm Post subject:

alexhall74 · Joined: May 12, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Florida, USA

Hey Wout,

Somehow I missed that the banks were available as singles, that spares me the food intake while recovering (never a concern really, I have a voracious appetit). Cool!

Will still look into the banks fo 40 thing just as a "learning project" of a sort.

Looking forward to learniing the specialities of the Nord Lead. I have already tweaked up some bass patches and they have blown me away. The NL2 has a very distinct character when throwing down a hard, nasty bass patch. Totally different thant the Virus, IMO. The arps on the NL2 are a refreshing experience too as they sound good without all the phaser and other FX that lend to the Virus sound. It's really nice to hear an instrument that sounds os good, clean wothout FX.

Here's a picture of my workspace, I just built the second shelf onto a Gemini L Desk ($90) with scrap lumber, wood stain, and silver spray paint:
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Really looking forward to checking this beast out. Thanks a bucnh for your help and info. I'll post back in a few days after the op. while I take two days off from work to read my NL2 user manual and this forum from end to end.

Wink

Best regards,

-Alex

Nightrider · Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Australia

so I'm wondering if I get one of these cards http://www.vikant.com/claviacard.html

can I have all the sound libraries from the clavia site at my finger tips or just one sound library at a time?

alexhall74 · Joined: May 12, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Florida, USA

Wow! Nice find!

I assume you can load the banks of one full card from the Clavia Sound Library series. This would mkae senesf if Clavia sold the cards in thie format historically, I don't think they issued 4 cards for each sound bank of 99 in each library carde series 1-4. Can anyone confirm this guess (or refute it!).

Wink

-Alex

Nightrider · Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Australia

yeah it's a great price. Not that I don't think my NL2 isn't already versatile but imagine how crazy it would be to have an additional 3/4 sound libraries, maybe too crazy...

Wout Blommers · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:07 am Post subject:

klinklan · Joined: May 17, 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Spain

Hi,
this is my first reply here. I'm a professional musician from Spain (sorry about my not perfect english). I have bought a week ago the Nord Rack 2. Well, you know, this synth is god. I have found your forum searching for the pcmcia card. I have search and search and i have a idea that i want to share with you: is possible to use a pcmcia adapter with a CF card with the nord? that will be very inexpensive and you may have CF card without use.

what do you think?
thanks.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject:

klinklan

I never tried...
I would say: try it out! Maybe some computer store is willing to help you. If it works, the synth will want to format the card first before use. If this doesn't happen, it doesn't work. Sounds simple, doesn't it?
Could it fry your synth? I don't think so, but I can't guarantee you this...

Wout

klinklan · Joined: May 17, 2008 Posts: 6 Location: Spain

thanks. i will try the soon as possible. its really annoying the lack of memory in the nord for the presets, and i don't understand why i cant save any performance without external card, i think is a great error. The 2X solves this question but is so expensive in my opinion for what it gives.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:00 am Post subject:

Nightrider · Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Australia

alexhall74 · Joined: May 12, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Florida, USA

OK, I'm back again with a question about the NordGen application.

Do I put the drivers for it (MxMidi16.dll, MxMidi32.dll, MxMidi95.dll) in my Windows system folder with all my other device drivers/DLLs?

I tried to run the NordGen program and each time I try to send a patch to the NL2 it states "The application must shutdown unexpectedly..." for some reason. I currently have the device driver files in the same directory as the NordGen application.

Does anybody know how to sort this out?

Cheers everyone!

-Alex

P.S. Shoulder operation went well, kind of sore right now, but pain meds work well.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject:

I think they have to be in the system folder and when this doesn't work, try 98 mode, if you're on XP.

I hope Jan (BLue Hell knows more...)

Wout

Keep up the shoulder!

alexhall74 · Joined: May 12, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Florida, USA

Vielen Danken, Wout!

I just ordered an SRAM card from Vikant corporation for $79.99.

Will be able to go nuts with this thing in a few days...Muahahhahahaaaa!

Wink

blue hell · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject:

alexhall74 · Joined: May 12, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Florida, USA

Thank you, Blue Hell.

NEWS FLASH:

I have been successfully loading patches from the collection on this site with MIDI Quest 10 XL.

This is a great MIDI editor librarian that can be used from within the sequencer.

Check it out at www.squest.com

Smile

Cheers,

-Alex