Old Nord Modular Editor, what to call the editor in OMS setup ? Options

[Jaysee]

Hi, as I'm STILL awaiting the arrival of my G5, Kurzweil 2661 and other gear, I've been twiddling my thumbs fiddling about with my old nord modular (older 2oct keyboard version) on my even more elderly imac 400MHz. I never got the hang of either the nord editor........ or OS9 come to that. That pesky OMS setup confuses the hell out of me.

Are there any nord modular owners out there who can advise me on what one's expected to name the 'other' nord modular connected via the 'pc' in and out sockets?,(as opposed to the regular nord modular midi in+out ones). It doesnt like device 1 and 2 having the samename I eventually got it working (although I cant recall how! 'twas a late night.)after hours of trying to convince OMS that the editor was in fact a nord lead etc etc

I think perhaps when I get all the gear I'm waiting for up and running I might keep the imac in OS9 as a dedicated nord editor.....quite separate from the regular nord midi in+outs going to to the G5 and DP4.
Can you tell I'm sulking over not being able to use nords new fancy colour updated modular editor with my older model:-(
cheers.

[lepetitmartien]

The midiman problem is not only midiman's, but I've seen it about 2 years ago at a friend's house in direct. Very funny… It was even giving random notes But the behaviour of the editor was erratic too. Some on the modularlist have had trouble to maintain if they had, connection between the editor and the NM. Just because they weren't up to specs on the MIDI side

Note that at the time, most midisport 2X2 were ok. Only a bunch did some noise

I forgot one thing, if you use for example Logic, it'll try to eat up ALL midi ports. You must do some trick to tell Logoic not to even think of it for the editor ports. Sorry I don't remember which (I'm not a logic user).

Now if I'm summing things: (with some addendum while I think of it)
- leave the midi ports of the editor alone in OMS
- assign them directly in the editor
- check cables and interface, one other trick is to put the 2 pairs of midi ports on different interfaces (it did the trick for some)
- if you have a sequencer running, like Logic, tell it to leave the ports for the editor alone.