Nord Electro 2

I recently updated my Nord Electro 2 samples - the organ sounds have always been great but I always hated the Swedish grand piano samples. Updating the samples from the Nord website (http://www.clavia.se) was something I never had time to do. When I did I got a bit of a fright as the downloadable software to do the update does not work on the latest operating system of either Mac OS or Windows. Fortunately I had a Mac server with an older operating system and did the updates from that. I now have the wonderful stereo sampled Steinway.

Lesson learned though: don't delay getting to know the downloads section for your instruments and synths.

Now to look at my Nord Lead rack - ah nothing - it's all analogue. Original patch set can be reloaded by SYSEX though. SYSEX uploads via MIDI are really old school but if you have old synths you will still need to stay with the ability to do this - another blog on that soon