Nord Electro 2 - Acoustic Grand (bad or broken?)

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Re: Nord Electro 2 - Acoustic Grand (bad or broken?)

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I just got an Electro 2 for the organ sounds in a live situation. I was looking for something better than my Korg (it is) and lighter (it is :lol: ).
I love the sounds and the action.

The organ sounds are great but the piano samples are all messed up. Actually they sound like they are polluted with some of the modulation sounds.

Soo.. I started to investigate how to fix that and here I am. I actually have a working 32 bit Win 7 machine that runs the software OK but I am unable to get the 32 Win 7 machine to recognize the Nord as a working USB device. I've tried the 32 bit versions on the wayback machine and the closest I have got so far is / the device shows up as a Nord product but "wont start". I think If I could get USB recognition I could likely reload the samples per the instructions. (This could be wishful thinking but whatever.)

The usb drivers I have tried are the 3. & 4. versions. The 2.16 driver file I got is incomplete and lacks an installer.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Nord Electro 2 - Acoustic Grand (bad or broken?)

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I've attached a copy of the Driver that works for me. I'm using Windows Virtual PC / XP mode.
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Thank you very much! I'll give it a shot. :thanx:

I'm not sure that this was the driver that ended up loading because I have been through so many iterations.

The key to getting it to work was to use the win7 wizard to add the USB driver and point it to an extracted driver "piece". A 2kb file named electro - setup information and a 34kb electro.sys file

Sorry, I can't remember which of the 6 driver versions these files came from but this might help somebody.
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OK after the USB driver got loaded the electro tool worked as designed.
I win 1st prize. :D

What is 1st prize?

First prize is a Nord Electro2 that has piano sounds that are just as mediocre as they sounded in 2010! :clap:

Somehow this is making me very happy.

:thanks: The Nord user forum community worked to it's best potential.
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bigbean wrote: 06 Mar 2025, 00:02 ...

First prize is a Nord Electro2 that has piano sounds that are just as mediocre as they sounded in 2010! :clap:
Did you give the additional piano samples on the previous page of this thread a try? Probably not earth-shattering, but should be an improvement over the stock piano.
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Guys,
Are there any newer acoustic piano samples I can load on a Nord Electro 2? Even mono samples might be better than what came w/ this board???

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Re: Nord Electro 2 - Acoustic Grand (bad or broken?)

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jazzmonger wrote: Today, 01:15 Guys,
Are there any newer acoustic piano samples I can load on a Nord Electro 2? Even mono samples might be better than what came w/ this board???

Jeff
What you find in this thread (page 2) is what you can get, Electro 2 does not support anything else.
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