Nord Drum 2 Manager on OS X 10.4 or later

[Frantz]

Hello ,

Does someone knows how to deal with this situation,
when Nord Drum 2 Manager does not launch and displays the message is the following screenshot :

Error trying to launch "Nord Drum 2 Manager"

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?

I checked Clavia 's web site for the latest version and its compatibility :

Nord website for "Nord Drum 2 Manager" compatibility and last version

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[Berretje]

Hi,

It seems that the Drum Manager 2 is not compatible anymore with this macOS.

You could fill out a tech support form on the Nord's website with a update request.

[Frantz]

Hi,

Thank you.
My request on clavia's website was routed to Algam, the main dealer for the country I live in, France.
Their answer is that no update is planned, an old but compatible system must be used, which I haven't of course

I wanted to load some preset banks.
I found a solution to backup and restore my presets using the ND2's feature that can send or receive MIDI System Exclusive, and a free software named "Sysex Librarian" : https://www.snoize.com/sysexlibrarian

I still cannot load banks, this one for instance : https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-lib ... ander-bank

Is there a way to extract syses messages from these banks .... ?

[Frantz]

The file is a 'PK' : https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-lib ... ander-bank

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[Frantz]

So it's expandable using 'unzip' command line tool.

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[Frantz]

Each file is a "CBIN" format :

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[Frantz]

I guess it is a proprietary format from Clavia.

nd2p preset files are 201 bytes long.

sysex preset files are 212 bytes long.

Here is a sysex preset file for instance :

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How do we convert the nd2o to the Sysex format ?

[Frantz]

Hello,

Because Nord Drum 2 Manager is not compatible with recent operating systems I have to use the ND2 's MIDI sysex send and recieve feature to save and load my presets.

Is there a way to convert Clavia's nd2p files to MIDI sysex files in order to load them as well ?

[wartaler]

Hi Frantz,

Perhaps I can check if it works on my Windows 11 machine, and then see if I can find the sysex of a single program within the file of the entire bank. Perhaps it's just some extra header/trailer added per program to separate them within the bank file. Your first screenshot seems to suggest that, it says Program 000.nd2pCBIN ndp2 and further on Program001 etc

Albert

[maxpiano]

Hello,

Because Nord Drum 2 Manager is not compatible with recent operating systems I have to use the ND2 's MIDI sysex send and recieve feature to save and load my presets.

Is there a way to convert Clavia's nd2p files to MIDI sysex files in order to load them as well ?

Why don't you instead run an older Windows operating system in a virtual machine, like Virtual Box, so that you can still use the old ND2 Manager app?