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Hi there Nord Lead peoples
I have been using a Roland UMONE midi interface and sysex librarian with my Nord Lead 2 for quite some time. Recently, I started to have transfer problems but only with some patches. I have seen this on on all Midi channels. I took the advice of someone else on this forum and slowed down my transfer speed. This did not help. When I transfer a patch that a user has created it works fine (the electric piano patch in this example), but if i try to transfer a patch from Nord or another source I get the patch but it is all garbled. Any ideas?

video of my headaches!


Thanks in advance for any help!
I'm new to this

Hi and welcome to NUF,

I am not a NL2 owner but if you can upload and then re-download your own oatches then it is not a problem of MIDI interface or speed; what is the OS version of your NL2? If it is not the latest maybe ot cannot load patches created on the last version (or viceversa, Nord and other patches were created with an older OS than yours)?

That’s worth a shot. Thanks Maxpiano

Hi nice NUF people, another new nordie here.
I just recently, after 20 years of dreaming about it, got myself a wonderful Nord Lead 3 and it seems Leads tend really not to like Edirol interfaces. While I had my UM-1 connected to the synth, it crashed and rebootet multiple times and in the end the interface itself hung as well. Without midi connected I can happyly play the synth all day long and nothing happens.

So yeah, probably some old bugs in otherwise totally awesome synths without any hope to be fixed after such a long time.

Darkside-Estonia wrote: 27 Nov 2025, 11:13 So yeah, probably some old bugs in otherwise totally awesome synths without any hope to be fixed after such a long time.

Does the rest of midi connectivity work fine? I am 99% sure it's your midi interface fault, those small non-class-compliant interfaces more often than not are not able to transfer sysex message as fast as needed. I had some cheapo chinese interface which worked with my nl3 once every three times and it made completely crash my friend's nd3p editor.

I suggest you try with a proper class-compliant midi interface (if you have an audio interface with midi in/out that's class-compliant for sure)

kotatsu wrote: 27 Nov 2025, 15:20

Darkside-Estonia wrote: 27 Nov 2025, 11:13 So yeah, probably some old bugs in otherwise totally awesome synths without any hope to be fixed after such a long time.

Does the rest of midi connectivity work fine? I am 99% sure it's your midi interface fault, those small non-class-compliant interfaces more often than not are not able to transfer sysex message as fast as needed. I had some cheapo chinese interface which worked with my nl3 once every three times and it made completely crash my friend's nd3p editor.

I suggest you try with a proper class-compliant midi interface (if you have an audio interface with midi in/out that's class-compliant for sure)

It doesn't have to be necessarily Class Compliant, as far as you use it with a computer and you can install its drivers, but it must be a good one (like the Roland UM-One used by the OP of this thread, which btw is about a NL2 not an NL3 and related to sysex format problems, not the interface)

Yes, I have the UM-1, that's why I posted here, though a different synth.

Darkside-Estonia wrote: 28 Nov 2025, 09:25 Yes, I have the UM-1, that's why I posted here, though a different synth.

OK, you mentioned Edirol so I thought it was a different interface; I suggest to check also for any MIDI loop: which programs are you using on the computer and to do what with your NL3?