Nord Electro Rack 2 Software Update with Newest Mac OS

[ajanderson4]

I have had a Nord Electro Rack 2 for several years now and I has worked great overall. I haven't updated the sound files in a long time and am interested in doing so now. My problem is that my Mac has been upgraded to the newest OS (Yosemite 10.10.4) and it looks like the Nord won't connect to the computer via USB or MIDI/USB.

Does anyone know any way around this? Any software available/compatible with Nord Electro Rack 2 running software EL 3.0?

[analogika]

Nope. 10.6.8 at the latest.

Workaround: an old windows XP in a virtualization like Parallels.

[rb4u1]

Yikes. Is this going to happen to the Electro 3 once we update ?

[pablomastodon]

Yikes. Is this going to happen to the Electro 3 once we update ?

Not in the foreseeable future. The NE/NE2 are completely different animals using completely different mechanisms for these functions.

Bless

Pablo

[brucie808]

I had this problem when I bought a second hand Nord Electro 61 recently and wanted to change the sounds on it using my Mac which is running Lion (which isn't supported either).

The work around I used was to install a partition on my Mac running Snow Leopard to run the Nord Electro Tool. So I just boot my Mac into that partition when I want to change the sounds on the Electro 2.

I'm sure I read somewhere that Snow Leopard can't be installed on some of the newer Macs so I guess it depends on how new your Mac as to whether you can use this too.

[analogika]

Correction: Snow Leopard cannot be installed on ANY of the newer Macs introduced after July 2011.

There is a hack that will allow Snow Leopard to run in a virtualization like Parallels or VMware.

I've been meaning to set that up just in case I should ever need it, but it turns out that I haven't needed any legacy software that requires the Rosetta environment in the past four years, at all.