Cant get Nomad to work again!!!

[Monotremata]

If anyone is still out there.. I once had Nomad working on my old dual G4 just perfectly. Hadnt really touched my Micro Mod for awhile and last fall all of a sudden Nomad stopped working and wouldnt communicate anymore. G4 died and Im now on my G5. I did everything the same as before, just installed the OS X Nomad, and used the midi libs included with it. My interface is an Emagic AMT8, Clavia editor still works fine, etc..

First problem I had, in the OS X version of Nomad, it would not let me select my MIDI Out port. The In port drop down menu worked fine. I could select Port 8, hit Apply and it worked. If I select a MIDI Out port and hit Apply, it just goes back to whatever it was set to (in this case, Port 1).
Today after reading some old threads I decided to download the platform independant version.
This finally let me select port 8 of my AMT on both the In and Out selections and saves just fine. Just for kicks, I opened the OS X version afterwards and Im assuming they are using the same config file cause its now set properly to port 8, although like before if I change it and hit Apply it just goes back to Port 8.

In either version Im now getting this when I try to talk to the synth:

net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.SynthException: net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.MidiException: Communication timed out: 1310244583148 [error=-1001]
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.clavia.nordmodular.NordModular.connect(NordModular.java:411)
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.clavia.nordmodular.NordModular.setConnected(NordModular.java:881)
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.nomad.forms.SynthObjectForm.trySetConnectedState(SynthObjectForm.java:958)
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.nomad.forms.SynthObjectForm$1$1.run(SynthObjectForm.java:599)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:499)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:80)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:462)
at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:461)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:84)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:471)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
Caused by: net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.MidiException: Communication timed out: 1310244583148 [error=-1001]
at net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.NmProtocol.heartbeatImpl(NmProtocol.java:5
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.clavia.nordmodular.NordModular$SchedulingProtocol.heartbeatImpl(NordModular.java:252)
at net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.AbstractNmProtocol.heartbeat(AbstractNmProtocol.java:154)
at net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.NmMessageAcceptor.waitForReply(NmMessageAcceptor.java:114)
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.clavia.nordmodular.NordModular.connect(NordModular.java:358)
... 16 more


Hopefully someones out there and can give me some tips! I noticed some of my errors are different then other timeout messages posted so figured I would post mine here too.. I dont get it, one day it worked fine, now I cant get it to do anything anymore..

[Cryptopunk]

I'm having this same problem, I think... If I had to take a guess, I'd say Nomad recognizes that the NM is there, but the connection always times out.


This crap below is relevant to the Nord Modular, but not much to the problem stated by original poster, I started typing, and before I knew it, it was two paragraphs... ugh..

I'm new to patch editing, and I've spent the last 5 hours looking for any kind of documentation on how to get into patch editing on the Modular, as well how to even set the damn program up to work right... I'm starting to wish I didn't tell my friend I would do this for him... Everything I'm reading looks like a headache...

I have the NM going to a Tascam USB Midi Interface into my computer. I can get the thing to work in Reason as a midi keyboard, but that's about it. I'm being told I have to 'dump' everything onto my computer or visa versa, don't remember which exactly, but I can't find any documentation on either end of the spectrum. Is there anything out there?