G2 Engine Stopped Working

Derek Cook

Hi, all

I just thought I'd post this to see if anybody could shed any light on things.

I had my synth rig working in my studio yesterday afternoon do a pre-practice for a band practice last night. Played the Nord G2 in a few songs.

BTW I'm currently doing a Pink Floyd Tribute band, and the G2 is perfect for the retro Moog/VCS3 sounds such as the "mournful" synth intro on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"!

Anyway, I had a quick break and came back to do some more practice and suddenly found that the G2 was not working any more.

I didn't have time to look at it before having to pack up and get to the main practice which was a real downer. I got by in the main practice with some stock lead sounds in my Motif ES Rack, which I quickly programmed in for use by my keyboards, but it wasn't the same as with my lovely Nord Sad

The only symptom of something out of the ordinary on the G2 was that the MIDI LED was FLASHING slowly. As I was a little less in a panic this morning, I realised that I had seen this when updating to OS 1.4, so I ran the OS updater this morning, and my Nord G2 engine is back in all her glory! Very Happy

But I'm curious as to why it would have gotten into this mode in the first place, especially without any help! Has anybody else seen this before?

It's gotten me nervous of course about this happening whilst I'm at a gig where I can't do anything about it. So much so, that I'm seriously considering from now on taking a laptop with the Nord applications on (and I'm thinking about putting a computer in my rig so that I can use NI B4).

But with the lack of a G2 Vista driver then I need to make my laptop a dual boot system (or take Vista off and just have XP! Shocked

).

So are there any thoughts/previous experience on this problem?

Derek Cook · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:53 am Post subject:

Bump.

Doesn't anybody have any ideas? I'm paranoid about this happening again!

BobTheDog · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:11 am Post subject:

Hi Derek,

I have no idea, Jan is possibly your best bet. He will see this and may post with some Guru type info.

There is a vista driver, this was in beta and it looks like it will be released soon as the beta program is over.

Cheers

Andy

blue hell · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:04 am Post subject:

Derek Cook · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:28 am Post subject:

Thanks, likewise I'm equally stumped, and certainly the hidden button was not pressed by me!

Kudos to Tomas at Clavia, in response to my report and request, I am now a Vista Beta tester, so I have my backup policy sorted, should it happen when I'm out of the studio!

And the Vista update looks pretty solid as well.

jima · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:31 am Post subject:

Derek Cook · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject:

Hi, Jim

Don't get me G.A.Sing! Very Happy

A Laptop wit hthe G2 stuff on is still my route, because I realised I don't really have any "disaster recovery" for any of my synths if patches went AWOL, so a laptop with my x.factory librarians, MIDIOX and the G2 stuff is what I'm setting up.

I have noticed as well that the G2 engine runs hot, and like you, I intend to make some extra space in the rack above and below it as a precaution. Maybe even some forced air cooling as well.

Roland Kuit · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:03 am Post subject:

hello dereck,

i had this 2 times before. press the on/off button of your g2 about 40 times. as this doesn't work, remove the g2usb driver from your system dir. (copy it first to your desktop). power up your g2, find new hardware.

Derek Cook · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:22 pm Post subject:

Hi, Roland

Thanks for the advice, and it's interesting to see that it has happened before to somebody else.

I'll bear your advice in mind if it happens again.

Notwithstanding this issue, the G2 engine rocks! Very Happy