[sdiy] open source Nord Modular?

[Thomas Strathmann]

On 2/1/11 02:13 , tu at alphalink.com.au wrote:
> Some years ago there was a project working on an open source editor
> for the Nord Modular but I am not sure what became of it...

If you mean http://nmedit.sourceforge.net/ then I guess it's been dead 
for quite a while. I was in contact with one of the developers a year or 
so ago because I wanted to commit some of the changes I made to get it 
to run (at least most of the time) on my setup, but he never replied 
after agreeing to give me access to the repository. Currently there are 
a lot of small bugs and annoyances like losing the connection to the NM 
at random every few minutes, failing to properly restore and save 
patches in a reproducible way. Have not done much digging into the code, 
it's fairly complex, but the GUI for all it's shortcoming is quite 
awesome in that it almost exactly looks like the official editor by 
Clavia. Maybe the project could be resuscitated by a concerted effort of 
a few dedicated people with experience in Java programming and little 
free time on their hands each?

	Thomas