NS4 Buddy

NS4 Buddy is the ideal app for live keyboard players with a Nord Stage 4 or Nord Stage 3. You can create new setlists and choose the programs from your Nord Stage 4 or 3.

Each setlist has several songs, and each song selects a program on your Nord Stage with a MIDI program change. Besides switching programs, you can add a PDF of sheet music to every song, or notes written with your Apple Pencil, or typed notes.

Once you have finished building the setlist, you have everything you need for your performance and can focus on playing.

Do you sometimes keep samples, sound effects or even audio loops in the Nord Stage synth? Then the pads are made for you. You no longer have to remember which key holds the thunder or the sound effect. You create a pad for it in NS4 Buddy. During the performance you simply tap that pad on the iPad, and the sound effect plays.

Sometimes you need more than one Nord Stage program, and on the Nord Stage 4 also Scene II. In NS4 Buddy a song can hold up to 8 extra programs and up to 8 pads. So instead of 1, you have 9 programs ready to go.

Connecting is simple: use a USB-C to USB-B cable and plug your iPad straight into your Nord Stage.

There are many more features and settings. For soundcheck, for example, you can record a few MIDI files and play them back. Then you walk into the hall and listen to how your Nord Stage 4 sounds from the audience.