Nord User Forum

dansnord wrote:I was just wondering if anyone had any opinions on Patch Foundry. I was looking at their $80 "NS3 Cover Band Collection". While $80 isn't nothing, I did just pay a lot more than that for my Stage 3 88. And it seems like it might be fun to have some of those patches, and interesting to see the makeup of them. I'm fumbling my way through learning the programming but it will be a while before I get good at it, if for no other reason that I have very limited time. Have any of you bought this set, or others from them? Or do you just program all your patches yourself, and trade/download others on this forum?

Hi there! I actually bought from Patch Foundry his Worship Collections for the Nord Stage 3. Not many of our instrumentalists knows how to program the Nord, so having these programs/collection helped set us up quicker as it was a bit difficult and time consuming to coming up with the right pads for our Church music. I personally have it installed in my own Nord Stage 3 and the more I use it the more braver I became to modify the sounds to my personal taste. I also have downloaded some samples from the Forum as well.

I have it. Compared to what other creators are charging for a fraction of the songs, it's well worth $80. Quite a few are very accurate. You Can Call Me Al comes to mind. My only beef is I wish there were instructions for EACH patch that explained what each part of the program are intended for, meaning, I want to know exactly how he uses each patch in each song for those of us who can't piece it together for the not so obvious ones. Sometimes there's some guess work especially when some of the parts don't match anything in the original song. Most are self explanatory. Would love it if there was a simple video example of every patch that just shows the songs broken up into the sections that are played. The YouTube videos just skim over it from what I can tell. Could easily make a drinking game out of taking a shot every time he says "How fun is that?" during the YouTube videos.

This is Eric from Patch Foundry- don’t know how I’m just now finding this thread

Really appreciate the feedback here- the tutorial ideas are something I’ve been working on for a long time, great idea! (It’s hard with 375 patches, at 3 minutes of demo a patch that’s 18.5 hours of tutorials ).

That said, do you think it would help on the more complex patches if I did that? There’s about 150 pretty standard patches in the collection that are self explanatory, but then a few that are tricky (Treasure by Bruno Mars is an example).

Really appreciate the feedback on the quality- working hard to up that all the time, and just reworked every patch in a big update, and there’s more audio now on the page demoing sounds.

Negative or positive, I really really care about hardcore users like you all’s feedback and if there’s anything specific that you guys want to see changed, let me know and I’ll do it. Thanks!