Hi Guys,

Hopefully, someone can help me.
I ran into the following problem with my Maschine Installation from HCISO.

3.0.1 and 3.1.1 spitting out the same error:


I have not idea why, as every plugin is working in Kontakt standalone or Studio One. Just with Maschine, it's not working, rendering my Maschine Mikro useless.

Could anyone help me please?

 

Supported Operation System:
- macOS 13.0 or later
- Apple Silicon or Intel Core processor

On other site, over 100 people have downloaded with no comments of problems with this release.

 

Last edited: Apr 25, 2025

I have the same problem with Sequoia 15.4.1 With machine 3 And also komplete kontrol 3.4.1 . Any ideas ?

 

the problem is not the release from HCiso. It is from NI. Stick to the one device (Maschine) in threads about Maschine or it will just add confusion. Some people with the problem have made posts about NI Maschine 3 blocking MK1 and MK2 devices.

Maschine MK2 working within the Maschine 3.x(with limitations) — NI Community

 

That's what's bugging me. I bought the Maschine Mikro MK3, installed the HCISO on my Macbook Pro M2 Max (everything up to date) and it's bugging me with not being able to load my plugins in it.

Of course, I had been searching the sister site, comments, reddit and some other forum but nothing so far.

So I thought, maybe I could find a solution here.

 

Another thing that's confusing. It shows my AU and is working fine with them.
Kontakt 8 VST3 wont show up at all and the sounds I get in the browser can't be loaded into it, giving me the above message.

I have no VST2 plugins, only VST3 and AU.

 

Thank you.
I figured, the same happens with KOMPLETE KONTROL.

 

what about the json files management?
generally to delete after adding/moving/updating a library, or updating a software version.
the applications will write new one's at launch.

here normally
Macintosh HD/ User/Shared/Native Instruments/Installed_Products

at first opening NI products will collect the plist data to build these files, once created it read directlly inside instead of the plist.


it is only managed by Native Access for legit users with matching activation enabled.
not legit users or using unactivated products have to manage this manually.
the new NI system use both (plist & json), the data inside need to match. ContentDir, ContentVersion...InstallDir for applications

 

The famous bobdule

Thanks for looking into it, man. I appreciate all your work!

So basically, that means, I should delete all json files from that folder and load up a NI Plugin or restart Maschine?

Edit: Did that. Re recreated everything upon starting Maschine 3.11 but still... the same error occurs when double clicking samples in the lower left corner. I could not find the plist though.

PPS: wait a minute... It gives me this error, whenever I want to load a sample from a Kontakt library. When I head to 'All Sounds', I can load all the sounds from the Factory Library without any issues. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the usage of Maschine?

 

Last edited: Apr 26, 2025

Thank you for all the cooperation! I hope we found the twist to resolve this trouble!
Keep researching

 

Interestingly, everything is working on machine 2, unlike on machine 3 and komplete kontrol 3.4.1

 

Half of this is addressing the issue with NI expansions. But the other portion is about Non-Native Instruments third-party plugins being loaded into Maschine. They are not "unactivated products". They are already activated with the respective vendors.

The problem users are dealing with is only due to the v3 utilities. A thorough cleanup and rollback to v2.x will probably get someone working ok again. So would a Time Machine backup.

Unfortunately, people do not usually do a new time Machine backup before installing a simple no-risk update like Maschine or Komplete Kontrol from "reputable vendors". So much for that. This is the kind of scenario where Find Any File is it's most helpful. https://findanyfile.app

 

Last edited: Apr 27, 2025

I bought the Maschine Mikro just a few days ago, started with the 3.11 version and haven't had any issues with Komplete Kontrol and my S88 Keyboard. I might try the Maschine 2 version to see if everything will be working with v2.

I might stick to Maschine 3 though. I can load the Kontakt Library when using the AU PlugIn. Since I don't use the Maschine for electric music production but for drums in my music, I might look into using it solely as an MIDI Controller.

What's bugging me, is that no one else seems to be having this issue.