Hello there,

I installed Maschine 2 on macOS 10.15. from sister site and got it working after rewriting permissions with
sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - /Applications/Native\ Instruments/Maschine\ 2/Maschine\ 2.app

But now that I want to install factory library or expansions I always get installation failed error. Files are being written on user/shared but the sounds will not be displayed in Maschine software. Any ideas how to get this working?

 

try to add the content directory in terminal.

Code:

PRODUCT=("Maschine 2 Factory Library" "Maschine 2 Factory Selection" "Expansions Selection" "Aquarius Earth" "Arcane Attic" "Astral Flutter" "Basement Era" "Black Arc" "Byte Riot" "Carbon Decay" "Caribbean Current" "Cavern Floor" "Chromatic Fire" "Circuit Halo" "Conant Gardens" "Crystal Daggers" "Dark Pressure" "Decoded Forms" "Deep Matter" "District Xeo" "Drop Squad" "Elastic Thump" "Electric vice" "Global Shake" "Golden Kingdom" "Grey Forge" "Halcyon Sky" "Headland Flow" "Helios Ray" "Hexagon Highway" "Indigo Dust" "Infamous Flow" "Lazer Dice" "Lilac Glare" "Lockdown Grind" "London Grit" "Lone Forest" "Lucid Mission" "Magnate Hustle" "Marble Rims" "Magnetic Coast" "Meteoric Rise" "Midnight Sunset" "Molten Veil" "Motor Impact" "Neon Drive" "Opaline Drift" "Paradise Rinse" "Platinum Bounce" "Polar Flare" "Prismatic Bliss" "Prospect Haze" "Pulswerk" "Pure Drip" "Queensbridge Story" "Radiant Horizon" "Raw Voltage" "Resonant Blaze" "Rising Crescent" "Sierra Grove" "Solar Breeze" "Static Friction" "Street Swarm" "The Stereotypes" "Timeless Glow" "Transistor Punch" "True School" "Vintage Heat" "Velvet Lounge" "Warped Symmetry") 
for product in "${PRODUCT[@]}" 
do 
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.native-instruments."$product".plist Name "$product" 
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.native-instruments."$product".plist ContentDir Users/Shared 
done

and download or relocate the content in native access.

 

Last edited: Jan 22, 2020

thx man works like a charm

 

i added one in the code.

Magnetic Coast just out

to add only this one.

Code:

PRODUCT=("Magnetic Coast")
for product in "${PRODUCT[@]}"
do
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.native-instruments."$product".plist Name "$product"
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.native-instruments."$product".plist ContentDir Users/Shared
done

for windows via regedit

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Magnetic Coast]
"ContentDir"=""

 

Last edited: Jan 22, 2020

Hi guys, sorry if i ask here, but i have the same problem in OS Catalina 10.15. At the end of the installation it fails, but it is also installing nothing. No files. So i cannot relocate. Is there another way to install the expansion packs on catalina?

 

Hi can anyone help i was getting installation failed on newly downloaded expansions on os 10.15.4 so i tried the command above and now most of the expansion are no longer showing in Maschine 2. please can anyone help

 

Interesting. Does this permanently redirect the installation path? Then I wouldn't have to specify the install location all the time. Because I install all my expansions on a different hdd.

 

I'm on pc. What exctly do I need to do to get these expansions working? I'm on Maschine Unlocked version 2.3.1

 

Aquarius Earth is the one i really want and have to same issues. It fails to install, i've unzipped it all so have the expansion structure on a drive but can't load kits as all he sample paths are wrong. Any ideas how to edit things so it loads?

 

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Last edited: Mar 15, 2021

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Hey Bobdule ! Your script work perfectly but when I launch Native Access and try to relocate the library placed in User/Shared

I get "The library path is invalid", Any idea how to reconnect Maschine to the libraries files without having to reinstall everything using installers ? thanks

 

Last edited: Mar 26, 2021

@bobdule Thanks a lot for your script, I did replace the
ContentDir with my own and worked like a charm on Big Sur
btw Any idea how to fix the Artwork in Maschine browser?

 

Uhh nevermind, found them in /Users/Shared/NI Resources/image/XXXXXX
however when installer failed, it did not copy for me Midnight Sunset & Aquarius Earth
Any idea how can extract them from pkg files or grab them somewhere on the web?

 

Hahaha nevermind, found it again
1)extract with "pkgutil --expand filename.pkf dest_folder
2)un-tar payload with
tar -xvf Payload
or
xar -xvf Payload
3)locate images

 

the true is NI dev like the way: lucky/unlucky

 

It looks like the formatting changed? E.g. on the latest Maschine 2 the <string></string> seems to use ':' symbols in the path for ContentDir <key>?.. e.g. instead of

Code:

<key>ContentDir</key>
<string>Users/Shared</string>

it's now expecting

Code:

<key>UserDir</key>
<string>$hdd_name:Users:Shared:$product:</string>

Is it only me or not?.. The trick doesn't work anymore for me.

 

Any answer pls for format change in 2023?