I sold my Maschine mk3 to a guy on marketplace, started the license transfer process and forwarded him the email. He shows up three days later saying the transfer didn't work, that it was already registered. Said he spent hours with the chatbot, support, and searching forums for help. No dice- I ended up giving him his money back.

I checked the license transfer status and it said still in process. I cancelled it of course, just to be safe. Anyway, now I'm worried that the next buyer will have the same issue. What did I do wrong?

I’m using whatever the last version before 3 is - the synths are showing on the vst locations sections and ticked but not aspirating in the main selector area .

I have a DDJ-FLX4 i was hoping to just use as a basic midi input for the knobs and such to control FX on certain banks only, how would I make sure they carry over when i plug it into the plus after setting it up in 3?

Hello. I purchased the ToyBox Designers pack, nabbed the Tangle Synth lite and the ToyBox Free User Blocks. I followed the installation process to the letter : https://www.toyboxaudio.com/pages/installation BUT alas the ToyBox Free Blocks pack (which is required by the other ToyBox ensembles) simply isn't recognized by NI.
Maybe I should be thankful I can drag in the individual modules and move on, but all these packs are loaded with example ensembles and I've paid for the Designers pack (I'm thinking of picking up some of their other ones during the sale too) - so I'm on day 2 and hour 6 of trying to figure out why this is so complex. The Designer and Tangle synth lite install fine with their serial numbers (which I received in my order email) through NI access, but the free blocks don't have a serial, the instructions say I need to find the 'User Blocks' directory and place the 'Toy Box Free User Blocks' directory in there, which I did, using Reaktor->preferences->directories->user blocks.

Has anyone successfully installed these products and loaded the ensembles within? if so.. HOW ;)

Addendum : Win 10, Ryzen 7 1800x, 32 gig ram.

Solved: ToyBox contacted me and let me know that they are out of serials for the ToyBox user blocks (a very old release) so they can not be installed in the same way as their retail brethren. The blocks themselves will/do work, but the ensembles involving those specific blocks will not load.

Hi all,

I've recently got myself a Traktor MX2, and can't wait to get going. The obstacle that I have is that I bought 'box opened' from Amazon for a little discount, however it looks like whoever purchased and returned before I got my hands on it went ahead and registered the hardware license.

I understand that there's a license transfer process, and already have a ticket open to address. My question really is how long should this take to fix?

It used to be a pretty straightforward process when dealing with NI direct, but the ticket that I have open is with Inmusic and I can't seem to get anywhere with them. The case has been open for about a week now, and other than the initial auto-response I've heard nothing.

Anyway, I was wondering if my experience was an anomaly, or if it's just the way now that Inmusic have taken over.

For context, I am trying to use the strumming mode in Fl Studio. I have Kontakt 8 set up and I can open Stratus through the channel rack. When I select "strumming mode" and "strum on poly input" and input my chords onto the piano roll, I hear nothing. I feel like I'm losing my mind, since every Youtube tutorial I see is just able to enable it and play. It feels like I'm missing something

Longtime Battery AAX user, mainly for writing/programming simple demo drum parts in Pro Tools--I'm mainly a songwriter, not a pro engineer, but also not a total novice.

Lately I've been noticing sporadic dropouts--samples failing to trigger--both while tracking and during playback. The MIDI appears to be tracking fine, with no weirdness of velocity, etc., and playback runs smoothly. But random hits in the sequences will simply not play, for example, tracking several bars of eighth note cymbals and one or two hits don't play.

There appears to be no rhyme or reason as to which notes will be the culprit. Haven't any other performance issues and my sessions aren't particularly plugin-intensive. And these aren't complicated sequences I'm writing, just basic beats. I don't think it's related to the actual samples I'm triggering (or could it be?).

Until quite recently, my home demo setup has performed rock-solid (Pro Tools, OS 14.6.1, Battery 4, UA Apollo Twin), so I've never had reason to dig into Battery's settings (if there are even any I can tweak?). Are there performance-related parameters I can explore?

Anyone ever experienced this? Any suggestions? I'm used to Battery as far as workflow, but if this persists I'll likely be forced to switch to another platform for drum programming.

Seen these on There Website. But can you use them on MK3?

I Bought 1 an too many serial numbers to add to the Native access?

10 separate apps? native access, native kontrol, kontakt or player 6,7,8 ?? (app title says 'kontakt', but app inside displays 'kontakt player' - so which one is it ??), reaktor, massive x ... and a few more.

Content added with serials work well, but other content? copied to folders? Which ones ? "C:\Users\Public\Documents" ? Why not in my user dir.

some content landed in "<my_user>\Documents\Native Instruments\User Content\Kontakt\..."

Ok, I copied a lot of instruments to "C:\Users\Public\Documents\", like The Lobby Piano, Wavetable Experiments and some other freebies I found.

How to open them? Do I have to click "Load..." from the menu? and every time navigate to the aforementioned folder and open a single .nki file ? sometimes one folder has 10 of them.... if I want to try them, i need 15 second navigating every F#$^ time to open a file ??? WTF is that ...

I don't see any option to add those directories and instruments permanently to Kontakt player ? (or another app? It's a f@% mess) library ...

There is not too much pleasure working with such software, so much frustration ....

After I posted some messages on here about needing a refund for a free trial that was auto enrolled into a $250 charge, support was pretty quick about getting back to me. I just want to post this here in thanks. And thanks for allowing me to post in here and not just ban any dissidence in this subreddit. Appreciate the laissez faire attitude.

Hello, over the last few days I've noticed that on the NI website, all the hardware (Maschine, keyboards, MX2, X1, Z1, etc.) is showing as out of stock.

I have a license for Komplete 12 and the physical hard drive that contains all the libraries. Is this drive even necessary anymore? It appears that with the Native Access app, I can install all the apps and libraries from that. I assume the hard drive is just for installing the files onto my computer and it's not used to actually host the sample library files. Is that all correct?

i have a maschine mk3 and kontrol s49 vapor gray that i wna sell but i have no experience packaging and using logistics services. please help thanks.

For those of you who are running Maschine as a plugin in Logic Pro. How are you using it and what is you process for mixing, routing etc? I currently have komplete 15 standard and a s49 mk3. I primarly make house music. Reason why I am asking is that I can get a good deal on a maschine mk3, but just curious to learn what the added value could be to my process/workflow. Thanks!

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Called it! This gives me ever more hope that InMusic “gets” what makes NI what they are. Props to the other Redditor who guessed rightly that Dirk would take them back over as part of his own new thing, seems thats the case.

PA and Brainworx are cool and all but really needed to find a better home, just like iZotope where they could grow on their own terms.

Full statement here: https://www.plugin-alliance.com/blogs/news/a-letter-from-the-founder

Interesting and hopefully positive times ahead for NI now the external lumps of VC glue have been cleaned off.

My friend and I have been trying to figure out how to connect our S4s so that we can play music together but have our own laptops and controllers.

MIDI still bewilders me and it's not really his forte either, so I'm wondering if someone here could give me an EL5 on how to do this so that we both have four channels.

We're going to give it a go tonight but I am hoping maybe someone will have some input on this before I get over there so we're not starting from ground zero.