What's the best way to keep two Maschine + in sync?

rephazed

Hi, I have two Maschine + units that I'd like to keep in sync as much as possible. What's the best way to keep them in sync? Let's say I have a master unit, where I do all my production work and a slave unit, which I use mostly to play/perform, and don't expect to make changes to projects that I need to get back to the master. If my master dies, I'd like to be able to use the slave as my master. What I tried to do is make a backup of my SD card from the master and then copy all of the content to the SD card of the slave. While I can power the slave just fine, see/interact with my content, I noticed when I buy new expansion packs from NI, while they are available for installation on my master Maschine+, they aren't available for download/installation on the slave Maschine. After purchasing the packs, I see "All your Products are installed" on the slave, while I'm able to install them on my master.

So this makes me a little bit worried. If my master Maschine + dies and I have the SD card from the master, i can't just pop in my SD card into the slave. I'm guessing I'd have to initialize the SD Card in the Slave, install all of the expansion packs, then copy my Native Instruments/Maschine 2 folder over? So then my sync plan of just replicating my SD cards between Master and Slave isn't going to work. I'm wondering if there's something on the SD card, like a digital signature of the hardware, that ties it to one maschine + only?

Wondering how others work with redundant Maschine+

D-One

There is a 'digital signature' of sorts but it is not tied to the device afaik, it's tied to your Native Instruments account, it checks if you own X product once in a while. Here's what you're missing in your logic:

• When you install stuff it doesn't just put things on the SD Card, it also installs smaller stuff on the internal storage, like software version, plugins, etc.. So if you don't actually install, it wont work.

So… Your plan sounds good, the only thing you should take care is to install everything on both devices and their respective SD card, this shouldn't be too hard as NI is not really releasing new stuff for the M+ regularly other than expansions.

After everything is installed on both you can just copy/backup custom content (Projects, Samples, etc…) from one SD to another — Which will be a lot faster than copying the full SD card… and whenever theres an update (or a new instrument) you install in both.

D-One

There is a 'digital signature' of sorts but it is not tied to the device afaik, it's tied to your Native Instruments account, it checks if you own X product once in a while. Here's what you're missing in your logic:

• When you install stuff it doesn't just put things on the SD Card, it also installs smaller stuff on the internal storage, like software version, plugins, etc.. So if you don't actually install, it wont work.

So… Your plan sounds good, the only thing you should take care is to install everything on both devices and their respective SD card, this shouldn't be too hard as NI is not really releasing new stuff for the M+ regularly other than expansions.

After everything is installed on both you can just copy/backup custom content (Projects, Samples, etc…) from one SD to another — Which will be a lot faster than copying the full SD card… and whenever theres an update (or a new instrument) you install in both.

rephazed

Thanks D-One!