How to save a Lores User Preset or Snapshot?

Tom Auger
Tom Auger Member Posts: 56 Helper
edited November 27 in Maschine

Working in Maschine (2.x) I spent a ton of time customizing a Lores preset to create my own. Then I looked for at least 15 minutes for a way to save it. The manual claims "The stunning collection of main presets can be filtered, favorited, edited and saved as your own user preset" - note the "saves as your own user preset" part.

I have a snapshot icon, but clicking it does nothing. I have enabled the user snapshot directory in preferences.

Is this a limitation of Maschine? Are you able to save Lores presets if using a standalone Kontakt instance or in another DAW?

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  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 13,047 mod
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    You can right click here and choose Save as:

    Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 16.54.43.png

    You can name the preset:

    Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 16.55.10.png

    and recall it from the user library:

    Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 16.55.26.png

    I used another Kontakt library but the principle is the same for any instrument.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,005 mod
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    It's the little disk icon you need to click on to save a snapshot, not the camera - that just opens snapshots (or do it via Maschine's save as, as Jeremy says)

    Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 22.39.24.png

  • Tom Auger
    Tom Auger Member Posts: 56 Helper
    Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/193625#Comment_193625

    Ah! So not within the plugin window at all. That makes sense. Well, it doesn't make sense (I'm new to Maschine, but a long-time NI/Kontakt user), but now I know how to do it. Thanks!

  • Tom Auger
    Tom Auger Member Posts: 56 Helper
    edited November 28 Answer ✓

    Hey! Thanks for answering my question. And, your screenshot is EXACTLY what I was expecting / looking for, but I don't have that view:

    image.png

    I remember in Komplete Kontrol in other DAWs you have to enable an Edit view or something in order to see the Kontakt "wrapper". I clicked around the entire Maschine UI for like 15 minutes but couldn't find it.

    UPDATE: Found it! It's only available once you DETACH the plugin window by clicking that little diagonal arrow in the top-left corner. That detaches the plugin window into its own non-modal window you can drag around. For some reason, that also then enables a little "pencil" icon in the top-left corner of the newly-detached plugin window. Clicking that pencil icon reveals the Kontakt Edit mode.

    So now it looks like there are 2 functioning workflows, depending on your use case.

    @Jeremy_NI 's approach seems to be good if you only care about staying within the Maschine ecosystem - it is a more convenient way to mange your present

    @Kymeia 's solution allows you to save the Kontakt snapshot, which then should be available wherever you use Kontakt - standalone or in another DAW like Logic or Ableton.

    sound about right?

    Thanks!

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  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Customer Care Posts: 13,047 mod
    Answer ✓

    You can right click here and choose Save as:

    Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 16.54.43.png

    You can name the preset:

    Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 16.55.10.png

    and recall it from the user library:

    Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 16.55.26.png

    I used another Kontakt library but the principle is the same for any instrument.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,005 mod
    Answer ✓

    It's the little disk icon you need to click on to save a snapshot, not the camera - that just opens snapshots (or do it via Maschine's save as, as Jeremy says)

    Screenshot 2024-11-26 at 22.39.24.png

  • Tom Auger
    Tom Auger Member Posts: 56 Helper
    Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/193625#Comment_193625

    Ah! So not within the plugin window at all. That makes sense. Well, it doesn't make sense (I'm new to Maschine, but a long-time NI/Kontakt user), but now I know how to do it. Thanks!

  • Tom Auger
    Tom Auger Member Posts: 56 Helper
    edited November 28 Answer ✓

    Hey! Thanks for answering my question. And, your screenshot is EXACTLY what I was expecting / looking for, but I don't have that view:

    image.png

    I remember in Komplete Kontrol in other DAWs you have to enable an Edit view or something in order to see the Kontakt "wrapper". I clicked around the entire Maschine UI for like 15 minutes but couldn't find it.

    UPDATE: Found it! It's only available once you DETACH the plugin window by clicking that little diagonal arrow in the top-left corner. That detaches the plugin window into its own non-modal window you can drag around. For some reason, that also then enables a little "pencil" icon in the top-left corner of the newly-detached plugin window. Clicking that pencil icon reveals the Kontakt Edit mode.

    So now it looks like there are 2 functioning workflows, depending on your use case.

    @Jeremy_NI 's approach seems to be good if you only care about staying within the Maschine ecosystem - it is a more convenient way to mange your present

    @Kymeia 's solution allows you to save the Kontakt snapshot, which then should be available wherever you use Kontakt - standalone or in another DAW like Logic or Ableton.

    sound about right?

    Thanks!

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,005 mod

    Actually no they both do the same thing, either way it saves as a snapshot, and you can also do that if you save in Komplete Kontrol using the KK file menu

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