third party plug-ins and vendors not showing in Maschine hardware

TigerT · 2025-07-04T13:00:54+00:00

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I can see the variety of fx plugins like soundtoys and fabfilters and sonic acedemy inside the GUI in the software but not on the maschine hardware itself. When looking at my Maschine hardware, under instruments it just says All Categories. There used to be a selection for vendors too. I can’t get any answers that have worked from chat gpt. anyone know how to fix this? it’s annoying and feels like it’s not working the way it has in the past. I did move all my sound samples from logic pro and maschine to an external drive recently but did not move anything else that should cause any functionality changes in my opinion. I hear it could be a thing about NKS so far that is beyond my knowledge level. Any help would be appreciated. One last thing. It did ask some questions when I tried deleting and reloading Maschine 2 and now that I have purchased Maschine 3 the same questions popped up when I loaded it about searching for something on other networks and I said allow. there was a few of those popups and I answered allow to all of them. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it. Thanks, JT

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LostInFoundation

I don’t know if I’m understanding you correctly, but I think you are talking about the difference in loading NKS compatible plugins (that will be listed in the browser) and non NKS ones.

If that is the case, the way to load them from the hardware is by pushing SHIFT + BROWSER (as you can see, that button is labeled BROWSER but also +Plug-in, which is the secondary function activated by holding SHIFT).

If you do so, the screen will show some choices (TYPE, FORMAT, VENDOR). Making the right choices there will allow you to load the non NKS plugins (being them FXs, Instruments, Internal Maschine plugins, VST3 or what else).

Kymeia

Many of these plugins do also have unofficial NKS versions in the NKS User Library and from vendors such as Freelance Soundlabs which would enable them to be browsed from the hardware screen along with other NKS libraries

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TigerT

I should specify. Where I can add the instruments from does not show in the vendors on the left side of the screen (but Waves does show up as a vendor and offers me Codex and eGrand80, although i feel like more should load there including the tone generator plug-in) , but where I can add the “hidden" instruments from is the place where you select that you want to add a plug-in on the + button.

LostInFoundation

I don’t know if I’m understanding you correctly, but I think you are talking about the difference in loading NKS compatible plugins (that will be listed in the browser) and non NKS ones.

TigerT

thanks @LostInFoundation that Shift function was exactly what I needed! All the best to you!

Kymeia

LostInFoundation

You’re very welcome 👍🏼

TigerT

@Kymeia thank you I will look into that!

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