Maschine 3.2 – VST3 plugins suddenly missing !!!!!

MATAKAO · 2025-07-21T21:28:17+00:00

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Hell ther,

I’m on a Mac mini M4 Pro running macOS Sequoia, and everything is fully up to date. Maschine 3.2 has completely broken my workflow overnight…

On launch I now get the prompt “VST 2 migration to VST 3”, but no matter what I do it never resolves. I did not change anything manually, but suddenly Maschine 3.2 no longer sees most of my VST3 plugins – including Kontakt, Reaktor, and many Arturia instruments. Only NI FX like Choral/Dirt still appears for example. Crazy isn't it ?

I’ve tried everything:

Full reinstall of Maschine 3.2 via Native Access
Reinstall of Kontakt 8 (which is correctly located in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Kontakt.vst3)
Running Maschine under Rosetta
Forcing a full plugin rescan
Deleting the pluginDatabase and scanner cache

Nothing works. Kontakt and others are still invisible. The exact same plugins load perfectly in Maschine 2, Komplete Kontrol 2.x, Logic Pro, etc. So the problem is Maschine 3.2 itself – the new VST3 scanner seems to silently blacklist valid plugins for no clear reason.

This is completely unacceptable: a previously working and stable setup is now broken without warning. Maschine 3 was supposed to be the future, but it’s currently unusable for serious production.

Please:

Provide a transparent log of which plugins failed or were blacklisted during scan.
Release a patch to fix the VST3 scanner so it no longer excludes valid plugins.

Until then, I’m reverting to Maschine 2. It’s the only version I can trust right now.

Best, M

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kamikaze1980

checking in with the same issues. Fwiw NI has been doing this type of thing for the last 5 years at least. They certainly aren’t the NI of 2010. Falcon from UVI is pretty nice. Unfortunately it is mostly sample based libraries. NI has there hand in far too many companies to make anything worth a damn anymore. I was once a diehard fanboy and I do still upgrade to the most current Komplete but I’m dumb for that.

MATAKAO

Hello, thanks to kamikaze1980 to confirm that, any official comment by N.I team about this bug, and instability of Maschine 3 SW?

Please… To think to your users.

D-One

1 - There is a log, its in /Users/YOUR-NAME/Library/Logs/Native Instruments/Maschine 3.log, inspect it and see if there is any useful information there.

2 - If not then with the Maschine app closed delete the contents of this folder: '/Users/YOUR-NAME/Library/Application Support/Native Instruments/Maschine 3' then launch the app and let it do it's thing and regenerate the database.

3 - the above should trigger a full long plugin rescan but if it does not then do it manually from the preferences.

4 - Do not run in Rosetta Mode, MAS3 does not support VST2 anyway.

5 - In prefs make sure "use latest version" and "use VST3" is enabled.

MATAKAO

Hello D-One,

1- Ok I've this log and I see Konlakt Audio Unit is succed scanning, but no sign or lines about VST 3 version. It's again the same thing in NI VST 3 menu, just : Choral, Driver, Compressors DC… all the others N.I plugins are gone, or Arturi too.. In Machine 2 I've all the N.I vst 3 ! I've a message of erorr with my waves plugins.vst3 but not for N.I :

[ERROR] Scanning of plugin /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/WaveShell1-VST3 13.0.vst3 with name

[ERROR] ni-plugin-info crashed while scanning: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/WaveShell1-VST3 13.0.vst3!

2-3 Always done. Retry. It's change nothing… the two methods doesn't works , when I delete Maschine 3 folder contain in "application support", or if I rescan mannualy the VST in Maschine 3 prefs .. same problem all the VST 3 are never here as before.

4- Rosetta is off now

5- Yes, these options were always enabled.

Boring, boring… another solution ?

Best

D-One

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/235209#Comment_235209

I see, in that case best contact NI tech support.

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