I posted this on Reddit over a month ago, and totally forgot about the NI community here, sorry yall 😅
So theres two ways you can do this, both I've set up on github:
*I'm not allowed to post links here so you'll have to find it on your own unless someone can post it. User: micro-JAY
What it does:
- Searches 150+ tagged expansions (Maschine, Kontakt, Massive X, Leap)
- Auto-detects your installed NI products on first run
- Assuming its the default Native Access directory
- Tracks your recently selected packs so they show up first
- Copy expansion name to clipboard on Enter (to easily paste into Maschine or Kontakt's browser) — This is an Alfred feature
No Alfred on your Mac?
If you have Alfred, just simply use the workflow, if not you can use the CLI tool from your Terminal:
They both work the same way:
Type nidr and a keyword (style, genre, era, etc.) and it filters down to just the relevant packs. The tags I used are taken from the descriptions of each expansion on NI’s storefront, but I made it easy to add/remove tags that fit your needs.
If you're like me and bought a version of Komplete with a lot of em, it can be hard to remember which expansion was "UK Garage", or "early 90s Hip-Hop" for example. So using this sure as hell is saving me a lot of time.
I made an update to the file tags_database.json just two weeks ago, so it should be up-to-date with the latest releases. I'm thinking to update that once a month, but of course you can also manually add things you want to track as well.
