*** Not for Resale*** help!

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Mr Chris
Mr Chris Member Posts: 3 Member
in Maschine

Hi all, i have just purachsed a maschine plus form a ssecond hand store, it turned out to be a NFR unit so Ni say they cant (or wont) release the serial number. I have found the unit works fine but the problem is without the serial it makes it hard loading stuff form native access or making any future changes to the factory setting. Ni say it will never be fully functional without the serial.

I've spent £1000's over the year with Ni, but they wont budge at all!

Has anyone else managed to work around this or should I just return it to the store for refund?

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  • AdelV
    AdelV Member Posts: 484 Guru
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/46511/not-for-resale-help

    Return it and ask for refund — NFR hardware is intended for shops, partners, and artists. It's useless to a second-hand owner.

  • lord-carlos
    lord-carlos Member Posts: 4,187 Expert

    Yeah, you could refund it at the store.

    I'm not sure how Maschine+ works, but I think with other NFR hardware you just need to own the software yourself. There is no special check between software and hardware.

  • PK The DJ
    PK The DJ Member Posts: 2,790 Expert
    edited July 10

    The Maschine Plus registration process is shown here → YouTube Video

  • D-One
    D-One Moderator Posts: 3,795 mod
    edited July 10

    I’m kind of surprised they don’t give you the option of somehow buying a license.
    Unlike other models the M+ NFRS don’t have anything on them that states they are NFR, the MK3 for example if I remember correctly does say so on the sticker in the back of the unit.


    IMO this is not OK, the company is basically messaging to the world that they are OK with this equipment ending up in a landfill… out of spite. Some NFRs unavoidably end up on the used market.


    Now, if you want to be a smarta$$ you can probably just dump de computer inside and use it as an MK3 if you get a license for the v3 software, to which there are ways…. 🤷

    And yes, if the computer inside is removed it works fine in controller mode, it does even with it inside. Maschine software itself does not check if you own that particular hw… so… yeah.

  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 7,390 mod

    Most likely there are legal reasons for why N.I. has to stick to the NFR rules and as AdelV writes then you should most definitely as for a refund ASAP.

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  • ozon
    ozon Member Posts: 2,077 Expert

    @D-One wrote

    IMO this is not OK, the company is basically messaging to the world that they are OK with this equipment ending up in a landfill… out of spite.

    Well, NI history of dropping support for their own "dumb" controller hardware shows it's clearly ok for them. Maschine Mk1 and Mk2 are just the latest examples. Updating drivers for legacy hardware is just not profitable. Neither is considering environmental impacts.

    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/37381/ending-software-support-for-some-earlier-generations-of-maschine

    That is way more hardware for the landfill than a single NFR device.

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