Tip - changing patterns on the Maschine JAM without changing focus

If you're on a Mac, and you want to make it so Maschine JAM no longer changes the focused group when you select a pattern, then (after making a backup) change the section starting line 182 of

/Applications/Native Instruments/Maschine 2/Maschine 2.app/Contents/Resources/Scripts/Maschine/Helper/PatternHelper.lua

to read:

function PatternHelper.focusPatternByGroupAndByIndex(GroupIndex, PatternIndex, CreateIfEmpty)


    if PatternIndex == nil or PatternIndex < 0 or GroupIndex == nil or GroupIndex < 0 then
        return
    end


    local FocusGroup = NI.DATA.StateHelper.getFocusGroupIndex(App)
    local Group = MaschineHelper.getGroupAtIndex(GroupIndex)


    if Group then


        local Pattern = Group:getPatterns():find(PatternIndex)


        if Pattern then


            local FocusSection = NI.DATA.StateHelper.getFocusSection(App)
            local FocusScene = NI.DATA.StateHelper.getFocusScene(App)
            local FocusScenePattern = FocusScene and NI.DATA.SceneAccess.getPattern(FocusScene, Group)
            local HasFocus = Pattern == FocusScenePattern


            if HasFocus then
                if FocusSection then
                    NI.DATA.SectionAccess.removePattern(App, FocusSection, Group)
                else -- In Idea Space we work on Scenes directly.
                    NI.DATA.SceneAccess.removePattern(App, FocusScene, Group)
                end
            else
                NI.DATA.GroupAccess.insertPatternAndFocus(App, Group, Pattern)
            end
            if FocusGroup ~= GroupIndex then
                MaschineHelper.setFocusGroup(FocusGroup + 1, false)
            end


        elseif CreateIfEmpty == true then
            -- note: AudioPatterns can't currently be empty, so CreateIfEmpty is n/a
            PatternHelper.insertNewPattern(PatternIndex, Group)
        end


    end


end