If you haven’t watched the other video on creating custom images for your third party libraries in Maschine 2.0 make sure you watch that as well as it goes into more detail about this process
Check that one out here: Creating custom third party Kontakt library images in Maschine
This one is specifically for Maschine Studio owners that want to see actual images for their third party plugins instead of the default VST skin.
The process is a little simpler as there are not as many files needed, however I have provided the template folder once again to make it easy.
I’ve also created a folder of some popular plugins for download, you just need to place the folders in the proper location.
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St-Joe….. you are a GOD!
😉 I’ve spent SOOOOO many time to try to “hack” this…. thanks!
(in fact… I was not far from finding it… I was looking at the wrong place! I was looking in my user account instead of “Public”…ah jeez…. )
Glad to help man 🙂
I don’t want to abuse of your generosity, but….. I was wondering.. do you have more images? I have Neo soul key too….
Which one? The UVI version or the Kontakt one? I did one for the Kontakt version actually
do you have neo soul for windows or mac? I really want this program
What do you mean? The actual program is available on the gospelmusicians website
Kontakt version.
In fact, I was planning on doing images for a bunch of them… but if you have some already done, I would be really happy to save some time!
I might do:
-Broken Wurli, Ep73 Deconstructed, Galaxy Vintage D, Nitron, NovaChord, Stylus RMX, GBUCB1 & 2, Dirtz and Layerz… and a couple of Softube plugs…. well…. I gonna have a long night!
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By the way, I know how to change the back ground color. You have to go _DatabaseResources\color, and open the color.db with an appropriate editor. (like sql Lite) Tehn yu have oto add in the color table the name of the plugin and the color you wan in hexa.
Yeah I figured that would be a bit too advanced but cool to know though! 🙂
Thanks Saint Joe! I’m loving the Omnisphere and Trilian icons on the studio! My Battery 4 images still aren’t working on the Studio controller…would you mind sending me the B4 image file?
Cool man, I think the Battery thing has to do with an update because I had the images in my folder the whole time but they didn’t show up.
Ola Saint-Joe. I did a few images so far and I think it might be cool to share it to others people too. I did Broken Wurli, Galaxy Vintage 2, Ep73 Deconstructed and a few “generics” one for Drum Loops, Bass loops, String loops, Sax Loops, Brass Loops, Guitars Loops. I think they look pretty cool actually… Tonight I’ll do : Softube CL1B, EQF-100, PRO-C, PRO-L, Stylus RMX, bx_stereoImager, TLA-100, UBK-1, Clariphonic, H-Delay and a few others. So, if you want, I can send the bunch to you so you can include it in your zip file or not. Let… Read more »
Cool, when you’re done you can post them in the forum section for sharing such goodies 🙂
https://maschinetutorials.com/forum/samples-kits-projects-instruments/
Cool!
I’ll put a bunch tonight.. …surely late. 😉
How do u do this for expansion packs?
Hi Saint-Joe, is there a way to have our instrument and effects outside of Maschine folder?
Not currently they show up there since they are maschine files
Hi Saint Joe! I finally had the time to do images. (I’m Yannick Bisson, see earlier post ).
So…. I have post them in the forum as you suggested: https://maschinetutorials.com/forum/samples-kits-projects-instruments/maschine-2-0-user-images/.
Let me know if everything is fine.
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Cool! I see a few I didn’t do yet so I will be checking those out 🙂
PS: Feel free to distribute them if you find them cool.
WHOA!
Super cool – I’ll be definitely doing this when I get back from holidays. Maybe I will stick with Maschine Studio and 2.0 after all…
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Ahahahahaha LOL
Great tip, thanks much for the post. So far I have had this work great with Kore 2 (wich seems like NI is trying to forget unfortunately) and ReWire VST Instruments. I tried this with one of my WAVES plugins- Kramer Tape and no dice. I just get the stock graphic and text. I created a folder in the shared folder where all my ni products are located called Kramer Tape where I save my presets and put a similarly named folder in Ni resources image folder. On the studio controller when browsing it gives me the generic plugin Icon… Read more »
The only place it needs to go is in the shared images folder in the NI resources directory, however, the name has to be exactly like waves is loaded. I haven’t tried any waves plugins yet as I only use one and mainly for video editing not production so it may have something to do with the waves shell
Thanks St Joe for the response!
I copy and pasted the folder that I made for Kore2 (which worked) and named it “Waves” in the images folder, updating the meta file also, to see what would happen. That worked to add a pic to the Studio effects browser category, but that’s the only thing it affected, no image change in the software. With the same folder named ‘Kramer Tape’ in the images folder I didn’t get any results.
Well that’s cool, at least you know it works. There will not be anything in the software though, it will only show on the studio.
Any idea where the stock plugin image might be found that Maschine defaults to when a 3rd party plugin is loaded? Maybe that can be changed?
Hi daswans, sorry for the hijacking, but to fix it, you have to use the “waveshells to plug” exe (Google it to find the name). It will create separated plugins with “mono” & “stereo”. So Kramer Tape will be “Kramer Tape Mono” and “Kramer Tape Stereo”
then, you have to name your images folder “Kramer Tape Stereo”
Looks like shell2vst is for pc, know of any mac equivalent? I’ll do some digging, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
humm, I don’t know if the Mac version exists.,,
*update
The image and logo both work for the Waves category on the Studio and Software browser, but no individual plugin image or logo when the Waves plugin is loaded. I tried changing the Kramer Tape folder name a few times – without the space, adding a (s) at the end as it shows up in the plugin directory, ect. But no luck with getting a plugin image or logo on the controller. Yeah, sounds like something to do with the wave shell.
my bad, I thought you were talking about the plugin interface (like the mini ones for Komplete) inside the Maschine software 🙂
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I have all the images working now except when the individual Waves plugins. Under the effects tab on the controller I have the Waves browser pic and logo, but not the individual plugin’s pic or logo. Looks like I need to create an individual vst or maybe AU from the .bundle format that Waves wraps their plugins in the waveshell- i’m not really familiar with how waves deals with this, I just got the Edie Kramer bundle (which sound amazing). Im using a Mac and my Wavs plugs are AU if that… Read more »
*when I load the individual plugin, sorry for the typo
Oh ok I’ll try naming it with stereo!
Thx
Thanks Yann, I’ll give that a shot.
You guys know if its possible to create categories with a custom pic on the Studio controller for Projects?
It would be nice to be able to have more than just one single Maschine Product listed. It would be really nice to have multiple “products” with images for each listed for different projects. Also any way to create banks for user browser stuff? I really like the how the NI Factory Instruments left screen browser section works with the Categories-Products-Banks.
BTW- So happy to have joined this site, so much knowledge you guys are sharing here!!
I believe currently they will always show up under the “maschine” bank because they are maschine files (saved and created with Maschine)
same for kits, sounds, etc, at least so far that’s how it’s working
Im still not getting it to work…when you say scan where it is do you mean scan were the plugin is or scan the ni resources folder where the image files are…im using MK1 2.0 and just want the plugin logo to show up in my browser of the software but also have the logo show up in the Studio if i ever get one im almost sure i added all the necessary files…i used your Omnisphere image presets pack and added MST_artwork and VB_artwork and VB_logo…but no go
Plugin logo will not show up in the browser, only on the Studio Controller.
Can we start a library of images for Maschine packs and 3rd party plugins? It would be awesome if there was a place members could upload their images so we can build a library as a community.
Another thing that would make this faster is if someone with good Photoshop knowledge knew how to make Photoshop actions to automate the process of making the PNG images the right size with the right names, etc.
Don’t really have a central way for members to upload unless you want to do so in the forum, you can start a thread for it and people can upload there if they have any. I’m not a photoshop guy so I definitely can’t help with any custom actions lol.
404 not found for third party plugin images?
Try it again fam, we moved to a new server last week so I had to go in and manually update the links. Thanks for the heads up!
appreciate it man
No doubt fam!
What’s good SJ, I got a quick question maybe you can help me with? Today after upgrading to maschine 2.4 the plugin images seem to not be working, ironically after I spend last night all night designing all of my plugins 😐 Any idea what the issue is and how to resolve it? thanks in advance
Hmm, my stuff is still working, are you looking in the user section and not the main/factory section?
Scrolling in the instruments/vendor and the 3rd party plugins, like omnisphere, etc. My 3rd party kontakt libraries still showing up tho
The NKS stuff is separate from your own user libraries, user content shows up under user, the third party/NKS stuff shows up with the rest of Komplete.
So to clarify, basically I shift browse on my maschine studio and then scroll the type to instruments and then in vendor to a 3rd party plugin and the image doesnt show up in my maschine studio display
You don’t have to hit shift browse, just go into the browser and you’ll see the images. Shift browse takes you to the plugin list, not the preset browser.
My bad man, I think i explained it the wrong way. So basically instruments such as spire, omnisphere, serum, etc. used to show up in my maschine studio display under type-external and then in a huge list, when I scrolled all the way down to select let’s say omnisphere the custom little plugin image i made showed up in the maschine studio display. Now after updating the software to 2.4 the plugins are sorted by vendor and when I choose spectrasonics and then scroll to Omnisphere the custom plugin image is not working any more? When you chose a plugin… Read more »
My bad man, I think i explained it the wrong way. So basically instruments such as spire, omnisphere, serum, etc. used to show up in my maschine studio display under type-external and then in a huge list, when I scrolled all the way down to select let’s say omnisphere the custom little plugin image i made showed up in the maschine studio display. Now after updating the software to 2.4 the plugins are sorted by vendor and when I choose spectrasonics and then scroll to Omnisphere the custom plugin image is not working any more? When you chose a plugin… Read more »
That could be due to how they changed the database/browser, if you load from the browser via a preset the image works. If you just load it from the plugin list the image won’t work it seems.
OK, I see what’s going on, copy your individual plugin folders into their respective manufacturer folder. So for Omnisphere you should have Spectrasonics/Omnisphere where Spectrasonics is the top folder, then on the inside you have an Omnisphere folder.
You are EPIC bro! thanks for the much needed help and keep it up with these amazing tutorials. Salute!
Glad to help man!