NI Maschine MK3 not going into Controller Mode with Bome Box

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Hi, fellow nerd :wink: Welcome to the Bome community!

This may or may not be possible largely depending on how Native Instruments designed their interface between the Controller Editor and the Maschine controller.

First, understand that anything connecting via Bome Network between attached BomeBox MIDI devices and the computer host operating system is MIDI Only.

Other USB interfaces such as HID or audio simply will not be exposed to the computer host over the network so if the interface between the Controller Editor on the host computer and the Maschine uses anything besides MIDI, then it wonā€™t work.

Now if it is pure MIDI interface between the Controller Editor and your Maschine Controller, then you might have a chance. If this Controller Editor recognizes the devices by the exposed USB MIDI port name, then, hooking your Maschine up to BomeBox by default provides a different port name than if natively connected to the Host operating system.

For Instance my APC40 MKII connected to my BomeBox uses Bome Remote MIDI Direct ports shows up on my computer as ā€œBomeBox2:APC40 MKIIā€.

You might be able to get around this by using the ā€œUnlimited Named MIDI Portsā€ add-on feature of Bome Network Pro, by creating a virtual port with the exact same name as your host operating system created and then using the routing feature of Bome Network Pro to route you Remote MIDI Direct port output to your newly created Named MIDI port. The routing would need to happen in both directions so that two way communication with the controller editor to occur.

In a nutshell, however, it is much easier to directly connect your controller to your computer host operating system when using the editor and then moving it to your BomeBox when using for other purposes as Iā€™ve had limited success with various controller editors connecting to devices remotely connected via BomeBox (or any other remote connection type of solution).

There is a similar thread on this subject from a user that wanted to connect to Novation Components (which is a MIDI editor for Novation Products and his Novation SL MK3. We went into quite a bit of detail there on how to set this up but had limited success. I was able to get Novation Components to work, however with my Launchkey MINI MK3 using this method.

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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