NI Maschine Studio Not recording Midi to Pro Tools 12 as a plugin

[Michael_Knight]

Hi,

I hope I'm posting in the right forum. I'm trying to use Maschine Studio as a plugin in Pro Tools 12.8.0 running Windows 10. When I press the pads I hear sound however midi notes do not appear in pro tools. I am able to trigger Maschine sounds and record with my M-Audio midi keyboard but not the Maschine. I tried placing maschine in controller mode but that didn't work. I also went into the maschine settings and chose host for midi, and turned midi on.

In Pro tools under instruments on the instrument track Maschine is inserted on, Maschine is greyed out with a message saying "N/A because possible feedback loop detected" I did try to manually map the maschine in midi studio and I even added midi cables to my digi 003 in case for some reason midi wasn't transported via USB. This did not work. Of course in the NI forums I'm hearing this is a Pro Tools issue since it works as a plugin in other DAWs. I'm not sure if it is or isn't but I'm hoping someone may have a fix over here.