![]() ![]() They thought they were special, and better than everyone else. There once was a product called Lotus123. I could’ve upgraded to Cubase Pro 11 for $49, and I said nope, not that crap. When you can’t give your product away for free, you have a real problem. Reaper seems to be doing fine, and it’s better than ProTools and Cubase, …but not as fancy looking. When the product is priced right, and delivers value, piracy is not an issue (I’m in the software business). Cubase may have a lot of “innovation,” but it’s executed poorly, and the company is more concerned about piracy than making sure that their legitimate customers can do music. I mostly use Logic, Reaper, and Bitwig, …occasionally Ableton and Studio One. Steinberg customers want to be making music, not finding workarounds to bugs. The product has a 1,000+ page manual, because it’s clunky and unintuitive (maybe you grew up with it, and it works for you), and you can Google plenty of people asking questions to common problems and bugs, and not getting answers. ![]() ![]() I own the Steinberg dongle, and Cubase, …and that DAW’s wasted my time chasing bugs, and not making music. I’m fortunate enough to own legal copies of every DAW I care to try (no ProTools. The irony is that there are cracked copies of Cubase around, while legal customers are dealing with dongles. if you’re working on the road, without having to worry about getting your DAW software to work. This means that you can take your computer off the net temporarily, e.g. Steinberg says that the software will continue to function offline for 30 days, before reconnecting to the server to validate the license. The good news is that your DAW machine won’t have to be connected to the internet at all times. The software will then “call home” to check your license. The new system will be ID-based, meaning that you’ll log into your software with your Steinberg ID to activate it. We already knew that the company was working on ways to get rid of the unpopular eLicenser dongle. The most interesting part of today’s news is Steinbergs announcement of a new licensing system. Steinberg introduces new ID-based licensing system This means that if you purchase Cubase 11 from today onwards, you’ll receive a free update to Cubase 12 when it comes out. While we don’t know the release date yet, the grace period for updates starts today. Although the developer states that Cubase will bring “inspiring new features and significant workflow improvements”, they’ve yet to unveil what those will be. While Steinberg hasn’t specified an exact date for the release of Cubase 12, the company says that the next major update of the DAW software will arrive next year. ![]()
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