I guess this is common from a trawl of the posts. I had a system crash with version 3 and cannot reinstall from discs. I am told I can download 3SX from the FTP as I have 6.5 Artist. I try download on the system with Artist installed and it tells me there is some other process running the “interfer…

You can download it, but you can´t run it - you need full Cubase 6 to run SX 3. With artist 6, you might be able to run SL 3. Apart from that, it might surely be helpfuk to post the OS you´re trying to install on. V3 is WinXP only IIRC. Use the search there are some who installed it on Vist or 7 w…

Thanks for that thinkingcap. Op sys is Win 7. All latest as around a month ago. Real issue is being able to access midi files in old .all files from old cubase version. Oh and BTW 3SL does same message. Suspect is contention between two different licence guads but don’t know how to resolve.

AFAIK, it´s a problem with the elicenser software. There was a workaround “solution” posted from somewhere here in the forums.

Found it - maybe it helps… [image] Install Cubase SX3 on Windows 7 x64 Let’s install Cubase SX3 on Windows 7 x64 in 10-steps. This process is based on my DAW configuration which had Cubase 6.5 already installed with the latest eLicenser drivers. I didn’t try different processes (which ma…

Many mant thanks toThinkingcap, all worked, much appreciated, Steven

Backward compatibility with 6.5 Artist

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thinkingcap November 20, 2012, 5:23pm 5

Found it - maybe it helps…