Hi @joni1,
as far as I understand it, there’s no such thing as “Padshop Pro 2”.
There are either the older Padshop / Padshop Pro (extension) licenses (like yours) or two versions of the younger Padshop 2 license (which, in its newer updated versions, has become “hybrid” and should work in the eLicenser world as well as with the new Steinberg Licensing system):
- (1) Padshop 2 bought as a single VST instrument license, or
- (2) Padshop 2 license bundled with Cubase Pro 10.5
What you described had already been talked through in the past, a couple of times (three forum thread links, pls. find them below by clicking “Summary”).
First question: are you sure which Padshop installer type you’d used?
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Padshop Pro software installer package, or…
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…did you use the (currently supported) Padshop 2 install package which is (was) also part of that big 20 GB zip file that needs (needed) to be downloaded with Cubase Pro 10.5 and which contains all *.vstsound content and all the VST instrument installers?
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(a) Screenshot of Cubase_10.5.20_Installer_win.zip:
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(b) Screenshot of all Padshop content in Cubase 10.5:
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(c) Screenshot of all Padshop MPE content in Cubase 10.5:
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For your license type, there probably shouldn’t be any actual version of Padshop 2 installed (there’s some danger of overwriting the older Pro version), since this one can’t be recognized by eLicense Control Center in combination with your older extension license, and this is probably what you received as the license warning (there seems to be some sort of license recognition mismatch, if I’m not entirely wrong).
If you need to re-download your matching version of Padshop (Pro), here’s the link to the download page for the install package that matches your license type (AFAIK unsupported, please use at your own risk):
Summary
Possibly helpful references:
(1)
(2)
(3) (very enlightening commentary by our forum colleague Mr. Soundman)
Best wishes,
Markus