Good thing you weren’t watching then, the software would never have been released!
The update is 99.999 USD
SOLVED 
Took me a while though £85
Not worth upgrading yet as too many people are having teething problems.
Best for me to purchase on VPN as 100 USD is £75
i finally was able to activate cubase 12
I think its not acceptable professional producers (not me to be honest) with a hard deadline cant continue working (main issue: old licence got inactive)
i understand your licencing servers are old and outdated . but i am working in it business for worldwide lottery systems and servers, where those issues are showstoppers with a huge penalty fee valid from customers
i also understand you are in changing the licensing model currently
just be aware to make it stronger to be able to handle the amount of expected upgrades on release day
also a documentation about how the licence upgrade (grace perdiod) is to be done would be nice
Thanks and Br
Wolfgang
A mark of professionalism is waiting till the paint dries before using a new version in production.
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WOW, Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou Steinberg! This is the best release of Cubase ever. Finally multi track warp editing and your implementation is brilliant. Whomever made the call to hold off the release of v12 until these updates had been completed made a sound decision. So many valuable features that will really benefit studio’s like my own. Please be patient everyone as we navigate the change to the new system…… Steinberg has done some great work here!
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Ah well, looks like I’m the only one who’s somewhat disappointed with C12.
Finally managed to update to 12. Waiting for vst scan ends
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me as well, when i cant even USE IT!!!
I have my elgible grace period here:
But then running maintenance tasks, my 11 license is NOT SHOWING anything about being elgible in grace period, it is just blank!!!
worst of all, is THIS!!!
yeah GREAT licensing solution, its more of the same HEADACHE just in non-dongle form!!! it is a mask parading pretending to be something new, but inside it is the same headache with licensing system so far! I am being denied a free updated when i clealry activated during grace period.
Hi
Before i buy the upgrade I would really like to know one thing,
You advertised Cubase 12 as being usable on 3 different computers so we, users, can have the benefit of installing it at home, at the studio and on a laptop for instance in order to get 3 functioning stations available when we need it. So the purpose was TO REMOVE the dongle use right?
Ok then explain to me how i can enjoy this kind of freedom while all my other steinberg products remain on the e-licenser?
You see… i have absolutely no use of a barebone Cubase on a laptop without all the bells and whistles i have bought from you all these years…
Looking forward to hear from you
best
fab
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This aspect should be improved, with Sylenth1, you can deactivate the licenses yourself from the Lennar Digital website in your account if any of the licenses get stuck for any reason. I don’t think this would be a difficult thing for Steinberg to implement.
I think it would be the most practical, due sometimes Steinberg support take long to respond by user volume.
Is there any plans for this @Matthias_Quellmann ?
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Man, Happy for the update…bud sad at the same time. All I really asked for 3 years straight…is a proper TAPE STOP EFFECT!!! THATS IT!
Something like Vari- Fi from pro tools, or pitch speed fader control from logic. Something quick and easy. Alas 
You can still use the dongle for your other software. It’s not possible (technically nor magically) to update the licensing on different software products at once… Dorico and Cubase have been updated, the rest will probably follow.
That was the original system, and needed a 30-day re-activation to ensure people don’t activate a machine, drop it from website and continue using it forever more offline. People complained about the 30 day requirement, so was changed to 3 machines, single activation - no re-activation needed.
This obviously means that you need to prove when a machine has been de-activated by carrying out that task from the machine itself. Then the mechanism for stuck or lost machines (at this point) requires us to contact Steinberg.
So whether they will allow you in future, I don’t know. It would be nice, but depends how secure they can protect their products. Don’t forget there’s much more value of software and content to protect via the licensing, Lennar have one plugin.
You’d imagine that Steinberg will be looking to add third parties to their system if it proves to be robust, so no doubt they will want this to be as easy as possible for people.
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Why would a professional producer upgrade their DAW with a hard deadline fast approaching?
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true - fair enough
I don’t think that being able to manually deactivate licenses directly from the Activation Manager, without contacting Steinberg, would compromise the security of the product… Why should security be compromised? After all, it is the same as activating it but in reverse.
Ok, so consider this:-
Buy one Cubase license and install it on 3 offline machines, give to friends, or sell them - block with firewall. Disable those machines via the website, and now you have another 3… Rinse, Repeat.
You can’t see how dangerous that is?
Even if they put the feature online it would require some kind of limit per license, so would never be perfect. But hopefully, that’s what we end up with - it’s very early days yet.
If the activations required a connection every 30 days to continue running then, of course, remote de-activation would be possible as there’s a 30 day safety net there. But with no additional checks needed they have to be very careful on how easy it is to de-activate remotely.
I really don’t understand your point, the security is the same, hackers will find a way with or without a dongle as they did with Cubase Elements, for which there is even an extended version that supposedly removes all the limits… So I don’t think the security depends on deactivating a license manually through the Activation Manager… and it is very similar to what LennarDigital does with Sylenth1 they provide 2 licenses and that’s it, however you can deactivate by itself, is exactly the same danger than activate it your 3 licenses in different machines… Hackers took several years to get the pirate versions of Sylenth1 it but in the end they did it even with Cubase having a dongle and I insist, I don’t think security depends on activate or deactivate a license by itself via the Activation Manager of Steinberg, this at the end is about the technology and padlocks they implemented…
Oh sorry, you’re correct. It’s the same. In which case I don’t know why.