+1
I have C5/6.5/7 with one dongle all running on the same machine.
And I can even run them at the same time!
I never really do this, but it can be done.
Good info.
QQ, I didn’t want to start a new thread since this one is kinda relevant.
What if you only have C7 and have a 6.5 trial version? (I have one there with a code but never installed it.)
Basically,
Does owning C7 allow one to go back and use C6.5 whether Trial or Not?
I doubt it but the trial stated that I needed a dongle and now that I have one, I was tempted to install it.
The recommended way to convert an older project into a newer format project is to use an older version of Cubase, so one would think that a later versioned license would let you run older versions of Cubase.
I had 6.5 trial active just before purchasing C7 (was “trialling” Elements all along and installed 6.0.7 to perform conversions so as to enable the tempo/signature track prior.
Of course I found C7 stable, so decided to upgrade my rig to account for increases in system resource usage.
AFAIK, once you have a license on your dongle you can run ANY earlier version from it.
There are various things involved with upgrading you should be aware of though:
1 - Upgrading a 6.5 license will replace the 6.5 license completely.
2 - Adding a full C7 license will go in addition to the existing 6.5 license, allowing you to have one on each dongle (6.5 & 7) giving you licenses on 2 machines.
3 - As already posted above, you can simply move dongles from one system to another or else have a separate dongle for each system, but that requires separate licenses (we have 3 systems here with both Cubase & Nuendo installed on each one).
So you’re saying the C7 install interrogates the dongle and nothing else?
I’m currently running C6.0.7 on an XP drive.
I want to upgrade to C7, but install it on a new Win7 drive (will boot from one drive or the other depending on what I’m doing).
So when I install C7 on the new drive, the program will look at the dongle to check for the license, not on the drive to see if C6 is installed. Correct?