Hi guys. This is more aimed at licensing / eLicenser question, but since I am asking about C9, I didn’t know where else to put it, but here in the C9 category…
So I own C9 Pro and an eLicenser (physical USB version) which I have owned since C5 days.
I have only ever used it in my home studio with the eLicenser permanently plugged into that PC.
So now with a kid asleep next room to my studio I need to work downstairs instead during evenings.
Enough rambling, let me get to the point.
Is there anything wrong with installing C9, on my downstairs computer too, and then simply plugging in my eLicenser into whichever PC i am on at the time ? So daytime I’m upstairs, evenings im downstairs ?
I just don’t want the eLicenser detecting C9 being used on a different PC then it is used to, albeit on the same network and then cause dramas for me. So my license and copy of C9 will only ever be used on one PC at a time, which ever PC eLicenser is plugged into.
Is there anything wrong with this, or is there any easier way to do this ?
You can install your Cubase to any (number of) computer. Where do you plug in your USB-eLicenser with the license, Chbase will start. It’s totally OK, it’s legal and there is no easier way (if you don’t want to own two licenses).
This is the big advanteg of the USB-eLicenser as hardware dongle.
If you’re working the same projects both upstairs and downstairs be careful to try and keep Cubase and especially any plugins the same on both machines. Also make sure that any any samples or libraries are available on the 2nd computer, and can be found by the project. Preparing a project archive is the best way to transfer it to another machine rather than just copying the project folder.
Please make this clear. It means that there is a count somewhere like the old Adobe license. I have two Cubase programes and 2 USB dongles and 4 computers. So therefore not all my dongles will work on all computers. Just when I thought I got it right I am in trouble as I have to remember which dongle goes with which two computer!
I hope you are not correct!
Sure it can, that´s what I said, nevertheless the software can only be used with a license. And the license allows up to three computers in your possession.
Thank you kindly for the answers. It works perfectly, I just figured I’d ask before I do something wrong and lock my self out of the license potentially.
You can multi system install all the stuff that uses the eLicenser and iLok (slate digital and Izotope, etc) and all your Waves (and plugin-alliance) stuff too, can have their license installed on a small USB thumb drive which you can also also move machine to machine.
