I am a Cubase Pro 14 user. is there any special crossgrade price or discount available when buying a Dorico license?
I’m not seeing one on the site, and figured its worth asking!
Hello @crashhelmets,
This is a pretty good idea, about discounts for those who already own another Steinberg product. It will attract more people.
I think I’ve mentioned this idea long time ago?!
Unfortunately the answer on your question is “No”. There is no any discount for Dorico, if already own Cubase, or Nuendo….
At Steinberg should think about that, definitely.
Best regards,
Thurisaz
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But will it generate as much revenue? If Steinberg thought they could sell twice as many copies at half the price, they would be doing it.
Discounts are usually to encourage people who already have an app – either a competing product, or an earlier version, or the cut-down versions – to part with more money and trade up, overcoming any satisfaction with their existing software. Though I suppose there’s an argument that Cubase is a notation app now.
If you don’t have any notation app, and you need one, then the market suggests you pay full price. That’s the commercial perspective, of course.
That having been said, Steinberg has had some sales where having one Steinberg app gets you a discount on another.
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Yeah I get it. It’s a different product range that is aimed at a different group of users.
But there is a pretty significant overlap, and I use Cubase for notation work now. Also the Cubase notation engine is now based on Dorico, so Dorico files can be exported directly from Cubase, and seem to open perfectly in the free version of Dorico (although they sound different).
It’s very much in Steinberg’s interest to attract Cubase users who want better scoring features towards Dorico, than risk losing them to a competitor. Remember that Sibelius has been around a lot longer and for many is the industry standard. So if a Cubase user has to pay full price for notation software anyway, many are likely to get Sibelius for safety, especially if the version they want is cheaper than Dorico.
We have only offered this kind of discount to existing customers once, as part of the Steinberg 40th anniversary sale last year, where Cubase users could buy Dorico at a generous discount, and vice versa. We certainly may well offer something like this again in future, but we don’t have any current plans to introduce a discount for Cubase users to buy Dorico or vice versa.
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