Cubase Stuck with Spectralayers 11 trial

I had both Spectralayers 10(that comes with C13) and v11 trial installed. Cubase was automatically loading v11. My trial is about to end so I decided to just uninstall, and deactivate, but then steinberg/Cubase did not like that I had 10 still installed and desired 11 when trying to add the Spectralayers extension to tracks and thought it was missing and just crashed Cubase. So I attempted to reinstall 10 through the Steinberg manager…ok good…so I thought. I can load v10 extension to tracks and that all seems to work, but now when starting Cubase with a project that uses v10 on a track, the activation manager keeps popping up about Spectralayers 11 trial about to expire and automatically RE-activates it.

How do I get this cleaned up??

When you load the ARA extension, it says “SpectraLayers Pro 10” in the title bar ?
If so, that would likely be a Steinberg Activation Manager issue then.

Hi @Paul_J,
this will stop as soon as your license for v11 is expired.
The reason v10 prefers the v11 license is that it is simply the “better” version, because it is a Pro version, while the v10 version is a “lower” version, SpectraLayers One.
The only way to workaround this would be to deactivate the “Automatic License Management” in the Steinberg Activation Manager settings until your license for v11 is expired. Or you ignore the Activation Manager popping up for the remaining days.

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