Cubase SX for free to Cubase 12 registered users

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Suggestion: Steinberg to give Cubase SX for free to registered users for compatibility reasons with older stuff and projects

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Question? Or statement?

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i have corrected it sorry.

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What do you mean with registered?
If you own a license for SX you can use it. It doesn’t changed.

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to Cubase 12 registered users

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They already did. You can use Cubase SX all day long if you have an elicenser and a license for C11 or earlier on it.

If you’re a newbie that didn’t get in until 12, new licensing system, no dongle, no old versions for you.
Steinberg’s not going back to the old licensing system, and there is no way they are going to waste tons of time recoding the old versions just so people can go back for whatever reason.

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I have been using Cubase since version 4 and i do have the elicencer how can i do that?..

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Go here and download the installer of your preferred version:

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I think the main reason this is desirable is that it can open pre-SX Cubase files - .arr etc… Obviously that’s pretty niche and unlikely at this point, but that was why it was made available for download long after it had been replaced.

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@Darren.Jones “I think the main reason this is desirable is that it can open pre-SX Cubase files - .arr etc…”

Precisely!

I have a box full of data CDs loaded with Cubase VST 3.x to 5.2 .arr files. Most were MIDI-based but many of those files were transfers of my 4 track cassette masterpieces :wink: to Cubase. Never having used SX, the free version allowed me to open those old files in a current version of Cubase which was a god send.

Years ago, I converted a large amount of text, graphics, and audio files to current formats. Even so, I find reason to go back and convert some overlooked file. To this day, I have a few operational legacy systems on hand for file conversion.

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I sure would not want the company to use any resources to make this happen. And I think they don’t want to, so all is well!

But Wally, you owned Cubase SX, and that’s why they provide the backward compatibility.

But maybe there’s a business opportunity for someone. I wonder how much people would pay to have their twenty-year-old files available to them in a modern format?

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@steve …you owned Cubase SX, and that’s why they provide the backward compatibility.

It must have been Cubase 5 that made that available to me. Regarding the business opportunity, good question. As previously mentioned, it’s really a niche now.
Cheers.

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Looking at this with fresh perspective after a rest, C12 introduced a new form of licensing which was a major branching in the evolution of Cubase. SX via the the physical elicenser as a means of opening twenty year old files was a thoughtful solution to backsward compatibility. For those just starting off as of C12, there are many individuals - friends and neighbors? - with older systems that could be part of a file conversion cottage industry. Something like that.

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It seems it should be easy enough to just take the file conversion routines from SX and wrap it in a new stand-alone utility. Surely not more than a days work for a junior developer?

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Or built in Cubase as import convert ?

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Indeed, how hard can it be?

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i think people has to ask for it also it is within reason ,
shouldn’t Steinberg do it without being asked?..