Having just upgraded from Cubase 5 to 6 using the excellent value upgrade pack, I was disappointed to find that I had to upgrade the license on my elicenser usb with the result that I can no longer run Cubase 5 to finish off some old projects. Now I understand the argument “why would you want to use Cubase 5 when you have Cubase 6” - well:
Cubase 6 will not run on Windows XP which my desktop running Cubase 5 is, using an MI4 interface, which Steinberg have not released drivers for past XP. So, I can’t finish off my old projects in a familiar environment. In fact, I can’t do anything until my UR824 is delivered.
Until I have got to grips with Cubase 6 my productivity will be seriously affected and there is no going back to the comfort of 5 should I run into problems, my safety net is gone. This may well affect my future purchasing decisions.
I thought one of the benefits of elicenser usb was to be able to be machine independant whilst providing a safeguard for Steinberg not to have people using Cubase concurrently by different users.
‘Rhetorical Question’
Have I got it wrong or do Steinberg not understood the needs of ordinary customers?
‘Genuine Questions’
I presume I can transfer my .cpr files from my XP machine to my Windows 7 machine using standard file transfer, or is that doomed also?
Is there any way I should have performed the upgrade so that my Cubase 5 license was preserved as well as permitting me to use Cubase 6? I found that the steps I wanted to take during the activation were not available and I made no progress until I down loaded the new (to me anyway) eLCC and soft eLicenser.
Thanks thinkingcap (and everybody else who responded and I’m sorry for what now looks like a rant!). I have not updated the eLicenser software on the XP machine. At the moment it is running Syncrosoft License Control Centre 5.4.10.7 which obviously (now I think about it) cannot recognise Cubase 6. When you say upgrade, I will need to load the eLicenser Control Centre but will I also need to load the soft eLicenser as well?
Thanks Jarno. Re your earlier message I have not tried to load C6 on the XP SP3 m/c because of Steinberg’s recommended system requirements. Are you suggesting it might run? It would be useful as I have been using an old MI4 audio card which is still pretty good but was not supplied with drivers for Windows 7, to the best of my knowledge.
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