well I bit the Bullet… I’ve bought a Nuendo 14 crossgrade. I thought where else will I ever get Nuendo for that price and Keep Cubase14?
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Nuendo 25 Years Sale - 50% off Nuendo (and SpectraLayers). Thank you for the journey & outlook 2026!
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Thanks Timo for the exciting news! Congrats to 25 years! I’ve been a steady Cubase user since the 1990’s and crossgraded to Nuendo in 2020. Never looked back. It has all I need for game music and game audio and whatever else I will ever work on.
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Hi Timo,
I keep threatening to stop upgrading Nuendo (currently using mainly N13), but (trotzdem) I’m still here! 
If I were to buy the N14 upgrade now during the sale, but not install it, will I be able to use the N14 upgrade to get a grace-period update to N15 whenever it is released?
I’ve never done this so am not sure how it would work.
Servus.
You must postpone the redemption of the DAC (Download Access Code) in your account. The date of installation does not matter.
Does it not depend on the date of purchase?
No, the date of purchase is not relevant at all.
be careful! The date involved is the date it is added to your account as a result of using a DAC. The date of the first activation on a computer is not relevant, as @valsolim correctly states, but I wanted to reiterate since there has been confounding of Activation codes with DACs.
This strategy has always been a side effect of how licenses and activations work from the old elicenser system.
SB has continued to do grace periods, but you should understand that the intention is not that people hold onto licenses for later activations, it’s to reduce buyer’s remorse when they buy a license and a few days later there’s a new update that they would now miss out on.
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Hi Steve,
Was @valsolim not referring to the time of installtion?
I have only just started using N14, so I can’t imagine that V15 is going to be released any time soon, e.g., by the end of the year (C15 first), so hanging onto a voucher just to see if I can get a freebie next year means that when my trial ends, I will be back to N13.
Regards
Download Access Code. That’s what you receive via email if you purchase a product. It’s not the same as an activation code which is generated by the DAC.
Simply put the DAC aside and don’t enter it before you actually want to activate the product.
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That’s too tempting, to not continue with the latest version.
There are so many optimisations, that going back will likely be quite hampering, even if the previous version is stable.
Basically, while V13 is incredibily stable on Windows 10, V14 is both stable and more efficient, with my hardware, at least and I’d probably rather pay than try to game the system.
Wait… what??
I want to make sure I understand…
What (if any) limitations are placed on the Cubase license that is crossgraded to Nuendo? Is the crossgraded license flagged that it has already been used for a crossgrade?
Let me step back and give context… here’s my situation:
I have a license of Nuendo 14 and Cubase 14 for my studio. I would eventually like to have 2X licenses of Nuendo, so eventually I was going to crossgrade anyway. Maybe now, or maybe during some future promo. If you promise to release ripple editing, I will do it right now. 
Anyway, so if I crossgrade my Cubase 14, I will obviously have my goal of 2X Nuendo. Fine and good. But are you saying that my Cubase 14 license is still good??!?!? In other words, that I can STILL upgrade that Cubase 14 to 15 separately??!?!? In other words, I will have 2X Nuendo + 1X Cubase? If so, that’s an incredible deal.
What I would LOVE to be able to do is GIVE the resulting Cubase 15 license to my son (who is hopelessly stuck on Studio One right now and I would love to collaborate with him without having to load up my copy of Studio One). Can this be done? So then I would have 2X Nuendo and my son would have 1X Cubase? If so, that would be great! And would he have any restrictions on his Cubase that I transferred to him?
Thanks in advance for helping me understand.
I’m taking it that your original cubase 14 license stays exactly as it was and can be kept separately and updated to 15 when it comes (soon I think) independant of the N14.
That’s the reason I did the ‘crossgrade’ anyway. As you say, the best deal I’ve seen to get Nuendo for years.
I think in the past the old syncrosoft license wouldn’t allow this, hence the confusion now.
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Oh yes, I’m confused for sure. I definitely hope @TimoWildenhain can please clarify because if Steinberg is ACTUALLY providing such a generous crossgrade, they are basically offering a really great deal!
I’m just trying to understand what, if any, restrictions are on that Cubase license that has been crossgraded. If I give the used Cubase license to my son, as I mentioned above in my example, I wouldn’t want to give him a handicapped or dead-end license. I’d want him to be able to upgrade himself in the future to Cubase 16, 17, etc…, without a problem, even though I now have 2X Nuendo licenses, that would be separately upgraded by me… and so forth.
You get the idea. And this is actually kind of big news in terms of another difference between the old licensing system and the new one, that I didn’t realize at least.
I’m editing my response on this one too. As other’s have educated me further posts down….there are numerous options.
Should be a sticky. It gets pretty boring reading posts from people trying to game the system.
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I think I see. In other words, you can’t TRANSFER the crossgraded license to his Steinberg account, right? In the example I gave above, the point was I wanted to GIVE (i.e. TRANSFER) the crossgraded Cubase license to my son. I definitely don’t want him using my Steinberg account, which I think is breaking the user agreement anyway.
So I guess what I need to confirm from @TimoWildenhain is if I can TRANSFER the crossgraded Cubase license in my example?
If not, that’s fine, since I didn’t expect that to be the situation anyway. In that case, it would be better for me to just do a competitive crossgrade for him, in which case he would be getting a totally separate, fresh license.
But you see where my confusion is… Timo, please help!
I posted thoughts on this, but edited.
For a “competitive crossgrade”… be sure he owns Studio One PRO. The crossgrade doesn’t work for any lesser presonus versions.
I did a crossgrade from C13 to N13, now I have upgraded C13 to C14 and also N13 to N14. I don’t think my C14 license is flagged anyhow. There is no sign “not for resale” or anything. No, I didn’t attempt to transfer it, I’m just saying I can’t see any indication and I’m not aware of any obstacle to do it. My C14 license still seems to be totally independent of the N14 license.
Nowadays, this is not true anymore. Cubase Pro can open a NPR project and Nuendo can open a CPR project as well. Of course, the exclusive Nuendo features are not recognized in Cubase. You can run against problems namely with VCA faders that behave differently between those two programs.