Hey Steinberg - please instruct me !
(PITY THERE WAS NO ANSWER FROM STEINBERG SUPPORT.)
I still have a few dongles with Nuendo and Cubase Pro licences (not yet updated), as I had bought several for my studios. If I now update these to my account - will I then have several full licences on my account or how exactly does that work? (So far I have one Nuendo and one Cubase Pro licence in my account).
Will I be able to sell or pass on these licences separately later - after beeing updated from eLicenser-Dongle to Steinberg Licensing?
Your steinberg account will show full license for Cubase 14…full license for Nuendo 14. Only.
That is…after you pay for the two updates and initially activate both the new versions while the dongle is inserted (a one-time-thing).
Your dongle itself will now show…still …(only) your license for Cubase 5 and Nuendo 8 (or whatever they were) AND…the dongle itself will show that you did “some” sort of purchased upgrade that is “now” on the sb licensing area instead of on your dongle.
Will your dongle still work if you hand it over to JoeBlow two years from now so that he can run Cubase 5 and Nuendo 8? There are a number of logistical/physical issues with that once two years out.
Thank you for the answer, but my question is a different one.
I know how it works with SBL:
If have about 6 paid licences for N & Cpro - 2 of them (1xN14 + 1xC14pro) are already on SBL (transfered and updated from Dongle to my SBL- account).
If i ad the rest to my account: Will they appear as SEPERATE licences in my account then ? Like 4x N14 plus 2x C14pro in the list ?
Or will they get lost (that is my fear) or does it work at all ?
Paid dongle-based licenses for “exactly” which Cubendos? ie…ver5, ver8, two ver6’s…what exact ver numbers are the SIX licenses on the dongle at the current moment?
Let’s say you have six Cubase 5 licenses on the dongle.
You buy an upgrade to c14, activate it today while the dongle is inserted, you then see “one” of the dongle cubase5’s now showing “upgraded to steinberg licensing” on the dongle.
The other 4 cubase licenses on the dongle show the normal day to day.
Simultaneously, your sb acct now shows the newly activated Cubase14 (and of course, its three available activations.
Now…let’s say you go online and buy ANOTHER c14 update, pay for it, receive its access code, install it while dongle is in the computer..same thing happens…the next lic in line on the dongle now shows “upgraded to steinberg licensing” The next cb14 also appears on your sb acct, activated, and its available 3 instances availability.
Two down, four to go.
You’ll also notice that…once all completed…if you physically take your dongle over to a friend’s computer…computer with ZERO sb cubendos…and try to dwnld/install cubase…the dongle will show “missing licenses”…which…you mentioned …you already understand happens…because of course…you upgraded.
On the other hand, you CAN continue opening all the old Cubendo versions on YOUR computer as long as the dongle is inserted. And of course that’s because the ecc software itself (that runs the dongle)…even next June…isn’t connecting to the RIP server…but does communicate with the new cubendos you installed today (the “checking licenses” msg).
Thanks,
as i said - i know how it works with the dongles.
In my case:
There are 4 remaining dongles with N9.5 N10 C9 and C10 (not yet updated to SBL),
So you are absolutely sure that they will appear together with the 2 licences that have already been updated, as 6 independent Licences (each with three available activations) in the SAM after the respective updates?
Because I personally don’t know anyone who has ever tried this.
Great, you have 4 more dongles + licenses referenced/registered to the same sb email acct, understand the process, and can upgrade or not.
I’m in LA. My process would be… upgrade dongle #2 of 4. Watch everything appear as I’ve stated to you.
Something not there?
If it happened to me, I’d call Steinberg here in LA and say “not seeing everything”.
They’d take a look and clear it up.
That said, I own 1 dongle with everything on it upgraded at one time or another to the new system.
Exactly, but since I want to secure these 4 licences now (because of the discontinuation of support from May) I have to make sure that I can sell these 4 licences separately later or pass them on to other accounts.
Unfortunately, my experience with SB support is that you usually don’t get an answer. Like in this case 
Well you already know the “pass to other accounts” is no-deal after May 19. That’s well-stated in the faqs.
The only thing sb has stated is that if one gets out there several years and registered dongles fail whatnot …they’ll always calculate some sort of discount…as long as the original dongle/licenses themselves were registered at the time the server was disconnected.
And of course, you can’t sell any of the 4 dongle licenses now (if upgraded today) OR after May 19.
Which you say you already understand.
If you upgrade all today…now owning a bunch of Cubase 14 licenses…and want to sell one or more of THOSE a year from now or whatever…different story.
The dongles for sale don’t interest me at all - i can throw them away after the update to 14.
I’m only interested in the N/C14 SBL licences - ONLY interested in this different story !
The only Dongle i will ever keep ist another dongle with Virtual Guitarist 2 on it, because Steinberg will not update it
So my question remains, which I would like to have answered before I invest 1300€ for nothing.
Everything else I fully understand as I’ve been around since this came out (my god I’m getting old )
Yes. I had two Dorico 3 licenses on different dongles. After updating both of them to Dorico 4, I got two Dorico entries in the Activation Manager. Each of them can be activated on 3 machines, so 6 activations in total.
A couple of days ago, Steinberg announced that you will still be able to update your licenses on the dongle after the shutdown of the eLicenser service. So there’s no need to update all your old licenses now. You just have to make sure that all the licenses are registered in your Steinberg account:
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Thank you very much - that was the answer i was looking for !
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