Rent to own?

Dorico
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Hey there !

A few months ago in a discussion on this forum (perhaps Dorico 5 most wanted or a similar topic) I suggested going for rent-to-own model on Splice as the price of the pro version can be really intimidating, and I just saw now the facebook post from Steinberg about going rent-to-own for Cubase, amazing !!
(I mean I would have been happy if I this option was available 10 years ago haha, but now that I own the pro license I’m more happy for the people I teach to direct them to this option rather than to Studio One that was already available at 15€/months on Splice)

So what about Dorico now ?

Same situation for me : I’d have been happy if it would be available on Splice 3-4 years ago as it took me a while to be able to afford the one-time fee from Elements to Pro (thanks the team for the 40% off sales you ran :grin:), but now I’d be happy to tell my students that they don’t have to pay a 600€ fee in one time to get access to engrave mode (and much more of course)

Is it in the plans ?

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Until an announcement is made, they’re not going to tell you first.

Education price is around €300, and if they’ve already bought Elements, then they’ll only have to pay the difference.

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I teach private lessons not in a school so I don’t think any of my students would be able to get the EDU price ; and even in this case it’s a lot of money for most people as a one-time fee.

And as for what they want to tell us or not, if you’ve been around here for longer than a few weeks you’d know that they often talk freely about some of their roadmap, not everything of course but I don’t quite think this would be a sensitive topic, especially since now Cubase goes down that road.
When they announced no more dongle they announced it for several softwares and that some would be available later

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I’d personally be open to Dorico being made available via Splice, but we’ll have to see how our new partnership with them works out for Cubase and Backbone, and then make a joint determination about whether any of our other products would be a good fit for their offering. Right now there are no plans, but that could certainly change in future.

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