I tried to pick up the Cubase trial today but found that the link from Products — Music Software & Audio Hardware | Steinberg to Cubase is dead. I know that Cubase 11 is coming out, and heard it’s likely a few weeks until a trial of Cubase 11 would be available, but I would settle for Cubase 10.5 as I’m trying to see if it fits my workflow better than my current system. But it looks like I can’t even get a Cubase 10.5 trial.
Is this intentional? Is there any ETA when I might be able to get a trial (of any version)?
Because 10.5 is not available anymore - simple. The same procedure every year, just like with nthose people who need to buy the old version just the day, the new one comes out, after they hadn´t need it for a year…
Exactly. They shouldn’t disable it until the new one is available. Could make a note saying this is for 10.5 and a new trial will be out soon or whatever. Perhaps they don’t want to waste bandwidth of people downloading 10.5 trial and then 11 trial? I think the most likely scenario is that they want to ensure when people are trialing the software they are getting the latest experience.
In my case, I wanted to get back in to music production again (it’s been years and I used a Cubase version I got for free with a hardware purchase in the past). I decided to just dive in and bought Cubase and thought I’ll just install the trial of elements until I get my package with the license code and usb elicenser device, but nope, trial download link doesn’t work. So in my case, they’re not losing a sale by me not experiencing 11 via the trial, but they did disappoint me.