I searched and did not find the exact answer - I just bought Cubase 11 pro and downloaded and installed but it will not run without the dongle - is there NO way to run it in maybe like a trial mode until the dongle arrives?
How long does it take the dongle to ship and arrive in you experiences? (basically if I have to wait - how long will my misery be? LOL)
Getting it from a Guitar Center or other local retail store is gonna be the fastest. For delivery Iād use Sweetwater over the Steinberg online store (aka Asknet).
Thanks - yeah I already pulled the trigger on the Steinberg site because I didnāt know any better now Iām just curious as to how long Iāll have to wait is all
True but #1 itās too late - already picked up the dongle and am making music right now and #2 Iāll probably not be the first to jump on 12 when it hits - maybe after the first āoh crapā update LOL
Itās not a bad idea to keep both. Good to have a spare. Besides Zero Down Time, you might also find occasions where itās nice to put some of your keys on some other dongle/machine and divy up tasks.
There might even be a day when those are in āhigh demandā. Kinda like people paying over 2 grand for Stock Atari Falcon 030 with a Cubase Audio Falcon dongle and a few other interfaces to go withā¦it seems like almost yesterday you could pick those up for around $600 a pop with a lot of goodies in the box. Now people ask and get crazy money for those retro bits.
I donāt know if a working Steinberg dongle would ever fetch āthat muchā, but I can easily imagine a day when itāll be worth well more than youād pay for it now.
Depending on how this VST2 thing is handledā¦people with āold project archivesā might be āforcedā to roll back to dongle-only versions to revive old projects with minimal fuss (lets hope not. If they do at least one fully native M1 release for the Mac people that can do VST2 (Apple wonāt keep Rossetta in the OS foreverā¦if history is any indication 2 years at best), and a couple for us Windows people that still has it for the new Licenser systemā¦we all should be OK. If notā¦those dongles might become quite the commodity!
They really should do at a least a couple of VST2 releases of all their plugins for the new Licensing system as well. One to get it working with the new system, another release or two to āget out any bugsā that might pop up in the process. Otherwise, a LOT of people will be left in the dust with their āproject archivesāā¦with NO WAY to āroll backā once their ādongle diesā.