Warning Message

First of all I LOVE THIS FORUM! Wouldn’t have gotten as far as I am without it.
I have had Cubase Artist 6.5 for about 3 weeks now. When I export audio mixdown as mp3 or when I export VST instrument back into the project as an audio file, I keep getting this message…

“UNTIL OCTOBER 8 2012, YOU WILL HAVE 18 REMAINING ENCODINGS”.

Then it offers for me to buy something. Am I supposed to be buying more “stuff” for this program?

It means you have one of the sub versions of Cubase. It requires you to purchase the mp3 encoder.