It put me into a permanent situation of not being able to upgrade any license on that dongle or move any licenses from it or to it. The problem with the latest dongle is that it ran out of space without warning me (their marketing claim was quite contrary to this possibility, and I bought the latest dongle to help consolidate to one dongle and save a USB slot). I will be dead in the water until VSL switches to iLok, at which point I can follow Steinberg's one and only problem resolution approach, which is to wipe the entire eLicenser of all licenses, regardless of vendor or product or the fact that all the licenses are working. I thought I'd be back on track with Cubase 12 and could just suffer Cubase 11.5 being nothing more than a cheaper incremental upgrade path for me.īut now I know better.
I had bought the latest version of the dongle in FEB 2020 to future-proof myself against glitches, only to have that one be the one that got in to a Catch-22 that couldn't resolve after about 300 cumulative hours of dealing with it (at CVSL's end as well, much to their credit). My eLicenser has been broken since March 2020 due to truly crappy firmware by Steinberg, which of course is what led to the abandonment of this license approach. Little did I suspect that the new non-eLicenser based approach would still require the old eLicenser to work. Warning: I just "upgraded" to Dorico 4 and am dead in the water, even though it doesn't use eLicenser, just as I can't use my Cubase 11 upgrade. The closest they come is a fairly limited Quickscribe feature and the poor, abused, abandoned, Notation window.įrankly, I'd pay double the price for a DP that added solid notation to rival Finale and Sibelius, but I digress. My pipe dream (so to speak.) is that MOTU would jump into the pool.
If it were easy, there'd be a lot of great apps out there. Apparently, it is extremely difficult to program a notation app. If you guys hadn't kept this thread alive, I would probably not even have heard of this as I tend to ignore Steinberg, pretty much. Still, it's good to know people are at least trying to compete with the big boys. Capable apps that are made for the dilettante, not for the pros. I always viewed Cubase and Nuendo from Steinberg as bit players in the DAW marketplace. Better? Not so much.īut that said, can I add (and I will anyway) a BIG thank you to Elektroakoustika, mhschmieder, stubbsonic, and mikehalloran, et al, for staying on top of this. Different from Finale and SIbelius? Sure enough. Mikehalloran wrote:Not a fan for so many reasons, none worth discussing.
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