Please do take the time to read the statement from Steinberg’s president Andreas Stelling, that sets out the vision for Steinberg Licensing, and read on to find out a lot more about how the system will work. Dorico 4 will be followed later in 2022 by major releases for Cubase, Nuendo and HALion, each of which will also use the new system.

We have previously said that we anticipated that Dorico 4 would be released before the end of 2021, but we recently made the decision to delay its release to early 2022, primarily to make sure that your first experience of using Steinberg Licensing is as seamless as possible. Today we have announced many important details about the new system and how it will operate when it is introduced, and perhaps most pertinently to readers of this blog is that the first product to use Steinberg Licensing will be Dorico 4. If you would like to provide any further feedback on these changes, please post in our user forum.Īs many of our customers know, we announced back in March of this year that we were working on a successor to the eLicenser license management system that has been used by all Steinberg software products, Dorico included, for decades. The post below has been edited where appropriate to take these changes into account.

once you have activated your perpetual license, there will be no need for the software to contact our servers again for the purposes of activation and we have decided to increase the maximum number of activations from two computers to three computers. Specifically, there will be no offline allowance period after activation, i.e.

Update (15 December 2021): In response to feedback we’ve received from customers all over the world following our initial announcement on 10 November 2021, we’ve today announced some significant changes to how Steinberg Licensing will work when it is rolled out with Dorico 4.

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