Is the new license for Cubase going to recognise the USB dongle with Retrologue on it? Will upcoming hardware / OS still install the e-licensor software to recognise existing licenses? If so, for how long? I think I read that support will be dropped, so built in obsolescence then. It’s going to be interesting seeing how this moves forward to accommodate a mix of all these licenses. I’m sure there’ll be many long time Steinberg users (and I go back to Pro 16 on the Commodore…) with lots of licences on their Steinberg dongle. No incentive for me to upgrade to 4 then - Elements or Pro. So I could run D4 on that (I guess?) but be unable to look at those sessions on my MacBook. My studio MacPro is a 5.1 and maxed out at Mojave. The cost alone of upgrading to Dorico 4 is not just the upgrade price, but the investment of around £500 for a laptop that will run it. It’s doubtful that D4 will offer me anything I really need, though of course other users will be happy and keen to upgrade, and that’s fine.

I’ve held off upgrading to D 3.5 Pro purely for budgetary reasons.

I’m also trying to resist this constant upgrade / update hardware, for sustainability reasons, and because actually my hardware does everything I need it to. None of which I need to upgrade or update in the near future - I intend to keep this old MacBook with High Sierra on it for backwards compatibility - and because it works. I currently have a Steinberg dongle (I had to buy the newer, stubby version quite recently as there were issues getting the older one to to work with Dorico 3, lots of threads on here with that issue.) I have Cubase 8.5 Pro on it, legacy Cubase VST 5 & Nuendo 3, and Wavelab 10, OMF, Retrologue, and Vienna Instrument.

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