

Grace Period update to Steinberg Licensing products If you do not have the Steinberg Download Assistant installed yet, you can find the download at Īlternatively, you can find many product downloads on our regular download pages - especially older ones that are not available in the Steinberg Download Assistant. Most recent and current product downloads can be found in the Steinberg Download Assistant. Once the license upgrade is done, you can download and install that new version. If you are eligible, the eLicenser Control Center can upgrade the license in question - just follow the on-screen dialogues. Please open the eLicenser Control Center application installed on your system and click on the "Maintenance" button to initiate the Grace Period eligibility check for all connected eLicensers.

If you've activated an eLicenser-based license and its successor is still relying on an eLicenser to store the license and is NOT using the new Steinberg Licensing license management, please proceed as follows: If you are thinking the basic free version is enough for you - there is no real advantage in AI5 over AI4, other than being several years later it is written native on the newer computer Operating Systems (being that it is several years later now.) However, moving up to a full (commercial) version does have its advantages - as more features are added as you go up the Cubase series line-up.Grace Period update to eLicenser-based products (Cubase series 4 is no longer the current available version). The reason it was provided was to shamelessly promote Steinberg software!Ĭurrently, those products are “Cubase Essential 5”, “Cubase Studio 5” or the top-of-the-line “Cubase 5”. If you like Cubase, that is, the experience of computer-based music production appeals to you, you should order (purchase) one of the full commercial versions of the program. There is no advantage to you going from Cubase AI4 to Cubase AI5.

So the free introductory version of Steinberg software included with certain Yamaha hardware purchases, if you were to buy today, is Cubase AI5. At the time Steinberg’s Cubase was in series 4.Ĭubase is now in series 5. It was to introduce Motif XS users to the world of the computer-based experience. When you purchased the Motif XS, it came with a free, entry-level version of the Steinberg music production software. There is no “upgrade” from Cubase AI4 to Cubase AI5.
