Cubase 10.5 is here now....

[Imaak]

Is the 10.5 free for all ver. 10 owners - what is the Steinberg policy? (ask a Live-user).

.5 upgrades aren't free. If you've upgraded from any version to Cubase 10 in the past 3 weeks, then you'll get 10.5 for free.

Ofcourse that's assuming 10.5 gets released in a few days.

[chk071]

Is the 10.5 free for all ver. 10 owners - what is the Steinberg policy? (ask a Live-user).

It's not likely. It's Steinberg's business model to charge for a .5 release to fix the stuff that should have been working the last time you gave them money.

Well, no, not really. Most of the .5 upgrades featured a lot of new stuff.

[Imaak]

Is the 10.5 free for all ver. 10 owners - what is the Steinberg policy? (ask a Live-user).

It's not likely. It's Steinberg's business model to charge for a .5 release to fix the stuff that should have been working the last time you gave them money.

And introduce 20 new ones so they can charge us next year

[chk071]

Is the 10.5 free for all ver. 10 owners - what is the Steinberg policy? (ask a Live-user).

It's not likely. It's Steinberg's business model to charge for a .5 release to fix the stuff that should have been working the last time you gave them money.

And introduce 20 new ones so they can charge us next year

Did you know that you don't have to buy software if you don't want to?

[wjoyce]

Did you know that you don't have to buy software if you don't want to?

I do, but when I do buy it, I expect it to work as advertised. That's fair enough, surely?

[kb420]

I can't get on the website or the forums.

[RobGee]

I upgraded from 9.5 this morning hoping to catch the grace period

You'll surely do. IF they stick with their release cycle. (Now imagine they will release 10.5 end of next year... )

End of next year would be brutal

It's looking good though, their website is still down

[chk071]

Did you know that you don't have to buy software if you don't want to?

I do, but when I do buy it, I expect it to work as advertised. That's fair enough, surely?

Sure. What's not working for you?

[tappert]

It's looking good though, their website is still down

They can't add a product page without turning their site off?

[wjoyce]

Did you know that you don't have to buy software if you don't want to?

I do, but when I do buy it, I expect it to work as advertised. That's fair enough, surely?

Sure. What's not working for you?

HiDPI for one. The randomly small titlebar menu is another. I expect these will be addressed with 10.5, now they've finally ditched Windows 7 support, but man it's annoying to have to pay for it.

[ericj23]

I upgraded from 9.5 this morning hoping to catch the grace period

You'll surely do. IF they stick with their release cycle. (Now imagine they will release 10.5 end of next year... )

End of next year would be brutal

It's looking good though, their website is still down

You can keep your update code for as long as you need. So you don't update until the new one is out.

Voila, 2 versions for the price of one. And if you buy your code in their annual half price sale you find cubase is not an expensive DAW to maintain.

[chk071]

HiDPI for one. The randomly small titlebar menu is another.

Dunno about the latter, but, there is a article in the help section of Steinberg's website regarding the HiDPI support: https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-u ... Windows-10

[wjoyce]

Dunno about the latter, but, there is a article in the help section of Steinberg's website regarding the HiDPI support: https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-u ... Windows-10

Thanks, yeah been through that. It's basically a poor implementation in 10.0, which really should not have been released when it was. I know HiDPI in Windows is problematic, and that the HiDPI support provided by the development framework that's used to develop Cubase was apparently also not great, but Steinberg really should have held back on that feature until it was ready.

[RobGee]

I upgraded from 9.5 this morning hoping to catch the grace period

You'll surely do. IF they stick with their release cycle. (Now imagine they will release 10.5 end of next year... )

End of next year would be brutal

It's looking good though, their website is still down

You can keep your update code for as long as you need. So you don't update until the new one is out.

Voila, 2 versions for the price of one. And if you buy your code in their annual half price sale you find cubase is not an expensive DAW to maintain.

I didn’t know that, nice one

[ericj23]

I upgraded from 9.5 this morning hoping to catch the grace period

You'll surely do. IF they stick with their release cycle. (Now imagine they will release 10.5 end of next year... )

End of next year would be brutal

It's looking good though, their website is still down

You can keep your update code for as long as you need. So you don't update until the new one is out.

Voila, 2 versions for the price of one. And if you buy your code in their annual half price sale you find cubase is not an expensive DAW to maintain.

I didn’t know that, nice one

I keep expecting them to close this loophole. So don't tell anyone