If you decide to purchase an upgrade license for Cubase Pro 8 → Cubase Pro 12, then the resulting license will be in the new Steinberg Licensing system - whereas the “ old” eLicenser license on your USB dongle will need to be “finalized” to its non-upgradeable state ( which means that it can still be used for any Cubase version from version 8 on downwards, but from then on it would be of “legacy” status). Steinberg Activation Manager (“SAM”) Steinberg eLicenser Control Center (ideally the actual version, “eLCC”).After the purchase you’d get a Download Access Code (25 digits) which you’d have to use within your Steinberg account in order to generate a “finalizing” activation code (32 digits), which needs to be written onto your eLicenser dongle’s Cubase Pro license (in eLicenser Control Center), and that dongle license has to be kept (never sold!) as long as you use the upgraded license for Cubase Pro 12 (things would only be different if you bought a full version license for Cubase Pro 12). Your newly acquired Cubase Pro 12 license (upgrade) will be visible within the new Licensing section of your Steinberg account. Your eLicenser USB dongle and its Cubase Pro 8.5 license need to be registered and visible in your Steinberg account. The Cubase Pro 8.5 license which you have on your eLicenser USB Dongle will be marked as “used” for further upgrades, and your current license will be ID based (see your Steinberg web account). The only thing that you need to consider - apart from paying for the upgrade and making sure that your computer is up-to-date - is that beginning with Ciubase 12 (all versions) Steinberg’s new licensing system is being used.

Only with Steinberg’s recent change towards the new licensing method a few things might look a bit more complicated: Numerous tools such as project browser, track archives, chord track, chord pads, tempo and time signature track, time warp, track version, note expressions, expression maps and much more.Yes, you can upgrade from Cubase Pro 8.5 to Cubase Pro 12.Comping function and audio warp with quantisation.Pitch shifting and time stretching in real time.Numerous metering options with loudness display.Control room function for setting up and controlling studio monitors and cue mixes.Customisable MixConsole with its own history, snapshots, direct routing, up to three windows and integrated channel strip.ADM authoring and renderer for Dolby Atmos.VariAudio with Scale Assistant facilitates pitch corrections.Phase-coherent AudioWarp function with direct editing in the project window.Audio to MIDI chord recognition with drag and drop support.Tool for selection area and track display in key and drum editor.Sampler Track enables extreme manipulation and powerful envelope creation thanks to Spectral Warp modes.Chord pads make it easy to find creative chord progressions.Channel Tab in project window allows to tweak mixer channel settings without leaving the arrangement window.Effects suite with 87 audio effects such as VocalChain, Vocoder, Black Valve, EQ-P1A and EQ-M5, VoxComp and many more included.Includes the virtual instruments Iconica Sketch with orchestral sounds, Sampler Track, Flux, HALion Sonic, Groove Agent SE, Retrologue, Padshop, Verve and Trip with over 3000 sounds as well as 18 sample and loop packs from Beat Butcha & Sharooz, among others.Audio engine with internal 64-bit floating point processing and up to 192 kHz sample rate.Up to 16 insert effects per channel and max.Unlimited number of audio, MIDI and instrument tracks, 256 group channels, 8 send and 64 return channels.Classic sequencer software and audio workstation for professional studio applications and post-production, for composing and arranging as well as for sophisticated music productions.

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