There are three different crossgrade/upgrade scenarios.NeoKortex88 wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 8:46 pm My friend says for crossgrade I would have to give up my logic is that true?
Crossgrade from a non-Steinberg product to a Steinberg product (as you are perhaps going to do)
The licence of the non-Steinberg product you crossgraded from remains in force.
If the crossgrade is amongst those passed to Steinberg for authorisation, you should expect Steinberg to retain a record of the product you crossgraded from and refuse to authorise a further crossgrade from the same licence of that product. If they do not keep records then they open themselves to fraud from people repeatedly crossgrading the same product and selling on the resulting full licences.
Crossgrade / upgrade from a Cubase licence to a higher edition and/or later version of Cubase
The original licence is lost, but this should not have any negative effects.
Any Cubase licence allows you to run a lower edition and/or earlier version of Cubase than that is permissible under the licence. My Cubase 10 Pro licence should run Cubase 8 Elements or Cubase 9.5 Pro, though I might have to upgrade eLicenser Control Center on the machine with the older / lower Cubase installation before the licence works.
The only scenario in which there is any loss is moving to Cubase Artist or Pro from Cubase Elements, Ai or LE. A Cubase Artist or Pro licence must be kept on a USB eLicenser, whereas licences for the lower editions of Cubase can be kept on a soft eLicenser or a USB eLicenser.
Crossgrade from Cubase to Nuendo
The original licence is lost and you can no longer run Cubase. If you need to save .cpr files to collaborate with other Cubase users then you will need to obtain another licence for Cubase.
Steinberg continue to refuse to allow a Nuendo licence to unlock any edition of Cubase. Nuendo is released from the same codebase as Cubase from the release of Nuendo 10 onwards, making Nuendo a superset of Cubase Pro other than one small exception that will not bother most people (Nuendo does not support VST Transit, Cubase Pro has built in support). So far, Steinberg have remained unmoved over this policy.
Hopefully Steinberg will realise their policy dissuades people for whom the additional features of Nuendo are nice to have rather than essential from paying the extra up front cost for Nuendo plus likely higher upgrade costs for Nuendo rather than Cubase in the future. From Nuendo 10 onwards, it would make sense for Steinberg to allow someone with a Nuendo licence to use the same version of Cubase Pro.