Cubase SE V1.07: Dongle or no dongle

[BoyMambo]

Goodday, I decided to upgrade from Cubasis VST to Cubase SE, and being a little bargain hunter got the Studio Case on special. Today, I am chatting to a friend before I have started to install the software and he casually says to me, don't forget to put the dongle in. Dongle. I am thinking to myself, I don't remeber any dongle being in the box. Well I have been through the box, house and car, and I cannot find any dongle, I've looked up the internet forums and some swear that there is a dongle with Cubase SE and some say that there is without equivocation absolutely no dongle.

So here I sit, no dongle and wondering do I break the seal on the software and try to install the software knowing that it may not work without a dongle.

Help!

David

[Phil Macino]

Cubase SX needs a dongle, look at the website & see if SE does.
Hmmm.

I looked and their website couldn't be more confusing if they tried.

None of product info mentions what is included...

However, if you look at the "System Requirements", you can see which products require USB connectivity. The products which require a USB port are:

Cubase SX
Cubase SL
Cubase Studio Case

*But*, if you look at the System Requirements for Cubase SE as a stand-alone product, USB is not a requirement.

David,

Was this a resealed deal from Guitar Center or something?

[BoyMambo]

Phil,

I've just got in from work, so this will be brief. I rang the Aussie distributor and yes it does need a dongle (my wife is still snickering about me being dongle-less) and is sending one in the post. (More giggles.) So I had a quiet word with the shop and they are sending me a $70 gift voucher and have been very polite and concerned. (Hardly thier fault the box was unopened.)

We don't actually have any Guitar Centres in Australia, in fact most of the guitar stores are very small, with only a few major shops in the city centres. I think that the number of guitars sold in all of Australia would be quite small compared to one of your major cities. I would definitely think that more guitars are sold in New York than in all of Australia. (That probably could easily be argued against, but I guess if we ever saw the figures it would be interesting.) Though I must say we have some brilliant guitar builders.

Regards

Dongle-less Dave

[jas]

Is it me or does the idea of dongle-protected software cause your blood to boil?

(Dave, I am assuming you are not a known international software thief and that the dongle is preventative, not punitive ;) ).

I would question the programming abilities of a firm that relies on such old, annoying technology. But that's just me.

Incidentally, I am a [successful] software author in one of my identities and understand the arguments about copy protection from the bad guys' point of view. I don't agree at all but I understand.

But a dongle?

-John

[johnreardon]

I thought that dongles had long ago disappeared, along with mullets and spandex.

To have one is crazy, to then forget to put it in the packaging is unforgiveable. I would ask for my money back

[BoyMambo]

Jas and John,

I believe that in the world of Steinberg, the dongle, mullet and spandex are all alive in well. It also appears that the company car is the venerable Austin 1800, you know the one that floats on fliud.

I to am in pretty much my only guise a programmer, and after just on twenty years in the industry (yep, punch cards cobol and 360 assembler, ims dc, fastpath, mapper, VMS, 8088 assembler, fortran, DB2 (well before they had foreign keys), SQLBase, SQLWindows, and now SAP) and this is my first experience of a dongle.

So must get my mullet sharpened and put on my spandex and go to work.

David

[jas]

I ask innocently: is dongle-protected software routinely cracked? Available on Kazaa?

Just curious.

-John

[johnreardon]

I ask innocently: is dongle-protected software routinely cracked? Available on Kazaa?

Just curious.

-John

There used to be 'cheats' available for a lot of the old stuff. May be worth doing a search. I used to work with a guy, who came from Hong Kong, and his family back home would have 'cheats' for most, if not all trial software.

[jas]

I see. I'm not interested in any software in particular - just wondering intellectually whether it can be and is done.

-John

[Big Al]

I ask innocently: is dongle-protected software routinely cracked? Available on Kazaa?

Just curious.

-John

yes... but you didn't here that from me. ;)

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[jas]

yes... but you didn't here that from me. ;)

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If the dongle-protection can be cracked, that's all the more reason not to have a dongle in the first place. Idiots!

Thinking about it, the software has to address the hardware dongle somewhere. So that's where ya crack 'er.

-John

[Big Al]

I...er i mean my friend had to run two patches to get it to work. There was full instructions with the crack version on what to do. apparently. allegedly. it wisnae me mister polis man.

[Jo]

I see. I'm not interested in any software in particular - just wondering intellectually whether it can be and is done.

-JohnTell someone that something can't be done and they'll find a way to do it! :D

http://astalavista.box.sk

[jas]

Tell someone that something can't be done and they'll find a way to do it! :D

http://astalavista.box.sk
That website's scary, Jo. A popup came up in front of the good stuff and wouldn't let me get past it.

I'm going to put on rubber gloves and a mouth guard and try again.

-John

[BoyMambo]

I have to agree John, my trouble meter went into overdrive, and it wasn't a soft warm tube overdrive.