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Goodbye to the Steinberg Dongle (Sunday 6 October, 2024)
eLicenser Service Closes Down in 2025
After years of managing your Steinberg software licenses, the eLicenser-based licensing service will be closing down early in 2025. Between 2022 and 2023, the eLicenser system was gradually superseded by the new ID-based Steinberg Licensing system. This system is fully implemented in the entire current range of Steinberg software (e.g., Cubase, WaveLab, Dorico, Spectralayers, and HALion), providing benefits not available with the outdated technology.
What is the eLicenser service?
For many years, Steinberg products have used the eLicenser license management system with its combination of the USB-eLicenser hardware key and the Soft-eLicenser software key, and it has served us and our customers well.
Upgrading to Steinberg Licensing
What is Steinberg Licensing and what are its advantages?
Steinberg Licensing was introduced in January 2022 to replace the old eLicenser-based license management system with a modern, more flexible identity-based license management system. With Steinberg Licensing you can simply download your purchased Software, run it, sign in with your Steinberg ID, and you’re up and running right away. After activation, you can disconnect from the internet altogether if you need to, and run your software indefinitely without reconnecting. Steinberg Licensing also allows the flexibility to activate your software on up to three of your computers at once – and if you buy a new computer or temporarily need to use a different one, you can easily release your license from one computer to activate another.
For more information see [here].
Image. The USB ‘Dongle’ containing all Steinberg software licenses that can be managed in the eLicenser Control Center (eLC). I will miss him.
Image. The eLicenser Control Center (eLC) for managing Steinberg software licenses
Image. The Steinberg Activation Manager. The new system to manage Steinberg software licenses, which no longer requires a dongle.
