Cubase SE3

[plexer]

Right I've got Cubase SE3 to install on 16 music room pc's in the next couple of weeks had a quick look in one of the boxes and see there is a usb dongle in there.

 

If I image one pc with the software installed will it just be a case of plugging a dongle into each machine or does it only work with the first dongle plugged in?

 

Cheers,

 

Ben

[Ric_]

You can install it on the base image (along with all the patches from Steinberg). You then need to insert each dongle into one machine to intialise them I believe. Once this is done, take one dongle and go round the room so that it can be installed as a new device when first plugged in (I assume you don't give admin rights to your lusers!).

 

[tosca925]

I've got to install this as well on 12 music PC's.

 

We were planiing to put it on one PC and RIS the image to all theothers?

 

 

SO Ric_ you reckon this can be done and th eonly thing you need to do then is what you mentioned above?

[plexer]

That was what I was thinking I'd need to do just wanted to check if anyone else had done it.

 

I've previously had SX2 on 2 machines and I cable tied the dongles to the back of them but I was thinking about getting some usb extension leads to plug these one inside and cable tie them to the internals of the case.

 

Also got 2 copies of SX3 coming.

 

Ben

[john]

Sorry to confuse this a little bit, we will probably be getting Cubase (latest version) fairly soon, I would be using it on ~10 PCs (maybe a few more if required for offices etc) but can somebody just enlighten a bit more about this dongle please? I have enough problems with leads being stolen without worrying about dongles going missing, is it just a once use dongle to authorise the machine or is it a lifetime thing such as Autocad back a few years ago?

[plexer]

I am under the impression that the software will not operate without the dongle in place have never removed it from the 2 SX2 machines we currently have.

 

Will have a look monday.

 

Ben

[john]

Thanks that would be great, I wonder if they do a licencing server (such as the horrid FlexLM) that we could use instead of dongles or have a built in one like Sibelius does (for the network edition). Cable ties etc through them wouldn't work for me, but if I made the machiens for the job I could put the usb stick inside the machine on a rear plate thats not made for the rear perhapse. I think I may have to investigate well before its purchased

[CyberNerd]

There are several free and good quality music packages available.

No dongles required !

 

http://ardour.org/

http://beast.gtk.org/screenshots

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

http://lilypond.org/web/

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[john]

I supect the new dude in Music may well be already set in his ways, and if he wants Cubase he will get it etc....

[CyberNerd]

I know the feeling, staff want what they know and not necessarily whats best for the students. I consider it my duty to inform staff of technological advances -esp where it saves money and allows the kids use the software at home whithout the worry of licensing !

[plexer]

Thing is though SE3 hasn't really cost us anything either as it was paid for by elc's

 

Some of those others look good though especially ardour and I'll probably be installing audacity as well as it's a nice simple sound editor.

 

Ben

[Ric_]

To clarify for a couple of floks above...

 

* The dongle is a purple USB affair

* Without the donlge, you cannot use the software

* I used RIS to deploy my machines without issue

[tosca925]

Cheers Ric_

[john]

Ta Ric,

[tosca925]

@Ric_[

along with all the patches from Steinberg).

 

Ric can you clarify a bitmore?

 

 

Any one tried todeploy this through GPO?

[Ric_]

@tosca925: I didn't even attempt to deploy through a GPO... all the machines were identical and being built at the same time so RISPREP seemed logical in this instance.

 

As for the patches, there a a number of patches on the Steinberg website (3 IIRC) that need to be installed. These do some jiggery pokery to the protection dongle software and I remember that I had some fun and games when I forgot to initially install these - half the copies of Cubase worked and half didn't IIRC.

[plexer]

I've just installed it on a client today and downloaded the available update of which there only appeared to be one and as I'm going to sysprep and ghost it I am manually installing it as well.

 

Ben

[Richie1972]

I'll be looking into pushing out the latest Sibelius and cubase sx 2 via GPO over the next few weeks, so i'll let you know how it goes

[john]

How are you licencing Sibelius Richie? If you have the networked edition with the network licence server it will work easy on a ghost or RIS setup, so would think GPO packing would be ok as well, but if you have standard licences without the licence server Ghosting breaks it and means phonecalls to Sibelius to sort it out, and you will have the same fun with GPO deployment.

[tarquel]

I've just installed it on a client today and downloaded the available update of which there only appeared to be one and as I'm going to sysprep and ghost it I am manually installing it as well.

 

Just to clarify a little further, Ric is refering to Cubase SX3 and Plexer is refering to SE3.

 

There is currently 2 updates for SX3 and 1 update for SE3.

 

You need a usb dongle per machine physically installed on the machine in order to run Cubase SX/SE otherwise it wont run... until its plugged in

 

And group policy would be fun, considering its a fairly huge product and now only comes on a DVD-ROM :S hehe

 

Also, just to nag hehe, start a new thread regarding Sibielus, as its a different product

 

Cheers

Nath.

[plexer]

Just a side note to this I installed all the machines from the same ghost image then logged in as local admin plugged in the dongle and let it find it after that they all work fine.

 

Sibelius we have the network version so have the licensing server and it all works fine.

 

Cubase 4 is now available to order they've dropped the SE and SX etc... bits but the cut down one is now Cubase Studio 4 I believe.

 

If you ever want to upgrade what you have make sure they are registered.

 

Ben

[Richie1972]

In the end with both Sibelius 4 and Cubase 2 i had to create MSI's from a wininstall le snapshot.

Sibelius is licenced via network and - so far - everything seems ok