I wanted to open Dorico 4 as Admin, so I searched for it to find the folder, and that’s when I discovered that Dorico 3.5 was still installed on my PC.

Weird, but I have good news below about this issue.

HOWEVER, with Cubase now running, Dorico 4 would not launch again until I closed Cubase.

only got the error when running maintenance, but I got it immediately, yet waiting 2 mins let it all work.

If I open and close Dorico 4, then wait two minutes, the eLicenser and thus Cubase open just fine, no errors! I repeated this several times.I had first found a weird anomaly before the fix: I was doing testing for Steinberg support, and I finally figured out how to fix this, actually stumbled onto it. That's bad since you can't launch Cubase or Wavelab and probably Nuendo after using Dorico.Īnyone with a Mac and both versions, if you could test it that'd be great. Since I upgraded from Dorico 3.5 maybe the leftover version on the stick is causing an exception to be thrown. SUMMARY: Something in Dorico 4 messes up the eLicenser instance running on your PC and Steinberg needs to fix it, just want to verify it's not just me.

This is how I first found the bug and thought it was Cubase arguing with Dorico 4.

You also get the error if you try to start Cubase after Dorico 4, simply because the eLicenser gets ignited when you start Cubase.

Unplugging the stick does nothing, you have to reboot. When you clear the error, the eLicenser window has NO items in it on either side.

Start the eLicenser software and you will get the error in the screenshot below.

Open Dorico 4, do stuff, save and close.

Here's what happens - Obviously Dorico 4.0 now has a login-based authentication, but my eLicenser remains plugged in for Cubase and WaveLab: I'd like to contact Steinberg with more than just me getting borked. wonder if anyone else who has both 3.5 and 4.0 can repeat it.

I found a repeatable grump with Dorico 4 and eLicenser software when you still have the upgraded Dorico 3.5 leftover on the USB stick (says '3.5 not upgradeable' now that I'm on 4).

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