hi is the steinberg download assistant safe to use with the R2R Cubase ?
When i install this thing , they want to update some Dongle Stuff , activation manager , library manager and an E Licenser Control Setup .
I would just like to know beforehand if it is safe to click yes , because i want to download some Steini stuff .

thanks

 

Personally, I don't use it, because when VR b25 was released, they nicely included a .txt file (productdownloads.txt) with all the addresses to DL the plugins installers and the libraries (*.vstsound) directly from the official site without using any "assistant".

My opinion is that this "Download Assistant" is a real spyware, it installs (by force) a loads of things you don't necessarily need, and maintain a list of all the ST. things installed on your system!...
...list that is gracefully transmitted to the mothership...

If you use only R2R C12, content and plugins, you don't need anything else: no DL assistant, no elicenser, and no Activation schmugler, the R2R releases are totally independent and work by themselves without interfering with the official licensers.

You'll need this "thing" (the D. Assistant) only if you wanna buy and use legit licenses. In this case, you'll also need the official Activation Manager/elicenser, etc.

If, on another side, you want to install "pro" plugins like for example Halion, Groove Agent, etc... (everything without "SE" nor "Sonic" in its name) you still need VR Team b25 (or the nice AiR Absolute 5 kgen) release and official elicenser.

...But you have to know that it's only a question of time, ALL the Steinb. programs, plugins and libraries will become 100% compatible with the new "Activation" system... and so perfectly compatible with R2R's emulator.

So when this time will come, you''ll be able to uninstall any "licenser" app: bye-bye, activation manager and (sloooow) elicenser!

You don't even need "Library Manager" anymore: just read carefully the R2R.txt included in the C12 release, they explain how to install soundbanks/libraries (*.vstsound) without using anything.

If ever you wanna move the (big) "content" folder out of your C: drive, just use a symbolic link, and that's all!

 

Last edited: Apr 14, 2022

Hi
Amore_de_la_Vida I cannot find productdownloads.txt could you point
me in the right direction to find this list, ,Thank You

 

Last edited by a moderator: May 5, 2022

Just search on the sister site with the word "Cubase". The Last VR stbrg release is named "Steinberg Cubase v12.0.20 (Win64)-V.R".

In the rar, you will find 3 folders, the downloads.txt is inside the second.

 

Last edited: May 4, 2022

Amore_de_la_Vida Thank you Very Much

 

I use download assistant on another computer (then my daw) with an empty steinberg account. Just download there and then move files or installers to daw.

 

"Download Assistant" is a real spyware

 

I used Download Assistant and have zero issues.

I used Cubase Pro 12.0.10 from R2R and even downloaded Cubase Pro 12.0.20 with Download Assistant, replacing the Silk emu file in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Steinberg with the R2R version and used 12.0.20 before VR or R2R officially released their versions. I also downloaded and used Nuendo 12.0.20 in the same way before any R2R, VR or TcTeam release, all downloaded using Download Assistant.

In addition, I also use VR's b25 licenses and downloaded all the content using Download Assistant, and am now using HALion 6, Groove Agent 5 and so on will full soundsets with no issues.

Therefore, from personal experience, using Download Assistant gives zero issues.

However, I have noticed an update to Download Assistant recently in that is previously downloaded the file for you, which you then manually installed. However, Download Assistant now seems to download and install the product automatically for you, but I installed Cubase Pro 12.0.20 and Nuendo 12.0.20 using this updated versions and both are working without issues and have not affected any of the other software.

 

Last edited: May 5, 2022

I have legit Cubase 12 pro and I'm currently testing out Nuendo 12(R2R) to see if it's worth the crossgrade. I fired up Steinberg Download Manager and it automatically updated Steinberg License Manager and E-Licenser. After that I was still able to use both daws without a problem.

 

THanks to everyone for all your responses and info, downloading them all from the VR list
will try Download Assistant after that

 

Cool to know, just in case for the future

 

I downloaded the "Steinberg.Cubase.Pro.12.v12.0.40-R2R" version and installed it. Everything works well EXCEPT of the VST instruments. I don't have any standards VST instruments that you usually get with Cubase, like Groove Agent, Mystic, Padshop, Halion and so on. Do you know how I can get them?

Thank you!

 

Thanks, I realised and downloaded everything except of the "Steinberg.Cubase.Pro.12.Content-R2R" which I couldn't find anywhere.

 

Still available on sister site (13 mar 2022) or just download directly at steinberg site.

 

Most of the time you do not need Steinberg Download Assistant as you can download direct from their website without logging in if you just search 'steinberg 13 downloads' but I also got some tips from StevieDude and managed to get Cubase Pro 13.0.21 update working before R2R released it by doing the following:
Stevie Tips:
tbh, every 4-5 months, I will fire up the Download Manager and download every single update. It's easier that way but you have to replace the "license-engine-access.dll" file after. If you don't know how to do it.

1) go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Steinberg\Activation Manager
(added by me: This folder Activation Manager was not on my system so I made the folder and copied 'license-engine-access.dll' from TEAM R2R folder which was already here C:\Program Files\Common Files\Steinberg\TEAM R2R and copied it to the <new> 'Activation Manager' <folder> and kept the TEAM R2R license-engine-access.dll also where it was inside of TEAM R2R so I now had one in each folder)
2) back up the "license-engine-access.dll"
2b(added by me) Best to Download from the Steinberg website and ignore (step 3)
3) run Download manager, download everything u need
4) close, block internet whatever
5) copy the backup license-engine-access.dll to the original location back.
6) (added by me) install updates

 

Just tried to use the Steinberg Download Assistant using my fake account but all I am now getting is "no downloads are available for this section" no matter what product I click on. I am trying this on a different machine to where my Cubase is installed.

It worked perfectly fine this way before when I was using Cubase 12 but looks like something may have changed.

Basically there is an issue with the direct download of Cubase 14 Pro v14.0.20 update from Steinbergs website which is what I used to update from v14.0.5 R2R to 14.0.20 in that it doesnt display any project templates in the Cubase Hub, looking at the forum they are saying you need to install Cubase v14.0.20 update from the Steinberg Download Assistant and not from the direct download from their site.

Link below to the Steinberg Form Post

https://forums.steinberg.net/t/project-templates-gone-from-hub-cubase-14-0-20/978045

Anyone else experiencing this?

 

I can say that I downloaded last Cubase update from the Steinberg downloader a couple of days ago, on 3 machines, 2 legit and one R2R'd, and everything went fine

I can speculate that the site was temporarily full, it happens very often that Steinberg has server problems

the problem of not seeing the templates could also be due to the fact that you didnt refresh/rescan the new presets/templates with Steinberg media manager

open the media manager and rescan everything, but most of all rescan the folders with presets, templates and similar

if you right click on any template (if there are noone just create one) you can choose "show in explorer" then you can check if the files are there, if the files are in the folder you just have to rescan

 

Thanks for the reply.

On previous versions of Cubase 14 I used to install the Steinberg Download Assistant on a sandbox machine, log in with my fake account and download what I needed, but now it says "No downloads are available" no matter what product I click.

I did rescan and refresh both the Media Bay and the Library Manager, but it didn't make any difference.

Steinberg Acknowledged that there was an issue on their forum which I linked above, and they said to fix it you needed to update from the Steinberg Download Assistant and not from the direct download on their site which I couldn't do as nothing displays, I didn't want to install this on my actual DAW computer.

However, since this post I got a PM from someone advising to update the Media Bay application which is a separate download, so I did that and everything is working again. Apparently this gets automatically updated from the Steinberg Download Assistant, but not being able to access it, I couldn't update it.