I would guess that those working on instruments spend most of their time working on instruments and perhaps also on effects, whilst those working on the Cubendo core and the audio engine (the audio engine is also used by Dorico) are dedicated largely to those areas. I do not know how Steinberg arranges their development teams, other than the Dorico team seems to be largely self-contained (albeit dabbling in other projects), PG is largely responsible for WaveLab and Robin is largely responsible for SpectraLayers. Unless I have missed something, there is still no news about VST Connect Pro. The DNxHD codec plugin is supposed to be imminent. None of the paid content packs have migrated yet, other than the Retrologue ones. There are other products that have yet to move to Steinberg Licensing and gain Apple Silicon support that are arguably more important than a 13-year-old piano VSTi. However, it is still a question of priorities. Of course - ultimately Steinberg had to migrate The Grand or discontinue it. Sure, but we can say the same about HALion, or Cubase, or Groove Agent, or Backbone, etc. In the grand scheme of things, it’s a pretty good library at a fair price.Īnd there are better piano VSTis out there. It doesn’t need cutting edge technology to be good. People would avoid it specifically to avoid Dongles and Per-Machine (and not very easy to move around) eLCC activation. Steinberg’s products have been held back by the eLCC and Hardware Dongle, so even when they were new many people were avoiding them due to the inconvenience of using them - especially as more people moved to dual machine workflows and started working on-the-go more than before.Ĭubase itself suffered from being anchored by the Steinberg licensing mechanics.
I doubt HALion is setting the charts ablaze with its sales numbers.
I can’t think The Grand generates many standalone licence sales
That may or may not be the case, but it has nothing to do with them moving The Grand 3 to SAM. Unless the intention was to release Absolute 6 shortly after HALion 7 is available? Why would Steinberg have bothered to release a Steinberg Licensing version of The Grand 3 last monthįor the same reason they released a SAM version of Groove Agent, Cubase, Backbone and various other products: To move a supported product to the upgraded licensing system.
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