Strangely this is why Steinberg has had hundreds and hundreds of £££ off me over the last 2 years.
The ONLY way for me to get into DAW’s for the first time, coming from nothing was to go the non-legal route.
I learnt Cubase well enough to fumble around but then came time to buy and I wanted to try Pro Tools.
Pro Tools requires an iLok device even for the demo, like many other plugins.
So the decision was made very easy for me…i’ll just stick to what I know.
Unfortunately how else do we demo stuff without steinberg having to lose out to piracy…even though in my case piracy means they now have a loyal customer.
It’s a crappy situation but maybe the Adobe route is the way to go…maybe its fine as it is?
I guess the main issue is , the e-licencer is useless pretty much if you decide you don’t want cubase, where as the iLok is much more widely used.