Backbone Downloads

Download faster, more convenient and more reliably using the Steinberg Download Assistant!

⚠️ Requirements for installations without Steinberg Download Assistant

eLicenser Control Center	⬇ macOS ⬇ Windows
Steinberg Activation Manager	⬇ macOS ⬇ Windows
Steinberg Library Manager	⬇ macOS ⬇ Windows

Backbone requires the eLicenser Control Center, Steinberg Activation Manager and Steinberg Library Manager for license and content management. Please install these utilities additionally if they are not present on your system, and you want to use the Backbone installer available below.
When installing via the Steinberg Download Assistant, the separate installation of the utilities is not necessary.

BACKBONE APPLICATION INSTALLER

The Application Installer can be used for installing Backbone from the scratch, as well as for updating existing Backbone installations.

Mac macOS 10.14 · 10.15 · 11 · 12 · 13 Intel & Apple silicon natively supported	Windows 64-Bit Windows 8.1 · Windows 10 · Windows 11
_{September 28, 2023} Backbone 1.6 · Application Installer · 348 MB	_{September 28, 2023} Backbone 1.6 · Application Installer · 177 MB
Version History (PDF)

BACKBONE CONTENT

Installation of content

Download the content. It is cross-platform and can be used on both macOS and Windows.
The content generally consists of vstsound files. To make them downloadable, the files have been condensed in an ISO disk image.
Double-click the downloaded ISO disk image. It will be mounted as a virtual volume.
Double-click on one of the contained vstsound files.
The Steinberg Library Manager will be started automatically and offers the installation of all vstsound files.
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Backbone 1.5 · Content · ISO · 1.82 GB

Documentation

Steinberg.help provides access to the latest version of the documentation.