The old USB dongle (blue or yellow Steinberg key) contains the license permanently. Buying a physical dongle on eBay is technically legal under the first-sale doctrine.
: Steinberg recently released a HALion Sonic Hotfix (v7.1.51) specifically to resolve installation and licensing bugs experienced after major updates. halion sonic 2 license hot
: Navigate to /Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Components and delete HALion Sonic SE.vst3 if it is present. This often prevents Cubase from crashing during the license check. The old USB dongle (blue or yellow Steinberg