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Digital Audio Workstation & MIDI => Digital Audio Workstations & MIDI Applications => Cubase/Nuendo by Steinberg => Topic started by: Windoze on October 05, 2025, 10:33:14 AM
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Nuendo 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 are now [k'd] and available on the Hotline-Server.
It can be found under Audio -> Recording & Sequencing -> Nuendo.
Thanks to @ssp3 we have a full iso / toast image of Nuendo 1.6.0.
Together with the 1.6.1 update you can get to the last OS9 version.
My [k] works for both 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 so if anyone needs the older version I covered that as well.
If you want 1.6.1 please apply the update before patching as I've seen the 1.6.1 updater skip modified files.
If anyone tests it beyond the absolute basics please let me know if everything works.
Also please don't upload it to other sites until we are sure it works properly.
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Wow! What a wonderful effort. I bow to your greatness! Must give this a go right away :D
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<3
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Thank you!
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Say bye bye to Pace USB dongle :D
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust, yeah
Hey, I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust
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thats amazing because the iLok gen 1 stuff is impossible to come by. that being said i am in negotiations with a former digi reseller to desert island his complete early licenses to an ilok.
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As always, excellent, if I remember 1.6 is much better than the v1.2K version that was very buggy; I think v1.6 was quite usable and scrolling down to sample level on waveforms worked much better.
I am curious if anyone here has used v1.6 on a midsize Project (20 to 30 tracks); and it's performance and stability review.
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there is some cool hardware that goes along with Nuendo
Steinberg Nuendo 8 I/O 96k = RME ADI-8
Steinberg TimeLock Pro = Rosendahl
Steinberg Nuendo Apogee AD-8000
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the main difference you will notice between 1.5 and 1.6 is that in 1.5 the audio setup site was really buggy. i had it that sometimes the programm just chrashed when you tried to create a 5.1 setup or similar.
not sure what you guys are talking about "ilok", that stuff probably belongs into another thread.
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belongs right here
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/steinberg-nuendo-v152
they rebadged some Spectral Design plugins too
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funny, looks exactly like my synchrosoft elicenser dongle for nuendo, which is completely unrelated to pace.
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Thanks Windoze! (the best)
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funny, looks exactly like my synchrosoft elicenser dongle for nuendo, which is completely unrelated to pace.
The later versions switched to synchrosoft but 1.x on mac is definitely PACE / iLok.
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I am curious if anyone here has used v1.6 on a midsize Project (20 to 30 tracks); and it's performance and stability review.
At a time I was pulling my hair with 1.5 version that was floating around, but, after switching to dongle/legal 1.6.1 it was pretty stable. My projects were not larger than 24 tracks, though. Mostly live stuff off of MX-2424 or MMR-8.
P.S. IIRC, instability with 1.5 was audio setup related, just like IIO said.
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The later versions switched to synchrosoft but 1.x on mac is definitely PACE / iLok.
ok my humor seems to be too complicated for rest of the world. i´ll keep you posted when i find a better version of communicating what i wanted to say. :P
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Tested it yesterday and it's waaaaaaaaaay more stable than 1.5. Haven't had it crash once. Too bad the Digidesign ASIO driver is crap, so it's of not much use to someone on TDM hardware.
Again, great work Windoze! :D
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there is some cool hardware that goes along with Nuendo
Steinberg Nuendo 8 I/O 96k = RME ADI-8
Steinberg TimeLock Pro = Rosendahl
Steinberg Nuendo Apogee AD-8000
RME multiface and Digiface had an Nuendo Face too. In fact they are cheaper, because most People dont know it is RME inside
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there is some cool hardware that goes along with Nuendo
Steinberg Nuendo 8 I/O 96k = RME ADI-8
Steinberg TimeLock Pro = Rosendahl
Steinberg Nuendo Apogee AD-8000
RME multiface and Digiface had an Nuendo Face too. In fact they are cheaper, because most People dont know it is RME inside
i was trying to buy 3 digiface boxes (card, pci, multiface) and show you guys the complete box but the seller doesnt respond atm.
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I was a part owner of North Shore Computer in NY and we were the only official Steinberg partner to sell a "Nuendo PC"; we received all the Nuendo hardware and software just before it was officially released for testing on our Dual 386 CPU tower. We then custom built systems and they were sold thru Sam Ash Music. I will look for some pictures, the tower casing matched the translucent dongle color and it was a real screamer at the time. There was so much "buzz" around the Manhattan music scene about Nuendo and what it could do on a native system.
Steinberg was pushing the PC version pretty hard and was focused on Windows at the time; they released an extremely stable PC version BEFORE the mac version. This was the first time that a Windows product was released before the Mac version. When I finally got my hands on the mac version, it was obvious the coding NOT at the same level as far as stability and performance of the PC version. It was apparent that Steinberg was banking on a Windows future and left a skeleton crew to port over the code for the mac version.
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Steinberg was pushing the PC version pretty hard and was focused on Windows at the time; they released an extremely stable PC version BEFORE the mac version. This was the first time that a Windows product was released before the Mac version. When I finally got my hands on the mac version, it was obvious the coding NOT at the same level as far as stability and performance of the PC version. It was apparent that Steinberg was banking on a Windows future and left a skeleton crew to port over the code for the mac version.
their mac department was still catching up after mark badgers sudden passing: dropped TDM after promising 4.1 TDM forever.
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so, installed it on a fresh machine which has never seen the dongle, but where the cp drivers of course are present.
it is more than 15 years ago that i used a legit 1.6 so it would be impossible to notice a minor difference, but from what i can tell, it 100% works as it should (and minor difference are not to be expected i guess)
after a revision in 4 weeks from now i would give it a go. however, only 3-4 people might be not enough.
i would like see a tester using an older mac without native USB port.
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an older mac without native USB port.
Power Macintosh 9600 (and other 1997 beige Power Macs)
@Architecture dont you have a beige g3 going?
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I've tried it on my 8600 (same as a 9600 but with fewer USB ports) and it works just fine :)
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I've tried it on my 8600 (same as a 9600 but with fewer USB ports) and it works just fine :)
The 8600 and 9600 share architecture (same logic board family and chipset), but neither has USB — that only came later with the Blue & White G3 (Jan 1999)
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I think Knezzen meant fewer PCI slots.
8600 has other other stuff that replaces 3 of the PCI slots of the 9600: built in graphics, and video in/out.
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Yeah, too tired when I wrote that.
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I think Knezzen meant fewer PCI slots.
8600 has other other stuff that replaces 3 of the PCI slots of the 9600: built in graphics, and video in/out.
the 8600 had 8600 slots where you could stick up to 8600 USB cards in.
that is why it is so big and why they never made an iwatch version of it.
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bartender give me what this guy is having... right now!
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Tested on a Power Mac G4 "Sawtooth" running Mac OS 9.04, 9.1, and 9.2.2.
Everything works perfectly!
I have a license for Nuendo 1.6,
but I don't see any difference; the crack works flawlessly.
Thanks a lot, Windoze!
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wanna sell me the dongle?
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I'll think about it.
Here's a screenshot from my account.
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Please Windoze explain the inner part of the trick. Did you exclude iLok check from Nuendo code or made an iLock emulator?
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Please Windoze explain the inner part of the trick. Did you exclude iLok check from Nuendo code or made an iLock emulator?
What PACE does is encrypting the binary and wrapping it with their own code.
The wrapping code checks the license then decrypts the original binary and executes it.
I basically decrypted the original binary and saved it without the PACE code.
So this is as close as you can get to the original binary before they applied the protection.
Obviously this is very simplified as otherwise PACE / iLok would have been cracked all the time back in the day.
Also some developers use additional checks before wrapping it with PACE so they have to be cracked too after unpacking.
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like they still do it today. :)
nuendo 12 is currently on sale with 50% discount, btw.
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it doesnt look as cool as Nuendo 1
it doesnt run powerpc only abandoned plugins
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it doesnt look as cool as Nuendo 1
it doesnt run powerpc only abandoned plugins
it supports 128 cores under windows. ;)
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Nuendo 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 are now [k'd] and available on the Hotline-Server.
It can be found under Audio -> Recording & Sequencing -> Nuendo.
Awesome, thanks windoze, great work! ;D
Steinberg was pushing the PC version pretty hard and was focused on Windows at the time; they released an extremely stable PC version BEFORE the mac version. This was the first time that a Windows product was released before the Mac version. When I finally got my hands on the mac version, it was obvious the coding NOT at the same level as far as stability and performance of the PC version. It was apparent that Steinberg was banking on a Windows future and left a skeleton crew to port over the code for the mac version.
That's right. I had to left the 1.5 version because it's unstability. Even it couldn't reopen some of its own project files!