Playing through Cubase with M Audio Mobile Pre

Hello
I am trying to play an electric guitar through a pre-amp made by M Audio called the Mobile Pre USB. I have a very old edition of Steinberg Cubase and I'm using Windows Vista on a desktop.

I would like to play my guitar and add hear real time effects through the speakers, but currently I have only figured out how to record it clean and hear effects when I play it back in the time line.

I can't find any info through Cubase, partially because it's so old and no longer supported.

Does any one have experience with this or a similar set up?

Regardless if it works in Cubase or not, is there a cheap or free software FX that I can use to hear my guitar with real time effects?

Thanks!

Hey man,

I just bought Cubase (version 5 I think?), well it actually came with my interface that I bought. I installed it thinking it would be pretty simple to learn, and man was I wrong!

But I finally figured most of it out. In order to hear what you're playing as you're playing it with the effects, you have to plug your interface device (from its "Phones" jack) into another speaker.

But honestly, because it's so difficult to learn, I just use the free version of Amplitube 3 to record. I use the amps and pedals in Amplitube sometimes, but other times I bypass all their effects and amps and just run my amp through the interface into Amplitube. Amplitube 3 lets you record 4 tracks on top of each other. So you can load a drum track, a backing track, and still have 2 more tracks to record guitar or vocals.

If you don't have Amplitube yet, follow these instructions:

Step 1: Register for free account with IK Multimedia
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/userar...EDIRECT=FREEPRD

Step 2: Download Amplitube 3 (Comes with small selection of pedals and amps)
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/amplitube/

Step 3: Download Custom Shop (like the catalog of items for amplitube)
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/amplitubecs/

Step 4: Launch Amplitube, log into it

Step 5: Download Asio4all - http://www.asio4all.com/ (you'll need to select this in your Amplitube settings as your input and possibly your output device)

Set 6: Open Custom Shop. Browse items and try them for 2 or 3 days I believe for free. But you can use Amplitube and all the stock items for as long as you want without paying.

It all works really well.

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately my machine is too old to run the Amplitude software. I have a 1 GHz processor with 1 Gig of RAM on an AMD Athlon.

I also think my machine is too old to process VST effects in anything close to real time. I have everything running in and out of my external soundcard (Mobile Pre USB) and I can't eliminate the 1/2 second lag.

That Amplitude software looks great. If I get a newer machine I 'll try it or perhaps on my laptop.

I appreciate the detailed response.

I use it on my laptop and it works great. But I did optimize its performance to run Amplitube. It's a 2012 Toshiba Satellite.