Any musicians out there that have Cubase experience?

WaveLab
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Not at all. You can take a software from 1999 (Cubase VST 3.x) and it should work just fine with your interface. Why? Because it doesn’t have to know anything about FireWire or MOTU. It just talk with your MOTU’s ASIO driver.

So …

  1. Have you installed MOTU 8pre’s ASIO driver into your PC?
  2. Have you configured your Cubase to use this driver?
  3. Have you set up Cubases ‘VST Connections’ to connect Cubase with your MOTU’s audio inputs?
  4. Have you set your audio track’s input to MOTU’s audio inputs?

All of this is very well explained in Cubase’s ‘Getting Started’ guide.