I think this thread has been de-railed a bit. I already have a USB audio interface and standard patch cables, loads of 'em. My issue is that I can't run Rocksmith 2014 through it and I HAVE to use the RealTone Cable and was wondering about other solutions. the cable isn't long enough to reach the computer while I'm at my chair and able to see the screen, so I've been forced to use my macbook pro, which has a much lower number of available CDLC and I'd like to open my options and use my USB interface and my nice pc to run RS, if there's no solution I can just use my laptop, no big deal. But I really want to use my pc, and my audio interface and all that. a.peter I'll check your post out as it's the only one that seems actually relevant to the thread. lol