diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index bce7d2220a..ace938e19a 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -31,3 +31,6 @@
 [submodule "libressl"]
     path = externals/libressl
     url = https://github.com/citra-emu/ext-libressl-portable.git
+[submodule "cubeb"]
+    path = externals/cubeb
+    url = https://github.com/kinetiknz/cubeb.git
diff --git a/externals/cubeb b/externals/cubeb
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000..44341a1e06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/externals/cubeb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 44341a1e0658a3939d29c0b5a230ca095ae63dd3