I haven't actually tried one of those devices, but I've been recommending it to people who have laptops with no Line In port and nobody has complained yet.

A Soundblaster Live external USB soundcard only costs around $45 on Amazon.com.

The creator of Extra Boy started charging 90 cents for downloads (as a bandwidth fee) because so many of our customers were downloading the free plugin.

Greg - I think the doohickie is for SPDIF and that is not an output that the mixer offers. I just took a quick glance though and may be wrong. "The UCA202 provides 2 analog inputs and outputs, as well as an additional S/PDIF optical output for direct digital conversion." It's got R and L ...

There's also this doohickey:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHUCA202

Hi, Beatcraft doesn't have a CD burning feature, so you'll need a CD burning program like Acoustica MP3 CD Burner , or you can just use Windows Media Player to burn the CD. First, however, you have to "render" your project to a file format that your CD burning software can use. In Beatcraf...

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Don't try to put the unzipped Extra Boy plugin .dll into Mixcraft itself, put it into your "Acoustica Shared Effects" folder, which is inside your Program Files folder.

Greg

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Unzip the Extra Boy dll file and place it in your Acoustica Mixcraft folder, which is probably in your Program Files folder. This will make the plugin appear in Mixcraft after you restart Mixcraft.

Greg

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You can set the BPM as high as 300 if you type it in instead of picking it from the drop-down menu.

Greg

Rumba blues?

Hi, What do you mean when you say you recorded some beats? Did you record them with another program? If you're just playing the beats in Beatcraft and you hear skipping, try adjusting the playback buffers. Click on the File menu, select Preferences and on the Playback tab, try doubling the number of...

I'm having trouble installing the program everytime I try to run the install I get a message that says that its not a valid Win32 application what should I do? Hi, That error means that the program didn't download all the way. Delete what you have so far, then download a fresh copy from the DJ Twis...

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Okay, thanks! I passed that info along. We're trying to figure out if there's some kind of standard for these cases.

Greg

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Make sure you've got version 1.02 build 17, which fixes a few crashing problems. Get the latest version of Beatcraft here.

Greg

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How wide is the spine?

Greg

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Please try burning a CD, then immediately after you get the error, send your cdburner-log.txt file to Support (at) Acoustica (dot) com.

Mention this discussion.

Greg