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Question: "Mike Oldfield - Incantations" -- highly recommended. Asked by drunken (45.93.169.x) on December 6 2025, 7:42pm Question: reaper's ruler over 2147000000Measures will become the plural of - in front of it, although no one can reach this number, but I am curious why this is, is it a bug? Asked by tobyy (221.215.214.x) on December 6 2025, 1:58pm Reply on December 6 2025, 2:28pm: signed integer overflow. that's a bug. 4 Comments... Question: what do you think? youtu.be/4rD3lHLu8Bk?si=qtUBe6VlC5AMMhHV Asked by Rano (103.182.107.x) on December 5 2025, 12:41pm Reply on December 5 2025, 2:14pm: filled with inaccuracies, also XP wasn't that fragile. but in terms of the point, don't disagree, I guess. Comment... Question: Have you ever struggled with depression for a while? If yes, what did you do about it? Asked by Depression (154.161.111.x) on December 5 2025, 8:43am Reply on December 5 2025, 2:14pm: not sure, I've definitely felt completely down and miserable for no apparent reason, but thankfully never for extended periods. Comment... Question: How to view Linus Torvalds? It's said that he has a very fiery temper, and there are countless incidents where he verbally attacked or even insulted other programmers over their source code. He has also repeatedly stated that C++ is a terrible language, as shown in the link below....developers.slashdot.org/story/21/0... Asked by toby (221.215.214.x) on December 5 2025, 5:18am Reply on December 5 2025, 2:15pm: To quote (or paraphrase, depending on how bad my memory is) the Big Lebowski, "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole." C++ is indeed a terrible language but there are features of it that I appreciate. Comment... Question: I'm curious what software/web tools (if any) you use to keep on top of development with your team, or even just for yourself? Jira, Slack, GitHub etc Asked by Stein (115.186.229.x) on December 5 2025, 12:56am Reply on December 5 2025, 1:40am: we use Slack internally, though I'm increasingly annoyed with their constant "you need to upgrade your OS" requirements combined with the relatively high cost. Github we only use for public-facing repositories, internally we use our own git server. 1 Comment... Question: when u create a gui button to activate/deactivate a filter in JSFX plugin and clicking the button On/Off (using sliderchange) doesn't trigger coefficient recalculation for the @sample to use, but i fix this by calling functions in @gfx to trigger coefficient recalculation, is it safe? is it safe to be calling functions like that at @gfx though it fixed the issue? Asked by @gfx (102.176.101.x) on December 5 2025, 12:40am Reply on December 5 2025, 12:50am (edited at December 5 2025, 12:51am): better to set a flag in @gfx that @block looks at, and then recalculates/clears there, to avoid potential race conditions etc. but in general yes, relatively safe. Comment... Question: For a control surface and using `bool GetTouchState(MediaTrack *media_track, int is_pan)` tousch automation, this will only work for volume and pan. Is there a way to make it also work for any other param? As these now work in Latch mode Asked by Navelpluisje (77.171.69.x) on December 4 2025, 4:54pm Reply on December 4 2025, 10:32pm: for FX parameters I don't think it's supported, we need to add the ability to end the touch I think. 5 Comments... Question: In JSFX when u have a hidden slider using the hyphen, and then you do a slidershow for this slider, thinking some users may unhide that slider and when they do, that slider must show in appropriate context. but then while keeping the slider hidden (-) and using the slidershow, the slidershow overides the hyphenated hidden slider and shows up on gui. Why? Asked by slidershow (197.251.240.x) on December 3 2025, 4:32pm Reply on December 3 2025, 6:52pm: that's the point, you can make it hidden and then unhide it from code in response to UI. 5 Comments... Question: Hey Justin, did you see the new Slicer made at FL Studio? It's already the second one) Asked by Andrey (5.187.87.x) on December 2 2025, 8:08am Reply on December 2 2025, 11:21pm: I haven't no Comment... Question: Do you have a 10-band and/or 15-band eq preference you consider golden? Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on December 2 2025, 5:55am Reply on December 2 2025, 11:21pm: flat? lol Comment... Question: Should we share content for free? There will be people attacking (us/it). Asked by yoooo (221.215.214.x) on December 1 2025, 4:31pm Reply on December 1 2025, 4:56pm: not sure I understand this question! Comment... Question: So considering the whole winamp source code fiasco, what would you recommend someone use as an alternative to it these days? Do you ever think they'll release it again, with a decent license? Asked by Ladel (85.218.122.x) on December 1 2025, 2:41pm Reply on December 1 2025, 4:11pm: Shrug, no idea, WACUP I guess? Comment... Question: When you coded the ReaPlugs in vst format, did you create and use your own GUI library? I like how simple it is and it has same slider appearance like the JSFX sliders? Asked by ReaPlugs (197.251.240.x) on December 1 2025, 12:17am Reply on December 1 2025, 3:02am: they use Windows dialog controls etc, with custom controls for sliders and such. Not really a good way to build VSTs though, not cross platform really (so making standalone ReaPlugs for macOS/linux would be a huge pain). I'd go a diff route... 3 Comments... Question: "Do you know about R2R? What do you think of this team (or company, or organization)? They have cracked literally every audio DAW, VST, VSTi plugin you can think of, including all the famous ones like Waves, Pianoteq, and even super-expensive virtual instruments like ivory grand pianos. Even REAPER has a keygen made by them. If you roughly calculate the number of things they’ve cracked, it’s absolutely astonishing. Do you think such a team should face legal judgment?" Asked by lope (221.215.214.x) on November 30 2025, 11:30am Reply on November 30 2025, 2:44pm (edited at November 30 2025, 5:12pm): meh re legal enforcement. cracking software should be considered speech (though distributing cracked versions should still be considered copyright infringement). anyway, thankfully their reaper keygens require a modified .exe, which is an adequate threshold for annoyance. 2 Comments... Question: How can one ship presets with a one-file JSFX plugin, so that when users load on their pc the presets will show up in the presets menu? Is that possible? Asked by presets (197.251.240.x) on November 29 2025, 5:08am Reply on November 29 2025, 2:05pm (edited at November 29 2025, 11:27pm): if your jsfx's filename is "myeffect", then save a .rpl as "myeffect.rpl" next to it and it will be auto-imported on first instantiation of the jsfx. But -- single file: not supported. Maybe I'll think about a syntax for that! 1 Comment... Question: What's the real point of streaming services / FLAC that offer 24 bit depth at 96 khz lossless if our ears simply do not have the hardware capability to perceive a difference vs 48khz (OPUS encodes, for example). Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on November 26 2025, 4:00pm Reply on November 26 2025, 10:02pm: For listening purposes, 24/96 is marketing IMO. Lossless, less so, though somewhat (at least it takes the "was-this-adequately-encoded" question out of the equation, since lossless is always yes). If you're going to process the audio after the fact, then lossless/24/96 all become more significant. Comment... Question: What's preferable - practising bass voice regularly or have two beers and a whisky and sound like Mark Lanegan the next morning? Asked by Sunblister (147.161.164.x) on November 26 2025, 11:37am Reply on November 26 2025, 10:03pm: I'm the last person who should be giving singing advice lol. Whatever you enjoy? I don't practice enough (at all?) so somewhere in between I guess. 1 Comment... Question: In a DAW, should the audio thread only render the audio graph? Should the another thread handle parsing the midi clips and generating note on / off events to send to the tracks? Sorry if this is obvious Asked by Edward (45.62.219.x) on November 25 2025, 9:00am Reply on November 25 2025, 12:05pm: you could very easily keep the MIDI events in memory and have the audio threads process those too, but it's up to you. If you're reading them from disk, though, you'll want some worker threads to stay ahead of that. Comment... Question: Does your food change seasonally? If yes, what's your favourite winter dish? Asked by PedalingPanda (77.12.112.x) on November 24 2025, 5:24pm Reply on November 24 2025, 8:21pm: out of necessity! I'm all for any kind of stew really. Comment... [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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