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Question: I'll try that. I tried various path settings according to the doc and none of he presets would load after creating the *.ini. It's all in my vstplugins folder and even using a literal path didn't work.
Asked by PunkyBrewster (76.226.62.x) on October 22 2014, 1:02pm
Reply on October 23 2014, 11:27pm:
    Hmm make some screenshots etc there could be something you're messing up? Or something I messed up too...
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Question: As a follow up to askjf.com/index.php?q=660s, does the C runtime compact the heap to make room for new allocations as space runs out?
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on October 22 2014, 5:23am
Reply on October 22 2014, 12:46pm:
    The heap can't really be compacted, because all of the addresses must remain the same. So yeah, you can in theory end up with a fragmented heap where you have a lot of wasted memory, though in practice I'm not sure how often this really happens...
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Question: Ok, I added an ini file in the same folder as the dll and used VSTCAT=2 but it still loads as an audio plugin, not an instrument. What might I be doing wrong?
Asked by PunkyBrewster (76.226.62.x) on October 22 2014, 1:42am
Reply on October 22 2014, 12:44pm:
    Hmm did you include [reajs] as the first line, make it a standard ASCII text file (not UTF-8 or UTF-16), and name it XYZ.ini where reajs is named XYZ.dll? You can check by adding a line:
    
    appendname=/instrument
    
    
    Might also want to set midiflags=3 too.
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Question: Is it possible to complie a version of ReaJS VST so that it shows up as an instrument instead of an effect? Wiuld work better for hosts that don't process midi inline.
Asked by PunkyBrewster (76.226.62.x) on October 21 2014, 9:14pm
Reply on October 21 2014, 9:58pm:
    You can set an ini file setting to do this, read reajs_info.txt.
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Question: Do you think it's easier for someone with a shitload of money to say there's more to life than money?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on October 21 2014, 8:42pm
Reply on October 21 2014, 9:57pm:
    Of course, but once you have over a certain amount, it's meaningless. If you had the choice between $100 million and $3 billion, but you know that the $100 million scenario would make you happier, then why take the $3 billion? Unless you want to own a sports team and so forth, I guess...
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Question: Do you think Evan Spiegel was foolish in rejecting Facebook's 3 billion dollar offer for Snapchat?
Asked by jm9000 (98.238.139.x) on October 21 2014, 6:41am
Reply on October 21 2014, 4:58pm:
    It seems like a pretty good price, but there's more to life than money.
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Question: Will you ever design a ReaLimiter?
Asked by Jogger (175.33.6.x) on October 20 2014, 3:13am
Reply on October 21 2014, 4:58pm:
    Maybe?
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Question: is WDL_FIXALIGN still required with CLANG?
Asked by olilarkin (86.31.114.x) on October 19 2014, 10:26pm
Reply on October 20 2014, 3:10am (edited at October 20 2014, 3:13am):
    You could test with the following code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    struct foo {
      int x;
      double y;
      int z;
    };
    
    int main() { printf("fixalign needed: %d\n",sizeof(struct foo) == 16); return 0; }
    
    Edit: I just tested, it is needed for 32 bit clang, but not for 64 bit. I'm guessing clang tries to be ABI-compatible with gcc, so this would make sense. clang doesn't appear to support -malign-double (which gcc usually does).
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Question: Is it hard to start a hardware business in US or elsewhere? I assume you had done some kind of research the Jesusonic years.
Asked by gio (94.66.26.x) on October 18 2014, 4:37am
Reply on October 18 2014, 2:41pm:
    I only looked a little bit, enough to decide it was too much work. I'd imagine it's doable if you want to do high margin/low quantity, or if you outsource production elsewhere (I have a friend who did that with the 3doodler, but he'd done it before and has spent/is spending a lot of time in China).
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Question: What brand/model piano do you have?
Asked by Tale (81.204.113.x) on October 17 2014, 5:50pm
Reply on October 18 2014, 2:39pm:
    I have a 1987 Steinway S. I'm not worthy, though.
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Question: Are you still on an old ass version of Quickbooks? I'm using 2010, but dread the PITA of upgrading and reorienting myself to the new interface.
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on October 17 2014, 5:00pm
Reply on October 18 2014, 2:39pm:
    Yeah 2007 on XP here, hah. I did also use 2013 for some stuff, it was fine, but really no reason for me to upgrade.
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Question: Do you ever internally translate "sharding" to "sharting" and chuckle?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on October 17 2014, 12:38am
Reply on October 17 2014, 1:33pm:
    I must confess that I don't often encounter the word "sharding"
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Question: How old is gerard way
Asked by Milly (64.223.234.x) on October 16 2014, 2:12am
Reply on October 17 2014, 1:33pm:
    The Google told me who he is, and how old he is.
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Question: what is the description of a sports store super visor
Asked by Richard El Hage (89.108.151.x) on October 15 2014, 4:05pm
Reply on October 17 2014, 1:33pm:
    Everything is awesome
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Question: What are your thoughts on moving bitcoin's proof of work to protein folding? There is much resistance in the community. would you think of bitcoin as a more useful tool for humanity if protein folding becomes the proof of work for bitcoin?
Asked by JayMan (70.192.133.x) on October 15 2014, 2:30am
Reply on October 15 2014, 2:18pm:
    That would be awesome, but it would be unfortunate if people came up with ways to cheat and produce useless results that still resulted in them having earned currency...
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Question: Did you ever use wasabi technology again?
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on October 14 2014, 7:53am
Reply on October 14 2014, 2:35pm:
    Nope
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Question: do you hate eclipse?
Asked by Ruchira (103.247.48.x) on October 14 2014, 2:17am
Reply on October 14 2014, 2:35pm (edited at October 14 2014, 2:36pm):
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Question: What do you all day?
Asked by Patrick (70.114.207.x) on October 13 2014, 5:54pm
Reply on October 14 2014, 2:35pm (edited at October 14 2014, 2:37pm):
    My activities often include: programming, testing, recording music, practicing piano, bookkeeping, support emailing, running, eating, drinking coffee, cycling, reading (fiction and news), listening to music, watching of movies/tv shows, other more personal things, etc.
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Question: From historical recounts of winamp, it seems you started development life on unix before learning Win32. How did that occur? Why did you start on unix?
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on October 11 2014, 5:03pm
Reply on October 11 2014, 7:02pm:
    I did BASIC on the Atari 8-bit, then didn't program much for some years until I had a 386sx and Turbo Pascal, which was awesome, then Turbo C++, then eventually Watcom C++, then djgpp, around that time I also got an early distribution of slackware (on floppies!), which was fun and was a much better experience than Windows 3.1 (hooray, memory protection and preemptive multitasking). I was still programming stuff on djggp and linux (and sunos once I had access to sparcstations in school), when Windows 95 was released, and it took a while after that before I had good enough hardware to use it. Then there was the task of learning win32, Winamp ended up being a good project to do that with.
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Question: Ever considered further plugin development? I mean, surely there are some leading plugins that you must look at and think "I can do that better.
Asked by Mick (27.127.192.x) on October 9 2014, 10:27pm
Reply on October 10 2014, 12:22pm:
    I imagine that we'll add more plug-ins to REAPER eventually, but meh.
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