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Question: Do you ever end up solving problems for which you don't quite understand how your solution works? How to learn from it?
Asked by travis (70.178.149.x) on November 8 2014, 11:58pm
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:29pm:
    Usually it's the opposite -- wondering why a simple change breaks things, then you figure out that the things that worked shouldn't have, but did due to good luck.
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Question: Is brendan your real brother (real as full biological)?
Asked by Chunks (216.207.230.x) on November 7 2014, 5:24pm
Reply on November 7 2014, 6:08pm:
    I do not have a brother named "Brendan", real or otherwise
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Question: What neighborhood of NYC do you live in?
Asked by Eugene (108.30.239.x) on November 7 2014, 12:28pm
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:44pm:
    At the moment, Cobble Hill
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Question: Are there any other video interviews of you on the net besides the bigthink one?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on November 7 2014, 12:48am
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:44pm:
    Not many, I think there's me giving a reaper demo in 2007 on youtube (I say I think, rather I know as it's on my youtube account ha ha)
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Question: Curves do end up looking like fades, but still don't null. I'm sure error is on my part and I'm guessing it's in using LICE_CBezier_GetY (bit.ly/1wALYpw). I can only guess why there are differences (rounding errors because you're using something other than CBezier_GetY()?). I'm trying to get perfect replica of REAPER behavior for loudness measurement.
Asked by Martin (93.141.59.x) on November 7 2014, 12:24am
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:44pm:
    I'll look into it. I think for common fade types we use more optimized special-cases, i.e. using an interpolated polynomial directly.
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Question: Did you see this already? jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/
Asked by Rodrigo (189.114.207.x) on November 7 2014, 12:15am
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:43pm:
    Yep.
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Question: any reason wingui couldn't be used in a win only plugin?
Asked by olilarkin (86.31.114.x) on November 6 2014, 9:09pm
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:43pm:
    You could definitely use it for a plug-in (on OSX or win32), it's just not designed to be used with IPlug in particular, but it could definitely be done.
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Question: Did your parents tell you you were "smart" growing up? How did they encourage you to push yourself more and more? science.slashdot.org/story/14/11/05/0045219/too-many-kids-quit-s...
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on November 5 2014, 11:47pm
Reply on November 6 2014, 4:48am:
    I think they did, however I generally could tell when they were just being polite. They also (probably more-often) praised effort, too, I think.
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Question: Could a considerable portion of ninjam be repurposed to other psuedo-real time collaboration efforts in non-musical endeavors?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on November 5 2014, 10:21pm
Reply on November 6 2014, 4:48am:
    Potentially, yeah.
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Question: I own a software development company in South Africa. I am also a musician so I have decided to start selling samples on APP stores. Question: part of our initial phase is to release a simple DAW or audio block arranger, but we have no idea where to start. Please advise.
Asked by Rudi (41.133.39.x) on November 5 2014, 6:13pm
Reply on November 6 2014, 4:48am (edited at November 6 2014, 4:49am):
    Make something that you would want to use, and that will let you to be able to very quickly do neat things (even if you don't have all of the other things that people think of as necessary). Maybe there will be more people like you.
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Question: Well, that worked! :) Just one thing - I test it by creating envelope points on vol envelope (one point for each sample) and see if things null. Before getting the answer from you, I did normal equations for first 6 fades (pastebin.com/25ZGp11H) and things nulled 100%. With this: pastebin.com/nnT0u9da they don't but get very close (-50 db).
Asked by Martin (93.138.17.x) on November 4 2014, 10:49pm
Reply on November 6 2014, 4:49am:
    OK, oops?
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Question: What is wingui for exactly ? Does it relate to IPlug somehow ? Since it seems to provide some level of accessibility support, can I use it together with IPlug to make accessible vst plugins on Windows for visually impaired people ?
Asked by MrBloom (138.37.91.x) on November 4 2014, 4:43pm
Reply on November 6 2014, 4:50am:
    Not really IPlug related, more for general app development.
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Question: have you checked out tubgirl.ca/ 's music?
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on November 4 2014, 6:20am
Reply on November 4 2014, 3:08pm:
    Very funny (DO NOT OPEN THAT URL IF YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOOD FOR YOU)
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Question: I presume you're calculating your fades using bezier. Care to share the exact variables used in LICE_Bezier_FindCardinalCtlPts()? Also, there seems there isn't the way to obtain fade curvature using GetMediaItemInfo()?
Asked by Martin (93.141.111.x) on November 3 2014, 1:53pm
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Question: what do i do to stop eating halloween candy?
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on November 3 2014, 3:16am
Reply on November 4 2014, 3:08pm:
    Throw it away?
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Question: From 1-5 *, how [redacted] is REAPER for OSX? I want some quality assurance.
Asked by gio (94.66.89.x) on November 1 2014, 12:24am
Reply on November 4 2014, 3:09pm:
    REAPER for OSX is great at this point, IMO.
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Question: CTF = capture the flag. It's a hacking contest. Geohot routinely wins these competitions as an individual vs. teams. Scary smart dude.
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on October 31 2014, 7:12pm
Reply on November 4 2014, 3:09pm:
    Ah cool, yeah never thought of CTF in that sort of context.
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Question: If you could take over a toy company, which would you acquire and why?
Asked by Blake (49.145.206.x) on October 31 2014, 9:39am
Reply on October 31 2014, 1:31pm:
    Lego? Then I'd build the biggest lego construction project I could imagine? I dunno, that or something drone related...
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Question: Do you follow this? geohot.com/lhcwriteup.html
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on October 31 2014, 4:55am
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Question: Can you please advise if a new PC build mostly used for music production would greatly benefit from the new 5930 / 5820 processors with associated DD4 RAM and why that would be? I use Reaper and have an abundance of VST's, VSTi's and sample based instruments and I'm building my first proper music studio system and want to make the best choices in terms of pr
Asked by Tim R (194.62.232.x) on October 30 2014, 3:03pm
Reply on October 30 2014, 11:13pm:
    I can't really say, I will say that my quad core i7 (something bridge?) laptop is so incredibly powerful compared to my c2q desktop. Staggeringly faster. As far as the even-newer stuff goes, I can't say much, I'm sure it's great though.
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