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Question: Before winamp took off, was there any other projects that you almost quit winamp to work on?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on November 18 2014, 5:58pm
Reply on November 19 2014, 2:56am:

I don't think so Comment...

Question: Children are, in general, assholes...Lol That�s one controversial sentence! Do you allways say what you think no matter what? :)
Asked by TheInquisitor (79.169.54.x) on November 17 2014, 10:37am
Reply on November 19 2014, 2:56am:

I have a fully functional filter. Comment...

Question: I assume that win x86 builds use x87 while the rest use sse2 (correct me if wrong). Have you done any FP accuracy measurements between to two? And if yes what are your conclusions related to performance vs accuracy trade-offs, etc?
Asked by gio (94.70.22.x) on November 16 2014, 5:23am
Reply on November 19 2014, 2:57am:

The win32 builds use ICC, so they may go to SSE2 in parts, depending on the processor (it has a dispatch system I believe). Comment...

Question: Streaming Live365 music, thinking how far we've NOT come that it continually skips and stutters as new Chrome tabs do things. Winamp never did that shit a decade ago on much less powerful machines. :(
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on November 14 2014, 6:18pm
Reply on November 14 2014, 6:49pm:

Hmm I often play stuff in my browser that doesn't skip... Comment...

Question: Why do you not want children? (I don't either, but I'm interested to hear your reasons).
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on November 14 2014, 2:11am
Reply on November 14 2014, 6:49pm:

Children are, in general, assholes Comment...

Question: Does your wife want kids?
Asked by Ragu (114.179.18.x) on November 13 2014, 9:26pm
Reply on November 14 2014, 1:57am:

I certainly hope not Comment...

Question: Is Brennan Underwood your biological brother, half brother or just "bro" as in good friends. And whatever happen to him? After winamp3 he vanished :)
Asked by Chunky (216.207.230.x) on November 12 2014, 8:55pm
Reply on November 13 2014, 3:39am (edited at November 13 2014, 3:40am):

All of the above I guess. He's still around, somewhere. Comment...

Question: Hi Justin I would like to know how to find my licence Key. swamped with over 5000 emails and reaper don't come up in the searcH :(. We bought a home use licence in the last 5 years, either under XYZ
Asked by Elmarie Ford (49.181.9.x) on November 12 2014, 3:16am
Reply on November 12 2014, 3:55am:

Done (license sent to both addresses), redacted your email(s) too. Comment...

Question: "audio trigger > mastger clock" - I wish to use a modular synth or pre-midi drum machines, or the trigger outputted from a looper pedal to be used as Reaper's main tempo clock. We would feed Reaper with an audio signal, and it would be usedas /converted into the main master clock.as
Asked by gilbert (109.19.9.x) on November 11 2014, 8:29pm
Reply on November 12 2014, 3:56am:

Hmm, not really possible as REAPER needs things to be predictable. Comment...

Question: were you "bossed" around at all at AOL? have to answer to any one person?
Asked by will (70.173.145.x) on November 11 2014, 7:28am
Reply on November 12 2014, 3:56am:

I was definitely not given free rein, but I wasn't super-controlled either. Comment...

Question: I tried to have some fun with early builds but the link is dead. reaper.fm/files/early/ --- Any help? :(
Asked by gio (79.130.160.x) on November 10 2014, 1:44pm
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:29pm:

Hah, fixed. Also osx_early/ is now available too. Comment...

Question: envelopes are kinda inconvenient for electronic music in reaper imo. Any pointers on what part of the reaper API I should look at to make my own automation UI (that would probably write generated automation to the normal automation tracks)?
Asked by mfran (95.235.116.x) on November 10 2014, 9:40am
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:30pm:

Dunno. Comment...

Question: Hi, any chance to add "audio trigger in to master clock" feature in Reaper ?
Asked by gilbert (109.19.9.x) on November 9 2014, 9:08pm
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:30pm:

Hmm explain what that is? Comment...

Question: any chance ton embedd natively Playtime in Reaper ? forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=149712
Asked by gilbert (109.19.9.x) on November 9 2014, 1:15pm
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:30pm:

Hmm interesting but we'll see. I know JeffOS wants that too. Comment...

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. Comment...

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 Comment...

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 Comment...

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) Comment...

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. Comment...

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. Comment...

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