Ask Justin Frankel

If you were starting REAPER today would you handle threads the same way as it is now?

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:09:00 +0000

More or less, yeah.

How many threads does REAPER use or does it vary based on what is going on?

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:09:00 +0000

It depends, but in general more than the CPU cores you have.

Hi Justin, what is your favourite guitar that you own, and is it the same as your favourite to play?

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:08:00 +0000

So hard to pick! I adore both my Fernandes Monterey and my Rickenbacker

hey jf- is your mind the body,OR,the body your mind?

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:08:00 +0000

I do think the mind is the neural connections of your brain

In REAPER, does the same thread that plays audio also update the meters, or are they two different threads?

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:02:00 +0000

All UI in REAPER happens from a single thread. The meter state is updated from an audio thread, though things like decay/held peaks/etc are from the UI thread.

Hi Justin, + Crossfade editor: Add graphical crossfade editor. This function sounds great. Could you please tell me how I should use this function with a screen reader like NVDA? I can't find it. Also, could you explain how to use the newly added "playback support for rendered files" function? How can I control it with the keyboard? So far, I've found that I can use the space bar to play and stop. Are there any other controls, like fast forward, rewind, pause...? There's one more thing I don't understand

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:04:00 +0000

This is all stuff that should be discussed in the pre-release forum, not here. But since I'm replying: Not sure how the crossfade editor will translate to screen reader use. As far as playing back via the render window, W/Home also go to the start, R toggles repeat. end of discussion though, please!

What's the lowest and highest gcc version used for SWELL? I have used it up to 11 with no issues but 12 is a different story. Not in a hurry to move to a newer version but it would be nice to know which versions are being used during development. Thanks

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:39:00 +0000

Pretty sure it should compile with 12 and 13, perhaps using make ALLOW_WARNINGS=1 to ignore any warnings. (probably should make ALLOW_WARNINGS=1 the default)

Fabrice Bellard agrees to work on Reaper for a few months. What task do you give him to solve?

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:31:00 +0000

"whatever you feel like..." (which is how I roll anyway)

Sometimes I come here and click randomly on your music files. I listened to 240919_v-2-Momentary_Critical_Mass and as the drums came in, it seemed, suddenly, that I had better headphones on. Can you describe how you achieved the separation of the instruments, particularly the drums? I'm a newb at mixing, so I appreciate your time. Thanks, me dummy.

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 01:01:00 +0000

the drums on that track were recorded via 7 microphones:

3 tom mics (which are gated so they only affect things when a tom is played)
kick mic and snare mic which are panned center (each is compressed and EQed somewhat strongly)
two mics which are about 3' in front of the kit, and about 6' apart. They are (or were, at some point, lol, equidistant from the snare drum).

Those two front mics usually peak around -8dBFS, are each compressed (separately) using ReaComp at about 20:1, threshold around -20dB, and have a 264Hz hipass on the detector (so that the kick doesn't trigger the compression so much), otherwise default attack/release/knee. Following the dual-mono compression, there is a JSFX Mid/Side decoder, which gives it a pretty enjoyable stereo image.

Hi, please why did you call it "Jesusonic"? I learnt you are not religious but that name sounds religious. Also, do you hate religious beliefs?

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:46:00 +0000

I'm not religious but Jesus had it right. Love, forgiveness, etc. Good stuff.

Hi Justin, If you were to define the requirements for a digital console, would it be a hardware version based on reaper or a whole new design?

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:11:00 +0000

Haven't thought much about the requirements for a digital console, shrug

Hi Justin, if it's not too personal a question, I just wanted to ask if you have a family (wife, kids)) or any pets?

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:12:00 +0000

yes wife, no kids, no pets. love dogs and cats though, but have chosen to put my responsibility elsewhere thus far.

What are your plans for reaper in 2025?

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:12:00 +0000

more of the same!

Finally you have changed the Windows logo in the Downloads page of REAPER website

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:48:00 +0000

Hah yeah it does feel like MS lost their perspective though, lol

hi jf hope you're having a good week. in 2021 (askjf.com/index.php?q=5961s you said that the jsfx source would be lgpl'd eventually. did this ever happen? if not, can we still expect it to happen eventually?

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:47:00 +0000

Still planning to, keep finding stuff in it that is just too ugly, and there are some already-open-source alternatives that are pretty cool anyway. so not in a big hurry.

Do you use light theme in day and dark theme at night or light theme all the time or dark theme all the time?

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:47:00 +0000

Whatever I had it last set to, usually... somewhat random

Do you have any plans to add something similar to the Matrix View that is in Sonar? It is a very useful compositional tool and I'm sure you could make it even more functional than the Sonar version.

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:46:00 +0000

Would have to take a look at that, which I might do at some point, but not sure.

A small cinema in my city showed "Civil War" (2024) as preparation for the election day. How do you prepare?

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:46:00 +0000

I've been practicing crying, we'll see if it will come in handy. (just kidding). I'm afraid to watch that movie though. maybe in a few months.

What's one Reaper feature you personally want, but haven't gotten around to tackling yet for whatever reason, and why not?

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:58:00 +0000

Pre-receive sends (meaning track media and record input would get sent, but received from other tracks and child tracks would not). Would allow doing tidy routing of multiple midi tracks to a sampler and have their outputs process on the same track as the midi. Haven’t done it yet because it will require a bunch of tricky changes to not break multiprocessing.

also: having track FX process while prebuffering playback start. Huge tricky can of worms that will require fixing dozens of corner cases/code psths.

Ho ho ho Justin ('tis the season...), just read this: tinyurl.com/Ian-the-The...how fast could you have Reaper running on ARM Windows?

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:14:00 +0000

it's been on the download page for a while now ;)

Hi Justin, I just wanted to ask, not about the successes you've had, instead, if you could go back and do it again what would be the thing you would avoid doing?

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:15:00 +0000

spend way less time and carbon on messing with cars and instead started running earlier.

Hi, Justin! Are you a gamer?

Sun, 03 Nov 2024 09:32:00 +0000

hah not really but I've enjoyed some games at times

Are you the one that coded the js wah-wah in Reaper, it sounds awesome. I was able to edit it by adding spl1 to make the effect fully wet. It seems like when it comes to spectral effects, vst can't compete with jsfx. Not exaggerating but it's something I have noticed that small jsfx code as eq or to adjust the tone of an audio sounds better than most vsts I tried. This wah-wah effect I'm asking you about is an example.

Sun, 03 Nov 2024 09:33:00 +0000

IIRC I did but that was like 20 years ago.. anyway that would be easy to do as a VST it's some very basic DSP code. Glad you like it at any rate!

hey jf- do you run the same routes..or..keep it rather random? (any special nature routes you like 2do?)

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:34:00 +0000

Probably 95% routine and 5% exploration, if at home...

In next live you'll be reborn as animal of your choice, which one you choose?

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:58:00 +0000

Hmm maybe a sea-bird that can both fly and swim underwater? that would be pretty rad. Or a Godwit that can fly across the world without stopping, I do love some endurance sports.

i sent tmz over, txt ppl onto the forum?

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:19:00 +0000

huh?

do you consider you've been working faster these last years? As in I've seen you guys fix and implement some things to REAPER so quick I wonder if you guys even rest haha or it is that you know your code and style and needs so well it's been easier to implement stuff? The new render window is incredible, also some crossfade thing I just saw, so yeah, you've been on a roll! So cool that you love this proyect as much :D

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 21:45:00 +0000

On the shoulders of all of our previous work, perhaps, but that's all schwa so let's see what he says

hey jf.. if we can,should we? (example being: bringing back dinosaurs or extinct vegetations)

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:20:00 +0000

Should is definitely a separate question from can.

Hi Justin, a musician here :) I wanted to ask if there is any way to make super 8 be able to play midi files? So that for instance you insert different midi drum loops and that trigger a vst. Second question: I'd really would love to collaborate with you just for fun on some music, how can I get in touch with you musically (my email is danielj.golden.official@gmail.com). Ps don't worry that email has the biggest spam filter possible and is my main music email :)

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:37:00 +0000

I've thought about adding support that, but it would require some work, so I haven't gotten to it yet. My email is firstname at companyname dot com

How much music theory you'd need to know to make a daw like Reaper?

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:11:00 +0000

Hmm I dunno some but not a ton?

Are you joining critical mass bike event in NYC (if there is?), if so, how big is it?

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:33:00 +0000

I did it once, in 2019, and it was awesome! Probably 100 people the time I did it? guessing... No idea how big is typical though. here's a picture.

Do you know of any synth preset managers in the same vein as Big Tick Zen?

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:44:00 +0000

no idea

What was your (and the group's) initial reaction to GEISS and what was Ryan Geiss like to work with?

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 01:41:00 +0000

Geiss the visualizer and the human are both excellent.

What are your thoughts on Valgrind? Especially with bug hunting? Personally I find it to be quite useful for my use cases. You?

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:14:00 +0000

Yes it is great! Only problem is with very large projects/test cases it can be very slow. but very valuable regardless!

Hi, Justin, this free simple vu meter I have linked below uses little resources in reaper and I love how it works. However, I have been struggling to use ai to edit the code to display the maximum VU readout for Left and Right channels and hold the values indefinitely. Can you help me display the max vu readouts (not max sample peaks) and hold them indefinitely even when playback stops? redacted

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:11:00 +0000

upload that somewhere reasonable, that page was full of bad download links.

Did you see this about winamp github pulled

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:02:00 +0000

yeah there was a pretty good flail there, too bad.

Can you arrange these computer related things in descending order? Means the topic which you know the most, is in leftmost side, whereas the topic which you know the least, is in rightmost side. Topics are : DBMS, Software Engineering, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, C++ (lol), Python, Java, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AI & ML, Cybersecurity, REAPER (again lol), SQL, Word, Excel, Powerpoint. I think these are enough for now XD

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 23:14:00 +0000

I can't sort them (they are not numerically quantifiable), but I'll give some descriptions:

DBMS - uh I can apt-get install mysql and create some databases, tweak caching/memory parameters, etc, but I would have to go do a lot of reading to do something like replication or big scaling
Software Engineering - what does that even mean anyway?
Computer Networks - I can set up LANs and such and configure linux packet filters and dhcp servers or whatever, but if you wanted me to change some BGP configuration of a network I would have a lot of reading to do
Operating Systems - not sure what this would mean, exactly.
Data Structures & Algorithms - I can write you some linked lists and binary trees that with enough testing might prove to be without obvious bugs
C++ - mostly use C++11 or earlier syntax, avoid STL so if you ask me questions about STL use I'd have to look it up
Python - bleh I avoid writing it, but I know that it traditionally has a global lock which makes it suck. I've also had to deal with integrating Python with REAPER and I don't enjoy it.
Java - only used it occasionally, in the 90s I wrote a mandelbrot generator for the browser, but I avoid it at any rate.
HTML - still living in the 90s here.
CSS - something I've never spent enough time on to thoroughly understand, usually it ends up googling + tweaking + testing multiple browsers to find the things that work.
Javascript - I like javascript a lot actually, fun integrating it into otherwise basic web pages. See e.g. WHUMP and the auto-player-stuff on my blog. Lots of similarities to Lua, despite being completely different.
AI & ML - General ideas about how these things are done (side note, Francis was playing with small neural networks back in the early oughts for Winamp vis), but no real expertise to speak of.
Cybersecurity - What does that mean? Securing your systems against attacks? Keeping them up to date? Or attacking? REAPER - I do stuff with it almost every day. Probably use a small percentage of its capabilities though.
SQL - Can write basic SQL but for complex stuff I often end up RTFM Word - uhh is there any expertise to be had here? I do miss Wordperfect 5.1 though.
Excel - I know the diff between =SUM(A1:B2) and =SUM($A1:$B2), remember various functions (COUNTIF() maybe?), but for complex things it's RTFM time
Powerpoint - Stay the fuck away

hey jf- do you think galactic "black holes" proves speed of light is not a constant?

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:06:00 +0000

The speed of light is not constant, obviously.

Wondering if you could detail the blow by blow drama that went down at AOL on the day Gnutella went live?

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:07:00 +0000

Hah I was out of the office that day, on Alcatraz with my parents, when I got the call. Beyond them pulling it down, and my subsequent oopsy and reprimand, not much I can recall.

I have some three 32-bit plugins that I use regularly have not yet found better 64bit replacement yet. I saw a previous question about Windows 11 being 64 bit only and you replied that that will mean 32bit bridged won't work. Is that the case now? Are users able to run 32bit plugins in 64 bit REAPER on Windows 11? If yes, does that mean Windows 11 being 64 bit only doesn't necessarily mean we can't run 32bit plugins in 64 nit DAWs that support 32 bit bridging.

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:22:00 +0000

Thankfully Windows 11 64-bit can still run 32-bit apps including REAPER and bridged plug-ins, it just means that the OS itself is always 64-bit. macOS Catalina and later dropped support for 32-bit apps, but Windows has not done that yet. (My previous answer was not correct, because I didn't know what I was talking about).

Who was designer for the nullsoft site? I always thought the creative direction for the nullsoft brand was really inspiring!

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:50:00 +0000

hmm the all text one with random digits as the background? that one was me. there were probably others too though

Did you ever directly interface with Shawn Fanning or Sean Parker directly? Were they cool to you?

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:48:00 +0000

I think I met Parker a few times, have very little memory of our interactions though. Hung out with Fanning a lot more, played around with music stuff and poker, he was always very nice and a much better drummer than I was lol. It's been a long time!

Do you think you'd lose users if you shipped unsigned binaries?

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:29:00 +0000

Probably yeah

Would you ever make new modern music player from scratch, There are many options around but nothing with your flair and simplicity of winamp, I use WACUP as its the only thing worth using.

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:30:00 +0000

Did a plug-in for REAPER which was kinda fun but really I'm more interested in the production side at this point.

Does grinding beans really taste notably better than just scooping it pre-ground out of the bag? Is the difference something even a coffee lover would honestly notice with a doubleblind test?

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:30:00 +0000

I would think it depends on a lot of factors, but grinding on demand at least lets your coffee last longer...

Is there any way to access the special video variables (like project_w and project_h for example) when defining a parameter (//@param)? If not, would you consider adding this feature? Thank you!

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:07:00 +0000

Hmm not really, since those can change and we'd prefer not to have to recompile/reset the processor entirely when they do. what are you looking to do?

So I have found some great JS effects that comes with REAPER, since there tons of other js effects out there, what criteria did you use in choosing the ones that come bundled with REAPER?

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:07:00 +0000

Early on we included a ton of them, then we pretty much stopped adding new JSFX other than the ones we made (e.g. the loudness meter, super8, general dynamics, etc). Not opposed to including good third-party JSFX, if the authors request such, but at this point happy letting people download them separately.

Q1) When you first started learning C++, if you had option to choose either C++ or Java, and you had equal learning resources available for both, what would you choose? Q2) Do you think Java still has scope today in developing software like REAPER? Q3) Is it possible to develop REAPER with Java instead of C++?

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:29:00 +0000

I would choose C++. Java has a lot of problems relating to realtime applications IMO, and the implementations of it raise more questions than they answer. I can't say whether it would be possible to implement REAPER in it (I guess BitWig uses it for some of their app?) but for me it would create more problems than it would solve.

If you have watched this in 1998, what was your reaction that time? Or if not, then what is your reaction right now? youtu.be/eKy9fV_zX_o?si=9p5N24E8mSvY3cVu

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:11:00 +0000

lol, don't remember it from then but it tracks with my recollection of Windows 98. GET ME BILL GATES! (iirc)

what do you do when you get stuck at a problem whether in coding or in life?

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:12:00 +0000

Your choices are: persist, shelve and come back to it later, or find a workaround.

if you weren't a programmer, what would you be doing for living? And Why there's just 2 people developing Reaper? Why not hire more and do more stuff?

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:23:00 +0000

I love programming, I don't like managing people.

hey jf- are you getting any updates or tech specs regarding MIDI 2.0? is it actually a "thing" for your considerations?

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:43:00 +0000

Haven't figured out when/how we'll integrate it

Yo JF, I was just listening to some of the band The Smile's live shows and for a second I thought it was you on sax! Maybe you've gotten that before.. (Robert Stillman)

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:43:00 +0000

By appearance or playing style? lol

If you started REAPER today, would you still pick C/C++?

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:02:00 +0000

C++ for sure yeah

Do you know any 100% bug-free software?

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:01:00 +0000

depends on how you define bugs I suppose, but it seems unlikely for software of any significant complexity

Is this even real?

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:28:00 +0000

life? well I know the simulations theory and stuff but does being in a simulation make it any less real? I don't think so.

Why the bad GUI

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:36:00 +0000

I've got more important things to do than html/css. unless you mean REAPER, in which case sod off.

Could you provide a working example for PromptForAction in C++?

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:38:00 +0000

C++ would require too much boilerplate, here's lua, but you'd use a timer rather than defer() etc:

function run()
  hit = reaper.PromptForAction(0,0,0)
  if hit == 0 then
    reaper.defer(run) -- keep trying until PromptForAction succeeds or fails
  else
    reaper.MB(string.format("action %d",hit),"action sel",0)
  end
end

reaper.PromptForAction(1,0,0)
reaper.defer(run())

hey jf- do you think REAPER is worthy of the most modern & obligatory 100% + fire emojis ?

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:29:00 +0000

not my place to decide

Ninjam and it's delaying latency feature reminds me of how you can synchronize anything perfect by measuring the longest common delay. The shortest wire should in theory have the longest delay to compensate for the longest wire having the shortest delay. It's something I worked on in Minecraft with Redstone trying to sync up music blocks depending on distance.

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 14:01:00 +0000

OK the answer is yes.

Do you regret selling nullsoft to AOL?

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 01:33:00 +0000

nah it was a good deal! I regret not buying it back for a fraction of the sale price though. Not that I would've done anything with it, but at least it would have been free. Just didn't feel like dealing with lawyers and contracts at the time, figured it would be too much of a distraction from REAPER dev. Which to be fair it probably would have been.

Why am I always tired when my kids wake me up, but completely awake when I'm supposed to sleep? and How do you change from a night owl to a morning person?

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 01:32:00 +0000

I dunno, I really like the mornings too but when I force myself to get up for them I end up sleep deprived too. Closest I get is to exercise a bunch which gets me sleepy earlier in the evening, but even then getting to bed in time is difficult.

hey you seen how they massacred your boy winamp?

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:49:00 +0000

hah I probably was part of the initial decline too ;)

hey jf- do you think time creates space..or space creates time...OR..in actual reality they are both very poor descriptions of what is actually manifesting by us,,or FOR us??

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:09:00 +0000

Can water be wet? Does a planet fly? Are these semantic questions that depend on language more than anything?

You wake up tomorrow and it's September 1998. You know everything you know in 2024. What are some of the biggest things you'd immediately do differently?

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:49:00 +0000

I'd start PT for my 1996-era injuries and get running ASAP... everything else, shrug

If - for whatever reason - you were to stop developing Reaper, would you release the code?

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:55:00 +0000

Hard to say, but I definitely would release the code before it became abandonware.

Hey jf, my retention is pretty bad for specific-domain, and 'set and forget cold code paths' best practices, APIs, etc. e.g I'll work for weeks with Win32, then 8mo later I'll only remember fragments and have to relearn 60% again (granted, much quicker). Do you have this problem, any tips? Thanks!

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:46:00 +0000

yeah mine's also not great, but if you can refer to your own code it's helpful lol. and bonus points if you can read your old code

Hi Justin! Are we going to get post-fader-FX-inserts in Reaper in the near future like in Ardour, Cubase FLStudio etc? Thanks for all the great work!

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:47:00 +0000

maybe but see the note above. anyway you have unlimited routing

Could you please make 1014.org more uptodate in terms of ux?

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:09:00 +0000

hmm any specific requests?

Wanna go get a burrito?

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:08:00 +0000

I just did, and it was satisfying

what is the best vst limiter and why?

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:08:00 +0000

I just use ReaLimit but that's obv not a real VST

Since the source code of Winamp was posted to GitHub, I took a cursory dive into the part I've always been curious about (how the main vis is drawn) and was surprised to find a variable that holds the image data generated, and I wonder, was this easier to do than using what GDI provided? Optimization? For shits'n'giggles? If you remember, I would love to know what the intent was

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 18:18:00 +0000

Give me a link to the code you're talking about (in the comment here) and I'll take a look heh

What would be cost to make this page vs the forum in the reaper website? or timwise how much time did it take to make this page vs the reaper forum? are there free templates to do these things? or is it from scratch, thanks!

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:03:00 +0000

this page is a small php script I made, not sure how you'd quantify the cost but it's a few programmer hours of work, maybe a dozen or so? and the forum is a big off the shelf thing called vbulletin, which you can buy.

dumbest platform-specific hack/workaround?

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:04:00 +0000

heck if I know

Now that somebody accidentally put Winamp's github page to public, your old code is now available for us all to gaze upon. What percentage of that code is actually written by you? And is the code style similar to how REAPER is written?

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:48:00 +0000

umm I don’t think it was accidental? anyway, most of that code is not mine, and REAPER and Winamp have little in common. WDL has more of my modern style though even a lot of it is 20ish years old at this point heh

Aren't you glad you turned down all those invitations to the Diddy parties?

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:25:00 +0000

oof :(

I've kept hearing that you apparently open sourced/some parts of Winamp 3, but I can't find it anywhere, would you know where to look? Thanks a lot!

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:20:00 +0000

There were various bits and bobs but I have no idea, it's been over 20 years lol, my old mirror of open source stuff is here.

hey jf- some people over here have a term "on your toes" (or,leg it) for when 1 is running....or, running away from something..... > do you find when running you are using more with a flat foot,or literally more "on your toes" ? (like for speed sprinting)

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 23:22:00 +0000

"on your toes" to me means "ready for the unexpected" or whatnot. but in general I mostly run on my forefoot (landing on the ball of the foot, then heel coming down), except when I get tired then I tend to heel-strike. Not much of a sprinter, though, if I do 200m intervals I'm looking at about 37s a pop (if I treated it as a one-off could probably do 32s, guessing?), ran a mile in 5:22 recently...

Hey Justin, Im a developer who lives in SF (mostly in the video space). Im working on some project in my spare time and was wondering about what your like best practices are for audio playback these days in terms of buffering, audio subsystems, thread scheduling etc. if youre open to meeting for coffee or a drink I would love to buy one for you. I promise this is not me trying to pitch you anything LOL

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:49:00 +0000

Nah, I'm in NY anyway these days

Now that WinAMP's source has been officially released, do you have any desire to hack new badass features in? github.com/WinampDesktop/winamp

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:55:00 +0000

If I did have any desire, it would be extinguished by the license terms, lol. The terms are completely absurd in the way they are written, e.g. "You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software." So arguably making any changes would be considered "creating a forked version." But even taking these terms as they are likely intended (which is slightly more permissive than how they are written), they are terrible. No thank you.

Are you aware of any projects outside of Cockos that use WDL?

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:24:00 +0000

There are other users who I periodically hear from when I break their code/build system/etc, but I don't really keep track of what they make.

hey jf- how often do you apply occam's razor? (never,not very often,,,very regular)

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 21:16:00 +0000

Probably more often than I realize, but consciously not very often.

Hello, is it possible to receive pre-release news by e-mail for each pre-release? If it's not possible, couldn't you set it up please :)? Thank you

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:19:00 +0000

Sending a lot of email is a pain, nah...

Ive encountered an issue with how REAPER handles the `description` field in iXML metadata, specifically that it stores it in multiple formats. This has been causing errors when I try to use atldotnet with REAPER-generated files. After discussing this with others, it seems that this approach doesnt fully conform to the iXML spec. Here's a link to the related issue on GitHub: [GitHub Issue - atldotnet](github.com/Zeugma440/atldotnet/iss.... Could you share some insight on why this is done?

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:25:00 +0000

Got your email about this too, we'll look into it.

What do you think which is harder, a solo indie software developer or a solo indie game developer?

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:13:00 +0000

I've only really done one of them (though for a small fraction of my career, at this point I've been working with others for so soo long yay), so I have no idea.

hey jf- when you are pushing close to your maximum physical efforts..pure exhaustion..& are on the verge of giving up...do you have any type of mantra,or super positive affirmations/ ideas/ beliefs that gets you to a goal?

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 22:04:00 +0000

Lucky for me these are always things I've chosen to do, so I'll just remind myself of that. And because of that I'm as happy as I can be, despite the discomfort.

There is while loop like this while (a<b); { //statements }. There is semicolon in while loop, terminating that loop, and the compiler completely ignores that loop. What is the usage of this? Can you give any example where this terminated loop is used?

Sat, 07 Sep 2024 01:45:00 +0000

so that semicolon terminates the while, so what you have is essentially this:

while (a < b) { }
{ /* statements */ }

which is probably not what you intended!

But I see that you're saying the compiler ignores the loop. Well, if you have a loop that the compiler determines never exits, it is considered undefined behavior (UB) and for optimization purposes, since the loop has no side effects, the compiler is allowed to completely remove the loop.

So basically, if you have to introduce yourself to someone, you will say your occupation as Indie Software Developer?

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:26:00 +0000

usually just go with programmer (but ISD seems like a more pretentious way to present it if I feel so inclined lol)

hey jf- after seeing the billionth shootout video for xyz versus zyx daw "sound engines" (LOL) is there really a conclusive way,without any doubts finally (lol) to put this topic to sleep?

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:30:00 +0000

This is the internet we're talking about, of course not

The current implementation of safe variants for tolower/toupper/etc in wdltypes.h causes collisions with xlocale header of STL similarly with what happened with min/max years ago, maybe a similar approach to wdl_min/wdl_max should be followed with a wdl_ prefix or an option to disable those? If there is a possibility to do something about it :)

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:52:00 +0000

Ah doh, yeah. tweaking that

Hmm, i32_to_double() produces a downcast warning when the type is float. I think a cast of type T is required there, yes?

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:32:00 +0000

Yeah I suppose, we don't use it for float, done.

Want to ask me a question ?

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:33:00 +0000

I'm good thanks

Hi, it seems you talk a lot about things being super difficult in Windows (from a programming perspective), it's like a recurring theme here and on REAPER forums. What is the reason for that? Is there some historical background for such a difference in "ease of use" between Win/Unix/MacOS? Also, if it's so difficult, why make WDL based on Windows and not Unix? I'm curious about those intricacies. Thanks for feeding the curious here :)

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:41:00 +0000

In general I don't think that's an accurate characterization - Windows does some things well and others less so, but if you have specific things I've said we can discuss them.

One recent thing that comes to mind (from that DAWbench interview) is when I asserted that HiDPI support for Win32 applications, especially those supporting plug-ins, is a complete shit show, which it is. The related APIs and modes were not well thought-out, and it shows. here is a starting point.

Similarly, to support Dark Mode as a Win32 application is difficult. There is no easy way to enable it. You can use an API to get your titlebars done, yes, but e.g. for menus and listboxes and other controls you're pretty much on your own! Which is stupid, they could make it straightforward, but it feels like they are trying to get people to use UWP instead so don't bother.

To answer the final part of your question - these APIs have little do with the GUI programming, which is what we use win32 as a common target for. There's no Linux equivalent of win32 for windowing. If you want to create UIs on Linux, you pretty much have to use a toolkit. So targeting win32 and then wrapping that to other OSes makes a decent amount of sense.

Hey jf, about certificates. Specifically for signing both MacOS and Windows binaries. What certificate authority do you recommend? I thought about applying for one on ssl.com, DigiCert, and GlobalSign. Though they are crazy expensive.

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:02:00 +0000

I've been using ssl.com and it's expensive yeah. Getting an EV is the way to go, only incrementally more but saves you from having to build reputation. On the Apple side, it's all through Apple, so you end up paying them the $99/year for the privilege. :/

HI JF, my name is also JF. Do people truly deserve anything in life? From a more focused perspective, how do you feel about A.I. replacing humans in the realm of creativity and art? As you age, do you feel more connected or less connected with the world and people around you? Thank you.

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:05:00 +0000

What does it mean to deserve? I don't think LLM etc can replace humans for art since they are just models of humanity. Art isn't all about the result anyway, it's about the process and the how and the why. As far as connections to others, I don't know, I guess it's the same but in a different way as time goes on?

flqs.bandcamp.com/album/war-measuresThe calculation at the top I don't get. Even if it's binary (what I thought) it's wrong no? Do you get it?

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:13:00 +0000

if we take it to be:

   (10+1)*(10-1)=101

then that could be any base B (2 or 10, doesn't matter):

  (B+1)*(B-1) = B*B + 1

which if we multiply out the left side we get:

  B*B -1 = B*B + 1

So yeah that wouldn't make any sense. lol.

When hosting vst2 on windows, I run them all in high dpi mode. Plugins with scaling option in their gui are crisp and okay. What about plugins which dont have scaling option or high dpi support?

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:19:00 +0000

hidpi support on Windows is a huge complicated thing for applications that support plug-ins. There are a handful of DPI-awareness modes that can be enabled (see REAPER's advanced prefs control for this, as a start), and each has subtleties that need to get dealt with...

Thanks for doing the Dawbench podcast again. Super interesting!

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 19:19:00 +0000

My pleasure!

hey jf- (with many global data breaches becoming apparent) have you been on the wrong side of any type of online scams or fraud attacks either in business, or, privately?

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:09:00 +0000

Not yet, *knocks on wood*

do you think ReaLimit is the best limiter , i guess if you had to choose 1.. extra features aside

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:09:00 +0000

I don't spend a lot of (or any, really) time thinking about limiters, sorry! ;)

As a president/benevolent dictator of Cockos Inc., what's your stance on gender representation and unionization?

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:38:00 +0000

I don't have a stance, exactly... but if you have a specific question...

whats your thought on Terry A. Davis?

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:39:00 +0000

Viewed as art, TempleOS is pretty neat.

Can you buy bitwig for the modulation system?

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:13:00 +0000

no, but you can

I'm looking for an alternative to PathSync. Do you have any recommendations?

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:14:00 +0000

I pretty much use rsync at this point but that’s almost entirely on non-Windows

Hey Justin, it seems a lot of music you've made is improvisational. Often it's live performance / jams / loop based journeys, rather than heavily produced compositonal projects. So I was wondering if over the years you've archived every Reaper project, or instead just save the end results eg. wavs/mp3s/.mp4s etc, and discard the rest. I also wonder if you do much in the way of compositional music in Reaper with sections/parts/midi/ various production techniques etc? Or is it more fun to jam out when you ge

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:17:00 +0000

Yes I love improvising, then developing songs derived from those. Production ends up being more work than I care to bother, I’m more interested in the live versions anyway

hey jf- will you be reading Luis Elizondo book... "Imminent" ?

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:34:00 +0000

Unlikely

why isnt autosave enabled by default?

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:34:00 +0000

Auto-backup-saving has been enabled by default for new installs of 7.x. For users who installed earlier versions and changed some backup-related prefs, the new default does not apply.

what motivates you in developing reaper, as money is no longer an obligation for you? what makes you act for or against a new feature or bug report?

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 18:52:00 +0000

I'm the first user and a user first

What was the (main) reason you froze the REAPER issue tracker?

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:22:00 +0000

We were not using it efficiently

hey jf- do you feel population ethnic diversity is working for most countries..or, not really..?

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:31:00 +0000

Wow there's a lot of load in that question and I don't think it's answerable as it is. I think diversity is a very positive thing!

I always wondered how would you manage memory in a DAW ? I would guess since latency is very important you cant be using new and delete, do you use custom allocators,arenas?

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:32:00 +0000

The key would be to allocate things before you need them, from a non-realtime thread, and dispose of them leisurely when you're done with them.

In VST2 sdk, calling effSetSpeakerArrangement from 64bit host will pass 64bit input speaker arrangement pointer as a 32bit number. Is that correct? Will it crash someday?

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:33:00 +0000

The 4th parameter to the VST dispatch function is VstIntPtr, which is the same as intpr_t or INT_PTR, which means you can map the pointer to it safely.

If you haven't seen this, it's fun. jordaneldredge.com/notes/corrupted...Curious if you remember the dad's request for a skin...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:20:00 +0000

Yeah saw that (I follow Jordan via RSS heh), and no memory at all of that, but I've forgotten a lot from 25+ years ago.

If you had to write new software that wasn't a DAW, audio player or P2P platform, what could it be? Is there something you once wanted to write but then discarded?

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:09:00 +0000

Maybe a site+app called "in space and time" where you upload geotagged pictures from your phone and can cross reference it with pictures where you've been and stuff (from strava/gpx/your own pictures/etc)

Amateur coder here. I'd like to try making something like the searchable databases in the REAPER media explorer. What's the general idea to create a searchable database? Does it extract meta data from the files and build some kind of full text search database? I was checking out the files in the MediaDB folder, but I didn't quite understand the format and how that is searchable. Is this something you created yourself or some kind of standard format? If you could point me in the right direction on what to

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The format on disk is more or less as text, but we then build our own lists of all of the metadata. But there's no index built, we just search everything when the time comes to search, even tens or hundreds of megabytes can be searched very quickly these days (if you need to search it a hundred times a second that might be another story...).

Another option, of course, is to use something like sqlite. But it's probably overkill.

What's your email? I'm at bruce@...

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:30:00 +0000

first name at company dot com

Wow, thunderbird works awsome. It does everything I want it to do. (Just like reaper :) ) You write that you use it too. What do you like most about it?

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:06:00 +0000

It is reliable and works and I can copy its appdata folder to new machines rather than having to reinstall/reconfigure everywhere.

Hey jf. What are your thoughts on DRM, the SKG (Stop Killing Games) campaign, digital media ownership, intellectual property, and copyright laws? And I do apologize for the loaded question. But researching about this stuff has really put alot of things into perspective as an aspiring software developer (Mainly C, C++, and some Lua). Especially when it comes to software ethics.

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:06:00 +0000

DRM - bad. SKG - no idea what that is. digital media ownership - I think if you buy a copy of something (e.g. a digital download) it should be yours and you should be able to resell it in the same way a physical copy would be. intellectual property - an abstract concept that can be implemented well or poorly. copyright - a concrete form of intellectual property that exists for good reason and is a good thing for society!

How to know if vst2/vst3 plugin is supporting HiDPI? Can host check that?

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:03:00 +0000

see https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=228566 but hidpi on Windows ugh ugh blah terrible

I'm considering building some apps based on software I once developed, but it was deprecated by Microsoft. May I talk with you about it and some ideas I have about how you might want to be involved?

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:47:00 +0000

You can send me an email if you like but in general I have a very full plate

hey jf- "when does the past end & the future begin?"

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 01:14:00 +0000

the present?

Do have a system for bug/FR triaging? Perhaps even further tips for people who have trouble prioritising (other than "don't get a job in software when you have ADHD" ;) )?

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 15:28:00 +0000

Nah it's pretty ad-hoc, definitely could be more organized but by keeping it random it makes it less like work and more fun.

If you need to take with you only a laptop with 1 OS which would be?

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 03:06:00 +0000

I usually take my M1 MBA with me when traveling. But I have UTM on it which can run win11/aarch64 and linux, too.

Have you used plush again since the WA credits?

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:07:00 +0000

I updated it to v2 w/ 24-bit color and alpha channel, and used it in the REAPER credits until v4.0. It's now used by ReaSurroundPan for the 3D visualization of spaces.

hey jf- are you into any of the olympic events? (there seems to be a few changes this year?)

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:07:00 +0000

Not so much

With the recent .Prealloc() improvement for the containers do you ever see a need for .begin()/.end() for those who wish to use range loops and the algorithm header? Thanks

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:29:00 +0000

I suppose it would be easy to add these wrappers, what do you suggest?

hey jf- introduce me some of your favorite music!

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:54:00 +0000

Some albums I've listened to a ton lately:

The Verve - A Storm in Heaven
Idles - TANGK
The Smile - Wall of Eyes
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will

Just realized these are all UK bands, damn. Coincidental, maybe? I'll add a couple more from elsewhere:

TV on the Radio - Young Liars
Soundgarden - Superunknown

Can you list names of free and/or open source software which you think are equal or better than their paid proprietary alternates?

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:43:00 +0000

Linux/OpenBSD/etc? I'm a huge fan of git too, though I haven't used a commercial source control system in decades. I'd take clang or gcc over msvc any day, though perhaps ICC has an edge?

Do you use the razor edit? if so, how often?

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:27:00 +0000

Sometimes, but for most of my workflow I don't need it

Ahhhhhh I don't know if it is appropriate to ask this here. But I am really sick of that white title bar above in REAPER in Windows version. I know it's from Windows' side (because MacOS have black title bar in dark theme). Isn't there any way to make that white title bar to black? Like in many other software in Windows (even FOSS DAW like LMMS) has black title bar. Maybe it can be done in REAPER too somehow? REAPER looks so cool & attractive in MacOS dark theme, but Windows ruined it.

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 02:17:00 +0000

the answer is complicated, but the short answer is that MS has not yet gotten around to providing a straightforward way to enable dark mode for win32 applications.

Having said that, people have reported success with the extension dll linked here which goes through a lot of hoops to make it happen.

When someone comments here, how do you get notified? Or you keep checking for older questions and their comments, just in case someone posted a comment for you?

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:18:00 +0000

I have a "recent comments" link at the top, which I periodically take a look at

hey jf- hows the swimming these days?? fit for a triathlon? (swim.cycle,run)

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:17:00 +0000

Hah the swim part would be slow for sure. I like a nice backstroke, I usually go that route when in open water, vs a front crawl in a pool. But I think triathalons are silly. I'd rather have a simple time.

Do you use mouse modifiers? If so, in what cases?

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:55:00 +0000

I use the defaults

Any advice you want to give to a person who is just starting journey as an indie game developer for living?

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:47:00 +0000

No idea about game development, but have fun, keep your build/release process fast, and embrace user feedback :)

How much of your day do you spend, on average, by yourself?

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:43:00 +0000

That would be interesting to measure, but I'd guess it would range from 1-(edit)6 hours depending on the day. (edit)also I think "by yourself" would be a bit ambiguous... does walking around in the city but not talking to anybody count? how long do you have to be by yourself before it counts? (e.g. does 20 minute alone, 20 minutes around people, repeated for 8 hours count as 4 hours of by yourself?)

Hey JF, what Video Editing software do reckon complements REAPER the best? Ideally available on Linux :)

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:31:00 +0000

I'd use REAPER of course! I admit I may be an outlier.

Why there are no 128 General MIDI sounds in REAPER? I think all other musical software have this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:06:00 +0000

We prefer to let other plug-ins implement this

Hey, do you know there is a free & open source game engine named "Godot". It is full fledged software for making 3D and 2D games. Unlike the commercial softwares (Unity & Unreal), which are so heavy software, this Godot is so lightweight and so optimised that the developers ported the entire computer software into smartphones, which is also running so smoothly. Do you think somehow this type of thing is possible for REAPER to entirely ported into smartphones?

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:05:00 +0000

The backend of REAPER would be very easy to port to a smartphone, but the UI would be a huge amount of work to make it decent. Too much work. And a distraction, IMO.

Have you seen this? learn.adafruit.com/pyportal-winamp...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:24:00 +0000

Hah cool, I hadn't, thanks!

Is it possible to know the vertical cursor position through the API? As in the track you will paste from your clipboard etc... Thanks!

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:40:00 +0000

the last touched track is the term you're looking for -- reaper.GetLastTouchedTrack()

hey jf- not so much super8 in the 2024?

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 02:04:00 +0000

I reorganized the studio and I haven't setup my super8 rig again yet, but it's so nice and tidy without it... and I need to get some new furniture for the laptop as the things I've used before have found new purposes. I do miss the looping sessions though, gotta get back to it!

I see a lot of different aliases under your music main feed, do you really write so much music every week? Do you publish it somewhere other than here? And if true, any advice to actually finish music ? Im the type of guy obsessing over perfection on a track and I end up never releasing it because I stop enjoying making it to the end and jump on the next no-to-be-finished project. Cheers!

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 02:02:00 +0000

There's a lot of revisiting old tracks and stuff, and a lot of improvisation, alone and with different people. Some of the improvisation gets revisited... I never (or rarely) finish music so I'm probably the wrong person to ask, my strategy is to publish it all that way you get to see the latest evolution as it goes.

If you had any of the DAWs available in 2024 with all the features they have now before you started making Reaper would you have still started?

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 02:01:00 +0000

...and REAPER didn't exist, you mean? and am I in my 20s rather than 40s? not sure I have the same energy level for programming... but in this hypothetical scenario, if REAPER didn't exist and I was as I am now, I'd probably start working on Ardour to give it the things that REAPER is missing and make it (optionally) work the way I like. Whether they'd take my patches, I have no idea...

I want to explain someone difference between static and dynamic websites. Can you give me example of any two websites, where one is static and other one is dynamic?

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 04:28:00 +0000

There is some ambiguity there; a website can be static static, server-generated static, server-generated dynamic, or client side dynamic (generated via javascript). Or various combinations in between there, too.

static static: I'm sure these exist but almost everything I do is at least server-generated static
server-generated static: cockos and reaper web sites - these have little or no javascript, but we have some scripts to generate the pages because it's easier to maintain that way
server-generated dynamic: this web site, or my blog. my blog has some javascript which pulls additional content, and some javascript to handle playing mp3 files automatically, so it's somewhat in between this and the last one
mostly dynamic: music.1014.org (the full archive link above) is pretty much all generated via client-side code (it fetches a list of songs, builds the ui, etc).

or something like that!

Have you ever considered living in another country? If so, where?

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:22:00 +0000

I would consider it, but I feel like I would need a purpose to make it feel appropriate. Probably Europe somewhere...

How did you took that picture of REAPER window in reaper.fm homepage, at the top? Looks very neat and nice!

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:57:00 +0000

That was the work of White_Tie IIRC

Have you got any future plans to support secure CRT functions, possibly in wdltypes.h? Also something unrelated, your answers' paragraphs in top level text browsers need some attention. Have a nice weekend

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:49:00 +0000

hmm, why?

Have you watched "If the Stars Had A Sound" (the Mogwai documentary) yet? If so, what do you think?

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:27:00 +0000

ooh thanks for the reminder I need to watch that!

Sometimes I want to do drastically different mixes and want to switch back and forth to compare easily. Do .RPP files work well with Git? If not, what workflow would you suggest to do something similar?

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:27:00 +0000

they should as long as you don't have conflicts, if you do have conflicts you'll have to make sure you resolve them correctly. Or you could save separate projects and use project tabs...

Wow, I am seeing one of your code somewhere in github. You used a for loop like this "for (;;)". I never seen this thing and can't find anything on google about it. It basically looks like a loop without any arguments, I think. Then what is the use of this?

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:38:00 +0000

it is the same as while (true) {

Hi Justin...this is a first for me, but I'm actually a procurement official working with Eastern Kentucky University and our music department trying to update our Reaper license but because of state reporting requirements, I need to speak to someone directly regarding Reaper's security documentation if you issue certain reports. Is there a way that I can contact you directly? I reached out through Cockos customer support email, but we haven't had much luck there.

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:36:00 +0000

That is the way. It might take a few days for them to respond to these types of requests.

Sorry if I am wrong, and please correct me. As far as I know, you don't have knowledge about traditional music notations, right? Music staffs and all that. Then how you added a nice notation view like Musescore software into REAPER? Have you hired somebody else for that or you learnt everything and implemented it by your own?

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:06:00 +0000

I have some knowledge but I am by no means an expert on that. Schwa has a lot more expertise, and thus did most of the score editor, and has a big reference book on it.

So, with the nature of this site being open to anyone. Do you worry about spammers?

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 13:08:00 +0000

The human=yes prompt seems to get a lot of the automated ones... and it's pretty low traffic and relatively easy to moderate. But if that changes then it'll change...

What music gets you in the zone / inspires you these days during productive coding sessions?

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 13:09:00 +0000

Still go to instrumental things like Mogwai a lot.

Do you use auto complete when coding or do you type every single character out by hand every time ?

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 01:39:00 +0000

mostly type or copy/paste, only auto-complete I use regularly is when writing lua/eel2 code in the reascript/jsfx IDE.

I am really sorry, but I am discussing here to make my favorite DAW follow an external MIDI clock. forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=...I want to cut the recorded content to fit the grid in order to reuse the improvised content of Renoise and REAPER as a pattern. 0x0.st/XBmc.mp4You once said that `REAPER needs predictability.` I am not sure what you mean by that. What does that mean? askjf.com/index.php?search=midi%20clock

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:54:00 +0000

REAPER needs to be able to predict tempo changes in the future in order to transform media, pre-render FX, etc. If you want to sync in realtime to tempo changes, a lot of things will break.

What are your pros and cons of cargo bikes vs bike trailers?

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:54:00 +0000

Bike trailers you don't have to use all of the time, and when you're not using it you can treat it like a normal bike (easier to deal with, take indoors, etc). But for moving a lot of stuff I'd prefer a cargo bike, much less tedious to ride.

Can you tell in easy language what is ReaScript and if I learn python fully, what I can do? Create my own effects or even instruments for REAPER?

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:53:00 +0000

For effects or instruments in REAPER, the easiest thing to learn would be JSFX, which is the EEL2 language (or C++ for making CLAP plug-ins or whatnot, but that's less easy).

ReaScript is better for higher level stuff, programming the REAPER UI, etc. While you can use Python for it, using Lua or EEL2 offers better integration.

You said you use Mac and not Windows. Then why REAPER's manual has Windows' version in almost all pictures?

Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:52:00 +0000

I am not the author of the user guide

I'm not a Pearl Jam diehard by any means, but I really recommend the new album Dark Matter since you liked Ten so much back in the day. It's the same vibe. Very, very good!

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:07:00 +0000

thanks, I'll check it out! Edit (Jul 8): gave it a full listen, pretty good! At its high points I liked it a lot, though I did find myself a little bored at times. That second half of the last track was really good, but there's another song I've heard in the last 5 years that I am very highly reminded of, gotta figure out what that was. Gonna wrack my brain on that one while I go for a run in the 90+ degree weather now. Edit again: ah, one of the Verve songs off of Forth, I think. Very different song but some common progression and feel in there

hello

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:58:00 +0000

hi ih

Hello Justin. By chance, the release days of the pre-releases always coincide with the birthday of some member of the Forum, intentionally?

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:58:00 +0000

Hah unintentionally, sure, the forum has enough members to cover every birthday no doubt.

Do you fancy coming for a visit to St. Helena?

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:22:00 +0000

California or the island? I haven't thought about either, I guess, but the island looks interesting.

Snapdragon Windows Arm version of Reaper, when?

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:46:00 +0000

Our pre-release site has an ARM64EC/Windows11 build of REAPER 7.04rc1, but there is pretty much zero demand for it as a platform, last I checked. Perhaps we'll update that build in the next few months.

Do you think complicated software like REAPER can be developed just using HTML, CSS & Javascript?

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:45:00 +0000

The UI could for sure, but you're very limited when it comes to threads (you can have workers but no shared memory) and plug-ins (n/a).

CreateProcess exists in UTF-8 hooks but not in SWELL emulation. Do I have to manually control the situation with posix_spawn or fork()/exec()? Thanks.

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:44:00 +0000

Rather than implement and try to emulate the full CreateProcess API, we instead offer SWELL_CreateProcess() (and SWELL_CreateProcessIO() on macOS).

Out of complete curiosity. What is "./REAPER/Plugins/reaper_host_x86_64" and what is it used for?

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:43:00 +0000

It's used for when a plug-in is hosted out of process, which can happen due to be set to "separate process", or if it's x86_64 and you're running in arm64 etc.

is it possible to know what audio file the peakfiles in reaper/reapeaks point to? filenames are some big hexadecimal for me and it doesnt look like there's a reference string in the .reapeak content

Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:36:00 +0000

it's a sha1 hash of the lowercase version of the full path and filename

Which OS do you spend the most time on these days (not counting your mobile phone)?

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 02:32:00 +0000

macOS for dev work, linux for recording

Are there any binary search trees in the REAPER code?

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:08:00 +0000

Not off the top of my head. Lots of sorted buffers that are bsearch'd though.

Do you know personally the developers of the other big DAWs?

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 02:06:00 +0000

I've talked to Paul of Ardour a bit, but afaik that's about it

Why we can easily see source code of any website in browsers? What if some web developer doesn't want their source code to not publicly visible?

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 02:06:00 +0000

You could obfuscate it if you want, I suppose. There are tools to do that.

Hey Justin! You've been around for a minute - what (if anything) do you miss about the 90s era of computing / internet culture?

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:52:00 +0000

Hah not too much, things are pretty sweet now. I'd say I miss upgrading your Windows install being optional, but I don't really use Windows anymore unless I have to so it doesn't bother me much...

Hey jf - The plugins that are bundled with Reaper. Were they developed on top of a custom plugin architecture or just regular VST? And if so, how would you go about implementing one?

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:23:00 +0000

They are VST-ish, but if you were to implement something similar you'd have to use VST2, which isn't freely available unfortunately. Closest thing to it is probably CLAP, which would be a better alternative!

Are you the best DAW engineer alive?

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:16:00 +0000

Not sure how one would quantify best. Lots of potential criteria to choose from, and even then the context would be different, you can't directly compare marathon times on vastly different courses. But any rate, I'm going to go with "no" as an answer.

What did you do for acoustic treatment in your studio/rehearsal space?

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:32:00 +0000

the space was built out by others with a lot of insulation/isolation which was nice, but it's a very live room so I have some of these panels which help, but in general I suppose I lean into the liveness of the room, for better or worse heh.

Of all places you have been to, which one has the best bicycle infrastructure?

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:50:00 +0000

Probably Copenhagen, but I say it with the least amount of certainty because I was only there for a handful of days in 2019 and it's hard to really know what a place is like given that small of an experience. I've been to Amsterdam many years ago but didn't bicycle there, I imagine it is fantastic. Berlin may have not had the best infrastructure but I enjoyed riding there.

hey jf- if we think in terms of a "quantum reality" - & we measure in chunks of planck constant,surely this means time & space is packets of energy, which is not a continuous signal? ..so do you think our "reality" comes in chunks?? or, blocks of energy?

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:53:00 +0000

Over my head heh

Do you do bookeeping for Cockos yourself? How much do you know about it and do you find it fun maybe?

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:54:00 +0000

I am the bookkeeper, not sure I'd call it fun but it's not so bad. How much do I know? it's just data entry and categorization and making sure everything adds up to 0.

For the Linux version of Reaper. What Linux distro do you compile it against? Ubuntu I am assuming?

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:55:00 +0000

We compile on pretty old Ubuntu versions using gcc 4.x, for maximum libstdc++ compat.

So for Reaper. Did you implement MIDI from scratch like a mad man or are you using a library?

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:31:00 +0000

We used rdmid.c, a C library for reading .mid files, but everything else is ours.

I've been trying to replicate LiceCap's 'transparent hole in a window' but for the life of me can't actually figure out what makes that work -- any hints?

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:32:00 +0000

Assuming you mean on windows, see the source.

How much REAPER code is specific to one particular OS?

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:32:00 +0000

Not that much! Mostly audio/MIDI device handling and such.

Is programming still as fun to you today as it was at 20?

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:45:00 +0000

For sure! It's easier now, too.

Do you play guitar with plectrum exclusively? If not, what is your preferred style of fingerpicking?

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:41:00 +0000

most of the time, I do use a pick, only occasionally fingerpick and when I do I have no idea what style it would be heh.

what do you think of Llama Groups announcement to open source Winamp?

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 02:01:00 +0000

as I mentioned before in a previous answer, it's ancient terrible code that nobody would want to work on anyway (the leaked version going nowhere pretty much proves that IMO). We'll see if they actually open source it with some permissive license, I predict that they will not.

Irrespective of your personal feelings about Elon, did you watch Starship's fourth flight?

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 23:01:00 +0000

I missed that one, but had I been at a computer and aware of it I would've watched it.

Do you think much about economics? Are you familiar with The Gift Economy? chatgpt.com/share/7a1e5b25-f688-46...

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 23:01:00 +0000

Some yes, and yes. Not sure how things like that play out on a large scale but definitely works on a smaller scale, generally in an environment of abundance.

Do you have any tatoos?

Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:06:00 +0000

None

What does your work setup look like? IDEs/other tools

Sat, 08 Jun 2024 14:07:00 +0000

vim with http://1014.org/vimrc ... compiling either with make (linux) or xcode (macOS) or VS (windows). command line git too. slack, thunderbird, firefox.

hey jf- how do you feel about "the war on drugs"? is there an actual war? + (have the global nations armed forces,police & 3 letter agencies let the public down, with the huge amount of intelligence collection available?) ta

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:52:00 +0000

it's a huge waste of time and money and human suffering, beware of the war on *abstract thing*.

someone took the creative render of a physical winamp and made something functional (they threw it on an LCD) hackster.io/news/party-like-it-s-1.../ sir are you classified as human

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:26:00 +0000

silliness

hey jf.. "what? where? why?,,,,when?,will?,how?

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:29:00 +0000

Huh.

Did you ever got tendinitis on your knee from running? Do you streatch ?

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:29:00 +0000

I have but not in a long time. I do stretch things. On very long runs with lots of descent my knees usually end up getting tight enough that you can't run on them correctly. Gotta do more strength training for the quads, I think!

I am using IntelliJ IDEA for Java & Python. So far it was running good. I could compile all Java codes, until I made a new file with Python. After compiling Python codes, which was running nicely too, I can't compile my Java codes now. I can't even see the green 'Run' button on any Java codes, but I can see that in Python codes. Strange! Do you know anything about this?

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:53:00 +0000

No idea, never used any of that, sorry!

what's your favorite artist?

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:58:00 +0000

nice try, password recovery exploiting bot! just kidding. Not sure I have one, but I must say I do appreciate the painting Starry Night.

What will happen if Windows become open source?

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:58:00 +0000

I doubt it will!

did you ever imagine you could basically run your rig and personal stuff with an M1 mac book air? like in the small format kind of thing, not that at that time there would be any equivalent. Say, when you started coding reaper, or even before with winamp. I feel these computers are really snappy (M2 max here) and that changes things hahah so yeah, would you have pogrammed reaper to be so power efficient still? Knowing this was ahead a few years after? altho I guess that snappiness is also thanks to you guys

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:59:00 +0000

Hah most of my recording is done on a i7 from like 2010 so not surprising at all! The more amazing thing is you could do most of it on a Raspberry Pi these days...

After running do you feel different like that good physical sensation after making sports? Does it take you a lot of time/distance running to get there?

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 02:57:00 +0000

Sometimes it takes maybe 20 minutes to feel good, though if you go too fast then you don't really feel good until you stop (e.g. if you properly race a 5k, it sucks the whole time).

Without Googling, do you know who Karlheinz Brandenburg is?

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:28:00 +0000

I didn't remember at first but the moment I googled it I was like oh yeah the suzanne vega fan hah

This wave of AI is be shaping up to be an aggressive bubble, surely?

Fri, 31 May 2024 16:22:00 +0000

It's certainly interesting, however whether it becomes sufficiently useful to justify the cost in contexts where the risks are tolerable is another question. What I will say is that I don't find it appealing, personally.

Hey jf - I have a very interesting question for you. How does a DAW keep track of time? Ticks, OS clock, or something completely else? Especially when it comes to calculating BPM, time signature, song length, and etc.

Thu, 30 May 2024 14:52:00 +0000

Depends on the DAW! In general though the samples-processed is the most important, the OS time isn't as relevant. REAPER tracks project position in seconds as a double, which has its own set of problems. I remember Paul the Ardour dev saying at some point they switched to some other unit like 100-nanosecond intervals or something, but I forget what it was exactly.

hey jf- you much of a suit/shirt/tie guy? + do you think suits are a must have for any business or social occasions? ta.

Wed, 29 May 2024 18:25:00 +0000

Not so much, but I guess it's a good thing to have around to go with the flow

Can we see Reaper update to use as mixer with vca spills (separate mixes to busses) i mean visible mixer layout for busses apart from master mixer

Tue, 28 May 2024 15:55:00 +0000

hmm see note above

Are there some branches in the "in house" REAPER repo that were stashed for good? What did they contain? Curious about the parts the end user never get to see :)

Mon, 27 May 2024 19:25:00 +0000

we have some "hold" branches which are there for future use. Sometimes they were in a +dev build but then deemed not ready. Other things that could be useful someday but have no real point now (like using a slightly newer CoreAudio API on macOS - no point in switching now, but if at some point we have to update to a newer dev tools and they remove the old API, we'll need it). Or something to use the new Win10+ thread name API, which would be useful for debuggers. Except- no debuggers currently support it, lol.

What do you think of the new Snapdragon X elite chips laptops? Do you think you'll give them a try since they are looking pretty good for the price and battery life and the performance is pretty much comparable to M3/M4 as well. Also, will Reaper be supported Windows arm as well in the future?

Sun, 26 May 2024 19:18:00 +0000

I have too many laptops, and my M1 MBA can run Win11 in UTM at full speed so that'll leave me inclined to do that. We have REAPER ready to run in ARM64EC on Windows 11 (a build is posted on our prerelease site), once there's enough demand we'll probably release it in beta. But at the moment there is roughly no demand.

Hey, Justin. Sometimes I want to automate volume from plugin. Which of native Reaper plugins would you recommend for lowest zipper noise? Usually I use volume slider in ReaEQ. Is that a good choice?

Sun, 26 May 2024 19:15:00 +0000

ReaEQ is fine and won't zipper IIRC, but it won't be sample-accurate. I'd use JS: Volume/Pan Smoother v5 for that.

Why do you consider it terrible code?

Sun, 26 May 2024 19:14:00 +0000

When I started writing it, documentation was not what it was today, and I was still learning to program Windows applications. And then it's evolved since then, but not entirely for the best reasons.

So, the company that owns Winamp has plans for open sourcing it. (youtube.com/watch?v=2Sy90K9CB8w What are your thoughts?

Sun, 26 May 2024 03:00:00 +0000

It's ancient terrible code anyway ;)

Have you seen the experimental DAW Blockhead (youtube.com/watch?v=P5fWPBOdrY8? What do you think of it?

Sun, 26 May 2024 00:38:00 +0000

I watched some of a video of it a while back, was kinda cute but nothing I'd want to use

Do you think Reaper will ever get vector support instead of raster for the ui, icons etc in the future?

Sun, 26 May 2024 00:38:00 +0000

No plans, but we'll see

hey jf- (a double whammy!) If space is a vacuum,how can it be cold? (considering equilibrium) + if space IS a vacuum, what IS the "container"? ta

Sun, 26 May 2024 00:39:00 +0000

Is space cold? also I don't think it's a vacuum, just has areas with less matter than others

Do you prefer act on press or release for UI design?

Sat, 25 May 2024 12:41:00 +0000

release feels better most of the time

What was the most painful injury you've ever had?

Thu, 23 May 2024 03:26:00 +0000

When I was 17 I did some really stupid stuff on rollerblades and sprained (?) or overextended my hip. Hurt like hell at the time, and for days. Probably fucked up my biomechanics, too, I should've done a lot of PT but didn't. So now a lot of my strength training is compensating for that, in order to make things work right for running.

hey jf- we love using spectrograms & sonograms..are you aware of the slightly more advanced "spectrum reassignment method" ? ta

Thu, 23 May 2024 03:21:00 +0000

You mean where you increase the resolution of a spectrogram without reducing the time sensitivity, by doing twice the analysis but at a slight offset?

Are you competitive when you go in marathons? Like trying to reach in a good place, or breaking a personal record?

Wed, 22 May 2024 18:24:00 +0000

I'm almost never (I'll explain the almost in a sec) competitive in relation to other people, but depending on how I'm feeling and how well trained I am I will look at PRing. Last weekend I succeeded in that for a half marathon, shaving more than 4 minutes off of my previous best time which was 10 years ago. I was still in something like 1250th place though lol.

Only one time have I been competitive - in a 50k a couple of years ago, there were two people ahead of me, and at some point they went off piste, and so around halfway through I found myself in the lead (the aid station volunteers told me). So the rest of that race I spent looking over my shoulder worried about getting passed. I ended up winning, but it probably would've been more fun to just enjoy it and not care.

A couple of questions, actually; first one would be why the "subdirectory per project" option is/was not a default from the start? It works perfectly and makes life so much easier. :-) The second question relates to Save Take dialog. If one clicks on "Delete sected" and no item is selected, the application window/dialog loses focus. Seemingly this only affects Linux. Is there a fix in the works, or should I consider wrangling the window manager? Keep up the good work!!

Wed, 22 May 2024 13:38:00 +0000

These are probably too REAPER-y to really be answered here (see note above) .. but re: the second part, I've noticed this annoyance too, I think it's window-manager specific, but I should see if I can come up with a workaround.

Me and a friend of mine were talking about "the good ol' days", and he told me about the floating head you'd find in old version of Winamp that scarred him for life. I know it's been 20+ years, but do you know who drew that? And if so, is there more? I love that image! :D

Tue, 21 May 2024 20:44:00 +0000

I forget! It's probably in the credits for those old versions though.

Everyone online is talking about AI constantly. Do you have any use for it in your work? Kinda seems like the hip new buzzword.

Tue, 21 May 2024 20:44:00 +0000

Not that I've found yet, it's interesting to me but maybe not as interesting as people are thinking it is.

Have you ever thought of your work in programming as a kind of stewardship toward humanity?

Tue, 21 May 2024 20:44:00 +0000

I look at it as more trivial in the scheme of things but still worthwhile, I guess.

hey jf- ever been out to "protest" for something you were/are passionate about? (+do you think verbal or silent protests actually achieve any goals for a majority of people who make them efforts?) ta.

Tue, 21 May 2024 20:43:00 +0000

I have, and while I'm not sure it ever has an effect, raising your objection is important.

How do u learn how to code?

Sun, 19 May 2024 19:28:00 +0000

it's hard for me to answer this because my experience was in a world that was so much different from today's! get an atari 800xl and start typing in BASIC programs from Antic magazine? that would be ludicrous.

Do you code standing, lying down, seated, crouched ?

Sun, 19 May 2024 19:25:00 +0000

mostly standing these days

What movie did you watch when you were young that's stuck with you?

Sun, 19 May 2024 19:26:00 +0000

too many! just today I was quoting Wargames. and I have vivid memories of watching Commando.

COFFEE AND JAM THIS WEEKEND?

Fri, 17 May 2024 14:31:00 +0000

busy this weekend (brooklyn half, recovery, boathouse plans) but maybe during the week. email

Back in March 1998, a string of new Winamp versions in the 1.8 range were released adding genre versions, some of which would be backported into the ID3 spec. In Winamp 1.82, the genre "Negerpunk" was added (which, of course, isn't a real genre). Do you remember the story behind the bit at Nullsoft, or anyone else that may know more about it?

Fri, 17 May 2024 11:47:00 +0000

I was adding things (including features, and genres) in response to requests from EFnet IRC, including, regrettably, that one.

As a programmer, I often deviate from a healthy lifestyle and get sucked into my work. Do you get into positions like that as well?

Fri, 17 May 2024 11:46:00 +0000

I used to but as I've gotten older I've been better about keeping a balance.

Do you have any future plans for Reaper?

Fri, 17 May 2024 02:40:00 +0000

Fix more bugs and add more features, hah.

Since it will be legal to do now, do you have any interest in hacking on your old code again and adding features to winamp?

Fri, 17 May 2024 02:40:00 +0000

we'll see what the license is, but nah I think my time is better spent on REAPER. I don't use Windows enough anyway.

What's your take on this? llama-group.com/wp-content/uploads...(TL;DR the people who own Winamp are open sourcing it)

Fri, 17 May 2024 02:40:00 +0000

Hopefully they GPL it! It's all based on a bit of ancient crap written by a stupid teenager so it will be nice if someone cleans it up and modernizes it a bit. but not too much.

Is there an universal order?

Thu, 16 May 2024 18:23:00 +0000

Not sure I follow that question

Is the name "ReaSamplomatic 5000" based on "Net-o-Matic 5000"? Were you into this game back then? warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Net-o-Matic_5000

Thu, 16 May 2024 18:23:00 +0000

Not that I know of, lol, but great minds... or maybe I was influenced by the culture.

if you were 21 again, what would you code and build now

Wed, 15 May 2024 20:15:00 +0000

Hmm do I have the 30 years of programming memories to work with or am I really 21 again? Does REAPER exist? etc.

Do you like some boardgame?

Wed, 15 May 2024 14:41:00 +0000

been playing backgammon lately but not sure that counts ;)

hey jf- is the future "cloud" processing? (for reaper)

Sun, 12 May 2024 18:38:00 +0000

not that I can see

are there a lot of feature branches on the line besides the current ones on dev? not asking specifically for one, maybe mroe like a number, just curious if there's a queu of features youre maybe interested in but can't manage yet or for any reason are just there waiting. Or everything on dev is all there is?

Sun, 12 May 2024 18:37:00 +0000

There are some wip branches but not sure how promising they are, also some "would be nice" todos...

Thanks for being there

Fri, 10 May 2024 22:02:00 +0000

And you too!

Just read this and it made me think of you and your running. (: sciencealert.com/elite-runners-liv...

Fri, 10 May 2024 22:02:00 +0000

Hah well I can't run a 4 min mile that's for sure! and they don't establish causality, maybe those who are able to run so quickly just live longer... but anyway I like running and it seems to be what we're made for!

Just noticed, that in v7 mouse-modifiers differentiate now between mouse-modifier actions and regular actions in the reaper-menu.ini. Thanks for this addition.

Wed, 08 May 2024 22:34:00 +0000

Ah yes, right on

Dear Justin, I've searched extensively on forums and couldn't find an answer. Is there a way to modify the default behavior of routing a multi-channel track so that it sends all channels to another multi-channel track, instead of just "channels 1-2"? This is crucial for handling templates with hundreds of tracks. I tried using the SetTrackSendInfo_Value method for scripting, but it didn't work as expected. Thank you for your help.

Wed, 08 May 2024 22:35:00 +0000

Hmm I don't think so, we should add that to the "track/send defaults" in the prefs, will look at that.

hey jf- why do we have vertical piano rolls in daws when a piano is played horizontally? (other than obvious answer) heh, would a horizontal piano roll make no sense to people? (+bonus question! how do you feel about top> bottom tracker style rolls?) ta

Wed, 08 May 2024 22:36:00 +0000

I guess because we usually represent time as left to right? the only vertical piano rolls I've seen have the music come from the top, which is also backwards because we read top to bottom etc...

Which countries have you been to?

Tue, 07 May 2024 19:23:00 +0000

The big North American ones, a few in the Caribbean, maybe 8 or so in Europe and Tahiti.

Have you got any favourite desert island distortion/overdrive/fuzz?

Tue, 07 May 2024 09:23:00 +0000

I’m very happy with my Plasmatron, but the Strymon Sunset is pretty versatile for the non-fuzz side of that question. But a friend has a lot of pedals and there are so many good ones!

Favorite destination to travel

Mon, 06 May 2024 22:15:00 +0000

I dunno, but I find I need a purpose for it to be fulfilling.

Hey Justin, I'm a beginner, can you give me a licence now for reaper , I will buy it when I have money , till then can you. In return I will do videos with the software . Please , I will be grateful , I know 80dollars is very less for a developed country, but for a poor being like us it's difficult, please don't ignore this., hope you will respond .

Mon, 06 May 2024 22:14:00 +0000

I'm sure if you go a little past the 60-day eval period nobody will show up at your house and arrest you.

Do you know any trick to batch normalise all my 2000+ mp3 songs upto the volume of the loudest song I have got?

Mon, 06 May 2024 12:23:00 +0000

not sure if it's what you're really looking for, but replaygain is probably a good idea?

hey jf-most like drums,bass,guitar n vocals ..have you considered branching into some of the worlds vast array of instruments//tones or techniques.? .we can across a channel recently (youtube.com/@learningmusichub/videos & tohught some of the choices were gorgeous,inspiring & really unique...worth a share, if you care?

Mon, 06 May 2024 12:24:00 +0000

been really enjoying the sax but only so much time

hey jf. are you a C++ dev or C w/ classes dev?

Sun, 05 May 2024 14:51:00 +0000

Somewhere in between... classes are useful, templates are useful (though you have to keep in mind the potential code size implications). Operator overloading can be very useful when refactoring code but I wouldn't write brand new code using it. Inheritance and virtual functions can be very useful, but multiple inheritance I will try to avoid, etc.

What is your best memorable day in your life

Sun, 05 May 2024 14:48:00 +0000

Hell if I know they all blend together. It probably changes day to day. The day in January when I ran my last trail race was pretty amazing.

Which is your favourite artist DAW ?

Sun, 05 May 2024 14:47:00 +0000

Hmm not sure what an artist DAW is?

hey jf- any note worthy dreams lately? (do you remember any usually?)

Fri, 03 May 2024 17:49:00 +0000

I remember them for a short bit but any time I try to articulate them they just seem too weird to put into words

What are your favorite tenor sax players ?

Fri, 03 May 2024 17:48:00 +0000

Hah no idea

If you had a choice between removing bread or rice, what would you pick?

Fri, 03 May 2024 17:48:00 +0000

Hmm tough one, I'd probably keep bread.

When it is raining/snowing do you still do your runs? If so, do you get some chill, cold from it?

Thu, 02 May 2024 21:45:00 +0000

Sure yeah, if it's above freezing I usually wear shorts and a long sleeved wool shirt, below freezing maybe tights depending on how long I go out. Light gloves or heavy mittens for the hands. Colds you only get if there's a pathogen...

If you had to rewrite Reaper from scratch again, how long do you think it would take you to get back to the same point?

Thu, 02 May 2024 21:26:00 +0000

I would refuse, but probably a long time

hi Justin, what are your thoughts on cryptocurrency... is it all just a big ponzi?

Thu, 02 May 2024 21:27:00 +0000

totally, but don't forget it's also good for demanding ransoms etc!

So when compiling Reaper for Windows. Do you use a virtual machine or bare metal for Windows?

Thu, 02 May 2024 12:57:00 +0000

Usually the latter but sometimes the former

Would you vote for Bernie Sanders?

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:06:00 +0000

If he had a reasonable chance of winning, yeah! But seriously he's too old too.

What is the most recent thing you learned regarding programming?

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:50:00 +0000

Not exactly programming but win32-API, the way that GetMessage()/PeekMessage() generates mouse events based on whether the "mouse-changed" internal state is set, and the prioritization of that related to other events such as timers and paint events, and how you can use PeekMessage() with PM_QS_* flags in order to prioritize those other events if desired...

hey jf- in your mind, is there any benefits for using 32bit integers rather than 32bfp? reasons? (ie: rearouting audio) ta

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:08:00 +0000

There are some theoretical scenarios that could be advantageous but for real life I'd say 32FP is the way to go. The reason we offer 32I is for compatibility with software that doesn't support 32FP.

would you ever consider taking a programming course if it means it could make reaper better in some way?

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0000

I'd have to do a holistic cost/benefit analysis which would include the time/effort/interest/enjoyment of such a thing. Hard to imagine, though.

How's life treating ya jf

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Not bad not bad

Hey Justin, I've been a huge fan from the Winamp era. I recently stumbled upon one of your answers where you shared that not having kids has been a part of your approach to a long-lasting marriage. It's an interesting perspective, especially considering the global trends on shrinking population. Given your successful career and the your life filled with outdoor adventures, music, reading, and meaningful work, I'm quite intrigued. Would you be willing to share a bit more about your decision not to have kids?

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000

That was sort of a joke (its effect on our marriage) but not sure what else there is to share other than to say that it was always an obvious preference for both of us. So it wasn't a decision that was contemplated at length, it was a natural conclusion that I have not yet regretted.

Re the global trends mentioned in the question: I don't think the global population is decreasing yet, but the growth is slowing (so if the trends continue, it would decrease at some point).

Do you have fear biking around NY ? Whenever I do more distant pedals around my city I am a little scared because of the caos cars make, also some drivers dont give a damn about cyclist. Fortunately nothing happened until today, but I am always hearing some tragic news have you ever got into some accident, is close to someone that got into one?

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:12:00 +0000

On the plus side, usually (if you pick your route right) the cars aren't moving so fast, so there's that. For whatever reason I'm not too afraid, the few times I've fallen on a bike haven't involved cars. The last year or so I've been walking most of my miles instead of riding, for the time on my feet. Doing around 80 miles of walk+run per week now, and it feels good.

Why does Winamp 5.9.2 on Windows use 2% CPU when idle?

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:50:00 +0000

doing idle stuff, I'm sure. Probably calling Sleep(1) at times...

Did you see the Physical Winamp (part 1) Dirk de la Hunt on YouTube that went up yesterday? Pretty neat.

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:50:00 +0000

hah cute

Do you follow any particular tech blog for new skill acquisition? How do you stay on top of what's happening in the DSP world for example?

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:50:00 +0000

no but I sometimes read Raymond Chen's blog, and hacker news.

hey jf- for you,what is the actual "meaning of life"?

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:08:00 +0000

no idea, thus we continue

Do you telecommute with Schwa everytime a build is made? Would it be possible that both of you uploaded one at the same time on landoleet?

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:54:00 +0000

Some coordination is usually done ("ready for a build?") but the builds happen via git and automatic infrastructure, which manages race conditions.

Reaper/Reaper Lite for iPadOS?

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:54:00 +0000

nah

Have you checked out the new Pearl Jam album yet? Thoughts?

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:55:00 +0000

I stopped paying attention after the first couple...

Hey, what technology do you use on a daily basis? Like computers to dev, music, personal use, phone, speakers, headphones, keyboard, mouse, etc.?

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:57:00 +0000

various computers for dev (usually M1 MBA or a 2015 rMBP w/ thunderbolt display and external keyboard (original MS natural kb) mouse (cheapo whatever), but also sometimes a Windows laptop or linux thinkpad or linux DAW box). iphone 11 pro for phone stuff. Various headphones and speakers. When talking on the phone or riding the train I'll use some 2nd gen airpod pro, which are pretty fantastic.

It's possible to create hudden water marks on digital images. I think that would be possible with audio too. Could we? Should we?

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:47:00 +0000

It is definitely possible and already done regularly afaik. Could/should, meh? I wouldn't bother.

When did you first start being interested in birds and how many species have you seen? Completely different tack, have you tried a Moka pot/Bialetti for coffee? I've been traveling in Italy recently and I don't know if I'll be able to go back to the French Press, the moka pot is just so much better.

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:46:00 +0000

Decades ago I had a little interest and bought a nice 400mm lens, then I forgot about it until recently, after having moved near Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Also a few years ago I was on the coast in California and appreciated some of the birds there (Godwits and Wimbrels and such). Not really keeping track of the counts, but probably (guessing) 15 in Prospect Park so far...

Re: moka pot, yeah, I've used them. I feel like every few years my tastes change and I go a different route. But I like all coffee (though I prefer not-too-dark roasts).

Can I use reaper for free for my songs on streaming platforms? I have a small audience

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:26:00 +0000

If you produce them all within the 60-day evaluation period, yeah! ;)

Do you think you'll ever produce another project / program that recaptures the spirit of the late 90s early 2000s?

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 01:20:00 +0000

Hah I dunno no plans

hey jf- do you think modern societies are putting too much emphasis on "individuals" rather than actual local or global "communities" these days? (do you feel a real part of any local or national community for eg) ta.

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 01:21:00 +0000

I dunno, communities are composed of individuals. The communities I'm a part of are self-organizing and not purely geographic.

Hi Justin! Would you mind describing exactly how JSFX resolves its imports? It seems to search fx folder recursively, but also ignores path "part" that doesn't exist? Thanks :)

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:33:00 +0000

If you specify a relative_path, e.g a/b/c.jsfx-inc: it first looks for path_of_calling_code/a/b/c.jsfx-inc, then path_of_calling_code/b/c.jsfx-inc then path_of_calling_code/c.jsfx-inc.

If you specify a filename only, e.g. c.jsfx-inc, it first looks in path_of_calling_code/c.jsfx-inc.

If the above paths are not found, then it does a recursive search of the JSFX Effects directory for the file in question, ignoring any relative path. The recursive search is a bit random in the order, if you have foo/c.jsfx-inc and foo/bar/way/down/deep/c.jsfx-inc, it could return either depending on the filesystem. (IMO this isn't ideal, it would be nicer if it always returned foo/c.jsfx-inc in that case, but alas...)

why does the midi editor act differently when docked vs undocked? it feels faster when docked. Just really curious.

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:27:00 +0000

Depends on the OS, I guess, but when undocked the updates don't have to get integrated into a more complex window hierarchy which might have more compositing...

Hi Justin. Hope you remember me (Discord Online Jamming Central dude). It's been a while since we've communicated. I'm still alive and well :) - How are you doing today? Just want to say thank you for putting my community on Ninjam. It really has been a help for you to bring in more ninjammers and bringing my love within Reaper as my recommended daw :) - Do you usually jam out? Online? IRL? Would be fun to play some music with you!

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:27:00 +0000

I mostly play in person these days yeah :)

Any tips for new runners ? For avoiding injuries and increasing the distance... Started recently, doing 5 ~ 7km, want to try go to 20km this year.

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:16:00 +0000

a few things that I've found to be helpful. Everybody is different, of course, but these are some thoughts:

Go slow! speed work is great and useful but 90% of your running should be at a very easy pace. E.g. if I'm doing intervals or something I'd do them once a week at most, and most of the other days would be slow. Slow vs fast is relative -- for me at this point I might do 4 minute intervals at around a 6:00/mile pace as a workout (which is tough!), but most of my running will be around 9:00-11:00/mile (which is very easy). If you have a watch with a HR monitor you can estimate your HR zones which can be helpful in determining the best paces...
I wouldn't worry about the miles-in-one-day statistic as much as your how-many-miles-in-the-last-7-days stat. If you keep that number from increasing too quickly, you should be OK. People like to say no more than a 10% increase per week, which seems about right. (though once you get more conditioned you have more flexibility, probably). It's also good to have some easier weeks to let your body recover. People often do 3 weeks of increasing mileage, then a week where you dial it back and let yourself recover.
Strength training is very helpful, especially when you find yourself sore in spots. Finding someone to advise you on that is essential (it's easy to do the wrong things).

I could go on but there are probably better resources on the internet anyway :) Have fun though! I love running. Oh also, trail running is the best. Most of my running on roads is so that I can run trails more when I get the chance lol.

Is making software free to use, without blocking it, a good thing? In my opinion, free software is a bad concept. People don't realize how much work is involved. And it develops an even more ungrateful mentality among users. They only want what's free. Do we eat and dress for free? So why could we use software for free?

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:47:00 +0000

Disagree, it's a false equivalency. Software is not food or clothing.

Have you tried a pastrami sandwich at Katz?

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:34:00 +0000

Yes! Very good. It's been a number of years though. Also: expensive, and huge.

Have you ever thought/tried to port reaper on a bsd system?

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:35:00 +0000

never bothered, no. probably works in freebsd's linux emulation?

Are you winamp manager on now ?

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:35:00 +0000

Nope

can an elephant survive in the north pole?

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:35:00 +0000

Hard to imagine it would be able to without a lot of technology but what do I know?

would you rather have 10 million dollars and be known by 100 million people, or, 20 million dollars and be known by 1 million people

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:37:00 +0000

I'd take 80 million and be known by 100.

Besides running do you also go to gym, make strength exercises?

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:38:00 +0000

I do strength stuff one or two days a week, mostly core and back, with some legs as needed for my various injuries/problem spots.

Hi Justin! I'm a uni student in South Africa who's studying Sound Design. I was wondering how you feel about universities using Reaper as the jumping off point for students to learn how to use DAWs and mix/edit. I've been introduced to all the other big name DAWs but still prefer and cling to Reaper as it's (in my subjective opinion) the most user-friendly and adjustable out there.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 21:39:00 +0000

I value, as an artist and craftsperson, not developing skills too specific to a particular tool.

How does winamp fill the playlist so quickly when folders are dragged onto it? For example, 77k mp3 files can be added in about 2 seconds.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:18:00 +0000

I imagine that's the amount of time it takes to scan the filesystem... it doesn't query information about the files (e.g. length or metadata), just the file reference (and it populates the other info later).

I am Japanese and do not speak English. My favorite music application provides a very good manual in pdf format, but I always have trouble translating it using translation web services. They seem to create their manuals with libreoffice writer and export them to pdf, so I would be happy if they could also convert them to html and publish them with a command like this. `libreoffice --writer --headless --convert-to pdf html *.odt` How do you think I should propose them to the development team?

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:17:00 +0000

Hah let me ask geoff about this!

Is there any way that I can access the source code for WinAmp? I am attempting to convert the credits screen into a playable version of doom for fun.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:12:00 +0000

Sounds like a good cause but I don't have it or know who has it other than the new owners

what is your longest distance running non stop?

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:50:00 +0000

Literally running and completely non-stop? A marathon, 26.2 miles. Allowing for walking and hiking to be included if mixed with running, and stopping for food/bathroom/foot maintenance, 100km (62 miles).

hey jf- any interests towards the analog computer advances? can you see any good reasons for looking at this old/new tech any further?

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:48:00 +0000

Shrug no idea.

Did you know the entire icecast streaming music directory can be downloaded? dir.xiph.org/yp.xml

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:48:00 +0000

Nice, how many people are using that these days?

What advice would you give to yourself 20 years ago?

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 23:39:00 +0000

Start trail running again, you fool!

hey jf- is there something wrong with our planet earth?? after watching a recent presentation by our dearest elon musk..we have come to the conclusion this guy is insane! #he wants to move humans to a "dead planet" (mars) how do you feel about this insanity? heh

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 23:39:00 +0000

I know, right? this excellent Wired article explains it perfectly:

   I suspect that the tech billionaires didn’t want to be heroes merely
   by saving individual lives. That’s just what firemen do; that’s just
   what Spider-Man does. The billionaires wanted to be heroes who saved
   the whole human race. That’s what Iron Man does.

Do you listen to U2?

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 23:39:00 +0000

I liked The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby a lot, but haven't kept up since then. Haven't listened to either of those in at least 10 years, though.

will you add gain reduction meter on channel in mixer view, like in Logic pro

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:10:00 +0000

This is not the appropriate venue (see Note above), but it is already supported: right click the track, go to metering, choose "gain reduction metering"

Import of EQ from text in ReaEQ. add this in next updates if possible. crinacle.com/graphs/iems/graphtool...Preamp: -4.0 dB Filter 1: ON PK Fc 85 Hz Gain 1.9 dB Q 0.600 Filter 2: ON PK Fc 180 Hz Gain 1.2 dB Q 2.000 Filter 3: ON PK Fc 420 Hz Gain 1.5 dB Q 2.000 Filter 4: ON PK Fc 1500 Hz Gain -2.2 dB Q 1.300 Filter 5: ON PK Fc 4400 Hz Gain -1.0 dB Q 2.000 Filter 6: ON PK Fc 6000 Hz Gain 2.1 dB Q 1.800 Filter 7: ON PK Fc 8100 Hz Gain -2.

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:10:00 +0000

This is not the appropriate venue (see Note above), someone (you?) should write a ReaScript to do this.

I have heard that the word Hacker has to do with something like using an axe and whatever wood is lying around to quickly build something and fix things. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hacker#Etym...This also seems to me to have something to do with the word REAPER, what do you think? I have the impression that the word REAPER is about gaining substance by reducing, and I find it a very attractive word/direction.

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:08:00 +0000

Hah cool. Yeah. REAPER was about reaping a harvest, for me...

Would you go on a run with the Reaper community one day? Not to talk about Reaper, but just being with humans that happen to share a common interest and just having fun.

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:08:00 +0000

Hah sure

hey jf- when people say music can be an emotional experience...are there many (or any) songs that can geniunely bring tears of either sadness or happiness for you?

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:09:00 +0000

Yeah usually for the associated memories though, as opposed to purely from the music. But this is hard to untangle.

I reckon a lot of people have asked you this in the recent past but besides Reaper do you have any other big development project in mind or in the making?

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 02:10:00 +0000

Not at the moment. I still want someone to make a geotag-centric photo sharing/discovery site -- something like "in space and time". and have gpx support so you could cross-reference against runs/bike rides/etc. but I won't do it, too much work and would probably never get enough users to be useful.

Hey, what kinda music are you into nowadays? How much time do you spend playing music?

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:47:00 +0000

I've been really digging Idles. And all of the old favorites too. Time spent playing music varies week to week and month to month, but I enjoy it.

Have you seen this post re:darkmode, on the forum? forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=...

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:37:00 +0000

Nice, I hadn't

Do you work together with schwa to solve a same problem or do you work separately on different problems?

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:17:00 +0000

It depends on how the problem relates to our respective areas of expertise: sometimes we collaborate on problems, other times we deal with them completely separately.

hey jf- did you take note of ytubes updated terms about "altered content"? & do you see any reason to be #alarmed by any of these new terms?

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:18:00 +0000

I hadn't seen this, thanks for the heads-up! Looks like a good policy for them to have.

Is the whole ninjam codebase covered by GPLv2? There's a confusing ninjam/license.txt file stating a custom license agreement but it's not clear what this applies to.

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:53:00 +0000

ah thanks, I will remove that ninjam/license.txt -- it is all GPLv2

When you're running, do you think about the REAPER code? Do you have any new ideas that come to mind at that moment? :)

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:16:00 +0000

Sometimes, usually it's more a problem-solving sort of thing rather than new ideas, but new ideas have also happened.

I am currently designing a custom game engine and I have taken inspiration from Reaper for it's modular architecture. I was wondering if I should create a custom plugin architecture for the engine modules or just use dlopen() and LoadLibraryA with compatibility stubs? Thanks in advance.

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:20:00 +0000

Whatever works really!

Are you programming for cache? What's your idea about data oriented programming?

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:20:00 +0000

Cache considerations in performance sensitive code are definitely a thing!

hey jf- have you tested any of the brand virtual headsets & will you be walking or running around the city with any on soon? :D

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:44:00 +0000

I tried one of the Apple ones, it was simultaneously amazing and also a long way from being something I would use. Maybe in a few generations…

What are you coding tools (OS, text editor/IDE, pipeline, etc.)?

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:40:00 +0000

OS: whichever, usually macOS out of convenience (M1 MBA is light and the battery lasts forever). vim for text editing, and preferred build tool is make (though I'll use a VS version 2013-2022, or Xcode as needed for those platforms). For release REAPER builds we use gcc 4.x for linux, xcode12 for macOS universal, Xcode9+ICC for macOS intel, and VC2005+ICC for Windows.

can't you swing triplets? or its only for eight note/16ths etc?

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 04:43:00 +0000

In REAPER anyway it's only for 8ths/16ths but I dunno

How much hours do you sleep, do you see any correlation between how good you rest and work/exercise productivity?

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 04:43:00 +0000

I prefer 9-10 hours, not sure if I've analyzed correlations but I definitely feel terrible when I don't get enough sleep.

hey jf- "Free Palestine"? how do you feel about all these conflicting views between people?

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 04:15:00 +0000

That conversation is full of tragedies, including the most minor which is that you can't really have a civil discussion about it on the internet without people yelling names at you. Sigh.

(as evidenced by the commenters, again, disabled comments, double sigh)

Hey Justin, how can I get in touch with you? Check iris.la

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:56:00 +0000

You can email me at my first name and company name dot com.

At our age, something is always hurting. What's currently hurting on your body?

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:49:00 +0000

My glutes pretty much always hurt these days, though it is worse when they get a lot of use.

Are you aware of the latest(?) change in the VST3 SDK license no longer containing an exception for existing hosts to host VST2 plugins? kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p...What are your thoughts, will that affect REAPER?

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:50:00 +0000

Yeah that's pretty old I think?

Hi, how can I use Winamp on my Mac ? I can't open the app because it constantly crashes, saying that it closed unexpectedly.

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:46:00 +0000

Are you running Windows in Parallels or something? Or is there a mac version you're trying to run? Anyway Winamp isn't something I've touched in about 20 years so I'm probably not the best person to ask.

Hey justin, don't you think that AI will make all daws obsolete? Can Reaper adapt to this?

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 03:34:00 +0000

We'll see, lol

hey jf- do you have any fears or concerns about being cloned or replicated either physically or virtually?

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:54:00 +0000

Not really, no. Raises all sorts of interesting questions for sure, but I can't say I'm concerned. Did you read the Neal Stephenson novel "Fall" ?

Why it is compulsory to make at least one public class in Java, whereas there is no needed to make a class in C++?

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:55:00 +0000

I don't do a lot of Java but my memory is that Java doesn't have a main() function (as C/C++ do), but a main class instead?

Hey Justin, what would be your suggestion for the best way to learn how to develop plugins from scratch? YouTube, Books, Websites, School? I think I'm having decision paralysis

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:29:00 +0000

It's always hard to know the answer to this kind of question, the only way I've experienced is one that is long and thus probably not what I would recommend! I'd say start with the VST3 SDK examples and go from there...

Software architecture for multi-threaded GUI: back when you were designing REAPER projects would it make sense performance-wise for a threaded msg_loop where its thread was associated with an instance of main dialog? Leaving ``tab switch'' to the operating system similar to how IE was working back then.

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 04:29:00 +0000

Multithreading UI seems completely unnecessary to me and would make things a lot more difficult!

Is reaper compiled using Clang for windows?

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:42:00 +0000

Nope, vc/icc

Hey jf, have you a german origin?

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 06:43:00 +0000

Maybe somewhere in there but mostly Romanian I think

hey jf- so decimals.. if we use a calculator to show a monetary value of 1cent or penny (0.01) & multiply that by itself...why do we get a "lower" value than we began with? (answers on a postcard please!) LOL

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:10:00 +0000

if you take 1% of 1%, you get 0.01%...

What's your opinion on the trend towards closed ecosystems, especially "hub apps" in music tech like Native Access, Splice, UVI Workstation and all the DRM management stuff?

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:54:00 +0000

Big thumbs down, obviously. Computers should be about giving power and flexibility to the users. This is part of why I'm very anti-app-store when it comes to distribution.

If you compare the past and present, how has the process of making software known worldwide changed? Winamp was known worldwide back then. Did it work by word of mouth? And has that changed with Reaper? Greetings

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:55:00 +0000

Hard to say, I think good stuff spreads by word of mouth, just takes time. REAPER's userbase has grown a lot more slowly than Winamp's did, probably because it has taken a lot longer to develop, came to a market that was both a lot smaller and already very full of other DAWs. If you make a great app that does something new that a lot of people want to do, I imagine it won't take long to find a lot of users.

apart from real drums, would you use superior drummer 3 or which software? thanks!

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:58:00 +0000

Whatever works, really!

Have you seen the new DAW Blockhead by colugo? It's very unique and interesting.

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:58:00 +0000

Just the youtube intro video

Is it possible to turn off anti-aliasing on the Winamp 2.95 playlist? The other text looks crisp.

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:58:00 +0000

There's probably an option to use the old bitmapped font in there somewhere

Why don't you learn synths & enhance your music skills? No time for it? Or virtual instruments aren't cup of your coffee?

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:57:00 +0000

Finite time and guitar is more fun! I have a Nord synth which I love playing though but I only give it a little bit of attention

Don't you want to work a bit harder on improving Reaper's MIDI soon?

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:57:00 +0000

See above disclaimer

Have you used all the three things : HTML, CSS & Javascript in making this askjf website?

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:33:00 +0000

there is very little javascript in the askjf site, the common header code at the top of this has a tiny bit, that's about it I think?

How much is your aws bill

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 03:50:00 +0000

it varies but around $1k/mo

hey jf- if you have a spare 3.5hrs? & like a 'story' with a happier ending.? or rather, a brighter beginning ! ( youtu.be/a1kespVSrfY?feature=shared) from: a friend of a friend. =)

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 05:07:00 +0000

hah don't think I do at the moment

does the internal version of iPlug support linux ?

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 05:08:00 +0000

not sure what "the internal version of iPlug" would be. The Rea* plugins in REAPER don't use iPlug.

what is the name of the web host you are using for reaper?

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:58:00 +0000

We use AWS for most things, and a few other providers for some things.

Still wearing a mask? if not,why not? ta.

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:17:00 +0000

In a lot of (most) places for sure

Reunion Tours (this time - Kaizers Orchestra): yay or nay, "I wanna see it again" or "It's never be going to be as good as it was"?

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:31:00 +0000

Don't know them, but I did see a Temple of the Dog reunion show when they were on tour and it was amazing. Though I was exhausted (unrelated to the show) and didn't stay for the encore, which I later regretted.

What your thoughts on Caustic 3? I used to make cool sounds on it using the synthesizers that it came with. It's a neat application. Now I use Reaper.

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:32:00 +0000

Not familiar with it!

Ok, l e been looking for a while now. Any tips on where to look for your hidden Easter eggs? The start up asks at the end if we found the hidden stuff. Not yet.

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:20:00 +0000

It's probably on the forum somewhere... try holding down a modifier key and then doing things with the mouse, maybe?

Have you watched the new rx-7 preview video? Any thoughts?

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:12:00 +0000

I haven't, will look out for it

In Java, why 'system.out.println' is long and why not simply use 'print'?

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:12:00 +0000

there is an appeal of not polluting a global namespace with a million functions, because if you make your own function called "print" then it will be ambiguous, when reading code, which one is called.

I will be publishing my first mobile application soon. It's nothing special or new, it's just something I think I might do better than anyone else. I've copied a lot from the "design principles" Winamp, because I grew up with it: Optimizing system usage, the ability to use skins and above all: not ripping people off. Instead, make them happy. Am I being too idealistic or do you think this kind of approach will still work today?

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Hard to say! I don't know much about the mobile space, either. iOS version?

What do you think the percentage of stuff in Reaper is things you wanted vs things that are in there because they're things that DAWs are supposed to have or have been requested?

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:02:00 +0000

It's probably 75% (complete guess -- by feature-count or LOC also a guess) things that I didn't ask for, but I often use things I didn't think I would.

I was reading something from the 60s and mentioned ``swell'' as an old-fashioned word. Could you give some info about the word as a native english speaker? e.g. in what contexts could be used then/now, thanks.

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:18:00 +0000

In modern English it might be used to describe what often happens to the body with injury: "my ankle started to swell after I sprained it." In this sense it could also be used metaphorically "his ego began to swell after the win."

Or another version, the relating to a particular waves, e.g. swells in the ocean, or the guitar feedback swelled, even.

Also it could be used as an adjective, maybe in the first half of the 20th century, which implies a positive thing. "Would you like to come to dinner on Friday? That would be swell."

English: lots of choices!

How would you go about licensing proprietary software? Specifically writing a EULA. I know that you are not a lawyer but I am having a hard time researching this and I'd thought I'd might ask you because you have a lot more experience than I do. And thank you for taking your time answering this question.

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:33:00 +0000

Having a lawyer help is the way to go for sure, but you could probably look at other licenses and find things that are important. At the end of the day, of course, a license is only as good as your ability to enforce it.

The Reaper DAW gets a lot of updates, but the Reaplugs VST suite was last updated in 2016. Why is it that Reaper gets so many updates but Reaplugs languishes for years?

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:31:00 +0000

Because ReaPlugs meh and REAPER yay. ReaPlugs were meant to be the gateway drug or something...

Agree? instagram.com/reel/C27H1muuVb_/

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:31:00 +0000

Some truth but not absolute truth

hey jf- nice technique to play with.. setup vocoder..use guitar as carrier- your voice as modulator..ever done that ? (+ bonus reaper technique in any comment 4 you!) ;)

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:30:00 +0000

Yeah, fun!

preference Intel or AMD?

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:01:00 +0000

Been a long time since I've had an AMD CPU, but can't say I really care anymore, they all run stuff fast as hell these days, and pretty happy with my M1 MBA and its ridiculous battery life...

hey jf- we have a slight problem to solve & wondered if you could help? question= how does water extinguish,or "put out" a fire or flame? (hows the chemistry these days??) ta!

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 02:46:00 +0000

I admit I'm not a chemist! My guess would be that it only works on a material which only burns when dry, e.g. wood. Using water to extinguish something more exotic, e.g. thermite, would probably not have the desired effect.

I recently told a major German software firm that I will no longer pay for upgrades because of Germany's enthusiastic support for Israel's ongoing atrocities. I don't use Waves products, because of it being based in Israel. Ditto for Intel. I like some music on DI.fm, but founder Ari Shohat has repulsive views he posts on twitter, so I avoid. Where do you stand?

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:33:00 +0000

I have a views that involve enough complexity and nuance that I don't feel like I can summarize it here and have it be reliably understood, which may feel like a failure to answer the question, but hopefully this provides sufficient information to you.

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What are you mostly up to these days?

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 03:48:00 +0000

programming, emailing, texting, walking, running, drinking coffee, eating, sleeping, listening to music, visiting friends, family. haven't played much music in the last few weeks, next week will be music-heavy

Random question but you don't have to answer. What compiler do you use to compile Reaper with? And how can you target multiple operating systems and CPU architectures from a single code base and tool chain?

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:27:00 +0000

different toolchains depending on platform -- VC2005/ICC10 for Windows, clang for macOS, gcc for Linux. A lot of the cross-platform-UI-ness comes from writing basic win32 code and using SWELL (part of WDL, open source etc) to target macOS/linux... and a lot of the audio/midi device code is platform-specific for each.

I am trying to store the state of a audio plugin to a ProjectStateContext directly. I'm running into an issue trying to write a large text chunk to the context. Any pointers? Do I need to break it up somehow?

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:16:00 +0000

cfg_encode_textblock is probably a good idea, unless you need newline encoding preserved, in which case you'd probably be better of base64 encoding it

hey jf- when you purchase any new tech..do you always rtfm?

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:22:00 +0000

Usually not, but sometimes

What is your opinion on OpenBSD or any other BSD derivative?

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:45:00 +0000

They're all fine, more or less the same thing right? But I end up on Linux because I'm used to it though

BTW, what's the time interval for posting several posts in a row from the same IP address? If i try two in a raw the website tells me to wait some time

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:23:00 +0000

I forget the logic involved there

Could you post a link to the page with images of REAPER old themes? i can't find the URL

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:22:00 +0000

perhaps you mean this (User 198.x posted this too)

hey jf- while making music via computers or hardwares..people often advise "use your ears" over "use your eyes"? question= have you ever done a session blindfolded..to "see" how that turns out in practice?? (some musicians ARE blind from birth of course) =)

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:20:00 +0000

I haven't done anything blindfolded, but when mixing sessions I definitely don't look at units or ratios or attack times or track meters much, and just tweak them til I like them. The exception is that I do look at the LUFS meter on the main outs to see if I'm near where I want to be as far as loudness.

Did you know the lead musician from Weezer has an active github? github.com/riverscuomo

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:26:00 +0000

I read that on the internet. I wonder if there are lots of lyric references in the code. sweater.destroy() etc.

When hosting VST2 plugin, should I call AudioEffect::setParameter from gui thread? Or can it be called from worker thread?

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:50:00 +0000

I assume you mean (AEffect*)->setParameter() (since that's the actual interface, AudioEffect may or may not be a valid thing for any given plug-in). From what I remember you can call it from either.

How do you feel this whole AI crazy will impact DAWs as we know them in the future?

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:50:00 +0000

Not sure, obviously for some tasks it will make things really easy (splitting mixes back in to stems, etc), but other tasks it's probably pointless and as expensive as having a human do it.

how does it feel as a millionaire sharing the same planet with people starving?

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:29:00 +0000

About as powerless as everybody else, I guess :(

hey jf- are you using a scientific calculator..or doing complex sums in your own head mainly?? ta.

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 03:13:00 +0000

The math I do is more algebra than computation. Occasionally I use calc.exe or its equivalent for quick estimates.

hope you're doing well. anything memorable happen for you this year yet?

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 03:13:00 +0000

Just completed my first 100km trail race!

Whatever happened to stashbox?

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 03:14:00 +0000

I think it was a personal project of its creator that became more work than fun, but I’m not really sure.

I bought a used "bass big muff pi electro-harmonix" stomp box at a thrift store and want to see if it works. Can I test it using my PC on the input side?

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:07:00 +0000

Hmm if you have a bass or guitar to plug into it, you could connect the output to a preamp on your computer, sure. Bonus points if it's a hi-Z (impedance) input.

Would an interesting project for you be to explore the possibilities of using the GPU for certain tasks? Like for example monitoring with almost zero latency. (GPU.Audio comes to mind) Like as an option to run reaper tracks on the GPU.

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:08:00 +0000

In general GPUs are not low-latency, they are high throughput though. Anyway, not really, it'd be mostly headache work.

Why don't JSFXs don't have/need a filename extension?

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 03:49:00 +0000

originally they were on a dedicated jesusonic processor where the only files in the Effects path were jsfx anyway

Would you consider making askjf / 1014 more mobile friendly, viewport/responsive wise? I'd imagine many of us hit them on the shitter.

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:36:00 +0000

That's bad for you, definitely can't support that.

Salutations brother J, I'm just about to record a thing (on my screen, with licecap) and the workflow I envisaged was to pick the app to record. I perused for "licecap arguments" but see none. Could this be added? Ideally the pid or image name eg %reap% or maybe also the nth instance with %reap% 3 or some other identifier...or even just pos and size and autorec for handsfree 'rec'ing... what do you reckon? THANKS!

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:37:00 +0000

LICEcap is all about having the window movable etc and not having to plan the app/window/etc... there are other tools out there that do what you want

Why did Dmitry get literally anything? I would imagine you didn't do so out of charity. Had you setup a company with him? Why would you owe him a penny?

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:19:00 +0000

Litigation is time consuming, expensive, and unpleasant.

i installed quickbooks from 2013 and when i try open it on windows 11 it says "this version of quickbooks requires Microsoft internet explorer 6.0 (or later) . Do you know any way i can make this work? Thanks

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:20:00 +0000

I run mine in a Windows XP VM, but it's even older. Maybe try it in a Win7 VM?

hey jf- with reaper,which video export options would you highly recommend for either 5.1 or 7.1 surround mixes?? (win10 os) ta.

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:20:00 +0000

Probably would use WMF, beyond that I dunno.

Is Brennan still offline?

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:04:00 +0000

afaik he's a passive internet user

Steve Duda, serum vst developer spoke of his idea of having an impact on an industry in a more macro way. Like with serum, so many artists have used this vst and it has changed the industry to some extent, what are your thoughts of reaper and how it influences the industry.

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:59:00 +0000

URL to his speech? I don't really think about influencing industries, just making stuff people find really useful!

Why did you not give Dmitry his share of profit after selling winamp to AOL since it was inspired from his idea of MACAMP? (And winamp would not have been possible without MACAMP)

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:49:00 +0000

Two things -- one, I was very much into programming software for playing music on computers long before I met Dmitry (and before mp3 existed). See e.g. DACE on my old code section of my site. Anyway, while Winamp might not have existed in the same form as it did had it not had MacAMP as inspiration, I without any doubt would've made Windows mp3 playback software around that time period.

Two: we were friends, working on our own projects. Then he got a job at some aerospace company, moved to Seattle, got really into the rave scene there, and we lost touch. I worked on Winamp for years. What made it successful was the process of development, getting feedback from users, improving things, and making it all really interesting. (e.g. skins, visualizations, lots of playlisting functionality, a good community, etc).

"his share of the profit" -- what would be the appropriate share? I didn't hear from him after he went out of touch until after we sold. I can't speak to what happened after we sold, as I still honor the confidentiality terms we agreed to, while apparently he does not.

TL;DR: at the end of the day, Winamp was what it was because of those of us (me, Tom, Rob, Rex, and my father) who spent tons of time on it, and Dmitry ended up getting more than (IMO) he earned.

which country or island would you visit in Europe for February/March months? Thanks

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:47:00 +0000

Hmm these days I'd probably choose somewhere on the warmer side, maybe southern Italy?

"Do you find more interest in the intricacies and process of programming, or are you primarily motivated by the final product and its applications?"

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 23:46:00 +0000

I like the process, and I like using the result. Which I find more interesting probably depends on the particular thing being worked on. Some things are more interesting to work on than use, other things are more interesting to use than to make.

hey jf- if we upload a silent video to ytube..the nerd stats give a reading of - "content loudness -9986.0 db" lolwut?! any clues to them numbers?? ta.

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:23:00 +0000

Well, it would be -inf dB, technically, but I think the way LUFS works is it sorts volume into bins and does a histogram of them, ignoring certain sections or something, so probably whatever algorithm they have has some lower limit. Either that or it takes log(peak_amplitude) and then clamps it to something. Shrug.

Have you considered the possibility of turning the REAPER engine into a library to be able to use it with a 3rd party UI? I'd say the current UI is not really user-friendly and it has many little quirks that haven't been addressed in years (like showing/hiding only a specific side of the docker). I understand that you focus on the features you want and you have limited resources. It's your project and your right to do whatever you want, after all. But I'd definitely work on an alternative vector-based UI, i

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:05:00 +0000

Meh, no fun in that. We'll keep improving/extending the API though.

Do you miss the old internet without all those garden walls?

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:13:00 +0000

I try to stay out of private gardens

Your wiki says you graduated HS with a 2.9 GPA. Is that true? Did you not care about class?

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:54:00 +0000

lol looks like it was edited August 25 2021... the older version is closer to the truth.

For a long time been wanting to find out if after the license import into REAPER on Windows anything gets written into the registry. Someone said nothing does otherwise portable install couldn't be portable. Are they right?

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000

They are correct

hey jf- do you find any users still using "rewire".. which has for long time now been made obsolete by the initial developers? what does its purpose serve these days in reaper?

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 01:41:00 +0000

I'm sure people do, yeah!

What do you think of the idea of a plugin format that is portable, i.e. could also be saved with the respective project? Of course, this would only work with free or free plugins. For example, I'm thinking of having a "VST" directory in my Reaper project and simply dropping DLL files into it, which Reaper then loads. But not as a DLL but something really portable. Greetings!

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 01:41:00 +0000

Hmm like JSFX? ;)

do you like Metallica?

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:20:00 +0000

They're ok but not high on my list of bands I listen to.

Hello, in this days, while I was doing research, I found NINJAM. Intrigued by his way of dealing with the latency problem, I went to peruse the GitHub repository. However, I noticed that there is no technical document. Did you happen to make one? Or can't it be made public?

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:20:00 +0000

Hmm I don't think I really did? It's been like 20 years so I don't fully remember.

Do you ever attend trade shows such as NAMM? Are there any new technologies or products on the horizon that are catching your eye?

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:42:00 +0000

I have but not in a long time, usually I find them pretty boring.

What do you think about the programming language Rust? Including it's advantages and disadvantages.

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:43:00 +0000

I don't know much about it, busy with other things for the most part :)

auto_save its not on by default in Reaper. why?

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 22:47:00 +0000

I think we enabled auto-backup-saving by default for new installs. But not auto-save to the .rpp (which would be undesirable!).

Localizing apps (since REAPER can be localized you may know): For languages not using the Latin alphabet (say Chinese, Greek...) are numerals (numbers) also localized (there seem to be chinese and greek numerals) or they stay as latin numbers ?

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 22:47:00 +0000

If it is a static string then it's up to the translator. If REAPER is generating the number, then it will be arabic numerals.

hey jf- how do you feel about words (english language) that can have multiple "meanings"? 2,3,4 or moar! meanings...(is this not confusing,even for the "educated" ?) + have a very creative/ blessed year

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 22:46:00 +0000

Are there any languages where words have exactly one meaning?

Thoughts on Kurt Cobain?

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 05:05:00 +0000

Nirvana was awesome