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Question: How do you keep track of the gazillions of features in Reaper so you don't break things with new features? Do you have some kind of reference-documentation or is the code itself docs enough? ;)
Asked by Mespotine (109.104.51.x) on July 2 2019, 10:06pm
Reply on July 3 2019, 2:36pm:

Try not to overengineer, I guess? :) Comment...

Question: There's some Reaper users that seem to spend their entire lives obsessing over the program creating scripts like it's their full-time job. Have you ever thought about just bringing them on to the actual team? Just wondering what your philosophy is on that.
Asked by Nick (159.153.90.x) on July 2 2019, 5:56pm
Reply on July 2 2019, 6:48pm:

I'm a terrible manager. 2 Comments...

Question: What's the best way to handle someone who is arrogant / too sure of him/her self?
Asked by Will (50.84.190.x) on July 2 2019, 3:30pm
Reply on July 2 2019, 6:48pm:

Disassociate? :) Comment...

Question: What happend to the (Cockos) IRC server?
Asked by Kaboon (82.74.12.x) on July 1 2019, 5:53pm
Reply on July 2 2019, 6:49pm:

The VM running it crapped out, my backup was old enough that I sort of said "fuck it, maybe I won't bother"... haven't really missed it since then! Comment...

Question: Any chance WDL_HeapBuf/WDL_TypedBuf to get constructs for iterators and ranges? For those of us that have become "modern" but still love WDL for what it is... it should be trivial but I see the other side of the argument too ;)
Asked by Gio (94.66.58.x) on July 1 2019, 3:06pm
Reply on July 2 2019, 6:49pm:

Shrug, someone could add that... Comment...

Question: Tulsi Gabbard? Do you see her as potus?
Asked by Greg (89.212.48.x) on June 30 2019, 5:34pm
Reply on June 30 2019, 10:54pm:

Not my first (or second, or third, etc) choice, but I'd vote for her in the general! Comment...

Question: You changed your avatar... I miss that llama already. You look a bit like Chuck Norris. That's cool. Only Chuck Norris could program Reaper so well
Asked by John (23.94.190.x) on June 29 2019, 8:50pm
Reply on June 30 2019, 10:54pm:

Yeah I miss the llama too. Comment...

Question: Have you ever used Yubikey?
Asked by fujimotos (153.249.215.x) on June 28 2019, 11:08pm
Reply on June 29 2019, 1:32pm:

I haven't Comment...

Question: I would like to get ninjam much bigger than it is right now. Is there any ways I can help ninjam to get more popular than what it is before? I can probably get a younger crowd to use Ninjam and experiment with it.
Asked by David (108.21.205.x) on June 28 2019, 6:45pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 7:03pm:

Pay people to use it!!! jk Comment...

Question: In your reaper.fm website, in the download section, why we have to click on a down-arrow button to open the Linux experimental builds? Why not they are visible like Windows & Mac downloads?
Asked by Abhi (117.197.7.x) on June 27 2019, 3:27pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 1:41am:

Because they are experimental. Comment...

Question: Do you use inclusively just Rea-FX/JSFX when working on Music. (or 3rd party FX) ?- Just Reckon you should be f--k--g proud of these FX you have created ;) and the stash/community of JSFX is amazing! Do you have a favourite Rea/JS FX? that you can't resist, or admire heaps, even if you don't use it too often?
Asked by BeingAbeanHasBeen (49.196.174.x) on June 27 2019, 2:05pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 1:42am:

These days I mostly just use reaeq reacomp and reaverb... Sometimes Super8 and General Dynamics. Comment...

Question: Would u ever consider making a hardware instrument if it were with the right partners?
Asked by Kobie Berkhout (145.132.120.x) on June 26 2019, 5:57pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 1:43am:

Nahhhh 1 Comment...

Question: What would you recommend for Pitch Detection? What do you use for ReaTune, for example? (Sorry for not emailing you, seems you haven`t answered since your inbox is full)
Asked by _mpl (46.72.98.x) on June 26 2019, 3:42pm
Reply on June 28 2019, 1:43am:

I’ll email you but google probably will help more... Comment...

Question: Have you heard of Loki (loki.network)? The architecture behind their upcoming messenger reminds me kinda of WASTE only on a grand scale and it uses crypto incentivized Service Nodes instead of users to route encrypted traffic.
Asked by Jason (73.57.212.x) on June 26 2019, 11:47am
Reply on June 26 2019, 2:47pm:

I haven't but I'll take a look! Comment...

Question: If extension for REAPER has 6 utilities with GUI (i'd say, they are pretty light-weight), some of them use chunk parsing and 1 of them interacts with JSFX for multi-track fx parameter processing, should i consider multi-threading in my code or not?
Asked by annoying_asker (107.170.186.x) on June 26 2019, 7:46am
Reply on June 26 2019, 2:46pm:

REAPER's API is mostly single-threaded... If you need to offline processing to a background thread you can, and if you need to get inside the audio processing of REAPER you can (but for the latter you shouldn't create your own threads, just let REAPER call your plug-in from other threads)... so yeah that. Comment...

Question: What effect does using folders and effects on folders as well as the master track have on multicore performance in Reaper? Does it make the tracks below use a single thread?
Asked by Nick (159.153.90.x) on June 25 2019, 9:59pm
Reply on June 25 2019, 11:32pm:

Folders do not force the children to run single-core, however if anticipative FX is not used (e.g. tracks are record armed, or it is disabled), then a single core still needs to be able to run the longest dependency chain in a row in realtime. To the extent that things are parallelizable, though, they will be parallelized. Comment...

Question: A good formula to map dB to slider and vice versa? Everything I have tried to far it "works" but it's not intuitive at all...
Asked by Gio (94.66.58.x) on June 25 2019, 6:56am
Reply on June 25 2019, 7:43pm:

Here are some snippets

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Question: What type of transport is your fav, what do you ride mostly, if any.. car, bike, bicycle, space shuttle, etc.. ?
Asked by Pony (78.152.169.x) on June 25 2019, 6:30am
Reply on June 25 2019, 3:04pm:

Running is my favorite, followed by walking. They aren’t the most efficient, though, so bicycles are good for longer and/or more time sensitive journeys. Trains are often nice when too long to reasonably do on bicycle (bringing a bike on the train a plus)... but anything over about a 4 hour train ride is probably better suited to air travel. Comment...

Question: when is the 10 years anniversary of the site, did it pass already? and congrats :D
Asked by Emmmm (128.0.250.x) on June 24 2019, 7:55pm
Reply on June 24 2019, 11:08pm:

7/24 or so, so another month! Thanks! Comment...

Question: "Suggested topics: programming, music, sleep, coffee, running, bike, cars(?), excursion/travel, hiking(?), food(?), cooking(?), llama (:P), singing(?), dancing(?), photography(?), painting(?), sports(?) etc." Any more to write? :D
Asked by Abhi (103.194.224.x) on June 24 2019, 8:47am
Reply on June 24 2019, 12:20pm (edited at June 24 2019, 12:21pm):

Hah cars not so much anymore... Sports, not really either. I'm not much of a dancer either, except maybe when I'm playing bass. Comment...

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