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Question: Was this the question (askjf.com/index.php?q=5531s which prompted the change from Jesusonic to JSFX at cockos.com/jsfx/both in the address and on the page?
Asked by Anonymous (148.113.153.x) on July 14 2025, 1:12pm
Reply on July 14 2025, 7:18pm:

nah, we renamed it on the web site in feb 2020.

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Posted by Dom64 (82.132.214.x) on July 14 2025, 9:20pm:
And, here is an archived page snapshot from March of 2020 which confirms: cockos.com/jsfx/
Posted by Dom64 (82.132.214.x) on July 14 2025, 9:20pm:
Edit: web.archive.org/web/20200314083836...
Posted by Anonymous (141.94.171.x) on July 15 2025, 10:30am:
OK, why the change then? Have you had a change of heart about the name and if so, why? Did the reference to Jesus have anything to do with it?
Posted by Justin on July 15 2025, 6:43pm:
can't say I remember exactly, but jesusonic single-instance FX was abbreviated in REAPER as "JS" pretty early on, and that more or less stuck (and FX added to disambiguate from javascript)
Posted by Anonymous (54.39.133.x) on July 17 2025, 3:48pm:
Got it
Posted by erma (191.103.86.x) on October 7 2025, 5:47am:
If an atheist businessman is selling a product to the general public and wants to be serious about it, then they'd know that alienating religious people would be bad for business. Who do you think the largest producer of Bibles is? Regardless of original intent, whether or not the change from JesuSonic to JSFX had anything to do with the name of Jesus, it was still a smart change. JSFX could stand for Justin's Super FX if I hadn't been aware of the origins of the name.

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