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Question: How many lines of code are in Reaper? if that's something you can share.
Asked by Rano (103.182.107.x) on July 31 2025, 12:02am
Reply on July 31 2025, 8:57am:
    In the hundreds of thousands but not millions, probably
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Question: Cos I can, I made a YouTube short explaining why I moved to Reaper from cakewalk... youtube.com/shorts/fTQ7MsDsqc4?si=...
Asked by Tony (115.189.84.x) on July 30 2025, 5:25am
Reply on July 30 2025, 4:29pm:
    nice, though the portrait aspect ratio is a crime lol
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Question: Haha... Fun project: a Reaper port for Commodore 64? musicradar.com/music-tech/weve-bee...
Asked by Dom64 (82.132.215.x) on July 29 2025, 3:02am
Reply on July 30 2025, 4:30pm:
    hah neat, but reaper assumes a certain level of power...
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Question: Ist there any documentation about the Ninjam algorthm ? how it decides which player is one, two ro three cycles of the bpi ? at the moment we try to reverse engineer the measure ment of the time difference between a single click send both on Sonobus and Ninjam , This is way is is possible to determine the actual time difference between the two platforms , This number in ms will be put into a buffer in VDO NInja , so you see the Ninjam player exactly when you hear them ...
Asked by Bernd Keul (89.0.16.x) on July 27 2025, 11:42pm
Reply on July 28 2025, 4:58pm:
    it's very simple -- each client plays the most recent loop it has (at least partly) available. that's it.
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Question: Winamp has 100,000 skins, which one do you like best?
Asked by Skinsmania (79.117.215.x) on July 25 2025, 8:28pm
Reply on July 25 2025, 11:02pm:
    the default
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Question: Hello, do you know what this is? 1014.org/shiz/diracle_host.zip.Someone recommended him, and the person who recommended him said it worked very well and I needed to manually put it in the directory of reaper. Why not put it together with Reaper?
Asked by nicoto (129.153.24.x) on July 24 2025, 1:31pm
Reply on July 24 2025, 2:49pm:
    the other timestretch modes are so much better
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Question: have you ever used or tried any other DAW? if yes which one?
Asked by ape din (141.98.141.x) on July 22 2025, 6:55pm
Reply on July 22 2025, 10:00pm:
    I've used Logic and Vegas and Acid for actual projects. And various other DAWs for testing.
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Question: How did you find living in Sedona? I've only ever visited in flight simulators and it looks lovely.
Asked by Dan_longernamecompulsory (86.120.187.x) on July 21 2025, 2:11pm
Reply on July 21 2025, 4:39pm:
    boring for a kid but as an adult who likes hiking and trail running I miss that aspect of it.
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Question: yo, this is cool, what do you think, wanna try it? youtu.be/taoAAcS5PSw?si=sDPCGCoau1pUGHBU
Asked by Rano (27.131.210.x) on July 20 2025, 11:17pm
Reply on July 21 2025, 2:34am:
    looks like a pain in the ass hah no thanks
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Question: I've been using JUCE for the last few years to build plugins. Have you ever looked at it?
Asked by Tony (125.237.129.x) on July 20 2025, 1:07am
Reply on July 20 2025, 10:55pm:
    yes, it's too much for me, impossible to figure out where to find anything
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Question: Thank you again , for making the multioutputs in Ninjam , i have a lot of fun spreading out individual Ninjammers to speakers , i will do small hybrid concerts with this in August and September , do you know NInjam users that use the it on stage ( in combination with P2P multichannel Sonobus ...) ?
Asked by Bernd Keul (78.35.244.x) on July 19 2025, 11:18am
Reply on July 20 2025, 10:56pm:
    I don't, but cool!
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Question: Do you play Nintendo games? You own a Switch?
Asked by Chris (2.104.71.x) on July 18 2025, 11:44pm
Reply on July 19 2025, 12:21am:
    My most recent Nintendo is a Wii, loved RE4 on that. But haven't kept up.
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Question: huh, would you look at that... facebook.com/share/p/16mtcFDxjv/?m...
Asked by Jacob (187.213.109.x) on July 18 2025, 10:57pm
Reply on July 18 2025, 11:13pm:
    cute but not a question please try to abide
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Question: Hi Justin, thanks for REAPER. It the 128 Max opened Project Tabs an arbitrary limit set a long time ago or is it still a relevant limit that must be held? Is there any way around it? Thanks for you time
Asked by Alexandre Paquette (174.89.214.x) on July 18 2025, 1:56pm
Reply on July 18 2025, 2:05pm:
    it's there as a sanity check, easy to increase, will bump it to 1000.
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Question: How about displaying the comments here inline (spoiler element')?
Asked by wasereb4 (95.91.77.x) on July 17 2025, 11:28pm
Reply on July 18 2025, 12:58pm:
    or a "click to expand" button, maybe. will look at that at some point
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Question: Any good tips for drawing waveforms and making them look good?
Asked by james (130.95.40.x) on July 17 2025, 7:14am
Reply on July 17 2025, 7:19pm:
    not really, probably big enough of a scope to not be easily answered here
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Question: facebook.com/share/p/19hW5DugeB/We thank you for not getting Winamp 4 hahahahhahahahaha
Asked by Nick Warnken (203.63.45.x) on July 16 2025, 10:55pm
Reply on July 17 2025, 7:18pm:
    lol
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Question: Is it true about a guy called Aaron Carey founding Reaper? On the about page of AIX DSP website there is a statement claiming this: aixdsp.com/about/
Asked by Nammo (89.234.157.x) on July 15 2025, 4:15pm
Reply on July 15 2025, 6:26pm:
    He was an early adopter and gave a lot of valuable feedback, and sent me a RME HDSP card, but that page exaggerates for sure.
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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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Question: by now, what radio station did you hear 7 rings on? i don't think billboard top 20 is represented in any one place, from katy perry to ed sheeran type music
Asked by kibolab (73.181.182.x) on July 14 2025, 2:39am
Reply on July 14 2025, 2:49am:
    only ever listen to the radio when I rent a car when traveling, it seems. anyway, had to google what '7 rings' is, not sure if I've heard it, maybe I'll give it a listen when I find the time.
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