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Ask Justin Frankel No reasonable question unanswered since 2009! Suggested topics: programming, music, sleep, coffee, etc. Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead. Name: Ask: Human (enter yes): [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

Question: Hmm so heartbreaking your answer.. from all tech ppl... Happy bday to me, I guess..it s not like I have much choices, as re@p3r ppl delete my SMS too..fr0m @ll p30pl3.. I w0nt m3ss@g3 u @nim0r3..s0rri 2 b0th3r y@..by3... :"+( Asked by Brk_ (90.167.95.x) on September 10 2025, 2:28pm Reply on September 10 2025, 11:36pm: the signal to noise ratio in your posts is basically zero - you don't have any actionable requests, it reads like spam. think about it. you have to actually ask for something. Comment... Question: have you listened to "him"? Asked by not justin (2.147.58.x) on September 10 2025, 2:06pm Reply on September 10 2025, 11:36pm: not sure who you speak of? Comment... Question: Is accepting checks and money orders to your PO BOX worth the hassle in 2025? Doesn't everyone have a credit card or paypal these days? Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on September 9 2025, 10:14pm Reply on September 10 2025, 2:00am: It's a very small percentage but those who use it appreciate it, afaict Comment... Question: have you done any multi-day fasts before? apparently autophagy promotion is good? Asked by rilkean (193.32.249.x) on September 9 2025, 5:00pm Reply on September 10 2025, 2:01am: Not really, but I unintentionally fasted for about 5 hours on the last 15 miles of a 100k trail race and that was a little rough. Comment... Question: Hi, have you seen my previous messages? I sent you several... Asked by Brk_ (90.167.95.x) on September 9 2025, 9:15am Reply on September 9 2025, 12:41pm: Yes but they are not appropriate questions for this site. Comment... Question: In JSFX, when using slidershow to hide or show sliders, why is it that if the plugin is opened for the first time with some sliders hidden, the plugin window gets slightly shortened at the bottom? Then, when those sliders are made visible again, the window fails to automatically regain its full original size specified at the @gfx, requiring the plugin to be closed and reopened to restore the specified @gfx size. Is the initial window size being calculated based on that reduced number of visible sliders? Asked by JSFX @gfx (154.161.247.x) on September 7 2025, 8:30pm Reply on September 8 2025, 1:06am: probably, yeah 4 Comments... Question: Do you like open source? Asked by doom (218.59.37.x) on September 7 2025, 5:27am Reply on September 8 2025, 1:06am: yeah it's a good thing for a lot of software Comment... Question: On the REAPER forums, do you browse the JSFX forum to see what people are creating? Asked by Forums (102.176.65.x) on September 7 2025, 12:53am Reply on September 8 2025, 1:06am: sometimes yeah 1 Comment... Question: What's your plan to shatter the tech oligolopoly? I hate the internet being all memers-only-clubs now. Asked by sunblister (217.253.96.x) on September 5 2025, 10:55pm Reply on September 6 2025, 2:52pm: fuck if I know, but agree 1 Comment... Question: Hi Justin, I'm trying to put an extension hook in my c++ in the windows Media Explorer [...] Asked by Anthony (92.54.248.x) on September 5 2025, 1:54pm Reply on September 6 2025, 2:52pm: email me instead thx Comment... Question: rowing is great ... Asked by Bernd Keul (89.0.69.x) on September 5 2025, 12:26am Reply on September 5 2025, 2:37am: sure Comment... Question: Here's a fun one! Curious to hear your answer to this tweet: x.com/davepl1968/status/1963452164... Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on September 5 2025, 12:11am Reply on September 5 2025, 2:37am: heh I'd have to target SWELL's implementation so I'd stick with the original GDI code... Comment... Question: Have you acquired formal education in programming or are you mainly autodidact? Wikipedia article says you dropped out of the university (where you studied computer science) after two quarters Asked by Education (164.132.163.x) on September 4 2025, 6:36am Reply on September 4 2025, 10:53am: That wikipedia is correct, yeah, I've learned programming on my own, the stuff in university was pretty much all stuff I already knew (I missed the opportunity to test out of intro classes) 1 Comment... Question: What variant of "C" do you use for Reaper? Asked by Don Nafis (73.197.39.x) on September 2 2025, 2:09pm Reply on September 3 2025, 1:50am (edited at September 3 2025, 1:15pm): something like C++98.. you can see what we use in WDL, I suppose Comment... Question: The only mp3 player I use to this day is Winamp v2.95 - it's worked flawlessly on every computer I've used. I purposefully sought you out to say thank you to you and your team that was responsible for coding it. It's everything I ever wanted in an mp3 player...simple, cool functions and plug-ins, and it just works. Since I started using it, I got married and her computer also sports V2.95 of winamp which in my opinion is the greatest mp3 player of all time. Lots of gratitude your way this Labor Day 2025 Asked by Erin (69.2.3.x) on September 1 2025, 4:36pm Reply on September 2 2025, 12:54pm: right on Comment... Question: Hi Justin. I'm a longtime fan of Winamp and the world's best plugin, 3D Spectrum Analyzer Dot Plane. Would you consider sharing its code so that it can be adapted to the capabilities of modern monitors (more dots, 16:9, etc.)? I'm not a good enough programmer to write such a marvel from scratch, but maybe I could modify something? Best regards and good luck! Asked by Marek (77.46.82.x) on August 31 2025, 1:12am Reply on August 31 2025, 1:41am (edited at August 31 2025, 1:44am): (Did I write that? Or someone else did using openGL, I think?) Anyway I definitely don't have the code, but I could probably write a JSFX or REAPER video processor version of that, which would be fun. Maybe I'll do that! 1 Comment... Question: Due to the impending bricking of cakewalk by Bandlab, I moved to Reaper. Greatly enjoying the change. Has there been a recent up tick in business due to the cakewalk debacle, do you know? Asked by Tony (125.237.129.x) on August 30 2025, 2:53am Reply on August 30 2025, 9:26pm: Not really no, things are usually pretty steady for us unless we release a new major version 4 Comments... Question: If you could get the nullsoft brand back cheaply, would you do so? If so, how would you use it? Perhaps acquire Cockos? :-) Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on August 29 2025, 2:29pm Reply on August 29 2025, 3:25pm (edited at August 29 2025, 3:28pm): Totally, I'd want to do Cockos Inc DBA Nullsoft probably, assuming everybody was OK with it. 1 Comment... Question: I have an app (not mine) which produces noise (white, pink,,,) for PA/FOH setup. In the app I can en-/disable if it should be uniform or natural. Could you break down what this means? (over my head lol: dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/70... Asked by wasereb4 (95.91.77.x) on August 28 2025, 4:22pm Reply on August 28 2025, 8:33pm: Skimming this, it would appear that white noise is defined as uniform noise in the frequency domain, not as uniform samples in the time domain? And apparently a Gaussian distribution of samples in the time domain will be a uniform noise in the frequency domain? (I might be wrong, schwa probably knows this better than I do, he's Mr Dither around here) Comment... Question: And one more: I've noticed that bug reports from users with low message count are addressed more readily. Is this an accurate observation? Do you prioritize bug reports from new users or users who are not habitual forum lurkers? If you don't, how'd you explain my observation? Asked by Asking (162.19.99.x) on August 28 2025, 10:41am Reply on August 28 2025, 12:38pm: It doesn't consciously factor in. If your observation is in fact true (I haven't measured it), then I would also say that correlation does not imply causation. 6 Comments... [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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