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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

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. 1 Comment...

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 1 Comment...

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 Comment...

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 Comment...

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. Comment...

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. 5 Comments...

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. Comment...

Question: If you like ruby on rails, you might like this : youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?si=uAOZaU0eO6acMj1J
Asked by Rano (43.231.241.x) on July 13 2025, 11:24am
Reply on July 14 2025, 2:32am:

never used it, but the things I've seen that used it seemed way too complex and with far too many dependencies for my feeble mind. Comment...

Question: Have you found a deep sense of meaning and purpose in what you do? I have come to realize the importance of this.
Asked by ascetic (98.48.125.x) on July 12 2025, 9:47am
Reply on July 14 2025, 2:34am:

in a way, maybe? I find things that are very enjoyable and satisfying and are helpful to other people, and maybe that's enough. Comment...

Question: "Hello, I plugged my headphones into my computer, but I can't get the sound from Reaper to my headphones. I have to close and restart Reaper. Is this a bug?"
Asked by nicoto (129.153.24.x) on July 11 2025, 3:59pm
Reply on July 11 2025, 8:57pm:

Not the right venue, but need a lot more information, probably not a bug. Comment...

Question: pattrns is an experimental imperative music sequence generator engine that lets you create musical patterns programmatically using Lua scripts for algorithmic or live music coding. Would it be technically possible to fold this into reaper as a way of sequencing midi notes ? github.com/renoise/pattrns
Asked by fungame (138.199.7.x) on July 10 2025, 2:01am
Reply on July 10 2025, 7:30pm:

not sure if that thing could be integrated, but you could probably do something similar as a reascript library? Comment...

Question: Any thoughts on the emerging “self hosting” trend? Apps being developed for deployment as docker containers where the UI is a web page? Any thoughts in general or for audio applications specifically?
Asked by steve (104.60.90.x) on July 9 2025, 7:05pm
Reply on July 10 2025, 7:29pm:

hmm not really but can't imagine that would work well for audio stuff. in general I am weary of software with lots of external dependencies that end up being updated without the developer's careful curation. Comment...

Question: yo, I'm planning on making the source to one of my projects available, historically I would just use a copyleft license like GPL or MPL, I'd like to make my intention clear that I don't want my code used as training data for AI (even tho they will take it anyway), have you thought about this at all, time for a modified MPL/GPL?
Asked by yoyo-ma (46.19.136.x) on July 9 2025, 5:15pm
Reply on July 9 2025, 5:33pm:

Good luck enforcing that :( 1 Comment...

Question: Have you ever had sciatica from all the sitting we do as programmers?
Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on July 7 2025, 4:48pm
Reply on July 7 2025, 5:03pm: