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Ask Justin Frankel
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Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead.

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Question: Would you be as good if you learned programming at your current age, or is it a young man's game to learn it as well as you did? [permalink]
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 18 2012, 10:49pm

Question: It's still not fair to neglect those users in such way, methinks. If OLGA were freeware, then I'd understand. But it is not. [permalink]
Asked by Tinny (88.207.124.x) on May 18 2012, 8:07am

Question: tinyurl.com/busm55h The hell is schwa doing not supporting his own synth? [permalink]
Asked by Tinny (193.198.68.x) on May 17 2012, 7:43am
Reply on May 17 2012, 10:58pm:

I guess his devotion to REAPER has its cost?

Question: experimenting with EEL to support decimal float, looks good. but still for storage uses the default binary float, is it safe? [permalink]
Asked by gio (94.66.81.x) on May 17 2012, 7:04am
Reply on May 17 2012, 10:58pm:

Hmm really? I want to see!

Question: Why someone use EEL instead of Lua? A chance to defend your baby. [permalink]
Asked by gio (94.66.81.x) on May 16 2012, 5:06pm
Reply on May 16 2012, 7:50pm:

Performance for signal processing... I don't think Lua would come close (which isn't to say Lua isn't awesome, just different design goals).

Question: Good music? www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIKQMBBTtk 4:46ish is badass with good headphones. [permalink]
Asked by John (70.173.150.x) on May 16 2012, 7:49am
Reply on May 16 2012, 7:51pm:

Yeah pretty decent! :)

Question: Were you ever approached by Steve Jobs? Why would he pick Soundjam over Winamp? [permalink]
Asked by John (70.173.150.x) on May 16 2012, 1:01am
Reply on May 16 2012, 2:50am:

Soundjam was for macs, Winamp was not. Winamp was owned by AOL by that point, too, I think. Never met the man...

Question: Have you been exposed to asynchronous methods and continuation-style callback mechanisms? It's sweet. [permalink]
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 15 2012, 10:53pm
Reply on May 16 2012, 2:51am:

Hmm give me an example of that so I can see?

Question: ... would it be nice to have at least hashes for us (slightly paranoid?) power-users ;) Btw. Reaper is awesome, thank you! :) [permalink]
Asked by Maximilian (129.27.12.x) on May 15 2012, 5:40pm
Reply on May 16 2012, 2:51am:

Yeah, OK I'll look into it, paying the cert cartels...

Question: I was asking (signatures) because of Windows 8s new default-blocking of unsigned apps (called SmartScreen). Apart from that ... [permalink]
Asked by Maximilian (178.191.214.x) on May 15 2012, 4:40pm
Reply on May 16 2012, 2:51am:

Ah yeah, that will be seriously weak.

Question: Assuming most of your income doesn't come from Reaper, why wouldn't you make it opensource/free? [permalink]
Asked by Аркадий (188.120.236.x) on May 13 2012, 1:36am
Reply on May 14 2012, 1:44pm:

Having REAPER be developed by a business has many advantages -- we can have employees, we can spend money to license other technologies, provide infrastructure, etc. In many ways, you get what you pay for.

Question: Does the fact that Facebook has so much user data (and at such a granular level) on their hands ever bother you? [permalink]
Asked by malloc() (183.83.25.x) on May 12 2012, 8:59pm
Reply on May 14 2012, 1:43pm:

Yeah, I try to avoid giving them any...

Question: bitblt slow for big windows, any solutions? [permalink]
Asked by ruchira (175.157.140.x) on May 12 2012, 4:33am
Reply on May 12 2012, 2:06pm:

Using a 32bpp DIB? Do you really need update every pixel, or could you just update the parts that changed?

Question: Why we have a limitation in NSEEL_RAM_BLOCKS + NSEEL_RAM_ITEMSPERBLOCK? if changed, will it break things or I'll have bad perf.. [permalink]
Asked by gio (94.66.81.x) on May 11 2012, 9:30pm
Reply on May 12 2012, 2:03am:

If you change it you will need to make some mods to asm-nseel-x86-gcc.c and/or asm-nseel-ppc-gcc.c. If modifying the x86 version, you would also need to run "php a2i.php" and "php a2x64.php", the latter multiple times with certain options too. The limit is so that the RAM-space is constrained by EEL, so a plug-in can't allocate too much RAM.

Question: Are we going to see you in Diablo III or EEL2 is a better hell? by the way the updates work beautifully... :) [permalink]
Asked by gio (94.66.48.x) on May 11 2012, 9:01pm
Reply on May 12 2012, 2:03am:

Hmm?

Question: Justin!! Whats up man! How have you been? Anything new going on? Haven't posted in a while. Take care [permalink]
Asked by AnalSeducer (173.208.68.x) on May 11 2012, 4:00pm
Reply on May 12 2012, 2:03am:

Stuff's good, bike riding more lately, which I like.

Question: Hey, you've probably been asked this before, but why don't you supply hashes for Reaper (or Setup-Signatures)? [permalink]
Asked by Maximilian (194.166.64.x) on May 9 2012, 7:13pm
Reply on May 11 2012, 2:09am:

You mean signing our installers? I guess we could, but then we get to cough up for a certificate... Most people don't seem to mind running unsigned installers, anyway.

Question: Programming probably came easy, but was running a business natural or did you have to work at it? [permalink]
Asked by David (69.15.110.x) on May 9 2012, 10:40am
Reply on May 9 2012, 4:04pm:

If you decide to run it in the right way, it can be easy. Dealing with making compromises in product in the name of money, that's not easy.

Question: Would you be open to being interviewed by Ars Technica? If so, email me: cyrus.farivar at arstechnica.com [permalink]
Asked by Cyrus Farivar (68.68.46.x) on May 8 2012, 2:47pm
Reply on May 9 2012, 4:04pm:

Sure, emailed.

Question: Are you in contact with the folks from Sound on Sound much? Do they ask for tips for their monthly Reaper blurb? [permalink]
Asked by David (184.36.239.x) on May 8 2012, 1:06am
Reply on May 9 2012, 4:05pm:

A bit, it seemed they mostly wanted people who knew REAPER and wanted to write the column, rather than just the tips themselves...

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