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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: In our area, many people call the reaper a "harvester". What's your opinion on this? Asked by ytyy (112.254.92.x) on May 30 2025, 5:19am Question: 'I'm a programmer/coder' sounds ok, 'I'm producing huge amounts of zeroes and ones' (what actually happens) sounds weird? lol Asked by wasereb4 (95.91.77.x) on May 30 2025, 3:22am Question: Did you ever attend church in childhood? Has anyone ever said they were praying for you? Do the super religious lifestyles of people offend you? Asked by Church? (102.176.65.x) on May 29 2025, 6:22pm Reply on May 29 2025, 9:29pm: A little yes. Sure probably. As long as people don't impose their religion (or lack thereof) on others, I'm cool. Comment... Question: How to approach COCOS Inc. with a unique music application joint venture? Asked by George (207.204.228.x) on May 27 2025, 9:06pm Reply on May 28 2025, 12:51am: we're not going to be interested, sorry! if you can do it as a reaper plug-in or something, go for it! we'd definitely help with any integration stuff you need. Comment... Question: Swans or Angels of Light Asked by unanswered (138.199.53.x) on May 27 2025, 11:09am Reply on May 27 2025, 4:04pm: no idea 2 Comments... Question: "If Reaper already allows sample-level audio manipulation and supports internal FFT processing (as seen in ReaFIR), why not take the leap and enable native graphical spectral editing directly within a Media Item View — perhaps as an official extension? Asked by Amadeu (82.155.24.x) on May 25 2025, 6:25pm Reply on May 25 2025, 9:10pm: Uhh, it does already 15 Comments... Question: Still not possible to delete pictures uploaded to Stash. When you go to manage this file, the page is blank unlike other files where you have the option to delete.. Asked by Enquiry? (102.176.101.x) on May 23 2025, 1:12pm Reply on May 23 2025, 2:35pm (edited at May 23 2025, 2:41pm): guessing you've miscategorized them as a theme rather than a screenshot? will see if I can fix this oddity. edit: fixed! 1 Comment... Question: Reaper spotted at Eurovision! Nice! facebook.com/groups/22291437791683... Asked by Jeff (187.213.28.x) on May 23 2025, 4:20am Reply on May 23 2025, 2:41pm: nice! Comment... Question: Hello, where did you learn everything? Where did you learn to code and learn all of these things that's needed to create reaper and everything you've made so far? if i remember correctly, you said you didn't go to college for computer science and back then there weren't as much free online resources available as well. are you still learning and applying that everyday to this date as well? where do you learn new things nowadays? do you think it's still worth learning to code in 2025 after so many inventions Asked by Rano (27.131.210.x) on May 22 2025, 2:13pm Reply on May 22 2025, 2:55pm: Back in the day, books/experimentation/internet tutorials/etc. definitely still learning! Is it worth learning to code? If you enjoy it, for sure. Comment... Question: When implementing the Cockos sample accurate automation extension in my VST instruments, I put MIDI and parameter data in separate event queues. Is this the recommended approach, or would it be more sensible to put everything in a single queue? Asked by datajake1999 (104.28.249.x) on May 21 2025, 10:36pm Reply on May 22 2025, 12:26am: whatever works! Comment... Question: Hi! Of all these internet memories, which ones were you aware of at the time? neal.fun/internet-artifacts/ Asked by Benco (78.199.75.x) on May 21 2025, 11:24am Reply on May 21 2025, 1:19pm: usenet -- I remember seeing this in the mid 90s. mp3, 1996 or so, in the few years before that I remember getting mp2s from IUMA, and .au files at 8khz from random ftp sites too (made a DOS audio player for parallel-port DACs etc in 1994-ish). morris worm I remember hearing about in the 90s but was not aware of it in the 80s. IRC also around 1995+ iirc. Saw the web in ca 1993. anyway now I'm losing interest heh Comment... Question: Hello again , i hope to find out how to have separate outputs for the ninjam players I tried but I don´t understand the routing in ReaNinjam menu - channels Select remote user ... select remote user channel ...? Where is this pointing to ? i don´t find any documentation … the small NInjam plugin window shows 8in/2out by default , is it possible to change the to 16 outs? ... and then add Aux audio channels with recieves from the Ninjam channel we are preparing hybrid live shows and it would be great to h Asked by Bernd Keul (89.0.159.x) on May 20 2025, 12:38am Reply on May 20 2025, 12:54pm: ahh yeah I lied, the best you can do is to route all remote users to a separate pair of channels. ok let me add a "route remote users to unique pairs" option or something. 3 Comments... Question: The 20th Anniversary of REAPER is approaching fast, creative people always welcome a tasteful surprise; what's success w/o celebration? Asked by Gio (79.130.164.x) on May 17 2025, 4:54pm Reply on May 17 2025, 8:46pm: lol will probably be like any other day! 3 Comments... Question: Imagine you have gone for a dinner with Bjarne Stroustrup, obviously girls is off-topic, what you discuss with the old-man about C++ and/or programming in general? His brainchild, your everyday tool. Asked by Gio (79.130.164.x) on May 17 2025, 3:48pm Reply on May 17 2025, 8:49pm: “where do you live?” (i wikipediaed him and apparently he teaches at Columbia, near me) “ahh, do you ever go to Riverside Park?” etc… talking about programming is not my thing. 1 Comment... Question: I don't want to put pressure but I'm curious, can you describe what kind of stuff makes open sourcing jsfx difficult? Asked by wisho (31.37.8.x) on May 15 2025, 2:25pm Reply on May 15 2025, 2:37pm: well internally it's a bit of a mess that has been gradually getting cleaned up, but the real thing is that I'd like it to be in a useful form when open sourcing it, e.g. a way that people can actually build it and use it, as opposed to just being "here's some code good luck." so I'm putting it off as that goes... but maybe someone else can make a CLAP wrapper for it, I guess... Comment... Question: It seems to me that the USA is the leading exporter of stories about people dying, seeing the afterlife, and then coming back to life. Do you believe in life after death? Do you think the way we live our lives now has any impact beyond this life? Asked by Thinking? (102.176.65.x) on May 15 2025, 3:51am Reply on May 15 2025, 2:38pm: I don't trust our brains to tell us what is real, they lie to us constantly! ;) 3 Comments... Question: Is there one of the Fediverse protocols wich you would say meets the requirements you outlined in your idea for WATCH (we are the cloud hosts)? Asked by SpoiledHobo (46.91.173.x) on May 14 2025, 6:25pm Reply on May 14 2025, 7:17pm: haven't really looked Comment... Question: Hello, I recently found out about this site so I wanted to ask some programming related stuff. How can I go about making a digital audio work station like reaper? What data structures and algorithms do I need to know about and learn in order to create something almost as decent as reaper? Do you know of any online learning resources that can help me understand the process better or do I mainly have to figure it out on my own? I'm learning odinlang and a daw or synth is one of the projects I want to make. Asked by Daniel Eccleston (208.163.50.x) on May 14 2025, 3:22pm Reply on May 14 2025, 7:20pm: hah well, I'd approach it from a different place -- figure out some small parts of what you want to do, then do them, and figure out what's required in order to make that happen. then add on to it. before I made REAPER, I made an mp3 player, so I got a little bit of a feel for media playback. Then I made Jesusonic for processing audio, which had different requirements (realtime, no media), and gradually extended it to have multiple layers ("tracks", effectively), and did NINJAM too which was streaming media from other places.. so making REAPER after that was kind of the logical next step (but still a crazy amount of work, and here we are approaching 20 years later) 1 Comment... Question: Hi Justin, how to add a link to WHUMP correctly, for streaming playback of your tracks in the AIMP audio player and any other? I like your work, I find myself in it, although I do not understand at all what these songs are about, since I am a native speaker of another language. With respect, a fan from Russia! Asked by Aidy (85.140.25.x) on May 13 2025, 3:03pm Reply on May 14 2025, 12:07am: dunno! what formats does it read, m3u or something? 1 Comment... Question: hi Justin, I just discovered your existence on wikipedia, and you seem like a great person. How do you keep being so based ? Thank you for Reaper, genuinely an insane tool Asked by Romain (194.2.155.x) on May 12 2025, 11:32am Reply on May 14 2025, 12:08am: hah thanks, I think most people are good people. Comment... [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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