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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 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... Question: Is developing and maintaining REAPER still fun and exciting or has that largely become a rut and/or a burden? Asked by Asking (51.91.247.x) on August 28 2025, 10:33am Reply on August 28 2025, 12:39pm: It's fun but also work! Very much mostly enjoyable. 1 Comment... Question: Does the @gfx of JSFX depends on monitor's refresh rate? A jsfx plugin has some lightning fast movement of boxes serving as highlighters, their fast movement causes some vertical tearing like old TV, but loading same plugin in YSFX vst has no tearing. So it got me wondering if the native @gfx kind of depends on hardware refresh rate or frame rate? Asked by @gfx (102.176.65.x) on August 26 2025, 9:43pm Reply on August 26 2025, 9:55pm: In short: no. But: what OS? 2 Comments... Question: I just launched onenightband.net, its a network, Think "LinkedIn meets Tinder for musicians." a tool for finding the right musical collaborators. care to take a look, give feedback/guidance/mentoring/help/support? thanks Asked by aombk (109.178.222.x) on August 25 2025, 9:34pm Reply on August 25 2025, 11:26pm (edited at August 25 2025, 11:30pm): cool, send me an email. Tried to create an account, the "Confirm your mail" link gave me this error: "Authentication failed: no_code. Please try again." (edit: though I was still able to log in after) also would be nice to tag the password field in such a way that I can have my browser generate a password when creating an account... :) it's a pain I know 6 Comments... Question: I've heard that you use RME with Ubuntu? If so would you provide a link for the RME/Ubuntu drivers? Thank you Asked by cemster (45.11.200.x) on August 25 2025, 3:09pm Reply on August 25 2025, 5:55pm: I use my old HDSP on Debian, which Ubuntu is based on. The drivers are in the kernel by default I think, maybe install the alsa-firmware-loaders and alsa-tools-gui packages? the tools you run start with hdsp* Comment... Question: I know you run and bike, how do you like rowing? Asked by cavill (194.110.115.x) on August 25 2025, 12:24am Reply on August 25 2025, 5:56pm: never rowed a real boat I don't think, I don't mind the ergs though maybe it's too rough for my back these days. Kayaking isn't bad. SUP feels the best though the least efficient obvs. Comment... Question: In JSFX if you are syncing to host like the ff, should be at the @sample or the @block, which one is ideal? play_state & 1 ? ( host_sample_pos = floor(play_position * srate); beat_counter = host_sample_pos % (samples_per_beat * steps); ) : ( beat_counter = 0; ); Asked by Syncing (197.251.240.x) on August 24 2025, 7:55am Reply on August 24 2025, 1:08pm: @block should probably do the initial calculation, then @sample can count where it is relative to the block start 1 Comment... Question: HELP ME...SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS..NOT A JOKE, NOT A BOT, I M A REAL HUMAN, PLEASE ANYONE Asked by BRK_ (90.166.225.x) on August 23 2025, 7:16pm Reply on August 23 2025, 8:13pm: sorry this is not the right venue to ask for help, there's no specific ask either so yeah what can you do? Comment... Question: here is a 360 video of a session where we used (for the first time ) p2p Sonobus and Ninjam in paralell , both in private rooms , with the use of the brandnew separate outputs , youtube.com/watch?v=F74qscY_Q1A, How can we make the VDO Ninja sync ? haha ... Asked by Bernd Keul (85.197.6.x) on August 22 2025, 10:16pm Reply on August 23 2025, 12:48pm: very cool! 2 Comments... [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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