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Question: What console do you use in your studio? Do you have a home studio and office studio? Asked by Will (69.15.110.x) on June 6 2013, 6:39pm Reply on June 7 2013, 5:09pm: I usually just use whatever interfaces I have around (be it a cheapo MOTU, Focusrite, Zoom R24, or RME + ADA8k etc). Comment... Question: What's your faviourite fruit? :) Asked by Tinny (88.207.51.x) on June 6 2013, 12:50pm Reply on June 7 2013, 5:08pm: I hate to play favorites, but cherry season is so short that I miss it the most. Apples are awesome, though. Comment... Question: Have you seen "Indie Game: The Movie"? If not, you should check it out. :) Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on June 6 2013, 6:44am Reply on June 7 2013, 5:07pm: I will check it. Comment... Question: re smp: hmm good stuff. so when you say that you render ahead Xms where this operation happens, in the I/O thread or in the audio thread (sink)? Doesn't the later introduce lag? Asked by gio (94.66.66.x) on June 6 2013, 12:14am Reply on June 6 2013, 2:20am: It happens in a worker thread; there is latency (from say, tweaking FX knobs to hearing the results), but 200ms (or if you lower it, less) is pretty manageable. Comment... Question: Did Patty Hewes try to have Ellen Parsons killed, or was that Uncle Pete's proactive idea? Asked by Will (70.173.150.x) on June 5 2013, 12:23am Reply on June 5 2013, 2:54pm: From wikipedia: "She then gets Patty's confession that she indeed was responsible for setting up Ellen to be murdered." -- but of course a confession at gunpoint isn't terribly reliable. Comment... Question: Thats awesome. He did an AMA on Reddit and seemed like a lovely chap. Did he over up any FR's when he was there? If so, what were they? Asked by lxmREAPER (24.52.241.x) on June 4 2013, 7:48pm Reply on June 5 2013, 2:54pm: I think there might have been a few things, but it's often hard to remember. Comment... Question: What's the maximum cores you have run REAPER, does the current smp scale infinite or there's a limit? It would be interesting to read about the smp implementation of REAPER. Asked by gio (94.66.31.x) on June 4 2013, 6:34am Reply on June 5 2013, 2:57pm: Me personally, 8 separate cores. I could do a write-up of it, but instead I'll summarize: There are two modes: The first (oldest) is anticipative FX, where tracks are rendered up to Xms (default 200) ahead, to the extent possible. This allows maximum use of all cores, and should scale to many cores since there is very little synchronization between all of the cores. This mode is also advantageous on single core systems, as it does allow higher CPU use without interrupting the audio device (i.e. FFT and other block-based processing will not interrupt audio as much if done from another thread, etc). There is also "Live FX multiprocessing", which is a traditional multiprocessing approach (which is required for multiprocessing of live input and things dependent on live input). The scaling of this mode is dependent on the latency and overhead of the OS synchronization features available. There you go! Comment... Question: Did you know that Tycho user REAPER exclusively? Oh and hai. So do I :) Asked by lxmREAPER (24.52.241.x) on June 3 2013, 9:49pm Reply on June 4 2013, 1:43am: Yep, have had the honor of meeting him, too. He's an incredibly nice guy. Comment... Question: any interest in writing a android app? Asked by poop (70.199.97.x) on June 1 2013, 7:54pm Reply on June 3 2013, 6:57pm: Not really. Comment... Question: Did you ever have to work a non-coding job? I'm a sysadmin and hate it 80% of the time. How can I find the energy to make coding my career while working a butt-crushing 9-5? Asked by Eric (70.191.113.x) on June 1 2013, 12:44pm Reply on June 3 2013, 6:57pm: Not since I was a teenager, and then it was voluntary... :/ Maybe work on writing code to make your sysadmin-job easier/more fun? Comment... Question: Do you still work on your own music? Asked by MIck (27.127.192.x) on May 31 2013, 1:48am Reply on May 31 2013, 1:33pm (edited at May 31 2013, 1:36pm): Yep! Some days more than others, though... This thing I made last month is my favorite as of late. Comment... Question: What means the acronym jmde? Asked by gio (94.66.10.x) on May 30 2013, 3:44am Reply on May 30 2013, 2:17pm: Justin's Music Development Environment :) Comment... Question: what happened to brennan? is he ok? Asked by ruchira (175.157.215.x) on May 28 2013, 2:29pm Reply on May 29 2013, 1:52pm: afaik yes Comment... Question: Its not a question. Only thanks and appreciation. I can't believe you made winamp that was my favorite software when I was a kid and because of winamp i was exposed to mp3s and eventually DAWs and now knowing you make a DAW, i don't know what to say!!! I am officially a fan of your brain. I will however always bother you with my questions, I value your opini Asked by Mankey (188.53.111.x) on May 23 2013, 9:12pm Reply on May 26 2013, 12:53pm: Uh, thanks. Comment... Question: Linus discussed your branch timestamp issue, do you agree/disagree with him (below comments): kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/3/1/240167 Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 22 2013, 10:28pm Reply on May 23 2013, 1:38am: Yeah, I remember that -- those work, but aren't always ideal. I did make a script that would save/restore timestamps based on the hash of the item, and got it to work well... but I never use it. If anything I just look at things in other branches directly via git show branch:pathtofile etc Comment... Question: You once said you use git diff "alot". What do you diff the most? Working dir vs. HEAD? vs. staging? Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 22 2013, 5:43pm Reply on May 23 2013, 1:38am (edited at May 23 2013, 1:39am): All kinds of things, working copy against the head, look at individual commits, diff between older commits, etc. It's important to always look at how things change, to make sure things are not accidentally wrong (nevermind plain wrong programmer error). Comment... Question: Do you do all GIT stuff from a command shell window you keep running? Or do you use GUI integration? Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 20 2013, 10:37pm Reply on May 21 2013, 3:22pm: Yeah, from msysgit's shell or a terminal window on OSX. Occasionally I'll use git gui or gitk but normally just the command line. Comment... Question: I'd also like to help program a plugin that can make AVS' current frame available to other video engines as a service. Asked by Andrew Hall (75.82.58.x) on May 20 2013, 10:10pm Reply on May 21 2013, 3:22pm: Could just take the AVS source and make it do what you like... Comment... Question: Continuing AVS discussion: Well, there is great potential to expand AVS to allow its artists to create stock media clips on sites like Pond5...ever seen this? www.pond5.com/ Asked by Andrew Hall (75.82.58.x) on May 20 2013, 7:01pm Reply on May 21 2013, 3:23pm: Yeah, I suppose, but as it is open source it shoudl be pretty straight forward. Comment... Question: What do you like most about hosting with Amazon? How about least? Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on May 20 2013, 5:11pm Reply on May 21 2013, 3:23pm: It'd be nice to have a serial console to your VM, but other than that I'm pretty happy. Things do occasionally go awry, which is something you're supposed to plan for yourself (rather than relying on EC2 to have perfect uptime), but it doesn't seem to happen too often. Comment... 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