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Question: Streaming Live365 music, thinking how far we've NOT come that it continually skips and stutters as new Chrome tabs do things. Winamp never did that shit a decade ago on much less powerful machines. :(
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on November 14 2014, 6:18pm
Reply on November 14 2014, 6:49pm:

Hmm I often play stuff in my browser that doesn't skip... Comment...

Question: Why do you not want children? (I don't either, but I'm interested to hear your reasons).
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on November 14 2014, 2:11am
Reply on November 14 2014, 6:49pm:

Children are, in general, assholes Comment...

Question: Does your wife want kids?
Asked by Ragu (114.179.18.x) on November 13 2014, 9:26pm
Reply on November 14 2014, 1:57am:

I certainly hope not Comment...

Question: Is Brennan Underwood your biological brother, half brother or just "bro" as in good friends. And whatever happen to him? After winamp3 he vanished :)
Asked by Chunky (216.207.230.x) on November 12 2014, 8:55pm
Reply on November 13 2014, 3:39am (edited at November 13 2014, 3:40am):

All of the above I guess. He's still around, somewhere. Comment...

Question: Hi Justin I would like to know how to find my licence Key. swamped with over 5000 emails and reaper don't come up in the searcH :(. We bought a home use licence in the last 5 years, either under XYZ
Asked by Elmarie Ford (49.181.9.x) on November 12 2014, 3:16am
Reply on November 12 2014, 3:55am:

Done (license sent to both addresses), redacted your email(s) too. Comment...

Question: "audio trigger > mastger clock" - I wish to use a modular synth or pre-midi drum machines, or the trigger outputted from a looper pedal to be used as Reaper's main tempo clock. We would feed Reaper with an audio signal, and it would be usedas /converted into the main master clock.as
Asked by gilbert (109.19.9.x) on November 11 2014, 8:29pm
Reply on November 12 2014, 3:56am:

Hmm, not really possible as REAPER needs things to be predictable. Comment...

Question: were you "bossed" around at all at AOL? have to answer to any one person?
Asked by will (70.173.145.x) on November 11 2014, 7:28am
Reply on November 12 2014, 3:56am:

I was definitely not given free rein, but I wasn't super-controlled either. Comment...

Question: I tried to have some fun with early builds but the link is dead. reaper.fm/files/early/ --- Any help? :(
Asked by gio (79.130.160.x) on November 10 2014, 1:44pm
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:29pm:

Hah, fixed. Also osx_early/ is now available too. Comment...

Question: envelopes are kinda inconvenient for electronic music in reaper imo. Any pointers on what part of the reaper API I should look at to make my own automation UI (that would probably write generated automation to the normal automation tracks)?
Asked by mfran (95.235.116.x) on November 10 2014, 9:40am
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:30pm:

Dunno. Comment...

Question: Hi, any chance to add "audio trigger in to master clock" feature in Reaper ?
Asked by gilbert (109.19.9.x) on November 9 2014, 9:08pm
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:30pm:

Hmm explain what that is? Comment...

Question: any chance ton embedd natively Playtime in Reaper ? forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=149712
Asked by gilbert (109.19.9.x) on November 9 2014, 1:15pm
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:30pm:

Hmm interesting but we'll see. I know JeffOS wants that too. Comment...

Question: Do you ever end up solving problems for which you don't quite understand how your solution works? How to learn from it?
Asked by travis (70.178.149.x) on November 8 2014, 11:58pm
Reply on November 10 2014, 11:29pm:

Usually it's the opposite -- wondering why a simple change breaks things, then you figure out that the things that worked shouldn't have, but did due to good luck. Comment...

Question: Is brendan your real brother (real as full biological)?
Asked by Chunks (216.207.230.x) on November 7 2014, 5:24pm
Reply on November 7 2014, 6:08pm:

I do not have a brother named "Brendan", real or otherwise Comment...

Question: What neighborhood of NYC do you live in?
Asked by Eugene (108.30.239.x) on November 7 2014, 12:28pm
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:44pm:

At the moment, Cobble Hill Comment...

Question: Are there any other video interviews of you on the net besides the bigthink one?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on November 7 2014, 12:48am
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:44pm:

Not many, I think there's me giving a reaper demo in 2007 on youtube (I say I think, rather I know as it's on my youtube account ha ha) Comment...

Question: Curves do end up looking like fades, but still don't null. I'm sure error is on my part and I'm guessing it's in using LICE_CBezier_GetY (bit.ly/1wALYpw). I can only guess why there are differences (rounding errors because you're using something other than CBezier_GetY()?). I'm trying to get perfect replica of REAPER behavior for loudness measurement.
Asked by Martin (93.141.59.x) on November 7 2014, 12:24am
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:44pm:

I'll look into it. I think for common fade types we use more optimized special-cases, i.e. using an interpolated polynomial directly. Comment...

Question: Did you see this already? jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/
Asked by Rodrigo (189.114.207.x) on November 7 2014, 12:15am
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:43pm:

Yep. Comment...

Question: any reason wingui couldn't be used in a win only plugin?
Asked by olilarkin (86.31.114.x) on November 6 2014, 9:09pm
Reply on November 7 2014, 4:43pm:

You could definitely use it for a plug-in (on OSX or win32), it's just not designed to be used with IPlug in particular, but it could definitely be done. Comment...

Question: Did your parents tell you you were "smart" growing up? How did they encourage you to push yourself more and more? science.slashdot.org/story/14/11/05/0045219/too-many-kids-quit-s...
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on November 5 2014, 11:47pm
Reply on November 6 2014, 4:48am:

I think they did, however I generally could tell when they were just being polite. They also (probably more-often) praised effort, too, I think. Comment...

Question: Could a considerable portion of ninjam be repurposed to other psuedo-real time collaboration efforts in non-musical endeavors?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on November 5 2014, 10:21pm
Reply on November 6 2014, 4:48am:

Potentially, yeah. Comment...

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