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Question: I am using cockos reaper from version 3. its a good tool. thank you for giving us a daw which is very sensible.everything is cool but why reaper's GUI is not as cool as flstudio, ableton live, studio one & reason? why the GUI of plugins is still missing some cool skin? whats the reason behind the retro old school look of Reaper?
Asked by Kawin (123.201.215.x) on November 30 2014, 8:53pm
Reply on December 1 2014, 5:52pm:

Life (and software development) is all about compromises. Comment...

Question: Did you ever write any GUI with C#/.Net? If so, did you like it?
Asked by Rodrigo (177.96.173.x) on November 30 2014, 7:35pm
Reply on December 1 2014, 5:52pm:

I haven't. Comment...

Question: On your old .plan you used to talk about feeling like you worked all the time and couldn't find "relax" mode anymore. Did you finally figure out how to do that? Any tips?
Asked by Will (70.173.145.x) on November 28 2014, 6:20am
Reply on November 29 2014, 7:28pm:

Endurance training is very relaxing for me... Comment...

Question: By ay chance, did you had some time to give Playtime a look (and do you think it would be good to have it inside Reaper natively) ? any chance ton embedd natively Playtime in Reaper ? forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=149712
Asked by gilbert (109.19.9.x) on November 27 2014, 8:22am
Reply on November 29 2014, 7:31pm:

Haven't really looked at it, it's not really my thing. Things like that always put us in a tough place, because there are often good ideas, but you don't want to always go effectively crushing people who develop things for your platform (like Apple and MS do, and so on)... Comment...

Question: Any chance you could give an some sort of explanation how the oscilloscope worked in winamp 2.95 so this... github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js......might have some chance of getting resolved. Im confused ;)
Asked by PAEz (49.184.44.x) on November 26 2014, 3:43pm
Reply on November 29 2014, 7:30pm:

I'd have to go dig up the answers to it the same way as anybody else... Comment...

Question: Do you have any simple C++ implementation for an associative array? I don't like STL, just like you.
Asked by Rodrigo (177.96.49.x) on November 26 2014, 2:13am
Reply on November 29 2014, 7:28pm:

Yeah, WDL/assocarray.h (thanks schwa!). It gets used a lot. Comment...

Question: Is it true that MIDI_GetNote() and other functions return false if the event is hidden by filter? This does seem to be the case but it's not documented so it would be nice to know if we can rely on this behavior.
Asked by Martin (93.141.67.x) on November 25 2014, 9:52pm
Reply on November 29 2014, 7:30pm:

Probably. Comment...

Question: Re: msysgit. Outstanding! I feel a little bit stupid too. You shouldn't answer... ;D
Asked by gio (79.130.183.x) on November 25 2014, 1:50am
Reply on November 29 2014, 7:28pm:

:) Comment...

Question: Re: msysgit. What you said is true. But I'm talking about something else. Try: mkdir love; touch love/forever; rm -dfr love -- doesn't work for me :( your results different?
Asked by gio (79.130.183.x) on November 24 2014, 11:26pm
Reply on November 24 2014, 11:44pm:

Try leaving out the -d -- -d means that rm tries to remove the directory without removing the files first (and the docs say requires super-user privs), which is likely not supported on msysgit. Comment...

Question: Have you ever had a gay encounter? Or a bi-sexual moment(s)?
Asked by Gaymer (118.154.214.x) on November 24 2014, 10:13pm
Reply on November 24 2014, 10:29pm:

In my mind. Comment...

Question: Re: msysgit. Are there occasions where you come across --rm: cannot unlink 'blah': Not owner-- or it's just me using an ancient msysgit version? :(
Asked by gio (79.130.183.x) on November 24 2014, 7:05pm
Reply on November 24 2014, 10:27pm: