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Question: full text below:
Asked by Bald Tarantula (184.162.143.x) on December 4 2014, 4:15pm
Reply on December 4 2014, 4:42pm (edited at December 4 2014, 4:44pm):

I keep reading that the phil behind R's dev is to add features the devs want to use themselves. I assume this is to keep the job motivating, but I can't help to feel a bit uncomfortable everytime I read that. In practice, R's dev and support is one of the best I've experienced, but again, that statement rubs me the wrong way. Is it unreasonable to expect a bit more influence as a paying customer? Does this mean it is possible that the most requested features never get implemented because the devs don't find them useful?

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Question: Did you learn C++ and PHP by yourself?
Asked by Steve (114.141.91.x) on December 3 2014, 12:46pm
Reply on December 4 2014, 3:18am:

I didn't have a teacher, but I have read a lot of books and other code. Or if you meant, while alone, then sometimes yes... Comment...

Question: Will Reaper 5.0 look so stylish like Fl Studio? or Studio one? When will the alpha stage of development begin, i remember for reaper 4.0 it took over 7 months for final release, will it take such a long time for development this time? will there be a reaper 4.99?
Asked by Madan (123.201.214.x) on December 3 2014, 4:33am
Reply on December 4 2014, 3:18am:

We will see! I hope the cycle isn't so long, a couple of months should be plenty. Comment...

Question: i requested for few features in feature request thread in reaper forum. will you read all those feature request in that thread and decide when u add a feature for reaper 5.0? how you will conclude that a feature is essential and how you take decision to add them?
Asked by Madan (123.201.214.x) on December 2 2014, 8:11pm
Reply on December 2 2014, 10:30pm:

We read as much as we can regarding feature requests, but I can't honestly say that we read every forum post. As far as choosing features go, we definitely take requests in to consideration, but a lot of it comes down to what we (as both REAPER developers and users) want to use. There are plenty of things that we end up adding that we don't use much as users, but those instances are not the majority. Comment...

Question: What is your biggest fear?
Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on December 1 2014, 10:10pm
Reply on December 2 2014, 10:27pm:

I've struggled to answer this question, it seems that I'm not a very fear-oriented person. Comment...

Question: "Bigwig Studio" A Daw which does better than reaper. Do you agree? why reaper doesn't have enough feature when compared to some top professional daw?
Asked by Ravi (123.201.63.x) on December 1 2014, 9:14pm
Reply on December 1 2014, 10:13pm:

Define "does better"? I think in a great number of ways (but clearly not every way imaginable) REAPER is the best daw in the universe. Comment...

Question: Is the naming for JesuSonic and CrusFX 1000 meant to be taken as an insult to Christians or are you a Christian?
Asked by pcunite (24.248.210.x) on December 1 2014, 4:33am
Reply on December 1 2014, 5:51pm:

Neither. Comment...

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: