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Question: Hey Justin, what is the pixel font that used in REAPER gfx (and icecap)?
Asked by JRENG! (36.79.190.x) on January 15 2016, 10:15am
Reply on January 15 2016, 3:34pm:
    Classic VGA!
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Question: I've read that you're caring about the energy consumption of your computers. Are you even more into "sustainable" coding? It's just that especially computers and phones are not the best things to buy if you care about the environment. But you need them to test your software. What do you feel about that?
Asked by Albi (86.168.34.x) on January 14 2016, 11:29pm
Reply on January 15 2016, 3:36pm:
    Yeah, I feel wasteful at times with all of these electronics. My newest computer is going on 4 years old, I think, most are quite a bit older. It's still too much crap, though.
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Question: Any cool stuff happening with Super8jsfx?
Asked by Meme (75.134.150.x) on January 14 2016, 4:45pm
Reply on January 15 2016, 3:36pm:
    I improved some performance issues recently, and I have a branch that does some fun things with allowing you to shuffle samples, as well as copy/paste across channels (so you can sum multiple loops into a single one, etc), but not sure if I really like those changes... we'll see!
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Question: We miss you back in Cali, will you ever return?
Asked by Derek G (209.37.96.x) on January 13 2016, 9:08pm
Reply on January 13 2016, 9:46pm:
    Aww come visit NYC! :) It's warmer than Montreal that time...
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Question: What's the most extravagant thing you ever got yourself? Do you still give yourself crazy things or is it a joyless passing fad? youtube.com/watch?v=kSHUha9ABNY
Asked by Will (107.203.156.x) on January 13 2016, 6:27am
Reply on January 13 2016, 2:10pm:
    Perhaps a 911 Turbo... which was silly, but fun at times.

    These days not so much, though I suppose living in NYC is a nice luxury.

    I just spent $7 at the plexiglass store. Awesome.
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Question: Which skills do you expect from a job applicant at Cockos? Do you also accept interns?
Asked by Deniz (46.25.47.x) on January 11 2016, 1:07am
Reply on January 11 2016, 9:54pm:
    At this point managing myself is a full time job...
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Question: Do you miss San Francisco ?
Asked by bogo (96.127.215.x) on January 10 2016, 5:34am
Reply on January 10 2016, 11:51pm:
    I miss certain people, and perhaps the weather in February...
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Question: Audacity does great on that infinitewave test. Couldn't you take a peek at their algorithm?
Asked by terry (50.246.0.x) on January 7 2016, 9:19pm
Reply on January 8 2016, 4:34am:
    They have different requirements -- REAPER's samplerate conversion needs to support arbitrary conversion ratios and also changing ratios on the fly.
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Question: src.infinitewave.ca/ has finally tested the new Reaper SRC algorithm. Congrats, looks much nicer than the old extreme mode!
Asked by Bernard (85.218.25.x) on January 5 2016, 11:10pm
Reply on January 6 2016, 9:10pm:
    ah sweet!
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Question: Thanks. Or, maybe support the *.multisample format from BWS, that one is all XML and easy enough to parse.
Asked by PunkyBrewster (99.103.119.x) on January 4 2016, 2:22am
Reply on January 6 2016, 9:10pm:
    I will look into this.
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Question: I've written an app to map and export samples. Is there any way I can get an outline of the ReaSampleMatic preset format?
Asked by PunkyBrewster (99.103.119.x) on January 3 2016, 3:09pm
Reply on January 4 2016, 12:10am:
    Hmm that'd be a mess, let me see if I can come up with a good alternative way to import.
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Question: Does anyone ever recognize you out and about these days?
Asked by Eric (107.213.161.x) on December 31 2015, 3:40pm
Reply on January 1 2016, 7:35pm:
    Nope.
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Question: Did you code the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)? Who is maintaining it?
Asked by Albi (86.169.98.x) on December 30 2015, 5:50pm
Reply on December 30 2015, 8:57pm:
    I wrote the first versions and maintained it through v1.x... since 2.0 kichik has been the maintainer.
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Question: Have you tried VR? Google Cardboard with VR Player is amazing! You should try it ... and hopefully there is something you would want to use in VR so you make another cool software ;).
Asked by Richard (176.4.29.x) on December 30 2015, 10:51am
Reply on December 30 2015, 8:57pm:
    I've tried it (and better stuff by Oculus) but I couldn't get past the limited display quality...
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Question: What is the method Extended() supposed to do on a MIDI PCM_source if the first parameter is PCM_SOURCE_EXT_TRIMITEM? I was hoping it's something like "Loop section of item source" for MIDI but couldn't make it work.
Asked by helgoboss (188.105.185.x) on December 29 2015, 5:04pm
Reply on December 29 2015, 10:29pm:
    It is to enable trimming the underlying MIDI source to the bounds of the item, which is an optional behavior when splitting MIDI items.
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Question: Where is Loser? He rocked the Jesusonic forum back in the day! How did he get/is/was involved in REAPER?
Asked by Robert (91.234.22.x) on December 29 2015, 1:31pm
Reply on December 29 2015, 10:30pm:
    I don't know -- he has written some good JSFX, for sure.
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Question: How many hours a day are you averagely spending in front of a computer ?
Asked by wasereb4 (93.217.231.x) on December 28 2015, 9:06pm
Reply on December 28 2015, 9:54pm:
    Some days a lot, other days minimal... depends. More in the winter, I think.
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Question: about how many lines of code do you write in a typical week
Asked by stumpy1 (208.79.246.x) on December 24 2015, 6:57am
Reply on December 24 2015, 4:36pm:
    No idea, but here are some commit stats:
    $ git log --author="Justin" --pretty=tformat: --numstat --no-merges --since='2015-12-03' --until='2015-12-10' |grep -v sdks|awk '{s+=$1; s2+=$2} END {print "add=" s;  print "del=" s2}'
    add=2373
    del=841
    
    $ git log --author="Justin" --pretty=tformat: --numstat --no-merges --since='2015-12-10' --until='2015-12-17' |grep -v sdks|awk '{s+=$1; s2+=$2} END {print "add=" s;  print "del=" s2}'
    add=718
    del=457
    
    $ git log --author="Justin" --pretty=tformat: --numstat --no-merges --since='2015-12-17' | grep -v sdks|awk '{s+=$1; s2+=$2} END {print "add=" s;  print "del=" s2}'
    add=1384
    del=708
    
    
    I definitely write a lot that doesn't get committed, too... anyway
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Question: What exactly are the benefits of a non-portable installation on Windows? I only seem to find reasons for using a portable installation of any kind of program, if available...
Asked by Albi (86.146.127.x) on December 22 2015, 10:20pm
Reply on December 24 2015, 1:54am:
    I suppose it handles one install being used by multiple users correctly... Also you can have different versions installed but use the same configuration for them (such as 32 and 64 bit, or 5.1 and 5.11 beta, etc).
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Question: where is lice_bmp_write?
Asked by Hasaranga (123.231.124.x) on December 22 2015, 6:35am
Reply on December 22 2015, 2:53pm:
    I've never found myself wanting to write a .bmp...
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