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Question: On landoleet.org you ask for not distributing anything from that site. Does this include the Reper 6 compatible versions of SWS as well?
Asked by Mespotine (109.104.49.x) on February 6 2020, 10:59pm
Reply on February 11 2020, 9:56pm:

Yeah 1 Comment...

Question: What do you think of the new midengine c8 corvette?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on February 6 2020, 8:41am
Reply on February 11 2020, 9:56pm:

I haven't seen it. Mostly over cars. I did rent a Toyota Corolla recently and its cruise control had radar that would pace the car in front of you, which was amazing. Comment...

Question: Do you use Linux personally? If so, why and how is it going?
Asked by Pior (93.48.248.x) on February 4 2020, 5:27pm
Reply on February 5 2020, 1:48am:

Yes! It's nice. You can control everything. It doesn't update without asking... etc. Comment...

Question: Does Reaper really whip the llama's ass?
Asked by Dingus McLeary (158.184.209.x) on February 3 2020, 8:36pm
Reply on February 5 2020, 1:48am:

No way, it doesn't do anything like that :) Comment...

Question: Is it true that ASIO dirivers don't report xruns? Is this the reason why I can't see xruns in Reaper's perf meter, despite hearing pop and clicks on very small buffers, (only on Windows)?
Asked by Giuan (93.48.248.x) on February 3 2020, 11:49am
Reply on February 3 2020, 5:05pm:

There is a spec in the API, and REAPER uses it, but I haven’t seen a driver that actually implements it... Comment...

Question: So our community has been talking about creating a ninjam application for android and iPhone. What are the key requirements of connecting to a ninjam server and receive/send data to/from the ninjam server? What code/library/framework is the ninjam server using? And does the server use encryption to accept a user? The reasoning is since the smartphone world is more advanced, we want to recreate the client to phones and have people jam online using their mobile devices.
Asked by David (74.101.225.x) on February 3 2020, 3:13am
Reply on February 3 2020, 3:56am:

See

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Comment...

Question: Which methods in IReaperControlSurface are never reentered by REAPER? For example I suspect that with SetTrackListChange(), the following can happen: REAPER invokes SetTrackListChange() => I call InsertTrackAtIndex() in this method => REAPER inserts the track and immediately invokes SetTrackListChange() again without waiting for the next main loop cycle (= "reentering"). I suspect for example Run() to be never reentered because it is simply called once per main loop cycle. But are there any other methods fo
Asked by helgoboss (2.206.26.x) on February 2 2020, 1:59pm
Reply on February 3 2020, 3:58am:

There are various checks to prevent reentrancy from causing problems, but it's probably a good idea to avoid modifying projects from within notifications of the project having changed. e.g. only modify things in response to user action, etc. Comment...

Question: Today I released Euterpe v1.00, www.grafmin.gr/euterpe/ --- would you mind to give some feedback? Also, it would be a chance to see STD with Amiga fonts before I update it to something more relevant with the times.
Asked by Gio (94.70.18.x) on February 2 2020, 12:58am
Reply on February 3 2020, 4:03am:

Hah nice, not at home so no Windows for me for a while though... Maybe post some screenshots? 1 Comment...

Question: Why do you no understand there's only one correct answer to "What's the meaning of life?" Well, okay, you could argue that "What's the meaning of life?" is not the same as "What's the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything."
Asked by Dudesky (173.239.232.x) on February 1 2020, 12:00am
Reply on February 3 2020, 4:03am:

No or not? I dunt standunder. 3 Comments...

Question: Any comment about this poll? gearslutz.com/board/music-computer...Reaper got almost 50% of the votes.
Asked by MS from Sweden (82.100.127.x) on January 31 2020, 11:17pm
Reply on February 3 2020, 4:04am (edited at February 24 2020, 2:36pm):

Changing rapidly, it seems? Internet polls are pretty meaningless anyway :) Comment...

Question: About delay buffers: when using a 'standard' ring buffer (doubles) with (extreme example) SR 192 kHz, 2 BPM, delay length one bar, RAM usage should be 120 (sec) * 192000 * 8 (bytes) ~ 180 MB. Though when doing this in REAPER/ReaDelay is seems to consume much less RAM (according to PerfMeter/TM). Do you use another technique for it?
Asked by nofish (94.134.90.x) on January 31 2020, 3:22pm
Reply on February 3 2020, 4:05am:

Busted! We use 32-bit floats for the delay lines... 1 Comment...

Question: hey-have ya heard 'ol steve the mad drummer's -Moon drums, Paint splashing Drums? > soundcloud.com/user7828480/moon-drums (love this guy's improv style+abilities) do you?
Asked by 2020 (2.25.95.x) on January 31 2020, 2:48pm
Reply on February 3 2020, 4:07am:

Them some drums Comment...

Question: If you had an ARM microcontroller with MIDI and audio capabilities, SD card and screen (and free time), what's the coolest thing you could make?
Asked by Colin (1.136.110.x) on January 30 2020, 10:15pm
Reply on February 3 2020, 4:07am:

hmm something that could administer electric shocks to me when I played out of time or out of key 1 Comment...

Question: I noticed, that you don't escape " and ' in strings in projectfiles/statechunks and I wonder, how do you copy with parsing layoutnames like "I know, I "should" do this, but will not!" How do you know, which " is part of the string and which not?
Asked by Mespotine (195.37.187.x) on January 30 2020, 4:36pm
Reply on January 30 2020, 7:09pm:

In that case we'd use `... but if you needed that in a string, you'd be screwed! Then we go lossy (or use a textblock or base64 encoding if needed). So if you do a string "'`hello`'" in a track name, it won't preserve all of those characters (do it in an item or project notes, you're OK though) Comment...

Question: Are there any circumstances under the hood, that GetSetMediaTrackInfo with I_WNDH parameter may return NULL or it always valid no matter what?
Asked by Pony (78.152.169.x) on January 28 2020, 9:08am
Reply on January 29 2020, 2:34pm:

You should always check to make sure the pointer is non-null before dereferencing it... It should only happen if the track pointer is invalid... 1 Comment...

Question: Do you have an email for companies to contact you directly regarding business, collaborations etc? Keep up the good work!
Asked by Robert (84.19.36.x) on January 27 2020, 10:40am
Reply on January 29 2020, 2:34pm: