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Question: Would you ever consider selling Reaper if the potential buyer was on the same wavelength and wanted to put more resources behind the mission of free and open tools for music creation?
Asked by Daniel (69.16.172.x) on March 3 2020, 8:50pm
Reply on March 4 2020, 12:23am:

Assuming there were enough other conditions satisfied to convince me that this was the case, then I would have no choice but to assume that the potential buyer was insane and not qualified to be buying the business. 7 Comments...

Question: Hey Justin! Are you planning to do Area Selection native in Reaper?Thank you!
Asked by Chester (77.111.247.x) on March 3 2020, 11:42am
Reply on March 3 2020, 3:25pm:

See the note above, thank you! 4 Comments...

Question: Hi Justin, have you and Schwa ever considered making a programming video course? There's a dearth of good C++ and Lua courses on Udemy and so many bad ones, the good ones seem to all be game focused...whereas you could do a gui/music/plugin focused course, maybe even scripting in REAPER. You'd be the highest rated course on Udemy! It's still your passion right? I believe Kenny makes some good videos...
Asked by bevo (101.164.130.x) on March 1 2020, 12:27pm
Reply on March 1 2020, 3:44pm:

Not really my forte... also the way we do REAPER is one that most people would probably find incredibly tedious ;) 4 Comments...

Question: Hi Justin which is your favorite Ween album and why?
Asked by Magnus Glasscock (184.97.143.x) on March 1 2020, 5:01am
Reply on March 1 2020, 3:43pm:

Have a number of friends who are big Ween friends, and while I've seen them live and found them to be amazing musicians I never really got into their albums. Comment...

Question: Who originally conceived and created Reaper, besides JF?
Asked by Preaper (174.239.5.x) on February 29 2020, 8:42pm
Reply on March 1 2020, 3:42pm:

I started it, I think the first thing rOn (Christophe) did was add DirectX plug-in support. Comment...

Question: hey-are you ready to rock a scratchocaster? > youtu.be/m5wgFAB_yxI (inventive,or.. nah?)
Asked by 2020 (2.26.240.x) on February 29 2020, 2:42pm
Reply on March 1 2020, 3:41pm:

Haha funny Comment...

Question: Just like there is 'Instruments' button in FX in REAPER, why there is no 'effects' button there which just shows all effects scanned by REAPER of any type (VST2, VST3 etc.). It would be easy to find effects in that manner, just like it is really easy to find instruments.
Asked by Joker (198.16.76.x) on February 28 2020, 4:16pm
Reply on March 1 2020, 3:40pm:

Hmm what button are you speaking of? 1 Comment...

Question: When I put a new FR into the forum, I have a tendency to be over-specific with the what and how of my FR. Is this ok for you or does it take away the nerd-hacking-value of finding the solution yourself? Don't want to spoil your fun in Reaper-development ;)
Asked by Mespotine (109.104.40.x) on February 28 2020, 2:35pm
Reply on March 1 2020, 3:39pm:

Having a general idea and specifics are both good, sometimes the solution that makes more sense to implement is different than suggested, otherwise not. Comment...

Question: REAPER 6 looks much much better than previous versions, really. It looks modern, and colors are very soothing for eyes. The dark theme and dark colors are very much matching together and everything feels very good now. New buttons look refreshing. Thanks to WhiteTie for developing this. But just a little bit modification I (and maybe others too?) want. Can you guys add a little tool inside 'Theme Adjuster' where we can darken and brighten (whiten) the arrange view and piano roll view?
Asked by Dustin (178.128.57.x) on February 28 2020, 2:24pm
Reply on March 1 2020, 3:39pm:

A global brightness (and color correction) tweak for themes might be interesting. 1 Comment...

Question: Do You think it's possible somehow to embed vector images on top of raster? E.g. to have good looking vector fonts, but at the same time not to lose artistic freedom and performance of raster for other graphical elements?
Asked by Pony (78.152.169.x) on February 28 2020, 12:08pm
Reply on February 28 2020, 1:24pm:

Sure, you can render them on top programmatically, we do that for fonts all the time... 1 Comment...

Question: Is 320 kbps mp3 best music quality? Which quality and extension (m4a, flac) you prefer for general listening? Also a bonus question, which is your most favourite Billie Eilish song? :D
Asked by Bill (162.243.246.x) on February 27 2020, 4:11pm
Reply on February 27 2020, 4:15pm:

I'm pretty happy with mp3 @ 192kbps. I don't know any Billie Eilish songs. 3 Comments...

Question: Your favourite Youtube channel?
Asked by Pony (78.152.169.x) on February 27 2020, 10:47am
Reply on February 27 2020, 4:15pm:

I don't really follow any channels Comment...

Question: Always keep the reaper, do not finish.
Asked by Strantrickt (95.7.142.x) on February 27 2020, 9:53am
Reply on February 27 2020, 4:15pm:

YES! 1 Comment...

Question: Are all icons, buttons and all theme related things inside REAPER 6 raster or vector? If still raster (same as bitmap, I guess), why not switch into vector, which looks better and more polished and also can be resized into any resolution without blurring?
Asked by Abhi (182.68.241.x) on February 27 2020, 7:54am
Reply on February 27 2020, 4:14pm:

Raster. Too much work to change. 3 Comments...

Question: How do you choose a laptop when you have to get a new one? Which aspects do you value the most?
Asked by Loip (79.31.222.x) on February 26 2020, 9:36pm
Reply on February 27 2020, 4:15pm:

These days if it's a laptop I want to travel with it, so it ends up being about small size/weight + long battery life. Usually I bring with me my ASUS C101P (in devmode and with linux via crouton). Comment...

Question: What do you think of people using Reaper even after the trial period expires? Do you ever consider adding a lock option? I have to say the Reaper model is quite new and unique to me! Thank you for Reaper btw :)
Asked by Meolo (79.31.222.x) on February 26 2020, 4:00pm
Reply on February 26 2020, 4:27pm:

The risks: 1) someone with a valid license who misplaced it can't use REAPER. 2) people who are just past expiration have incentive to crack rather than potentially eventually buy a license. Comment...

Question: Ummm.. isn't it better in REAPER to zoom out to just the end of the project (last part of the last media clip, or a little bit after it, like 2 bars after it), instead of zooming out infinite times, which looks kinda... weird?? My project zooms out to 30 minutes whereas last part of my last media clip is just around 4 minutes
Asked by ZoOoOm (178.128.82.x) on February 26 2020, 12:27pm
Reply on February 26 2020, 4:27pm:

Nah Comment...

Question: What's the last programming thing you learned?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on February 26 2020, 1:32am
Reply on February 26 2020, 4:27pm:

No idea Comment...

Question: hey- after hearing about the apollo masters vinyl lacquer fire (aggrrg!) -did you ever get to cutting any vinyl,or will you ever perhaps? ((as there's supposed to be a higher quality 'digital process' in the works))
Asked by 2020 (95.151.177.x) on February 25 2020, 10:57pm
Reply on February 26 2020, 4:27pm:

Nope Comment...

Question: I think there is some problem with REAPER's icon/logo. I have put other apps too near to REAPER just for comparison. All of them are scaling properly. Synfig Studio's icon isn't scaling but it is persistently showing. Whereas REAPER's icon neither scale nor persistently show when I zoom in and out. See this imgur.com/RqicGTl
Asked by Apple iCon (46.101.16.x) on February 24 2020, 10:50am
Reply on February 24 2020, 2:28pm (edited at February 24 2020, 2:35pm):

This probably belongs in the BR forum and not here. You could look at the shortcut to see what it defines its icon as, though, that could be an error. Comment...

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