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Ask Justin Frankel No reasonable question unanswered since 2009! Suggested topics: programming, music, sleep, coffee, etc. Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead. Name: Ask: Human (enter yes): [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

Question: Would you consider selling Cockos as your did Nullsoft if the price were right? If not, why? Asked by Jimmy (24.234.128.x) on February 17 2010, 12:13pm Reply on February 17 2010, 3:29pm: Not at this point. If at some point I was wanting to do something else -- a point which may come someday but who knows when -- then I would consider it. Why not? Because money is money, and once you have more that a certain amount it loses its ability to improve your quality of life. Comment... Question: If you could go back in time Bill and Ted style, what would you tell the you from 2004 regarding Reaper? Asked by James (68.225.40.x) on February 17 2010, 10:46am Reply on February 17 2010, 3:33pm: That's a great question. I was going to list off a list of things that I had spent days banging my head on the wall over (such as "gcc by default doesn't align doubles in structs very well"), but I can't think of many others. I know there were some, primarily relating to OS X porting. I guess the biggest helpful thing would have been to support multi-project sooner rather than later. A ton of stuff had to be broken/fixed in order to support having multiple projects open at the same time, and had it been planned-in, it would have been a lot easier (at minimal cost). We still need to do multiple projects visible at the same time, too... Comment... Question: Ok, what was the most difficult technical / programming related component to crafting a mp3 decoder? Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on February 17 2010, 8:42am Reply on February 17 2010, 3:35pm (edited at February 17 2010, 3:36pm): Actually MMX optimizations were probably the most annoying -- porting stuff that used the FPU in all of its glorious precision to use limited range integer SIMD registers, while still maintaining ISO compatibility. Oh, if only SSE2 had been there. Comment... Question: specifically, why only 1-2 members have to carry the whole network and no one else can direct-connect? thanks! Asked by hanna (68.209.179.x) on February 16 2010, 6:44am Reply on February 17 2010, 5:49am: I'd check to make sure the other members have public IPs and/or ports open. If the latter, and they are behind NAT, you can configure WASTE with their public IPs so that other hosts know what IP to contact them on. If I remember correctly... Comment... Question: is there a place i may be able to get tech help for a long-running (7 years +) WASTE mesh? Asked by hanna (68.209.179.x) on February 16 2010, 5:39am Reply on February 17 2010, 5:48am: Not really. Comment... Question: I have visited your site off and on. Its nice things r still the same. U dress the same & seem modest. Even after good fortune Asked by AnalSeducer (71.142.82.x) on February 15 2010, 10:25pm Reply on February 17 2010, 5:48am: (not question) Comment... Question: You bike 15 minutes to work? So you live in SF (downtown area?) Asked by Gangsta (67.88.171.x) on February 15 2010, 11:43am Reply on February 17 2010, 5:47am: SF is pretty small, yes. Comment... Question: Do you find it hard to avoid distractions like RSS, Twitter, news.google, etc..? Asked by mgomes (75.38.129.x) on February 15 2010, 7:07am Reply on February 17 2010, 5:47am: Not really, no. Things relating to my work, like our forums, those are moreso... Comment... Question: how much time do you spend working in front of a computer screen each day? how to relieve eye strain? Asked by andrew (24.56.204.x) on February 14 2010, 1:35pm Reply on February 14 2010, 7:57pm: It ends up being many hours.. but I try and usually am good about breaking up the hours into shorter chunks.. Comment... Question: what do you think of this? goo.gl/cmax it looks like something you would be interested in making. Asked by Justin (173.55.71.x) on February 14 2010, 1:34pm Reply on February 14 2010, 7:57pm: Cute.. but meh, tactile controllers = win. Comment... Question: how to use winamp dsp plugin as vst plugin? Asked by ruchira (202.129.234.x) on February 13 2010, 11:15pm Reply on February 14 2010, 7:58pm: It would be pretty easy to write a wrapper.. but winamp dsp plug-ins can only be created one instance at a time, so, it'd be somewhat limited (unless you copied the DLL and loaded a diff filename each time). Comment... Question: I want to add winamp dsp plugin into entire system! how to do it? Asked by ruchira (202.129.233.x) on February 13 2010, 6:22pm Reply on February 14 2010, 7:58pm: Loading winamp DSP plug-ins is pretty straightforward.. you could probably do it from the WA DSP SDK... Comment... Question: What was the most complicated part of writing a mp3 decoder? Asked by Will (68.96.206.x) on February 13 2010, 3:03pm Reply on February 14 2010, 7:59pm: The legal battles... Comment... Question: how often do you go into the office, everyday? how long is the commute? Asked by andrew (24.56.204.x) on February 13 2010, 10:17am Reply on February 14 2010, 8:00pm: Not every day.. probably half or so. it's about a 15m bike ride. Comment... Question: Are you travelling these days? Asked by Fergo (189.4.55.x) on February 12 2010, 6:59pm Reply on February 13 2010, 8:42am: Nah, more distracted with developing something kinda interesting.. not a new app or anything, but a cool reuse of some existing code, relating to existing projects... anyway :) Comment... Question: What do you think of the uTorrent application? Asked by Poop (67.88.171.x) on February 12 2010, 11:37am Reply on February 13 2010, 8:42am: uTorrent is nice. I like it. Comment... Question: Have you ever studied the bittorrent protocol? Think you could improve it? Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on February 12 2010, 10:34am Reply on February 13 2010, 8:43am: Not really. Comment... Question: How to do face warp things using LICE? Asked by ruchira (202.129.234.x) on February 10 2010, 7:14pm Reply on February 13 2010, 8:44am: LICE_TransformBlit() may do what you want. you give it an output rectangle, a source image, and a list of source image points that get mapped to points on the output rectangle.. you can do all kinds of fun stuff with that. Comment... Question: Besides Carmack, who are the other programmer you look up to? Asked by Poop (66.184.76.x) on February 10 2010, 9:15am Reply on February 13 2010, 8:47am: Umm I dunno... most programmers don't get to be that well known. I do appreciate when I go to integrate a particular bit of code, and it's reasonably designed. Wavpack is much more enjoyable to integrate than FLAC, for example. That's a tangent.. anyway I do read virtualdub.org now and then, it's helpful/interesting. Comment... Question: does reaper support "track freeze" so softsynth RAM is freed up and MIDI automatically converted to audio until track unfrozen? Asked by andrew (24.56.204.x) on February 9 2010, 10:51am Reply on February 13 2010, 8:45am: You can render stems on the track, then offline the plug-ins, yes... but there's no fancy "freeze" button. Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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