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Ask Justin Frankel
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Question: Would you consider making this site in dark mode as an option?
Asked by Jimmy (104.221.68.x) on October 10 2020, 10:58pm
Reply on October 11 2020, 6:28pm:

Hmm I haven't considered it, is there a way to get a hint from the browser? Comment...

Question: Hey what a nice surprise, how did you manage to build Reaper for arm64 so fast? Is it fully functional? What about 3rd party libraries?
Asked by zabukowski (149.126.144.x) on October 10 2020, 3:35pm
Reply on October 10 2020, 9:06pm:

I don't think JSFX is working right yet, but that's it (mprotect() might not be supported? some new entitlement? will sort out when I get some apple silicon hardware). We have linux arm64 working, though. 4 Comments...

Question: Are we, i mean the users, too spoiled crybabies nowadays? i like tricky questions, sorry:)
Asked by Pony (93.177.75.x) on October 8 2020, 2:33pm
Reply on October 8 2020, 9:44pm:

I don't associated with spoiled crybabies, so probably not? 2 Comments...

Question: are we related?
Asked by Roddy Frankel (174.234.129.x) on October 7 2020, 9:15pm
Reply on October 8 2020, 9:44pm:

If so probably pretty distantly! If you are related to a David Frankel who came to North America from Romania around 1900 then maybe. Comment...

Question: audio VS. visuals..... which matters the most? (ignoring the fact that you are a musician, because I don't want you to give a biased answer (as audio) :P another question... which is more bearable - poor audio or poor video?
Asked by now that i found you (122.161.246.x) on October 6 2020, 6:24pm
Reply on October 8 2020, 9:42pm:

Depends on what you're watching/listening to! 1 Comment...

Question: Would you anticipate any audio problems if software forced an ASIO driver to use a buffer of 960 samples ? A program i use forces this setting and many people report audio glitches which i thought may be related.. even though 960 is divisable it seems like a non standard interval to me.. could create compatibility problems with some drivers ?
Asked by EcBaPr (119.18.2.x) on October 6 2020, 2:48pm
Reply on October 8 2020, 9:42pm:

If the driver is designed to accept it, then it would work. If not, then it would fail! 1 Comment...

Question: Do you think the current POTUS will need to be readmitted to hospital before the election?
Asked by Rob The Questioner (185.130.156.x) on October 6 2020, 12:55pm
Reply on October 6 2020, 1:00pm:

It's hard to say, because the treatment decisions being made for him are pretty clearly being made by him and not doctors. So who the fuck knows (it doesn't seem like he should be out now, though!). 3 Comments...

Question: have you seen this yet? > youtu.be/Ftck_dXkrzw
Asked by 2020 (95.149.70.x) on October 6 2020, 12:49pm
Reply on October 6 2020, 12:59pm:

Hah funny Comment...

Question: could you explain the technical reasoning for why you dont allow multiple different audio interfaces in Reaper ? for example if you wanted to use a Focusrite or RME ASIO driver for main outputs and then WDM motherboard audio driver or second ASIO interface for additional outputs ?
Asked by EcBaPr (119.18.2.x) on October 6 2020, 8:05am
Reply on October 6 2020, 12:57pm:

Dealing with synchronization issues between them would be less than ideal Comment...

Question: objective-c or swift?
Asked by Hasaranga (104.248.147.x) on October 4 2020, 5:32pm
Reply on October 5 2020, 2:32pm:

For me personally, objective C or manually calling the objective C runtime from C/C++ ha ha 2 Comments...

Question: MIDI version 2.0. Thoughts?
Asked by Midas (110.54.211.x) on October 4 2020, 10:41am
Reply on October 5 2020, 2:32pm:

Meh 1 Comment...

Question: How does the second parameter of PLINK in ParmMod work, when separated by : ? I try to address a specific parameter but all I can do is do relative stuff like 0:-1 for one fx higher in the FXChain and 0:1 for one fx lower in the FXChain. And what does the first number do (First:Second)?
Asked by Mespotine (2.247.248.x) on October 3 2020, 1:46pm
Reply on October 3 2020, 4:56pm:

The second number is the relative offset, yeah, and the first number is the absolute position in the chain (or -100 if MIDI) 3 Comments...

Question: In Reaper I'm never sure where the transport playback occur. I mean where in the signal flow the resampling is made? It seems to be after take fx but before track fx? Could you enlighten us with the true truth? Thank you Justin!
Asked by Vincent F. (198.84.249.x) on October 2 2020, 10:00pm
Reply on October 3 2020, 12:19pm:

Resampling happens before all FX (all FX run at the same samplerate). 1 Comment...

Question: What is the purpose of TrackFX_EndParamEdit? I'm working on an inputFX-equivalent for Ultraschall-API but can't test, whether it works, as I don't know what it's for in the first place.
Asked by Mespotine (2.247.251.x) on October 2 2020, 5:15pm
Reply on October 3 2020, 12:19pm: