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Question: What's your current setup, in terms of hardware and software that you use to get things done? Asked by Lollp (79.50.152.x) on January 3 2021, 11:29am Reply on January 3 2021, 4:33pm: Day to day I use a mid-2014 RMBP with a thunderbolt display, MS keyboard 4000v1, asus mouse, and a thinkpad x1 carbon (5th gen I think?) for linux/win. Also have Parallels on the RMBP for windows dev. Vim/xcode/thunderbird/firefox/slack etc. Have two ReadyNAS Pros in separate locations with dual parity. Business also has a build farm of various mac minis and a NUC. And about 5 EC2 instances on AWS... 2 Comments... Question: What if a significant percent of the REAPER community refused to wear a mask or get vaccinated unless timestretch was implemented in RS5K, what would you do? Asked by Mommy (142.196.50.x) on January 2 2021, 12:21pm Reply on January 2 2021, 8:12pm: If I were to implement that, then they'd ask for something else. So I'd tell them to wear masks and get vaccinated and _THEN_ I'll think about it. :/ The main reason why it hasn't been implemented is that for realtime use (the most common way to use RS5k) timestretch isn't practical! 1 Comment... Question: Beside chords & vocal melody, how can I make my song more interesting? Asked by Make Music (27.58.27.x) on January 1 2021, 4:46pm Reply on January 2 2021, 12:03am: Textures? Rhythms? Dancing goats? 3 Comments... Question: What's that food on your GitHub pic? Asked by wasereb4 (79.246.81.x) on December 31 2020, 1:40pm Reply on December 31 2020, 3:10pm (edited at December 31 2020, 3:11pm): the mini taco platter from Guisados in LA, mmmm Comment... Question: SWELL/GDK: Is it possible to emulate CreateWindowEx in functionality with some internal SWELL function or I have to go with the resource root and use dialogs? Thanks Asked by Gio (79.130.163.x) on December 30 2020, 5:38am Reply on December 30 2020, 3:27pm (edited at December 30 2020, 3:41pm): There's a SWELL shorthand which is to use SWELL_CreateDialog()... For a top level window see eel_lice.h's use. The template value in question is 0x400000|styles, where style has bits 1: resizable, 2: no minimize, 4: no close. (see swell-dlg-generic.cpp. Or NULL for the template if it's a child window. Comment... Question: What was it like working for AOL before you resigned? Asked by Brad (203.97.16.x) on December 29 2020, 10:12pm Reply on December 30 2020, 12:52am: It was OK! Hard to get good things done, maybe could've done better knowing what I know now, but maybe not. :) Comment... Question: Happy Holidays To you and Cockos! Do cockos take vacations? How it works? Asked by Aloha! (186.210.93.x) on December 25 2020, 5:46am Reply on December 27 2020, 4:45pm: Pretty informal, usually they are somewhat working vacations... Comment... Question: Happy Holidays :) Asked by Mespotine (80.187.118.x) on December 24 2020, 1:50am Reply on December 24 2020, 3:01pm: Happy Holidays to you (and everybody else out there) too! Comment... Question: Are there any physical DAWs? I mean, in shape of a piano keyboard, which have all features of a proper DAW (like all types of instruments & effects) so that it will be like a portable high quality DAW which we can carry anywhere with us and start making music and also have internet from where we can share our music directly to anywhere.... I tried searching all this but didn't find any, ahhhhh, I still find technology of this era somewhat limited! Asked by DAWs are AWWs (27.58.113.x) on December 23 2020, 10:52am Reply on December 23 2020, 12:37pm: REAPER used to come on Open Labs devices which were sort of that (computers with integrated keyboards etc)... 2 Comments... Question: Maybe WDL_ALLOW_UNSIGNED_DEFAULT_CHAR should take into consideration the /J option, that would be _CHAR_UNSIGNED, right now if fails by default. What you think? Best wishes for Xmas. Asked by Gio (79.130.163.x) on December 23 2020, 7:54am Reply on December 23 2020, 12:36pm: Should probably go through and make sure all of WDL doesn't break with that first :) Comment... Question: If you're over windows, how are you using your beloved vs code 6? Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on December 23 2020, 4:23am Reply on December 23 2020, 12:35pm: It's mostly vim and make on other OSes these days Comment... Question: hey- with win os do you see disk partitions as a big thing or?? are ssd or any other drives actually benefiting from partitions in some way? Asked by 2020 (2.26.240.x) on December 23 2020, 12:59am Reply on December 23 2020, 1:44am: I don’t see them as useful from a performance or reliability perspective, but sometimes good from a logistical perspective? I’m pretty over Windows though... 1 Comment... Question: What are you thoughts on the COVID vaccine? Will you take it? I'm sure my job will force me to take the vaccine. Asked by Mommy (142.196.50.x) on December 22 2020, 10:26pm Reply on December 23 2020, 1:43am: When it is my turn, absolutely! Comment... Question: Hey Justin, I'm enjoying your Super 8 jams and tutorials you've been posting lately, especially the guitar tone. What fx you are using on your guitar, are they plugins or are you using pedals etc? Asked by Nick Demosthenous (46.177.253.x) on December 22 2020, 1:09am Reply on December 22 2020, 2:30pm (edited at December 22 2020, 2:31pm): Thanks! I use different setups depending on where I am, but for the minimalist super8 setup that ends up in the videos, the guitar signal path is: Guitar (Fernandes Monterrey, usually) connected to R24's hi-z input (toggleable) JSFX distortion (fuzz) - shape: 32, hard limit -25dB, wet -9dB dry -60dB JSFX amp model (or ReaVerb) with the "Fender Deluxe - Tweed Champ.wav" cab model (toggleable) ReaDelay with one tap, wet set to -2.5dB, length is 147ms feedback -4.4dB I don't love the sound of the guitar with the delay and distortion off, it's a bit too plucky, but you can make it all work... (at home I have a pedalboard with strymon sunset / micropog / nano big muff pi / the wave / strymon iridium. and some amps at the studio and a friend's awesome pedalboard is often there) Comment... Question: Hey Justin! I am doing sound design for shows and working with MP4 videos. I have been working in reaper for 10 years and so I was able to solve the problem with video freezes. With the latest updates, the situation has only gotten worse. I could not work on the new 4k monitor, as the freezing situation became simply unbearable and I was sent back to the 1080 monitor. Please, give me advice, I'm desperate. The operating system is Windows 10. Asked by Ilia Kostroma (178.215.98.x) on December 20 2020, 4:23pm Reply on December 20 2020, 8:51pm: This isn't really the place for it but if you can narrow down in what version something changed and post on the forums or email support at cockos dot com that would be the way to go about it. Comment... Question: I am considering learning to code and I want to write my own Mp3 player and add a few features I don't really see in Winamp. What language was Winamp written in and what software/IDE would you recommend I use for my project? Asked by Mike (73.91.212.x) on December 20 2020, 12:25am Reply on December 20 2020, 8:52pm: Winamp was written in C and C++ I think... Hard to recommend things these days, I guess I'd say use Visual Studio or something? Comment... Question: Hey- apologies but> have you ever considered making (the daw that must not be named here) into a 360 panoramic or VR ready environment? would it even make sense? plus what are your general feelings towards 360 video,virtual reality soft and hardwares? Asked by 2020 (2.26.240.x) on December 18 2020, 6:10pm Reply on December 18 2020, 11:50pm: I haven't yet but I'm not yet on the VR bandwagon so... 2 Comments... Question: Hey- seeing your laptop in uses- but do either you or schwa also use super powerful desktop pcs or whatever? which kinda setup do you push system benchmarks for stability,high load cpu or resource handling and dsp measuring? Asked by 2020 (2.26.240.x) on December 17 2020, 5:23pm Reply on December 17 2020, 5:53pm: There's no real reason I can think of for us to have super high-end stuff. Comment... Question: Hi Justin. First: THANK YOU for all your hard work on Reaper. Do you still like living in SF? I recently left the city, begrudgingly, kicking and screaming. But it was time to move on, SF has in many ways lost its soul. The architecture is still quite lovely and inspiring, but the gentrification finally pushed out a vast majority of the exuberant quirky weirdos that made life fun. Asked by Hungry Ear (73.132.195.x) on December 17 2020, 3:31am Reply on December 17 2020, 4:29pm (edited at December 17 2020, 5:52pm): I've been living in NYC for about 10 years :) I like SF fine, though I haven't spent much time there since... If I were to move back to the bay area, though, I'd probably choose somewhere with easier hiking trail access. Comment... Question: What is a "0 watt amplifier"? simplifieramp.com/ Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on December 15 2020, 6:49pm Reply on December 15 2020, 10:11pm: I didn't read it but it would probably be giving the qualities of an amplifier (warmth, harmonics, frequency response, whatever) without amplifying. Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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