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Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead.

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Question: What are your favorite Vim plugins?
Asked by Matt (177.130.217.x) on October 29 2021, 12:53pm
Reply on October 29 2021, 6:43pm:

I'm all stock vim Comment...

Question: Hi Justin, this isn't really a question. I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you've done. When I was a child I used the hell out of winamp and a cople of years ago I started using Reaper, not knowing it was the same person behind the two. When I found out I felt so thankful to you for making the two most significant pieces of software for my musical development. Thank you so much for it all, I hope that I'll soon be able to buy the high-tier Reaper license. Love from Italy!
Asked by Matteo Allegra (93.66.98.x) on October 29 2021, 12:09pm
Reply on October 29 2021, 6:44pm:

Thanks! Comment...

Question: Schwa makes music too? Somewhere to listen?
Asked by M.Python (189.112.72.x) on October 29 2021, 4:18am
Reply on October 29 2021, 6:44pm:

Not sure if he posts it anywhere Comment...

Question: What's your opinion on the clip launching feature that's coming to ardour 7?
Asked by shorty (82.113.99.x) on October 29 2021, 12:02am
Reply on October 29 2021, 2:37am:

Haven’t looked at it Comment...

Question: If you could pick one food item that you would receive a limitless supply of, what would it be?
Asked by B4DF00D (84.106.132.x) on October 28 2021, 9:51pm
Reply on October 29 2021, 2:38am:

at the moment, naan kebab rolls Comment...

Question: Do you take vitamin supplements or do you prefer just to eat healthy food?
Asked by Prizmaxic (96.3.195.x) on October 28 2021, 9:07pm
Reply on October 29 2021, 2:38am (edited at October 29 2021, 2:39am):

prefer diverse food and sunshine when it’s available Comment...

Question: Again a reascript question (sorry about that): What is the proper way to support retina/hidpi in scripts? We tried to figure it out, but I think nobody has got it 100% right yet. forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=230120
Asked by amagalma (91.140.81.x) on October 28 2021, 5:00pm
Reply on October 29 2021, 2:41am:

the proper way is to set gfx.ext_retina to 1 at script start, then after gfx.init() check it to see if is set to a value greater than 1. It will be automatically updated based on the monitor that contains your window. 5 Comments...

Question: Was there a time when you were just starting Reaper that people could actually invest in the company? Also is there a chance this can happen in future? thanks!
Asked by Paaaa (37.120.236.x) on October 28 2021, 10:56am
Reply on October 29 2021, 2:43am:

No, we’ve never taken public investment… If we were to, we might have to do things that are less than great in order to meet our responsibilities to investors, so it’s best avoided :) Comment...

Question: How important is the number of CPU cores in music software?
Asked by core (185.209.177.x) on October 27 2021, 8:28pm
Reply on October 28 2021, 3:28am:

Depends on what you're doing and how easily parallelized your projects are. But in general it's better to have 4 3ghz cores than 8 1.5ghz cores, etc. Comment...

Question: How REAPER's betas (and alphas, if there are) are tested out? Do you have some people who test the betas before you make it as a stable release version?
Asked by Abhi (182.68.118.x) on October 26 2021, 10:03am
Reply on October 26 2021, 1:48pm:

We have a public pre-release site and pre-release forum, so anybody who would like to test them can test them. 4 Comments...

Question: What do you think of Daum PotPlayer as a media player?
Asked by Jesse (108.53.128.x) on October 26 2021, 1:07am
Reply on October 26 2021, 1:49pm:

Never heard of this, but I don't really use media players these days Comment...

Question: Is there any electronic music genre you like (in particular)?
Asked by wasereb4 (79.246.88.x) on October 26 2021, 12:41am
Reply on October 26 2021, 1:49pm:

I still like those Kruder and Dorfmeister K& Sessions from 20-odd years ago, not sure if that counts... Comment...

Question: hey- so if* eventually reaper reaches v.12 will cockos be superstitious enough to skip v.13? (like fl studio did! jumping to v.20) or,does superstition play >any< role in your daily life?
Asked by unnamed1 (95.149.70.x) on October 25 2021, 12:22pm
Reply on October 25 2021, 4:32pm:

I'm not superstitious but I've been known to knock on wood when saying things just because it's sort of fun looking for wood Comment...