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Question: ds more or less1) How much should existing software affect your decision on making something that yiel the same result, but takes a different route to get there? 2) Related - what are your opinions on 'reinventing the wheel'; when does it become a big waste of time? Thanks, hope you had/are having a good weekend :)
Asked by Jack (91.90.44.x) on June 12 2022, 12:58pm
Reply on June 12 2022, 5:41pm:

Reinventing the wheel is only reinventing the wheel if the thing in question is as perfect and simple as the wheel, which very few things are. Using existing software is good if it meets the needs, but if the downside to using it outweighs the upside, then make something else. Comment...

Question: Any interest is going to HOPE conference this Summer? hope.net/talks.html
Asked by Jesse (173.63.46.x) on June 12 2022, 1:40am
Reply on June 12 2022, 5:39pm:

I'm not much of a fan of conferences Comment...

Question: If I sent you a mail to your @cockos.com address asking for allowance to redistribute your reaper Linux build on Arch Linux in the official repositories, would you say yes?
Asked by David Runge (85.212.85.x) on June 11 2022, 8:55am
Reply on June 11 2022, 12:36pm:

As long as the binaries are unmodified and it is distributed in its entirety we're cool with that (and the EULA permits it). 5 Comments...

Question: if i have one audio track with one plugin in reaper and i duplicate that track 4 times. does that use exactly 4x the amount of CPU power or is there some discount once the plugin is loaded from the first instance ? also could this change depending on each individual plugin being different ?
Asked by EcBaPr (159.196.170.x) on June 10 2022, 9:28am
Reply on June 10 2022, 3:24pm:

In general it would use 4x the CPU, but that should be easily parallelizable across cores. Comment...

Question: What is the viability of using a GPU for plugin processing? Could it be similar to using a dedicated DSP unit?
Asked by Someone (45.149.173.x) on June 9 2022, 10:52pm
Reply on June 10 2022, 3:21am (edited at June 10 2022, 3:22am):

Latency to/from the GPU isn't ideal, so you'd need a ton of cooperation of both hosts and plug-ins to make it work, but it's sort of moot because CPUs have plenty of power. 3 Comments...

Question: Are you going to build & releas the WATCH server ?
Asked by JustAsking (172.83.40.x) on June 9 2022, 7:30pm
Reply on June 9 2022, 8:00pm:

Haven't built up the creative energy to do that just yet Comment...

Question: Just discovered REAPER video editing. Saving me a bunch of headaches. Really cool and highly recommend people try it.
Asked by James (82.69.2.x) on June 9 2022, 1:14pm
Reply on June 9 2022, 8:00pm:

aww yeah I use it all the time too Comment...

Question: Guitar Rig is a nice, cool VSTi. Do you use it? Or any similar thing to it? It can give you lots of guitars sounds, just with single acoustic guitar.
Asked by Abhi (182.68.105.x) on June 7 2022, 12:05pm
Reply on June 7 2022, 4:06pm: