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Question: How do you deal with bugs and other issues reported by users, when you are not able to replicate them on your dev machines? Do you find bugs in Reaper for example, which take several days to fix? How do you generally, as a programmer, psycho-physically deal with difficult to find/fix bugs?
Asked by Zabukowski (31.217.53.x) on August 4 2022, 12:05pm
Reply on August 4 2022, 8:37pm:
    User cooperation with persistence...
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Question: Is there some subject that makes you go BrrRRrR about music/music technology?
Asked by Aloha! (189.112.46.x) on August 4 2022, 3:51am
Reply on August 4 2022, 8:37pm:
    Makes me cold? Not really
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Question: Have you something done with a Raspberry Pi?
Asked by Chris (77.64.160.x) on August 3 2022, 12:38pm
Reply on August 4 2022, 12:39am:
    nothing persistently interesting
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Question: Is reaper has got tracker?
Asked by Reaper (95.7.140.x) on August 2 2022, 11:20pm
Reply on August 4 2022, 12:39am:
    not really
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Question: Hello -- I've been using your products, from Winamp to Reaper, for most of my life. From the bottom of my heart, thanks. Now to the question -- I also live in New York, and was lucky enough to work as a full-time musician and producer (even held a couple Reaper meetups, mostly advocating for using it in professional environments) until COVID hit. Do you suppose there is a way for "professional" musical occupations, like arrangers, producers, songwriters and session players, to earn living wages in our time?
Asked by dadagod (24.188.156.x) on August 2 2022, 9:08pm
Reply on August 4 2022, 12:39am:
    I have no idea!
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Question: Ever consider turning Reaper into a web app using web assembly?
Asked by Jesse (173.63.46.x) on August 1 2022, 11:25pm
Reply on August 2 2022, 8:08pm:
    too many things preventing it from being useful (plug-in support, lack of threading, etc etc)
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Question: Reaverb Or Reaverbate most often? also mention another favorite reverb plugin! :D thanks!
Asked by OPoP (45.128.39.x) on August 1 2022, 11:08pm
Reply on August 2 2022, 8:08pm:
    ReaVerb with some awesome impulse responses usually
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Question: have you ever tried balancing rocks/stones? (i found it a really fun/challenging meditation) i.pinimg.com/originals/78/d2/57/78...
Asked by 2022 (95.148.58.x) on August 1 2022, 8:58pm
Reply on August 2 2022, 8:09pm:
    Nice, not since I was young
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Question: hey- do you have any all time fav commands for any particular os??
Asked by 2022 (95.148.58.x) on July 31 2022, 10:13pm
Reply on August 1 2022, 4:00am:
    Uhh rsync and ssh and git are all incredibly useful
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Question: What did you think of the new Top Gun movie?
Asked by Erin (75.15.159.x) on July 31 2022, 9:51pm
Reply on August 1 2022, 3:59am:
    Haven't seen it yet, but the last couple of episodes of What We Do In the Shadows are great.
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Question: Where does GetUserFileNameForRead store its last position? It remembers it, but doesn't seem to store it in the windowpos ini-file...
Asked by Mespotine (146.0.126.x) on July 31 2022, 6:43pm
Reply on August 1 2022, 3:59am:
    Probably Windows that does that?
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Question: Hi Justin. Just wanted to mention that a monospace font in the note items would be great to write down tablatures there for example. Greetings and keep up the good work!
Asked by gideonstar (84.58.33.x) on July 31 2022, 10:22am
Reply on August 1 2022, 3:59am:
    noted
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Question: Hey how to over-right new MIDI notes into older ones? Let's say I have a chord progression, but then I copied another melodies (notes) and pasted into that chord progression. Currently there will be two notes, one above another. But instead of this, I want to replace all duplicate notes with my new pasted notes. How can we do this in REAPER?
Asked by Food (122.176.10.x) on July 30 2022, 5:03pm
Reply on August 1 2022, 3:58am:
    Use MIDI touch-replace recording?
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Question: What are your thoughts on the Winamp 5.9 changelog? Did they drop Fraunhofer for mpg123 decoding? I thought that engine was inferior. forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t...
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on July 29 2022, 8:11pm
Reply on July 30 2022, 5:10am (edited at July 30 2022, 5:11am):
    nah at this point they're all the same I think, maybe the fraunhofer decoder has a slight performance edge but who cares about 0.0051% cpu vs 0.0052%? REAPER also uses a LGPL subset of mpg123, mpglib, + additional code for layer1/2 decoding (this is open source as part of the reaper sdk)
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Question: Hello! Do you own a Photovoltaic System for your home? If so, would you chat a little about technical details? What do you think about this technology?
Asked by Zacki (80.132.100.x) on July 29 2022, 6:24pm
Reply on July 30 2022, 5:08am:
    I don't, the apartment building I live in doesn't have any either afaik
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Question: If Winamp was for sale and cheap, would you buy it back?
Asked by Vlad (99.145.169.x) on July 29 2022, 3:23pm
Reply on July 29 2022, 3:55pm:
    if the other terms were acceptable, yeah
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Question: opinion about Dolby Atmos? is it something that i need to look into and learn? is it something that will be popular? thanks
Asked by Rani (37.120.236.x) on July 28 2022, 7:42pm
Reply on July 29 2022, 1:10am:
    No opinion
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Question: Hello Justin Frankel, using the REAPER API, I should be able to fully remote control REAPER app from another C++ compiled app running on the same OS and who is replacing my mouse and my keyboard by code, right? What is missing with C? Using C with REAPER API do I need to compile a C++ project? Thank you! Best.
Asked by Arlequin (212.224.232.x) on July 28 2022, 11:51am
Reply on July 29 2022, 1:11am:
    Not really, the C/C++ API is designed to be used in-process, which means you would need to write a reaper extension DLL to control. You could make that DLL communicate with another app via whatever mechanism you like. Or you could skip the extension DLL and control REAPER via OSC or http calls via the web interface...
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Question: Why Reaper is not free(open source) software?
Asked by Reaper (95.7.140.x) on July 27 2022, 12:51pm
Reply on July 29 2022, 1:11am:
    Because we like writing it ourselves!
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Question: hello- is there any particular issue,or problem,either in life,or code,that you have struggled to solve over the years?
Asked by 2022 (95.148.58.x) on July 27 2022, 11:23am
Reply on July 29 2022, 1:12am:
    I'm sure there are but apparently they aren't important enough to keep track of
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