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Ask Justin Frankel No reasonable question unanswered since 2009! Suggested topics: programming, music, sleep, coffee, etc. Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead. Name: Ask: Human (enter yes): [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

Question: Check this program out: stemroller.com/. It does a good job separating different parts of a mixed musical piece. Asked by Jesse (173.63.46.x) on August 6 2022, 6:02pm Reply on August 7 2022, 3:14am: Sounds cool, I haven't tried it yet but curious what it'd do on live recordings... or my own mixes for that matter 1 Comment... Question: In the FX Window, all plugins are sorted by type of VST, like first VSTi comes, then VST3i comes, etc. How to arrange my plugins alphabetically, instead of VST type? I searched a lot but can't find anything :O Asked by Abhi (122.177.150.x) on August 6 2022, 8:06am Reply on August 7 2022, 3:14am: Hmm maybe if you hide the type? I forget 1 Comment... Question: heyo-recently reaskinnedthemed a bike..wanna take a peek? Asked by 2022 (2.26.240.x) on August 5 2022, 10:17pm Reply on August 7 2022, 3:14am: Sure! Post in the comments here 3 Comments... Question: Was the winamp refactor/rewrite that was done around 2001 any good? Asked by JackCane (174.246.202.x) on August 5 2022, 7:56pm Reply on August 7 2022, 3:14am: Rewriting a whole thing is rarely a good idea Comment... Question: How are you? (and thank you for winamp) Asked by Soren (89.150.139.x) on August 5 2022, 4:09pm Reply on August 7 2022, 3:13am: Fine thanks! Comment... 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... Comment... 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 Comment... 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 Comment... 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 1 Comment... 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! Comment... 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) Comment... 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 1 Comment... 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 1 Comment... 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 Comment... 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. 1 Comment... 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? Comment... 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 Comment... 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? Comment... 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) Comment... 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 2 Comments... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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