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Question: How are you feeling about MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) these days? Any interest in supporting it sooner than "no"?
Asked by ooblek (204.48.254.x) on June 18 2023, 9:53pm
Reply on June 20 2023, 12:16am:
    I can't really say I have many feelings about it
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Question: why no love for track wiring diagram
Asked by humanyes (187.213.0.x) on June 18 2023, 8:01pm
Reply on June 20 2023, 12:16am:
    There is
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Question: Hey Justin, hope you're well. There's been a lot of talk about an impending recession over the first half of 23', but the narrative recently has been far less aggressive, what do you think, impending, dodged, stagflation?
Asked by Jack (194.110.115.x) on June 18 2023, 7:48am
Reply on June 20 2023, 12:16am:
    There are technical definitions of recession and then the real implications, I dunno, the whole managing of interest rates in order to make the workers suffer "the right amount" feels a bit odd, but apparently necessary? shrug. Does it matter what it's called?
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Question: It's you against 20yo Justin Frankel in a coding competition. Who would win?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on June 17 2023, 6:36pm
Reply on June 17 2023, 7:17pm (edited at June 17 2023, 7:21pm):
    Depends on a lot of factors I suppose, subject matter, points criteria, etc. If it was on the easier side and the only metric that mattered was a working solution in minimal time, probably young me. There are definitely things I could do faster these days though, so hard to say. Also I have a ton more general knowledge now. e.g. "convert UTF-8 into UTF-16 including surrogate pairs" I would be an order of magnitude faster than 20yo me. (UTF-8 didn't exist as a standard in 1998 but even if it had I probably wouldn't have had experience with it...) Post a problem in the comments and I'll try to make a more specific prediction?

    (additional edit: what documentation resources do we have? none? 1998 resources? 2023 resources? 20 year old me in 2023 would've been so blown away any time lead would've been lost in shock).
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Question: hey jf- can you explain why we use bipolar metering and waveform measurements over unipolar rectified signals?? or,values that only go from nothing >> to >> something? (an old friend & i always joked "whats half of nothing? = nothing")
Asked by 2023 (109.153.99.x) on June 16 2023, 1:24pm
Reply on June 16 2023, 2:06pm:
    You can use rectified peaks in REAPER if you like. Some signals are asymmetrical (my bass amp especially!). Helps you spot things?
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Question: Do you do Yoga?
Asked by wasereb4 (93.206.3.x) on June 14 2023, 1:37am
Reply on June 14 2023, 5:34pm:
    Some poses here and there but no big sessions
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Question: Why do you think there's so many DAWs which don't support 32bit float??
Asked by Zev Averbach (185.159.157.x) on June 13 2023, 11:40am
Reply on June 13 2023, 1:09pm:
    Are there?
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Question: dude where's my pre?
Asked by rudi (146.70.120.x) on June 12 2023, 3:56pm
Reply on June 13 2023, 2:35am:
    Whose pre is it anyway?
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Question: hey jf - how about hot frothy coffee with a stick of cinnamon? OR.. chai tea ( teabag,2 cardamon pods,1 bayleaf,1 cinnamon stick & possibly some fine honey to sweeten?)
Asked by 2023 (109.153.99.x) on June 12 2023, 11:33am
Reply on June 13 2023, 2:35am:
    I do like a chai! Especially from the restaurants on coney island avenue...
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Question: I wanna work on a new daw, or features implemented to a daw to take out the robotic aspect of my job, im a tracking engineer, know nothing ab coding, where do I start?
Asked by Magic Maj (97.109.24.x) on June 11 2023, 11:31pm
Reply on June 13 2023, 2:36am:
    Could write some ReaScript for REAPER to assist with the robotic aspect of your job, maybe?
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Question: These days ads are so much popular everywhere. Will you ever add ads in REAPER? Maybe like when someone is opening a project, BOOM, a 30 seconds ad appeared. Or when someone created a new track, then a 10 seconds non-skippable ad occur.
Asked by Life is Ad (223.235.200.x) on June 11 2023, 7:14am
Reply on June 11 2023, 2:01pm:
    hell no!
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Question: Have you ever bought coffee from a Zapatista coffee coop?
Asked by Sunblister (77.189.81.x) on June 10 2023, 12:17am
Reply on June 10 2023, 7:35pm:
    I don't think so
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Question: How do you fight programming procrastination?
Asked by Vlad (162.201.122.x) on June 9 2023, 2:55pm
Reply on June 9 2023, 3:40pm:
    Some amount of it is a good thing IMO
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Question: These days, software are trying to add AI into them. Will you do the same someday? If yes, what can AI do in REAPER, apart from making its own computerized songs? Also do you think OpenAI can be beneficial for REAPER?
Asked by Abhi (27.57.110.x) on June 9 2023, 4:03am
Reply on June 9 2023, 3:40pm:
    Dunno, we'll see!
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Question: Can you practice something only in your mind and not physically?
Asked by Abhi (117.234.48.x) on June 9 2023, 3:15am
Reply on June 9 2023, 3:41pm:
    You can visualize it but it seems like you need some externalization to make it real (saying things, practicing the motion, etc).
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Question: hey jf- how do you actually feel about "secrets"? or "whistleblower reports" + how might (youtu.be/ZSj7QsHRxHQ news report affect your good self? thanx.. ::we see this as IMPORTANT news::
Asked by 2023 (109.153.99.x) on June 7 2023, 10:02am
Reply on June 7 2023, 6:02pm:
    I think the government has too many secrets for sure, but then there are some that probably shouldn't be released ... e.g. things that are just embarrassing but without any public benefit. Snowden giving a trove to the Guardian who then was very selective on what was important to release was a good model IMO. Releasing cables of diplomats discussing things seems less helpful and more destructive. Anyway...
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Question: Which curse do you choose? Every time someone purchase REAPER you sneeze (small sneeze for the discout and a normal sneeze for the comercial) or at every REAPER version release you have to post a video dancing (5sec for dev versions, 15 sec for normal versions, 5min for a big release (like v7) ???
Asked by 123frog (179.104.166.x) on June 6 2023, 3:42am
Reply on June 6 2023, 12:24pm:
    I'd probably go the dancing route, though the 5 minutes for big release would be a bit much that's only every so many years...
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Question: hey jf- interested in what formats come off yr camera foe web videos...which format options + settings would you normally encode videos for (eg: youtube) uploads? ((including adding audio >on a windows os)) ta.
Asked by 2023 (109.153.99.x) on June 4 2023, 11:54am
Reply on June 5 2023, 1:14am:
    usually high bit rate simple profile h264, then I process/reencode to h264 with reaper, targeting around 8mbps video and 320kbps audio...
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Question: Dress code: Maybe Cockos' mascot should wear a bow tie in similar fashion to playboy bunny. Then everything would make sense?
Asked by Gio (79.130.173.x) on June 4 2023, 10:29am
Reply on June 5 2023, 1:15am:
    hah that'd be nice
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Question: whats your favorite time of the day
Asked by heya (189.112.211.x) on June 4 2023, 8:25am
Reply on June 5 2023, 1:15am:
    hmm mornings are nice. also evenings. middle of the day these days = too bright, sunscreen time.
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