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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: I'd really like to see vector graphics implemented. However, before we reach that stage (which might be 10 or so years in the future according to how you responded previously), is it possible to have more gradations in the graphics/pictures resolutions? i.e. instead of the current 100%-150%-200% to also have the levels of 125%-175%-and stretch this up to 400%? In this was we can design themes that act like they are vectorial, but are raster. Asked by /AND/ (89.205.77.x) on July 7 2023, 6:50pm Reply on July 8 2023, 1:33pm: a theme can define whatever scales it likes, 125%, 350%, whatever Comment... Question: hey jf- did you ever really find software piracy or any other type of copyrighting legislastion/indications to be an actual realworld "problem" or issue? > did you feel same in youth, as today..?? ta Asked by 2023 (86.179.190.x) on July 6 2023, 5:59pm Reply on July 6 2023, 6:16pm: IMO most people want to do the right there, so if products are appropriately priced I don't see piracy as being a big problem. Counterfeit sales etc are a bigger issue since people can be mislead etc. the models created by big dominating businesses suck too. e.g. app stores taking a huge percentage, or music services not fairly distributing royalties... These are systemic problems that are structured against (smaller) copyright holders... 2 Comments... Question: Reaper seems to be used to analyse Audio recordings from airplane blackboxes: youtu.be/reCwGRnloLc?t=2059While this snippet appears to be a reenactment, it could still be used. Asked by Chris (95.168.144.x) on July 5 2023, 6:07pm Reply on July 6 2023, 2:10pm: Who knows what people use it for! Anything... but a reenactment probably says more about the production of the reenactment than actual NTSB investigations... :) Comment... Question: I was wondering how the UI is rendered in Reaper. I assume its no Qt or GTK ( or am I wrong?) I really like the smoothness, low CPU usage and tweakability. Is it native, inherited from winamp, part of WDL?? Asked by pedra (77.245.45.x) on July 5 2023, 9:44am Reply on July 6 2023, 2:10pm (edited at July 6 2023, 2:11pm): Pixels get put together using LICE which is part of WDL... for the various controls there's a lightweight virtual control system we made too. (WDL/wingui/). On Win32 we BitBlt() everything to screen from a DIB, on macOS it draws using Metal typically (speaking of which apparently this is very slow on M2 macs now for some reason grrrrr let me go get one of those) Comment... Question: hey jf - (hows the wrist ?) + do you find brisk fast walking as effective a good run...or? Asked by 2023 (86.179.190.x) on July 4 2023, 11:09am Reply on July 4 2023, 5:45pm: wrist is good! other parts always broken though. :) "effective" is hard to quantify. It's hard for me to get my HR above about 115 on a fast walk (5mph) unless there's a big hill involved... but at a HR of 115 my body knows it would be faster for the same HR by running (6mph or so). But at any rate, for training purposes you need some higher intensity, which is harder to do by walking... 1 Comment... Question: trackpad or trackpoint? Asked by laptop (146.70.197.x) on July 1 2023, 4:10am Reply on July 3 2023, 4:31pm: I can do either but I do prefer the trackpoint. Among trackpads there is a lot of variety, I don't mind the one on the M1 MBA. Comment... Question: hey justin. what do you think of aimp? (not dev nor contributor) Asked by nikolai (51.158.236.x) on June 30 2023, 9:48pm Reply on June 30 2023, 10:49pm: haven't used it, I'm a bit post-media-player at this point Comment... Question: hey jf- are you actually "into" robotics ( mechanical robots of any kind) or advancing nano cybernetic systems? orrrrrr.. keeping human aids all "natural" as possible? ta. Asked by 2023 (86.186.250.x) on June 27 2023, 4:46pm Reply on June 29 2023, 1:34am: No strong opinions. Looking forward to being able to regenerate organs and stuff though. 1 Comment... Question: Hi J. Was Winamp's design inspired by tracker software? Are you still involved? Asked by Gideon (122.58.86.x) on June 24 2023, 3:43am Reply on June 26 2023, 9:25pm: For the player, not really... for visualizations, yeah. Cubic Player was a classic. Comment... Question: hi, does search also search the comments ? Asked by does search (212.30.60.x) on June 23 2023, 3:27am Reply on June 23 2023, 6:14pm: Nope 1 Comment... Question: Any thoughts on lemmy / mastodon / fediverse in general? Are you using any of them? Asked by justwokeup (82.20.198.x) on June 22 2023, 2:29pm Reply on June 23 2023, 6:13pm: Using Mastodon some, seems like a good thing. 1 Comment... Question: hey jf- well if yr ever looking for a spare bike,there is always the mountains some chinese are creating.. i mean,WOW! holy crap. > ( youtu.be/TDfLWFv3ixk) Asked by 2023 (86.186.250.x) on June 21 2023, 8:44am Reply on June 22 2023, 1:50pm: Damn, I wonder how it compares to a modestly-sized auto junkyard (of which there are many thousands and thousands in the US) though. 3 Comments... Question: WDL: Any chance for leading underscore to get removed from include guards in the future? Currently ``only'' lineparse.h behaves nicely with naming conventions. Never had an issue related to that... in fact I like it... Asked by Gio (94.65.220.x) on June 21 2023, 8:07am Reply on June 22 2023, 1:50pm: Ah perhaps... but what's the bother really? (we do have some ifdef _WDL_ in our code that would need to get fixed too) 1 Comment... Question: Thanks for the books suggestions some time ago, especially for Gideon the Ninth and N. K. Jemisin trilogy, loved it. May I ask for more books recommendations from you? :) Have a great day Asked by asafonov (178.221.255.x) on June 20 2023, 1:11pm Reply on June 20 2023, 4:08pm: Hah those were both schwa recommendations to me too… The Martha Wells Murderbot series and the Ann Leckie Imperial Radch series are both great too. And everything by Nick Harkaway, including his alter-ego… 1 Comment... Question: When you go out to run how much do you do? Also you keep a steady run or mix run and walks? (by time or distance whatever you think more) Asked by heya (177.191.3.x) on June 20 2023, 7:45am Reply on June 20 2023, 4:06pm: It completely depends and varies a lot. For running, 3-5 miles is probably the most common… 20-30 miles a week is a rough target. And then a lot of walking and/or bicycling as transportation too. Comment... Question: is there a free way to check the most visited pages (within a website) ranked in popularity from first to last Asked by Ease (46.166.163.x) on June 19 2023, 11:13pm Reply on June 20 2023, 12:12am: I suppose you could build something for a website pretty easily, but if you mean for other websites, I have no idea. Comment... Question: Would you recommend a computer with better single-core or multi-core performance for using Reaper to compose music with many VST instruments on many tracks and long FX chains? Asked by Core (95.91.214.x) on June 19 2023, 9:44pm Reply on June 20 2023, 12:13am: Ideally a 16GHz single core computer would be better than 4 4GHz cores, but alas the former does not exist at the moment. With many tracks many cores can work well, but nothing beats raw processing power in a single core. Comment... Question: If you were gonna manufacture your own branded product (lets say a T-shirt or any apparel) which country would u choose to manufacture it in? Asked by Emmm (70.34.250.x) on June 19 2023, 8:35pm Reply on June 20 2023, 12:14am: This is why I choose to make software! But I would probably try to choose to make it locally so I could be involved with the production and make sure everybody involved is happy. Comment... Question: Hi, I'm just curious, what is the first thing you do after you wake up? (like after breakfast) Asked by Mike JS (87.152.185.x) on June 19 2023, 1:37pm Reply on June 20 2023, 12:15am: These days I've been going for walks in the park after breakfast, but a lot happens between waking up and that walk (breakfast, coffee, work, etc). Comment... Question: Do you think the Cultural Commons Collection Society (see: c3s.cc/en could be a feasible alternative to BMI and ASCAP? Asked by Sunblister (46.91.166.x) on June 19 2023, 10:49am Reply on June 20 2023, 12:15am: I haven't really dug into it, the thing I'd like to see happen is people support artists directly more by buying their albums rather than using streaming services... Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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