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Question: Hi. Some of us just found out that on MacOS gfx.init isn't required for gfx.showmenu to work. Could you clarify why that is and if possible maybe consider allowing this on Windows and other OS as well for aesthetic reasons because in this case gfx.init displays a gfx window which serves no practical purpose? This difference between OS was discovered in the thread t=280658
Asked by Buy One (23.106.56.x) on July 31 2023, 6:54am
Reply on July 31 2023, 3:18pm:

Ah heh, oversight, will look into it. 1 Comment...

Question: Could you envision a non-centralized network for twitter like dialog? Similar to gnutella without the Musk? Could that be feasible/performant?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on July 28 2023, 8:19pm
Reply on July 28 2023, 10:19pm:

The thing about twitter was the discovery and ease in finding/connecting with people was awesome. Mastodon still seems to lack there. Maybe there's a way to improve that, I dunno Comment...

Question: what is the difference between Int32LSB and Int32MSB in ASIO?
Asked by ruchira (123.231.108.x) on July 28 2023, 5:08pm
Reply on July 28 2023, 10:18pm (edited at July 29 2023, 2:44pm):

the byte ordering in memory (LSB is least significant byte first, MSB is least significant byte last). on x86 this would mean in MSB mode you’d need to swap the byte ordering from native… Comment...

Question: Any plans to release the source code of jesusonic?
Asked by ruchira (123.231.108.x) on July 27 2023, 11:15am
Reply on July 27 2023, 12:12pm:

Still planning to but after 7.0 Comment...

Question: hey jf...did you happen to see the amazing walking bag? ( youtu.be/e_3kbc8XuZk) fact, or deep fake?? LOL?
Asked by 2023 (86.179.190.x) on July 26 2023, 7:14pm
Reply on July 27 2023, 12:12pm:

or cg artistry, probably? Comment...

Question: why there is no thread sync code in WDL/circbuf.h ? Is it lock free?
Asked by ruchira (123.231.108.x) on July 25 2023, 6:59pm
Reply on July 26 2023, 2:58am:

Thread synchronization should be done by the caller Comment...

Question: Definitely have bought REAPER and using it daily. Very thankful for you, watched your interview on youtube and really love your mind and how you look at the world!! Thank you
Asked by Brainz (142.197.90.x) on July 25 2023, 11:04am
Reply on July 26 2023, 2:59am:

Thank you! Comment...

Question: seen this: youtube.com/shorts/VdjAnEb-z3M
Asked by ruchira (123.231.108.x) on July 23 2023, 7:34pm
Reply on July 23 2023, 8:43pm:

nice stickspinning lol but with all the cuts hard to know how many takes it was Comment...

Question: Tabs or spaces?
Asked by Don Hopkins (83.51.153.x) on July 23 2023, 11:20am
Reply on July 23 2023, 12:45pm:

Doesn't matter as long as it's consistent! Comment...

Question: The new movie "Blackberry" about the story of RIM/Blackberry has a scene at 50m20s in 2003 where they show winamp ☺️ Thought you might get a kick out of knowing your work was shown ☺️
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on July 22 2023, 2:43pm
Reply on July 23 2023, 12:46pm:

ah nice is the movie any good? 1 Comment...

Question: Hey Justin, I wonder what is the max number of parameter Reaper can access from a plugin? 1000? More? Maybe it depends of the plugin format?
Asked by Infrabass (69.80.234.x) on July 21 2023, 6:17am
Reply on July 21 2023, 1:28pm:

For things other than JSFX there's no real limit. Comment...

Question: how to use WDL/circbuf.h for multi-channel non-interleaved audio?
Asked by ruchira (123.231.108.x) on July 21 2023, 2:31am
Reply on July 21 2023, 1:29pm:

You'd probably want to use one per channel if you want non-interleaved. For interleaved, you might want to use WDL_DelayLine which handles a lot of cases (e.g. if changing channel counts, reinterleaves, etc). Comment...

Question: hey jf- could you take mark zuckerberg in a friendly arm wrestle??... how about elon m.?? :)
Asked by 2023 (86.179.190.x) on July 20 2023, 4:29pm
Reply on July 20 2023, 9:54pm (edited at July 20 2023, 10:29pm):

I have no idea, haven't arm-wrestled in many years... but I'd give myself good odds on running a 5k or any distance over a mile and under 100k 1 Comment...

Question: Reaper will be very complete in reaper 7. Apart from an Ableton live style window, almost nothing is missing. Isn't the construction of the Reaper castle soon finished :)?
Asked by Zmaster (90.118.252.x) on July 19 2023, 7:21pm
Reply on July 20 2023, 2:41pm:

software is never complete! 1 Comment...

Question: mr frankel, music.1014.org is a source of great inspiration to me. what’s your hosting setup there? S3 or something? it’s all very responsive and sensible
Asked by willow (115.64.95.x) on July 19 2023, 7:57am
Reply on July 19 2023, 1:49pm (edited at July 19 2023, 2:01pm):

the media is on a NAS and nfs mounted read-only on the linux VM that serves the files via apache. Then there are a number of different ways to access that media via the web, and some javascript that does the playering on my various pages (and WHUMP which is the main music.1014.org interface)... 1 Comment...

Question: Have you seen this yet? techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/plexs-wi...
Asked by Robare (104.28.39.x) on July 18 2023, 5:53pm
Reply on July 19 2023, 1:49pm:

ah I hadn't, thanks! Comment...

Question: Just wanted to say a big thank you to you Justin. I'm a seventy-four year old Reaper user. I use Reaper both for composing and for testing new sample libraries for one of the leading developers. I really appreciate all the tools Reaper provides.
Asked by Andrew Hyner (112.211.51.x) on July 17 2023, 2:01am
Reply on July 17 2023, 3:21pm:

Thanks for the kind words! Comment...

Question: hey jf- how many trackings you having on music page now?? it must be hundreds, if not thousands ? that is some collection..time spent..dedications... g1!
Asked by 2023 (86.179.190.x) on July 16 2023, 10:16pm
Reply on July 17 2023, 12:28am (edited at July 17 2023, 12:29am):

lots of content! from more than 20 years... :) Comment...

Question: How does Reaper encode the TXXX in ID3? It looks like there's 7 bytes between TXXX and the actual content, what do they contain?
Asked by Mespotine (46.114.202.x) on July 16 2023, 7:44pm
Reply on July 16 2023, 9:00pm:

The ID3v2 frame header is 10 bytes total -- 4 bytes (TXXX), 4 bytes size, 2 bytes flags. Then, since it's a text field, there's a byte for text encoding, then the data. 3 Comments...

Question: Any recommendation on US cities to live ?
Asked by 23456787654321414141 (177.191.6.x) on July 16 2023, 3:36pm
Reply on July 16 2023, 9:01pm:

I've only lived in the most expensive, but NYC has a lot to love! Unless you don't like the hot in the summer and the cold in the winter... I lived in the Phoenix area for a bit and I don't like car culture anymore. Comment...

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