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Question: Have you ever read a book by the Italian writers collective Wu Ming FKA Luther Blisset? They're great!
Asked by SpoiledHobo (77.15.2.x) on August 31 2023, 7:52pm
Reply on September 1 2023, 9:08pm:

nope, what should I check out? 2 Comments...

Question: How likely would it be to see something like Licecap integration in Reaper? Or Audio capture from Reaper in Licecap? Would be so useful =)
Asked by Dom64 (82.132.234.x) on August 31 2023, 7:11pm
Reply on September 1 2023, 9:08pm:

we thoughts about that some but meh 4 Comments...

Question: Out of curiosity: as far as I know, the gfx-functions are software rendered. How feasible would it be to make them hardware rendered? Especially when drawing a lot, hardware acceleration would be nice to have.
Asked by Mespotine (46.114.201.x) on August 30 2023, 5:57pm
Reply on August 30 2023, 9:43pm:

Meh should be fast enough for plenty of things imo. and some things just don't work well on GPUs without a massive headache, e.g. drawing text. Comment...

Question: Looking at things like Line 6, Kemper, etc., do you think you've been just that bit too early with the CrusFX?
Asked by StringPling (77.15.58.x) on August 29 2023, 10:50am
Reply on August 30 2023, 1:54pm:

maybe a bit too silly and too hackery too 1 Comment...

Question: Will there be new "This is REAPER 7" tutorial series?
Asked by Ummm (122.177.156.x) on August 27 2023, 2:30pm
Reply on August 27 2023, 4:01pm:

That is very likely 5 Comments...

Question: Is the bottom navigation on 1014 considered legacy or a variation of whac-a-mole? ;) (I'm too slow)
Asked by SpoiledHobo (77.179.16.x) on August 26 2023, 11:33am
Reply on August 26 2023, 12:41pm:

both lol Comment...

Question: The internet today feels very different from 2009. What do you miss from that time if anything? This place feels like a protected endangered species of cool internet stuff. Maybe I need to get out of the loop more often, how do you do it?
Asked by Beto (187.189.101.x) on August 26 2023, 5:37am
Reply on August 26 2023, 12:43pm:

I forget what 2009 was like in general but there's a lot of content now that's not terribly web-accessible and thus ephemeral, and requires you to buy into the system to view (IG, TikTok, etc)... Which is sad, all of this culture probably won't be preserved. 1 Comment...

Question: hey jf- was you aware "breakdancing" is to be included in next years olympics? .. does that interest you at all? (we always loved this form of movement think this was well overdue!)
Asked by 2023 (109.149.174.x) on August 24 2023, 8:37pm
Reply on August 25 2023, 5:01pm:

It's impressive but I can't say I've ever been particularly interested in it. 6 Comments...

Question: Who do you want for next president?
Asked by Lisp (186.210.94.x) on August 24 2023, 5:38pm
Reply on August 24 2023, 6:25pm:

Sigh someone kind and not a million years old sounds good Comment...

Question: Do you have any songs where the lyrics are easy to understand? It all sounds like Radiohead
Asked by Jesse (74.105.72.x) on August 24 2023, 3:48pm
Reply on August 24 2023, 5:30pm:

Understand as in transcribe the words or as in understand the meaning? 4 Comments...

Question: Hi! I'm exploring how to become a 1 or 2 man band with Reaper. For guitar I'm interested in routing to an FRFR active cab, and I'm curious whether I can also route a bass to the same cab if it's a 2x12 instead of 1x12. For drums, I have a single loud speaker for an e-drum set and I'll probably start with that. Do you have any opinions to share on this? I'm also curious what you're using for your guitar tones in Not Vampires. It sounds great!
Asked by Chip (130.41.86.x) on August 23 2023, 2:40pm
Reply on August 24 2023, 5:33pm:

I don't know much about active cabs... For passive cabs, many 2x12 cabs will have separate inputs for each speaker, optionally, though they'll often be specific about the impedance in this case. Anyway I think you'll have a lot of options! For the NV sessions we have a couple of amps we use, a Fender Hotrod Deluxe I think, and a ZT Lunchbox (with a cheapo Bugera cab)... and some pedalboards :) 2 Comments...

Question: Hey man! How are you doing? Hows your life since winamp dropped?
Asked by Dejan (212.8.253.x) on August 23 2023, 8:29am
Reply on August 24 2023, 5:33pm:

Hah it goes too fast! Comment...

Question: Do you have any suggestions on how to detect a doorbell ring sound on an ESP32 microcontroller with a microphone module?
Asked by Jesse (74.105.72.x) on August 22 2023, 1:52am
Reply on August 22 2023, 12:57pm (edited at August 22 2023, 12:58pm):

Probably do a windowed FFT and look for a lot of activity in the frequency bin that corresponds with the bell, and see if it's above a certain threshold above the sum of the rest of the bins? Alternatively you could multiply the signal with a sinewave and cosinewave of the doorbell frequency, summing, and look for a large sum of absolute values there, or something... Comment...

Question: whats your opinion of this... youtube.com/watch?v=fVp88d3BH0k&t=2s
Asked by EcBaPr (119.18.0.x) on August 21 2023, 1:42pm
Reply on August 21 2023, 2:27pm:

lolz Comment...

Question: If you had to choose between a Duesenberg Paloma and their Caribou, which one would you pick (and which colour)?
Asked by StringPling (77.12.127.x) on August 20 2023, 4:09pm
Reply on August 21 2023, 12:23am:

Mmm both look nice. If I had to pick at this moment, I'd probably go with the Caribou for the semi-hollowness, in Black. Comment...

Question: Hey Justin, I have a question (4, actually) regarding the user interface in Reaper on Windows. Why does the UI look like in Win98? Why is there no dark mode support? Are there any concrete plans to change something about it? And if not, which would be a shame, why not?
Asked by sinus well (202.71.146.x) on August 19 2023, 9:00pm
Reply on August 19 2023, 9:24pm:

Because MS makes things difficult, blame them. 1 Comment...

Question: Was starting reaper a "major shift" in your life, like a project that you can just hold on to and it removes annoying existential questions? If so, was it hard to convince yourself not to give up? Asking for a friend who is desperate about what to do with his time :).
Asked by a longer name (31.37.8.x) on August 19 2023, 3:58pm
Reply on August 19 2023, 9:24pm:

It's been fun and interesting. If you're using the thing you're making it's easy to stay interested Comment...

Question: hey jf- any idea how much space/bandwidth does all your web pages/servers currently take? (reaper forum...stash etcetc)
Asked by 2023 (31.49.162.x) on August 18 2023, 5:22pm
Reply on August 19 2023, 1:38am:

storage we have a couple hundred GB allocated, not sure how much is free space though... bandwidth, I dunno a few TB a month maybe? (guessing, I don't look much) Comment...

Question: How long did the first version of reaper take to develop?
Asked by Thx 1138 (173.24.9.x) on August 16 2023, 10:54pm
Reply on August 17 2023, 3:59pm:

Started working on it in September 2005 roughly, 0.40 was in December 2005, 1.0 was August 2006. Comment...

Question: Have you ever had any desire to get into making an app for phones?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on August 16 2023, 4:02am
Reply on August 16 2023, 4:43pm:

I've made a few things for personal use but the whole ecosystems are meh no thanks Comment...

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