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Question: hey jf- how often do you clean_up disk space or backup files across platforms? (is any that process automated?) thanx
Asked by 2023 (86.137.198.x) on October 31 2023, 10:50am
Reply on October 31 2023, 1:34pm:
    stuff that needs to be backed up either a) goes into git and is replicated on other boxes, or b) goes on a NAS which is periodically synchronized with another NAS in a diff physical location...
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Question: Do you want to stay in NYC the rest of your life?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on October 31 2023, 3:44am
Reply on October 31 2023, 1:35pm:
    Don't have plans that extend that far but for the near future yeah. Though going to the bay area January-March of each year is a good plan.
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Question: With proper tencity, could one use REAPER as a game engine?
Asked by Caleb (174.73.207.x) on October 31 2023, 3:30am
Reply on October 31 2023, 1:35pm:
    It would be a stretch.
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Question: Hi Justin! Could it be said that REAFIR is a linear phase eq?
Asked by Javier (81.9.209.x) on October 30 2023, 10:14pm
Reply on October 31 2023, 1:36pm:
    IIRC it can operate in such a mode but only in a very limited subset and it's not terribly useful as such
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Question: Has ReaMote been discontinued in version 7? There's no mention of the fact in the change logs but ReaMote item is absent in the Preferences
Asked by Buy One (95.134.60.x) on October 28 2023, 1:55pm
Reply on October 29 2023, 1:52am:
    It is no longer included, yeah -- it was becoming more and more obsolete in the subset it supported, and it was holding back a lot of new functionality. It may get revisited in some easier to maintain form in the future.
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Question: Can you sell music using unlicensed REAPER after the 60-day trial?
Asked by bbtund8 (76.100.44.x) on October 27 2023, 4:53am
Reply on October 27 2023, 4:22pm:
    If you're using unlicensed REAPER after 60 days, you're violating our license agreement regardless of whether you sell music...
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Question: Hi! I'm researching the audio issue that affects applications when headphones are switched in but the audio doesn't come out (affecting SuperCollider & SonicPi, and reportedly Audacity) I read you fixed it with Reaper ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ Does this ring a bell? Was this difficult to fix? Thanks! github.com/supercollider/supercoll...
Asked by Jonny (82.19.103.x) on October 26 2023, 5:02pm
Reply on October 26 2023, 5:09pm:
    If opening the default devices, need to add a listener for kAudioHardwarePropertyDefaultInputDevice etc and if those devices change, re-open the devices...
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Question: Can you give an estimate how many Reaper users are there worldwide? (at least you should know how many bought a license)
Asked by DarthFader (77.23.254.x) on October 26 2023, 9:35am
Reply on October 26 2023, 12:45pm:
    My estimate based on my feeling is that paying users would be measured in the hundreds-of-thousands, no idea about non-paying users (somewhat more, probably).
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Question: Hey Justin, how do you choose what you are going to work on for REAPER? If there is two very different audiences asking for different things (i.e. postproduction vs. live performance), how do you choose? Sometimes there are small details that bother thousands and at the same time a great issue that is stopping a smaller community to use REAPER in their work. Populatiry of forum topics is not always the reflection of the real needs of certain communities.
Asked by nikolalkc (159.153.150.x) on October 25 2023, 10:07am
Reply on October 25 2023, 5:03pm:
    It's much like how ChatGPT and LLM models work, you just start with "I am going to work on" then see what comes next based on a massive statistical model that nobody understands, with randomness added to make it more interesting and less predictable.
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Question: Hah, didn't notice that 7 is here until now. Congratulations man, I love the gradual, stepwise refinement. How Cockos team celebrated this release?
Asked by Gio (79.130.188.x) on October 23 2023, 2:30pm
Reply on October 24 2023, 9:59pm:
    By working more! and our own private geographically-centered celebrations, I guess
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Question: As a hybrid hardware/software mixer, Reaper is great as it integrates hardware effortlessly. Recall is still the big bad monster as far as workflow with hardware. Could there be integration of hardware unit interface images such as those offered by Session Recall whereby users could buy their images from Session Recall and have them neatly imported into the FX rack in Reaper for easy recall "notes" via images? This is better than taking pictures and using recall sheets.
Asked by ahoova (50.238.169.x) on October 23 2023, 2:26pm
Reply on October 24 2023, 9:59pm:
    sws has mixer snapshots and stuff, perhaps?
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Question: Besides the MIDI editor what else in native REAPER is an extension?
Asked by AaAaAAaAaaA (186.210.24.x) on October 23 2023, 4:55am
Reply on October 24 2023, 10:00pm:
    most of the media formats, video support (including the video fx engine)
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Question: As an AI language model.. jk, Justin, I hope you're doing well. Anyways, have you ever felt like leaving this project behind, having fun on your own, and focusing on your personal projects instead of, say, trying to reproduce some nasty bugs that users have been reporting since the release of the latest version? Have you ever experienced that kind of slump or burnout? What keeps your valve running?
Asked by Artilius the Treble (123.136.26.x) on October 22 2023, 9:08pm
Reply on October 22 2023, 10:26pm (edited at October 22 2023, 10:27pm):
    I contest the premise of your question! (what nasty bugs???) Just kidding. Dealing with plug-in compatibility woes is especially not fun, but when the bugs are indeed fixable on our end then it's often satisfying. Remember, I am probably one of the biggest users of the thing, anyway. ;)
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Question: One question about gfx.measurechar/gfx.measurestr: do these do some kind of gfx.update or something? I have a script, whose gui refresh stops, when I add these functions at a given position before drawing anything and it blanks out the gfx-window, making it black. Haven't got around a minimal working example for a bugreport, yet.
Asked by Mespotine (80.187.118.x) on October 22 2023, 2:42pm
Reply on October 22 2023, 8:37pm:
    Ah, count this as the bug report -- they do end up marking the surface as dirty even though they don't actually draw anything. Fixing!
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Question: hey jf.. so after viewing some recent changes in ms privacy + terms of "servicess" + agreement policies.. do you actually read all these terms & any other relevant data in some detail?? or, do you find any terms not actually user friendly,perhaps somewhat "intrusive" so to speak...(across multi os platforms)
Asked by 2023 (86.185.199.x) on October 21 2023, 10:26pm
Reply on October 22 2023, 12:14am:
    I think the idea that anybody routinely reads these terms of service is absurd!
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Question: Hey, Justin. Some user scripts for Reaper are amazing. How do you feel about giving more official encouragement to developers that most stand out? Maybe showcase their work on Reaper webpage? Maybe set aside a part of Reaper profit and give financial awards for best scripts? Something from your official side, to recognize and encourage hard work of user script developers?
Asked by gregorl (89.212.235.x) on October 21 2023, 5:26am
Reply on October 21 2023, 8:49pm:
    I'm in favor of such but it raises a million questions about how to do that effectively and efficiently and fairly and I'd rather spend my time programming...
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Question: do you use fx containers now? Any interesting find?
Asked by nome (187.213.52.x) on October 21 2023, 2:13am
Reply on October 21 2023, 8:49pm:
    Not much yet but most of the time I'm using super8 these days anyway heh
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Question: Me from The Beths again, weโ€™re playing Warsaw this Saturday, Iโ€™ve put you on the door with a guest, no pressure to come, but let me know if you do, Iโ€™d love to meet you and toast the release of v7
Asked by Jon Pearce (172.56.160.x) on October 19 2023, 6:14pm
Reply on October 19 2023, 6:35pm (edited at October 19 2023, 7:54pm):
    Ooh thanks I'll try to make it!
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Question: Hey Justin, what do you say about the idea of making the APIs of native Reaper plugins such as ReaSynth, ReaComp, ReaEQ, etc. available? Developers could then create their own variations of e.g. RS5K combined with sound synthesis. Is this possible?
Asked by horneusz (46.205.213.x) on October 19 2023, 8:16am
Reply on October 19 2023, 6:36pm:
    maybe more fun to use reaper's routing? heh
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Question: hey jf...read previous comment "mp3 4eva" .. do you not find any other formats showing significant improvements over the others? why not .ogg for eg: ?
Asked by 2023 (86.185.199.x) on October 18 2023, 3:48pm
Reply on October 18 2023, 6:30pm:
    Doesn't feel like there's a point, and mp3 is uniquely fun because it is self-synchronizing and doesn't require any file header to decode.
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