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Question: As 2023 is coming to an end :( what's one thing you wish you had done this year instead of waiting until next year?
Asked by Oxygenius (123.136.25.x) on December 30 2023, 6:56pm
Reply on January 1 2024, 2:31am:

Hmm hard to say, but I'm looking forward to 2024! Comment...

Question: How do you feel about people pirating REAPER? I'm curious because I'm going to buy a liscence soon. I was wondering what your opinion was with people publishing keygens for reaper? Came across my mind the other night when I saw my trial evaluation time was up. Wanted to ask you personally.
Asked by mikey (162.253.118.x) on December 30 2023, 2:46am
Reply on December 30 2023, 5:11pm (edited at December 30 2023, 5:12pm):

afaik keygens still require a hacked reaper.exe, thankfully. nobody serious wants to be running modified executables. Obviously I disapprove. :) 2 Comments...

Question: Are you still using Wayland+Gnome on your dev laptop, Xfce4/X11 on your recording/performance machines? Have you thought of other desktop environments for either like KDE Plasma?
Asked by bringkeys (70.190.185.x) on December 29 2023, 4:27pm
Reply on December 29 2023, 8:29pm:

I switch it up a lot for testing, but I do use xfce4 on the recording box for predictability. Comment...

Question: When will REAPER for quantum computers be available?
Asked by wasereb4 (83.135.15.x) on December 28 2023, 5:52am
Reply on December 29 2023, 8:29pm:

Hah I have no idea about quantum computers. Comment...

Question: How do you feel about the "It would be nice.." FR kind of comments hahaha I see that phrase everywhere.
Asked by Jeff (187.213.54.x) on December 24 2023, 6:13pm
Reply on December 26 2023, 3:17pm:

It's a valid way to start a request, yeah Comment...

Question: CoolSB: For .nPage = rectheight / charheight on large text files (~40K lines) the thumb gets way too small. Is there a trick to scale it a little bit for certain ranges? Maybe it would be a good idea to have the implementation with minimum thumb height at about the cursor height? Thanks
Asked by Gio (79.130.188.x) on December 22 2023, 10:54am
Reply on December 22 2023, 2:03pm (edited at December 22 2023, 2:04pm):

Set nMinThumbSize (via CoolSB_SetMinThumbSize()) to control how small it can go? Comment...

Question: the solstice screwed up your rss feed think ?
Asked by darknight (188.241.177.x) on December 22 2023, 3:56am
Reply on December 22 2023, 2:04pm:

Did it? looking Comment...

Question: Do you regularly use midi in Reaper?
Asked by jason (2.7.2.x) on December 21 2023, 11:45pm
Reply on December 22 2023, 2:09am:

I don't use it regularly for notes but I do use it for control Comment...

Question: Can you at least tell the story of how you ended up with a pie in the face while in Tahiti?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on December 21 2023, 10:36pm
Reply on December 22 2023, 2:08am:

That didn't happen exactly, but there was some food comedy that was silliness. Comment...

Question: Would you ever write a memoir on the Winamp + AOL days?
Asked by Vlad (162.201.122.x) on December 21 2023, 3:49pm
Reply on December 21 2023, 9:41pm:

Don't think it would be interesting enough to be worth the paper... maybe more of a memo than a memoir. 1 Comment...

Question: Are you religious?
Asked by wasereb4 (83.135.15.x) on December 21 2023, 1:29am
Reply on December 21 2023, 1:54am:

I am religious about flossing my teeth every night. 1 Comment...

Question: DHL, UPS, or Fedex?
Asked by Erio (217.138.221.x) on December 19 2023, 12:00pm
Reply on December 20 2023, 4:06pm:

Carrier pigeon? Err I guess DHL has let me down the least but smaller sample size. Comment...

Question: hey jf- have you listened to any 'channeled messages' by "bashar" (aka Darryl Anka) before? he seems to have an interesting theory about future human programmed ai systems
Asked by 2023 (165.120.114.x) on December 18 2023, 7:23pm
Reply on December 20 2023, 4:06pm (edited at January 2 2024, 6:28pm):

I haven't 1 Comment...

Question: Can the Mixer window be extended or modified through the SDK?
Asked by Ron Coleman (66.68.142.x) on December 17 2023, 11:31pm
Reply on December 20 2023, 4:06pm:

Not generally, though via WALTER you can do quite a bit of stuff these days. Comment...

Question: How does your RME hardware run on Linux? what model and what distro?
Asked by Will (114.73.19.x) on December 14 2023, 2:37am
Reply on December 14 2023, 12:43pm:

Great, I have a classic RME hdsp 9652 (PCI not PCI-E), running Debian Buster (iirc), with a RT kernel. Comment...

Question: we have a theory about storage-considering the vast amounts of data/info people can gather throughout their lives..do you think it may be possible that we do not actually "store" all this data in our brains directly..we use more of a portable drive (the aetheric consciousness field) & we simply upload & download relevant momentary info at will..yay/nay?
Asked by 2023 (165.120.114.x) on December 13 2023, 9:13pm
Reply on December 13 2023, 11:42pm:

We've got plenty of neurons and neural connections! 2 Comments...

Question: Would you screw the pig to save the princess?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on December 12 2023, 2:58am
Reply on December 12 2023, 3:23pm:

Am I the prime minister? As a private citizen, no. 2 Comments...

Question: WDL: It's strange and somewhat confusing you don't use character literal prefix for wchar_t. e.g. correctlongpath(). Is it possible to become a problem in the distant future if the compilers start to become more conforming?
Asked by Gio (85.75.197.x) on December 11 2023, 9:34pm
Reply on December 11 2023, 9:48pm:

Not sure why it matters? Some old VC versions don't support wchar_t anyway 1 Comment...

Question: Does REAPER use a xplatform lib to work on Win/Mac/Lin?
Asked by Luke (73.70.204.x) on December 11 2023, 5:04pm
Reply on December 11 2023, 6:29pm:

It uses

SWELL

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Question: What's your opinion on the Cmajor programming language? (cmajor.dev Is there substance to the promises?
Asked by Sunblister (46.88.105.x) on December 11 2023, 12:10am
Reply on December 11 2023, 4:42pm:

No opinion but I'm not much a fan of JUCE. Comment...

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