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Question: Steve Duda, serum vst developer spoke of his idea of having an impact on an industry in a more macro way. Like with serum, so many artists have used this vst and it has changed the industry to some extent, what are your thoughts of reaper and how it influences the industry.
Asked by Cale (102.182.45.x) on January 21 2024, 8:14pm
Reply on January 21 2024, 11:59pm:
    URL to his speech? I don't really think about influencing industries, just making stuff people find really useful!
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Question: Why did you not give Dmitry his share of profit after selling winamp to AOL since it was inspired from his idea of MACAMP? (And winamp would not have been possible without MACAMP)
Asked by Karan (76.191.25.x) on January 21 2024, 5:08am
Reply on January 21 2024, 11:58pm (edited at January 22 2024, 12:49am):
    Two things -- one, I was very much into programming software for playing music on computers long before I met Dmitry (and before mp3 existed). See e.g. DACE on my old code section of my site. Anyway, while Winamp might not have existed in the same form as it did had it not had MacAMP as inspiration, I without any doubt would've made Windows mp3 playback software around that time period.

    Two: we were friends, working on our own projects. Then he got a job at some aerospace company, moved to Seattle, got really into the rave scene there, and we lost touch. I worked on Winamp for years. What made it successful was the process of development, getting feedback from users, improving things, and making it all really interesting. (e.g. skins, visualizations, lots of playlisting functionality, a good community, etc).

    "his share of the profit" -- what would be the appropriate share? I didn't hear from him after he went out of touch until after we sold. I can't speak to what happened after we sold, as I still honor the confidentiality terms we agreed to, while apparently he does not.

    TL;DR: at the end of the day, Winamp was what it was because of those of us (me, Tom, Rob, Rex, and my father) who spent tons of time on it, and Dmitry ended up getting more than (IMO) he earned.
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Question: which country or island would you visit in Europe for February/March months? Thanks
Asked by Poeio (195.146.4.x) on January 20 2024, 11:19pm
Reply on January 21 2024, 11:47pm:
    Hmm these days I'd probably choose somewhere on the warmer side, maybe southern Italy?
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Question: "Do you find more interest in the intricacies and process of programming, or are you primarily motivated by the final product and its applications?"
Asked by deep (162.195.121.x) on January 20 2024, 7:18pm
Reply on January 21 2024, 11:46pm:
    I like the process, and I like using the result. Which I find more interesting probably depends on the particular thing being worked on. Some things are more interesting to work on than use, other things are more interesting to use than to make.
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Question: hey jf- if we upload a silent video to ytube..the nerd stats give a reading of - "content loudness -9986.0 db" lolwut?! any clues to them numbers?? ta.
Asked by 2024 (31.54.122.x) on January 18 2024, 11:44pm
Reply on January 19 2024, 2:23am:
    Well, it would be -inf dB, technically, but I think the way LUFS works is it sorts volume into bins and does a histogram of them, ignoring certain sections or something, so probably whatever algorithm they have has some lower limit. Either that or it takes log(peak_amplitude) and then clamps it to something. Shrug.
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Question: Have you considered the possibility of turning the REAPER engine into a library to be able to use it with a 3rd party UI? I'd say the current UI is not really user-friendly and it has many little quirks that haven't been addressed in years (like showing/hiding only a specific side of the docker). I understand that you focus on the features you want and you have limited resources. It's your project and your right to do whatever you want, after all. But I'd definitely work on an alternative vector-based UI, i
Asked by Anton (46.242.121.x) on January 18 2024, 10:12pm
Reply on January 18 2024, 11:05pm:
    Meh, no fun in that. We'll keep improving/extending the API though.
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Question: Do you miss the old internet without all those garden walls?
Asked by Sunblister (77.182.57.x) on January 16 2024, 10:58pm
Reply on January 17 2024, 1:13am:
    I try to stay out of private gardens
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Question: Your wiki says you graduated HS with a 2.9 GPA. Is that true? Did you not care about class?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on January 16 2024, 3:45pm
Reply on January 16 2024, 4:48pm (edited at January 16 2024, 4:54pm):
    lol looks like it was edited August 25 2021... the older version is closer to the truth.
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Question: For a long time been wanting to find out if after the license import into REAPER on Windows anything gets written into the registry. Someone said nothing does otherwise portable install couldn't be portable. Are they right?
Asked by Curious (2.58.194.x) on January 12 2024, 9:19pm
Reply on January 13 2024, 5:00pm:
    They are correct
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Question: hey jf- do you find any users still using "rewire".. which has for long time now been made obsolete by the initial developers? what does its purpose serve these days in reaper?
Asked by 2024 (31.54.122.x) on January 12 2024, 12:09am
Reply on January 12 2024, 1:41am:
    I'm sure people do, yeah!
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Question: What do you think of the idea of a plugin format that is portable, i.e. could also be saved with the respective project? Of course, this would only work with free or free plugins. For example, I'm thinking of having a "VST" directory in my Reaper project and simply dropping DLL files into it, which Reaper then loads. But not as a DLL but something really portable. Greetings!
Asked by Stefan (84.148.176.x) on January 11 2024, 9:06pm
Reply on January 12 2024, 1:41am:
    Hmm like JSFX? ;)
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Question: do you like Metallica?
Asked by human (195.201.169.x) on January 10 2024, 9:14am
Reply on January 10 2024, 3:20pm:
    They're ok but not high on my list of bands I listen to.
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Question: Hello, in this days, while I was doing research, I found NINJAM. Intrigued by his way of dealing with the latency problem, I went to peruse the GitHub repository. However, I noticed that there is no technical document. Did you happen to make one? Or can't it be made public?
Asked by Antonio (95.234.28.x) on January 9 2024, 4:44pm
Reply on January 10 2024, 3:20pm:
    Hmm I don't think I really did? It's been like 20 years so I don't fully remember.
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Question: Do you ever attend trade shows such as NAMM? Are there any new technologies or products on the horizon that are catching your eye?
Asked by Dom64 (82.132.213.x) on January 6 2024, 8:42am
Reply on January 7 2024, 12:42am:
    I have but not in a long time, usually I find them pretty boring.
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Question: What do you think about the programming language Rust? Including it's advantages and disadvantages.
Asked by Matthew (76.37.54.x) on January 5 2024, 5:52am
Reply on January 7 2024, 12:43am:
    I don't know much about it, busy with other things for the most part :)
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Question: auto_save its not on by default in Reaper. why?
Asked by ape din (188.164.221.x) on January 4 2024, 10:18pm
Reply on January 4 2024, 10:47pm:
    I think we enabled auto-backup-saving by default for new installs. But not auto-save to the .rpp (which would be undesirable!).
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Question: Localizing apps (since REAPER can be localized you may know): For languages not using the Latin alphabet (say Chinese, Greek...) are numerals (numbers) also localized (there seem to be chinese and greek numerals) or they stay as latin numbers ?
Asked by wasereb4 (80.64.181.x) on January 4 2024, 7:07pm
Reply on January 4 2024, 10:47pm:
    If it is a static string then it's up to the translator. If REAPER is generating the number, then it will be arabic numerals.
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Question: hey jf- how do you feel about words (english language) that can have multiple "meanings"? 2,3,4 or moar! meanings...(is this not confusing,even for the "educated" ?) + have a very creative/ blessed year
Asked by 2024 (109.158.137.x) on January 4 2024, 4:12pm
Reply on January 4 2024, 10:46pm:
    Are there any languages where words have exactly one meaning?
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Question: Thoughts on Kurt Cobain?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on January 4 2024, 5:04am
Reply on January 4 2024, 5:05am:
    Nirvana was awesome
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Question: How many lines of code is there in REAPER in total?
Asked by Ilya (69.94.124.x) on January 3 2024, 11:23am
Reply on January 4 2024, 4:55am (edited at January 4 2024, 5:05am):
    It's always hard to decide what to include, but I stripped it down almost all code written by us (e.g. no third-party libraries except for the odd header), for everything, and got this: 
    Language                             files          blank        comment           code
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C++                                    406         100147          15246         719830
C/C++ Header                           346          20247           7167         107026
C                                       27           6129           1302          36385
Objective-C++                           20           3156            628          20627
Windows Resource File                   49           1684           1386          16524
Assembly                                10           2028           1308           7487
Lua                                      7            502             97           4565
Perl                                     6            313            549           1382
make                                    20            420             15           1348
Bourne Shell                            25            188             25           1273
yacc                                     1             35              3            338
lex                                      1             25              0             88
JavaScript                               1            142            184             84
DOS Batch                               10             18              6             80
Objective-C                              4              8             15             32
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