Ask Justin Frankel

justin = { main feed , music , code , askjf , pubkey };

Ask Justin Frankel
No reasonable question unanswered since 2009!

Suggested topics: programming, music, sleep, coffee, etc.

Note: please do not ask questions about REAPER features, bugs or scheduling, use the forums instead.

[newer questions]

[unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all]

[older questions]

Question: What do you think of this? youtu.be/DYWTw19_8r4
Asked by Rano (113.21.67.x) on December 27 2024, 8:34am
Reply on December 28 2024, 1:44am:

Started watching but then lost interest Comment...

Question: What do you think ARM's place will be in Windows/Linux going forward? Do you think it'll replace x86 in the mainstream or do you think it will be supported side by side for the foreseeable future? like
Asked by Aaron (172.56.71.x) on December 26 2024, 4:00pm
Reply on December 28 2024, 1:43am:

Will be interesting to see! I doubt x86_64 is going anywhere but will be good to have both going. Comment...

Question: Merry Christmas and I hope you have a great next year!
Asked by Matthew (98.13.80.x) on December 26 2024, 3:42am
Reply on December 28 2024, 1:43am:

Merry Secular Christmas and HNY! Comment...

Question: Merry Christmas for you and your family but also for Cockos' team for being strong and creating high quality software with an unshakeable commitment to programming craft. Your top-3 book list for 2025?
Asked by Gio (94.70.17.x) on December 25 2024, 8:26pm
Reply on December 28 2024, 1:43am:

Merry Secular Christmas! Top 3 books to recommend you mean? Not sure... Working my way through all of the Le Carré George Smiley books at the moment Comment...

Question: Hi, Justin. Merry Christmas! I'm wondering how you celebrate it there today.
Asked by nicoto (39.65.79.x) on December 24 2024, 4:17pm
Reply on December 25 2024, 6:32am (edited at December 25 2024, 6:33am):

just had a lovely xmas eve dinner with some old friends, tomorrow I will hang out with some family Comment...

Question: Hey jf - I don't want to bombard you with countless questions regarding DAWs and how they work under the hood on your site but I do have another question. Data stream management and audio buffers (If those are the correct terms?). But does each track and child track have their own audio buffer and if not, how exactly are each track mixed into a final audio buffer? And also, how exactly does a DAW keep track of each stream within a given session? I am assuming it uses a binary tree, or something else?
Asked by Matthew (98.13.80.x) on December 24 2024, 6:27am
Reply on December 24 2024, 4:05pm:

Each track probably has various buffers, but in general if you want to render an audio block for the project you'd go through all tracks, render each track to wherever, then sum it to the project mix, etc. 1 Comment...

Question: Do you still feel the Christmas spirit as an adult?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on December 24 2024, 1:31am
Reply on December 24 2024, 4:30am:

Shouldn't that spirit be applied year-round? Comment...

Question: Would you try using Cosense(scrapbox.io) as a forum for Reaper? I use it always and it's super convenient. I can just put words in brackets and have them link to the page for that word. There's no way to put into words how happy I am...
Asked by Vlzs (221.170.41.x) on December 23 2024, 1:25pm
Reply on December 23 2024, 4:44pm:

Moving the forum would require a lot of work and we'd want to make sure we're not hurting the experience of existing users, as well as the valuable resources of all of the existing posts... so before we'd ever switch to another forum software a lot of things would have to be figured out. don't know much about that software but I will read about it. Comment...

Question: Hi Justin, I understand if you don't want to answer this as many people are a bit sensitive about the subject ,but are you a religious man?
Asked by Michael (1.152.28.x) on December 23 2024, 8:00am
Reply on December 23 2024, 4:42pm:

Not really, more of a secular humanist but in a moderately pragmatic and not so religious way Comment...

Question: Not REAPER request, but REAPER Videos request haha. Can you make a keyboard shortcut for playback speed? I watch videos there in REAPER website but have to click again and again on playback speed thing. Instead maybe add a keyboard shortcut to increase/decrease playback speed like how it is in youtube? Or maybe something like Ctrl+1 for 1.5x speed, Ctrl+2 for 2x speed etc. ?
Asked by Ahhhhh (23.106.56.x) on December 21 2024, 5:00pm
Reply on December 22 2024, 3:53am:

ah need to look up how to do that (both on the browser playback side and the javascript-key-binding side) Comment...

Question: When you search something in REAPER Preferences and it doesn't find that thing, it shows a sad emoji " :( ". That's actually cute. I hope you don't get rid of it 🤭 Haha, what makes you do this instead of "not found" or something?
Asked by :( 🤭 (207.244.71.x) on December 21 2024, 4:52pm
Reply on December 22 2024, 3:53am:

lol I can't remember, that was done in 2008, so many years ago. Comment...

Question: "I mostly make lonely music videos and time lapses of activities, for my own enjoyment more than yours" , why so angry? 😅
Asked by Abhi (106.219.71.x) on December 21 2024, 4:07pm
Reply on December 21 2024, 4:42pm:

I'm just in touch with my place in the world Comment...

Question: What do you think about the orb sightings that have been happening in NJ? Not the drones or whatever they are, the orbs or now called plasmid.
Asked by Angel (187.201.235.x) on December 21 2024, 12:19am
Reply on December 21 2024, 4:43pm:

no idea, but I know things captured on phone cameras often look different than they do with the naked eye. so I keep that in mind. Comment...

Question: What's your biggest pet peeve?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on December 20 2024, 3:45pm
Reply on December 20 2024, 8:10pm:

People who talk to you without listening 2 Comments...

Question: Any suggestion for a person going for an interview?
Asked by Abhi (106.219.71.x) on December 20 2024, 3:21pm
Reply on December 20 2024, 8:10pm:

Job or journalistic? It's been so long since I've interviewed for a job, and probably never had a successful one anyway, I'm a bad source. I'd say be yourself and completely honest, but not overly honest lol. Comment...

Question: I have a 15.6 inch laptop. So, some virtual instruments plugin are bigger in size, bigger than screen of my laptop. But thanks to REAPER, I can scroll those big size plugins and access to those areas of that plugin which are out of my screen. But I can do this only in VST2. I can't do this scroll thing in VST3 and CLAP. Do you know reason why? This made me stick to VST2, instead of switching to VST3 or CLAP.
Asked by Abhi (106.219.71.x) on December 18 2024, 11:54am
Reply on December 18 2024, 5:59pm:

that scrolling support causes a lot of problems, maybe we can add it as an option for VST3s too, let me think about that. 1 Comment...

Question: Hello Justin, I am giving a school presentation on "Managing Complexity in software", I never really worked on anything I would consider complex so I feel like I have nothing interesting to offer, and to me reaper is a perfect example of a really complex software that has alot of options and modules and at the same time must maintain good performance, so If you have time can you briefly outline some of the key guidelines that you follow or anything that comes to your mind could be really helpful, thank you
Asked by ryan (41.43.201.x) on December 17 2024, 10:54am
Reply on December 17 2024, 4:27pm:

Oh boy, software can get so complex. Performance IMO is less of a challenge than stability and reliability. Performance you can take care with rough guidelines, and then when issues come up address them either via optimizing the complexity or the implementation. But stability and reliability -- those are things that the surface you have to analyze is huge, especially with customization, different modes of operation, third party plug-ins, etc. You quickly get to a point where there are millions and millions of different states to be in, and if an issues comes up in some tiny fraction of those states, you have to find it. So a big help is the ability to share state between users and developers. E.g. a user has a bug, a significant percentage of the time we won't be able to reproduce it trivially; we'll take their reaper.ini and a project file, which makes it more likely to be reproduced, etc. I could go on, at length... discuss in the comments if you like. Comment...

Question: I know you don't like virtual instruments, but do you think this laptop can replace traditional laptops as well as MIDI controllers? youtube.com/watch?v=ALOZq2Q3f9E&pp...
Asked by Abhi (207.244.71.x) on December 16 2024, 7:47pm
Reply on December 16 2024, 9:10pm:

hah looks pretty cool but I don't think a touchscreen can replace a controller. also ftr I don't not like virtual instruments, it's just that I prefer playing guitar at this point :) 2 Comments...

Question: Have you checked this video : youtube.com/shorts/pGuPZO_nmb0🤭
Asked by 🤭🤭🤭 (106.219.69.x) on December 16 2024, 7:41pm
Reply on December 16 2024, 9:10pm:

heh cool 1 Comment...

Question: do you get a little annoyed when a place asks 10 dollars for 3 chicken tenders? like to me personally 10 bucks should grant me a kings bounty but i feel like im being robbed anytime i enter a huey magoos
Asked by tillie (96.4.199.x) on December 16 2024, 3:00pm
Reply on December 16 2024, 5:00pm:

I guess it depends a lot on the context of where you are? Go to the wrong place and shit's gonna be expensive! Comment...

[newer questions]

[unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all]

[older questions]