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Ask Justin Frankel
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Question: how did you test run the arm64 version of reaper? which hardware did you use?
Asked by Ruchira (123.231.105.x) on February 4 2025, 3:17pm

Question: Hi Justin, I was just wondering if there is anything you would like to talk about here?
Asked by Michael (1.152.24.x) on February 4 2025, 8:48am

Question: where do you live ?
Asked by jason (91.165.163.x) on February 4 2025, 8:31am

Question: Will there be a tariff on Reaper licenses if we live in Canada?
Asked by Bacon and Beer (138.199.22.x) on February 2 2025, 4:58am
Reply on February 2 2025, 5:40am:

dear god I have no idea, insanity Comment...

Question: How's your merch going? :) crowdmade.com/collections/askjfshop
Asked by wasereb4 (95.91.77.x) on February 2 2025, 2:37am
Reply on February 2 2025, 4:52am:

hah lol no idea what that is 1 Comment...

Question: Thx for Reaper and letting many many people without money make music. Me too, Can we get a proper Midi support for the Behringer x-touch?
Asked by Robert Walter Auberger (77.119.204.x) on February 1 2025, 6:35pm
Reply on February 2 2025, 4:52am:

not from me ;) Comment...

Question: Reaper 7.31: Are we really what we pretend to be?
Asked by Lol 😆 (102.176.101.x) on February 1 2025, 8:01am
Reply on February 1 2025, 5:34pm:

So says Mr V. Comment...

Question: Can I try singing on one of your tracks?
Asked by Jesse Campbell (100.1.63.x) on January 31 2025, 8:24pm
Reply on January 31 2025, 10:34pm:

sure, if there's one you want without vox let me know and I'll make a render Comment...

Question: Scrunch or fold?
Asked by Smee (222.152.228.x) on January 31 2025, 10:26am
Reply on January 31 2025, 6:59pm:

in what context, socks? Comment...

Question: Just curious and maybe you've been asked this before, why Reaper/Cockos doesn't have an official YT channel/social media accounts? IK that technically Reaper mania is part of Cockos (but because of the name, most people don't realize it) but there you only get tutorials (which is awesome) but there are no official coverage of new features (other than release notes), artists features, community showcase, bts etc. on YT/social media.
Asked by Rano (43.231.243.x) on January 30 2025, 1:47pm
Reply on January 30 2025, 6:34pm:

We're not big social media fans, I guess? Comment...

Question: I am trying to find the formula that associates TCP height (I_TCPH) with vzoom3 but after many hours, I give up. Could you give a hand, please? I posted on the forum about it too [t=298023]. Thanks for any help!
Asked by amagalma (91.140.6.x) on January 30 2025, 11:56am
Reply on January 30 2025, 6:36pm (edited at January 30 2025, 6:37pm):

this is the kind of thing you should email about rather than post here... but schwa seems to have replied so there you go :) 1 Comment...

Question: How do LV2 Atoms work? I am trying to send a filename from the host to an LV2 plugin, but I can make neither head not tail of it. ELI5?
Asked by djshaji (182.64.20.x) on January 27 2025, 4:25pm
Reply on January 28 2025, 7:43am:

Over an atom port? there's a lot that can go wrong, if you're writing the host you probably want to compile the plug-in in question and step into it to see where it fails... Comment...

Question: Hello, I'm having fun with a sample of some very loud/compressed electronic music. When I play it in Reaper, the master level is almost all the time at -0.1, as it should be. But if I pitch the sample down 2 semitones (and do nothing else), then it's clipping at +5.8dB. What's going on exactly?
Asked by Flupsion (31.37.8.x) on January 27 2025, 8:47am
Reply on January 28 2025, 7:41am:

Does the LUFS or RMS power change substantially? Anyway, timestretch/pitchshift is very much nonlinear so this isn't entirely unexpected. Comment...

Question: What are your opinions about Smart Rings? They look more comfortable than smart bands and much more comfortable than smartwatches. You can literally sleep comfortably with wearing smart rings on your fingers and it tracks all your health stuffs including sleep quality. Seems like interesting thing which may replace at least smart bands (if not smartwatches) in future?
Asked by Abhi (106.219.70.x) on January 27 2025, 6:01am
Reply on January 28 2025, 7:40am:

haven't tried them, but I don't mind sleeping in my old fenix 5 watch. having a nylon band helps. Comment...

Question: What are your opinions on unions in C? Personally I never use them unless I really need to. Structs on the other hand requires less mental overhead.
Asked by Matthew (98.13.80.x) on January 26 2025, 8:07pm
Reply on January 27 2025, 1:21am:

Most of the time they can and probably should be avoided, especially for avoiding strict aliasing violations etc, but they do have their uses. Comment...

Question: Any hope of IPlugCompatibility support (from the VST3 SDK) to allow VST2 plugins to seamlessly migrate to VST3? Waves just dumped VST2 as have many others recently so older projects are suddenly a lot less future-proof. Other vendors (U-he, etc.) in a similar boat and supporting IPlugCompatibility.
Asked by Chris (173.70.123.x) on January 26 2025, 1:12am
Reply on January 26 2025, 4:38pm (edited at January 27 2025, 4:46am):

It's somewhat maddening that they chose JSON as a format here. Let me look into it. Edit: of course, I just spent an hour writing a JSON parser and now it's not that bad feeling. Just gotta find some plug-ins that support it now. 5 Comments...

Question: How are you bro? And happy new year!!
Asked by RandomDude (187.224.236.x) on January 26 2025, 12:30am
Reply on January 26 2025, 4:39pm:

Not bad generally, happy new year too. Comment...

Question: What do you think of this? youtu.be/_78TSNxpDYs
Asked by Rano (27.131.208.x) on January 25 2025, 3:32pm
Reply on January 25 2025, 8:24pm:

Cool cool Comment...

Question: What hurts on your body today?
Asked by Will (23.125.224.x) on January 24 2025, 4:34pm
Reply on January 25 2025, 8:24pm:

Left side glute/calf/plantar is a bit sore but not so bad. Did a good workout for it so happily sore now. Comment...

Question: Can you share some details about how you handle and synchronize so many Reaper feature branches in Git
Asked by zabukowski (86.61.50.x) on January 24 2025, 7:20am
Reply on January 25 2025, 8:23pm:

It's not so bad with only a couple of people contributing, when we do things that will conflict we're generally aware of it, and if not it's relatively straightforward to deal with it. Comment...

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