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Question: have you ever used or tried any other DAW? if yes which one?
Asked by ape din (141.98.141.x) on July 22 2025, 6:55pm
Reply on July 22 2025, 10:00pm:

I've used Logic and Vegas and Acid for actual projects. And various other DAWs for testing. Comment...

Question: How did you find living in Sedona? I've only ever visited in flight simulators and it looks lovely.
Asked by Dan_longernamecompulsory (86.120.187.x) on July 21 2025, 2:11pm
Reply on July 21 2025, 4:39pm:

boring for a kid but as an adult who likes hiking and trail running I miss that aspect of it. Comment...

Question: yo, this is cool, what do you think, wanna try it? youtu.be/taoAAcS5PSw?si=sDPCGCoau1pUGHBU
Asked by Rano (27.131.210.x) on July 20 2025, 11:17pm
Reply on July 21 2025, 2:34am:

looks like a pain in the ass hah no thanks Comment...

Question: I've been using JUCE for the last few years to build plugins. Have you ever looked at it?
Asked by Tony (125.237.129.x) on July 20 2025, 1:07am
Reply on July 20 2025, 10:55pm:

yes, it's too much for me, impossible to figure out where to find anything Comment...

Question: Thank you again , for making the multioutputs in Ninjam , i have a lot of fun spreading out individual Ninjammers to speakers , i will do small hybrid concerts with this in August and September , do you know NInjam users that use the it on stage ( in combination with P2P multichannel Sonobus ...) ?
Asked by Bernd Keul (78.35.244.x) on July 19 2025, 11:18am
Reply on July 20 2025, 10:56pm:

I don't, but cool! Comment...

Question: Do you play Nintendo games? You own a Switch?
Asked by Chris (2.104.71.x) on July 18 2025, 11:44pm
Reply on July 19 2025, 12:21am:

My most recent Nintendo is a Wii, loved RE4 on that. But haven't kept up. Comment...

Question: huh, would you look at that... facebook.com/share/p/16mtcFDxjv/?m...
Asked by Jacob (187.213.109.x) on July 18 2025, 10:57pm
Reply on July 18 2025, 11:13pm:

cute but not a question please try to abide Comment...

Question: Hi Justin, thanks for REAPER. It the 128 Max opened Project Tabs an arbitrary limit set a long time ago or is it still a relevant limit that must be held? Is there any way around it? Thanks for you time
Asked by Alexandre Paquette (174.89.214.x) on July 18 2025, 1:56pm
Reply on July 18 2025, 2:05pm:

it's there as a sanity check, easy to increase, will bump it to 1000. 1 Comment...

Question: How about displaying the comments here inline (spoiler element')?
Asked by wasereb4 (95.91.77.x) on July 17 2025, 11:28pm
Reply on July 18 2025, 12:58pm:

or a "click to expand" button, maybe. will look at that at some point 2 Comments...

Question: Any good tips for drawing waveforms and making them look good?
Asked by james (130.95.40.x) on July 17 2025, 7:14am
Reply on July 17 2025, 7:19pm:

not really, probably big enough of a scope to not be easily answered here Comment...

Question: facebook.com/share/p/19hW5DugeB/We thank you for not getting Winamp 4 hahahahhahahahaha
Asked by Nick Warnken (203.63.45.x) on July 16 2025, 10:55pm
Reply on July 17 2025, 7:18pm:

lol Comment...

Question: Is it true about a guy called Aaron Carey founding Reaper? On the about page of AIX DSP website there is a statement claiming this: aixdsp.com/about/
Asked by Nammo (89.234.157.x) on July 15 2025, 4:15pm
Reply on July 15 2025, 6:26pm:

He was an early adopter and gave a lot of valuable feedback, and sent me a RME HDSP card, but that page exaggerates for sure. Comment...

Question: Was this the question (askjf.com/index.php?q=5531s which prompted the change from Jesusonic to JSFX at cockos.com/jsfx/both in the address and on the page?
Asked by Anonymous (148.113.153.x) on July 14 2025, 1:12pm
Reply on July 14 2025, 7:18pm:

nah, we renamed it on the web site in feb 2020. 5 Comments...

Question: by now, what radio station did you hear 7 rings on? i don't think billboard top 20 is represented in any one place, from katy perry to ed sheeran type music
Asked by kibolab (73.181.182.x) on July 14 2025, 2:39am
Reply on July 14 2025, 2:49am:

only ever listen to the radio when I rent a car when traveling, it seems. anyway, had to google what '7 rings' is, not sure if I've heard it, maybe I'll give it a listen when I find the time. Comment...

Question: If you like ruby on rails, you might like this : youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?si=uAOZaU0eO6acMj1J
Asked by Rano (43.231.241.x) on July 13 2025, 11:24am
Reply on July 14 2025, 2:32am:

never used it, but the things I've seen that used it seemed way too complex and with far too many dependencies for my feeble mind. Comment...

Question: Have you found a deep sense of meaning and purpose in what you do? I have come to realize the importance of this.
Asked by ascetic (98.48.125.x) on July 12 2025, 9:47am
Reply on July 14 2025, 2:34am:

in a way, maybe? I find things that are very enjoyable and satisfying and are helpful to other people, and maybe that's enough. Comment...

Question: "Hello, I plugged my headphones into my computer, but I can't get the sound from Reaper to my headphones. I have to close and restart Reaper. Is this a bug?"
Asked by nicoto (129.153.24.x) on July 11 2025, 3:59pm
Reply on July 11 2025, 8:57pm:

Not the right venue, but need a lot more information, probably not a bug. Comment...

Question: pattrns is an experimental imperative music sequence generator engine that lets you create musical patterns programmatically using Lua scripts for algorithmic or live music coding. Would it be technically possible to fold this into reaper as a way of sequencing midi notes ? github.com/renoise/pattrns
Asked by fungame (138.199.7.x) on July 10 2025, 2:01am
Reply on July 10 2025, 7:30pm:

not sure if that thing could be integrated, but you could probably do something similar as a reascript library? Comment...

Question: Any thoughts on the emerging “self hosting” trend? Apps being developed for deployment as docker containers where the UI is a web page? Any thoughts in general or for audio applications specifically?
Asked by steve (104.60.90.x) on July 9 2025, 7:05pm
Reply on July 10 2025, 7:29pm:

hmm not really but can't imagine that would work well for audio stuff. in general I am weary of software with lots of external dependencies that end up being updated without the developer's careful curation. Comment...

Question: yo, I'm planning on making the source to one of my projects available, historically I would just use a copyleft license like GPL or MPL, I'd like to make my intention clear that I don't want my code used as training data for AI (even tho they will take it anyway), have you thought about this at all, time for a modified MPL/GPL?
Asked by yoyo-ma (46.19.136.x) on July 9 2025, 5:15pm
Reply on July 9 2025, 5:33pm:

Good luck enforcing that :( 1 Comment...

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