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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. Name: Ask: Human (enter yes): [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

Question: I prefer to look at the changelog from this site (landoleet.org/whatsnew.txt instead of the forum or the script that generates the color-coded changelog. How can I use the numbers like t=304696 on that website to get to the thread, is it a number I could post in forum search to get to the thread? Asked by Changelog (197.251.240.x) on November 16 2025, 2:15am Reply on November 16 2025, 2:29pm: prefix forum.cockos.com/showthread.php? to it ... so https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=xyz or ?p=xyz 3 Comments... Question: Reckon you're able to add support to ReaPlay for new MacOS? Asked by dom64 (82.132.237.x) on November 15 2025, 8:06pm Reply on November 15 2025, 8:37pm: it works already no? 2 Comments... Question: Do you master assembly language?Is it used in the reaper? Asked by deel (221.215.214.x) on November 15 2025, 12:48pm Reply on November 15 2025, 2:23pm: not sure about what it would mean to master, but when you program enough, languages and assembly in different architectures become a little bit irrelevant, you get used to virtualizing the machine (be it virtual in the case of C, or literal in the case of assembly) in your head. REAPER is mostly C++ for portability, but there are parts that are in assembly, particularly JSFX which generates machine code on the fly to execute for each architecture. So there you're not so much programming in assembly, but programming something which generates assembly. For example, the arm64 stubs for macOS, and the glue code for that. Comment... Question: Have you seen this youtu.be/iu5rnQkfO6M?si=oWFLyQxkmVaMXNFE Asked by Ruchira (175.157.11.x) on November 14 2025, 8:50am Reply on November 14 2025, 3:52pm: lol I hadn't, nice Comment... Question: How do you feel about this one? youtube.com/watch?v=pB7Cmayu56g Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on November 13 2025, 4:06pm Reply on November 13 2025, 7:53pm: it is a good song for sure Comment... Question: Could you point me to any resources for implementing license file copy protection for apps (specifically Mac apps) like you use in Reaper? Asked by reaper_fan (79.127.217.x) on November 13 2025, 3:30am Reply on November 13 2025, 7:54pm (edited at November 13 2025, 7:55pm): hmm if I were you I'd use something like https://github.com/libecc/libecc, and then have a signed thing which means "I'm licensed." but just to be clear, reaper doesn't have copy protection per se, just a legitimately-licensed indicator. 2 Comments... Question: Have you read any of Stanisław Lems works? If so, how did you like them? Asked by SpoiledHobo (77.187.134.x) on November 12 2025, 8:49pm Reply on November 12 2025, 9:49pm (edited at November 13 2025, 7:54pm): Pretty good! Though I read them in English so who knows how they translated... I remember the one about the machine that can only make things that begin with a particular letter. which was funny, but also I wonder how many liberties the translator had to take to make that work... Comment... Question: In a normal compressors like ReaComp, does the "Main" input level detector compare the left and right levels and use the one which is higher in level as the detected level or it sums the left and right and use the sum level as the detected level? Asked by Compressor (154.161.130.x) on November 10 2025, 3:14pm Reply on November 10 2025, 3:23pm: In stereo mode, it uses the maximum value of the left and right channels 1 Comment... Question: Can you tell me how to use reaplay? I had to use the keyboard to fully operate him, and I couldn't find how to use it in the documentation. Asked by dear (221.215.214.x) on November 10 2025, 9:37am Reply on November 10 2025, 3:23pm: the reaper plug-in? should be able to click it and stuff? Comment... Question: If you were asked to rank the following programming languages from the one you like to use the most to the one you like the least, how would you rank them? c c++ c# java php lua javascript python VisualBasic go rust Asked by colors (221.215.214.x) on November 9 2025, 1:27pm Reply on November 9 2025, 5:56pm: I haven't really used C#, haven't used Java since the 90s (and eve then minimally), nor have I meaningfully used go or rust or VB. For the remaining languages (C C++ php lua and javascript) I'd say it really depends on what I'm working on. For writing applications then I'd prefer C++, if doing text processing then probably php (amusingly, here's a header file which re-generates itself via php), javascript is great for web page stuff and I've enjoyed writing things there. Lua is fine and nice in that its easily embedded and has very low runtime requirements. Python rubs me the wrong way both syntactically and in that it's hard to embed, and there are different versions and in general it feels like a mess to my soul which is weary of supply chain dependencies... complex question, complex answer? Comment... Question: I'm trying to use this "ext_gr_meter" to report gain reduction in a JSFX plugin but it's usage is not featured in the online JSFX manual. How do I use it to report gain reduction to host? Asked by extgrmeter (102.176.65.x) on November 8 2025, 5:50pm Reply on November 8 2025, 8:34pm: ah will update the online docs, the IDE would give you this helptext: "set to 0 in @init, then update with negative values in @block with current gain reduction. set to 10000.0 to disable GR metering." 1 Comment... Question: there's a friend of mine who can't shout his mouth up talking about boards of canada when he gets drunk Asked by mikhail (2.147.52.x) on November 8 2025, 8:08am Reply on November 8 2025, 3:00pm: I've started a deep dive on them, not bad for the electronic-y music, I hear their influence and their influences both in other things I've listened to at length. Comment... Question: Will Reaper's VST plugin scan detect all VST3 plugins in subdirectories? No matter how many folders there are, I've noticed a strange issue: one folder within my designated VST path can't be scanned by Reaper, and I have to specify the path in full, right down to the folder itself. Why is this the case? For example, if I set the path to D:VST, Reaper can't scan the VST3 plugins inside the "SWAM" folder (located at D:VSTSWAM). I have to use the full path like D:VSTSWAM. Asked by nico (221.215.214.x) on November 7 2025, 7:29am Reply on November 7 2025, 5:42pm: hmm the filtering of the directory separators might be screwing this up in the post. But at any rate, post in the forums rather than here! Comment... Question: What's your learning style? Read up/Research heavily before starting or dive in and look for answers when hitting a wall? Asked by Dylan (175.37.18.x) on November 6 2025, 10:06pm Reply on November 7 2025, 3:08am: some of both I think, depending on how I'm feeling or how much I know I don't know 2 Comments... Question: Should I upgrade to Win11 or stay at Win10? Asked by Ruchira (175.157.140.x) on November 6 2025, 3:23pm Reply on November 6 2025, 5:15pm: Hard to say, I def prefer Win10 (or win7 for that matter), but as long as other software vendors keep forcing us to upgrade then grrr... Linux? ;) Comment... Question: Hello Herr Frankel! Are you aware of any git-like software or project to version control a reaper project (or any daws in general)? Prepping an album with my bandmates while doing recordings at different locations and different times has been a hell: keeping tracks of changes, or who did what at what time, uploading full project many times to drive for clarity.. different naming conventions. I was planning to to do a git repo but I read somewhere git doesnt work well with big files (no idea if thats true th Asked by Pierre from the Gig (77.245.45.x) on November 6 2025, 1:04pm Reply on November 6 2025, 5:14pm: Git can do ok for this -- not ideal for huge files but most audio recordings aren't that big anyway Comment... Question: Congratulations on winning Kvr's 2025 "Favorite DAW", how do you feel about this? Considering you're the "indie" ones in between all the other industry giants. Does this motivate you to keep working on it more and more? Asked by Jake (187.213.20.x) on November 5 2025, 8:19pm Reply on November 5 2025, 10:46pm: lol we only won because the usual winner had won too many times? doesn't seem legit to me ;) 2 Comments... Question: I don't remember if I ever asked this (probably not), but on the quest to improve Webamp, I noticed the "kbps" display in Winamp would show "14H" or "1C" on bitrates higher than 1000/10000, is there any meaning behind the letters? Asked by Eris Lund (80.228.64.x) on November 4 2025, 9:49am Reply on November 4 2025, 12:53pm: IIRC H was for "hundred" and "C" was thousand, though why it was for thousand I have no idea lol, maybe it was a mistake... Comment... Question: I'm not referring to REAPER, but your other stuffs, it seems you like giving out free software more than paid ones, and I respect that, but why? You want to help humanity? Also, how you feel about people selling JSFX plugins? Asked by Question (154.161.244.x) on November 3 2025, 9:26am Reply on November 3 2025, 3:12pm: I just like making software, and making it free is less work than making it paid ;) I'm cool with people selling their JSFX if they want to, as long as they wrote it all (if they based on it another person's work, then less so). 4 Comments... Question: Have you listened to Boards of Canada? I think Satellite Anthem Icarus is a killer track! Asked by Mr.mister (216.196.91.x) on November 3 2025, 12:30am Reply on November 3 2025, 3:11pm: Not enough, I really should give them another go! Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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