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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): [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

Question: My friend and I are about a year into making this daw and im starting to realize the hard part wasn't making the daw it's making something people will actually want to use without going insane. Almost at the end of the engineering hell but wanted to ask what (other than obv letting others try it) is best for getting out of your own head and making something actual humans will find useful? Asked by mike (71.173.193.x) on May 6 2026, 7:44pm Reply on May 6 2026, 9:52pm: make something that you want to use, because some percentage of other people are like you... but yeah it's a lot of work hah and you'll never be done Comment... Question: Have you used LLM code in Reaper again since your FFmpeg hack? Asked by Chris (77.23.250.x) on May 6 2026, 12:30pm Reply on May 6 2026, 6:08pm: Since this article, I used it to look up a few things related to screensavers, it was somewhat helpful but definitely gave me a lot of bad suggestions too. Unrelated to REAPER, having it generate some oauth2 code for another project was pretty helpful, but as I've probably mentioned before this speaks to the crappiness of documentation/SDKs more than the genius of LLMs. Comment... Question: Hi Justin! Not a fan of AI in general, but I asked Gemini Flash for a script to connect REAPER with KoboldCPP, running Acestep. it seems it somehow managed it.This script uses RealmiGui to take parameters and send the selected time/track in Reaper to generate a reference-based audio and then import to project. It seems usefull,as a base script.If you, or anyone you know find this interesting to check, I uploaded it here:limewire.com/d/m3XoN#86QwpzbmCQ . Thank you for everything you gave us! Asked by justamessenger (37.98.193.x) on May 5 2026, 11:45am Reply on May 6 2026, 1:13am: heh cool I guess Comment... Question: The latest music you've made is epic and does all the right things! This is my fav so far (also, because of the title, I clicked on it first:) - and I loved it: music.1014.org/Alone/260502_worth_... - Keep it up! =) Asked by dom64 (179.43.189.x) on May 4 2026, 9:24pm Reply on May 4 2026, 9:30pm: lol thanks that one was fun! Comment... Question: Forum FR? A button to copy [Code][/Code] text? Asked by alex (187.201.253.x) on May 3 2026, 5:22am Reply on May 4 2026, 3:24pm: the text within the code block, or the tags themselves? Comment... Question: Are you a fan of any anime or cartoons? Asked by Danny K (172.56.61.x) on May 3 2026, 4:52am Reply on May 4 2026, 3:23pm: Not particularly Comment... Question: If you couldn't use Reaper, which daw would you choose and why? Asked by Derrick (172.58.51.x) on May 1 2026, 5:58pm Reply on May 2 2026, 1:26am: I'd probably go with Ardour so I could still hack on it. Comment... Question: Is Reaper a large software project? Asked by nncccn (112.224.167.x) on May 1 2026, 3:55pm Reply on May 2 2026, 1:26am: It's definitely consumed a lot of programmer time! something like 35 human-years at this point? Comment... Question: Did you grow up with an interest in programming itself, or what you could build with code? Do you enjoy the process, the end result, or both? Asked by Fabien (172.58.51.x) on May 1 2026, 3:14pm Reply on May 2 2026, 1:25am: Both for sure! Comment... Question: What's the (theoretical) maximum length (in time) of Reaper projects? Asked by wasereb4 (31.16.104.x) on May 1 2026, 4:49am Reply on May 2 2026, 1:23am (edited at May 2 2026, 1:27am): Due to the use of double-precision floating point for timing in many places, I imagine things would start breaking in significant ways at 2^53 samples, which at 48khz would be more than 5,000 years. Wow 2^53 is really big. 4 Comments... Question: Do you like life and what are the main reasons for that? Asked by Hans (213.100.205.x) on April 30 2026, 10:30pm Reply on April 30 2026, 10:34pm: Definitely - food, music, friends, exercise, come to mind. Probably more. Comment... Question: Can you tell me if CCL Cross-platform Framework is related to REAPER? Or it's from another program, I can't figure it out... Asked by Andrey (5.187.85.x) on April 30 2026, 8:12pm Reply on April 30 2026, 8:26pm: This is the first I've heard of it 3 Comments... Question: Since this is your specialty, I wonder how you'd grade Torvald's repo: github.com/torvalds/AudioNoise Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on April 29 2026, 1:18pm Reply on April 29 2026, 6:42pm: looks fine to me Comment... Question: Would you rather be stupid and happy or smart and depressed? Asked by James (172.58.48.x) on April 28 2026, 11:33pm Reply on April 29 2026, 6:43pm: It depends on the magnitude of all of those qualities, I suppose. Comment... Question: Do you think A.I. will cause even greater interest in live music now and in the future? I think the artist themselves and their process or personal life will become part of the art as well.. Asked by Jason (172.58.50.x) on April 28 2026, 2:29am Reply on April 28 2026, 12:29pm: hope so! Comment... Question: newstd.dreamhosters.com/? Asked by notstd (98.97.27.x) on April 27 2026, 10:24pm Reply on April 28 2026, 12:30pm: lol Comment... Question: Who would you like to see as the candidate for president from the democrats? Asked by mlprod (178.174.212.x) on April 27 2026, 7:49pm Reply on April 27 2026, 8:18pm: fuck if I know, who can win? Comment... Question: Hello, do you about this ? vdo.ninja/alpha/examples/music-syn...This demo is for NINJAM-style or loop-based music sessions where the audio is handled outside VDO.Ninja an Asked by Bernd Keul (89.1.137.x) on April 25 2026, 9:57am Reply on April 26 2026, 11:19pm: not really sure what's going on there but cool anyway Comment... Question: How is this website viable? Is it really as simple as a stupid custom captcha and basic php where you're careful with file permissions, htmlspecialchars, etc. ? Or is there hidden wizardry? Asked by blahblih (31.37.8.x) on April 24 2026, 10:58am Reply on April 24 2026, 12:26pm: shrug low volume target I guess? 2 Comments... Question: Hi,there are starting to be quite a few shitty files on the stash, completely made by AI with no work put into them. Such a shame for REAPER! How are you going to handle this in the future, given this new factor that is AI? Asked by Jason (92.157.64.x) on April 23 2026, 7:55pm Reply on April 23 2026, 8:34pm: ugh dunno 4 Comments... [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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