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[older questions]

Question: If you could get the nullsoft brand back cheaply, would you do so? If so, how would you use it? Perhaps acquire Cockos? :-)
Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on August 29 2025, 2:29pm
Reply on August 29 2025, 3:25pm (edited at August 29 2025, 3:28pm):

Totally, I'd want to do Cockos Inc DBA Nullsoft probably, assuming everybody was OK with it. 1 Comment...

Question: I have an app (not mine) which produces noise (white, pink,,,) for PA/FOH setup. In the app I can en-/disable if it should be uniform or natural. Could you break down what this means? (over my head lol: dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/70...
Asked by wasereb4 (95.91.77.x) on August 28 2025, 4:22pm
Reply on August 28 2025, 8:33pm:

Skimming this, it would appear that white noise is defined as uniform noise in the frequency domain, not as uniform samples in the time domain? And apparently a Gaussian distribution of samples in the time domain will be a uniform noise in the frequency domain? (I might be wrong, schwa probably knows this better than I do, he's Mr Dither around here) Comment...

Question: And one more: I've noticed that bug reports from users with low message count are addressed more readily. Is this an accurate observation? Do you prioritize bug reports from new users or users who are not habitual forum lurkers? If you don't, how'd you explain my observation?
Asked by Asking (162.19.99.x) on August 28 2025, 10:41am
Reply on August 28 2025, 12:38pm:

It doesn't consciously factor in. If your observation is in fact true (I haven't measured it), then I would also say that correlation does not imply causation. 6 Comments...

Question: Is developing and maintaining REAPER still fun and exciting or has that largely become a rut and/or a burden?
Asked by Asking (51.91.247.x) on August 28 2025, 10:33am
Reply on August 28 2025, 12:39pm:

It's fun but also work! Very much mostly enjoyable. 1 Comment...

Question: Does the @gfx of JSFX depends on monitor's refresh rate? A jsfx plugin has some lightning fast movement of boxes serving as highlighters, their fast movement causes some vertical tearing like old TV, but loading same plugin in YSFX vst has no tearing. So it got me wondering if the native @gfx kind of depends on hardware refresh rate or frame rate?
Asked by @gfx (102.176.65.x) on August 26 2025, 9:43pm
Reply on August 26 2025, 9:55pm:

In short: no. But: what OS? 1 Comment...

Question: I just launched onenightband.net, its a network, Think "LinkedIn meets Tinder for musicians." a tool for finding the right musical collaborators. care to take a look, give feedback/guidance/mentoring/help/support? thanks
Asked by aombk (109.178.222.x) on August 25 2025, 9:34pm
Reply on August 25 2025, 11:26pm (edited at August 25 2025, 11:30pm):

6 Comments...

Question: I've heard that you use RME with Ubuntu? If so would you provide a link for the RME/Ubuntu drivers? Thank you
Asked by cemster (45.11.200.x) on August 25 2025, 3:09pm
Reply on August 25 2025, 5:55pm:

I use my old HDSP on Debian, which Ubuntu is based on. The drivers are in the kernel by default I think, maybe install the alsa-firmware-loaders and alsa-tools-gui packages? the tools you run start with hdsp* Comment...

Question: I know you run and bike, how do you like rowing?
Asked by cavill (194.110.115.x) on August 25 2025, 12:24am
Reply on August 25 2025, 5:56pm:

never rowed a real boat I don't think, I don't mind the ergs though maybe it's too rough for my back these days. Kayaking isn't bad. SUP feels the best though the least efficient obvs. Comment...

Question: In JSFX if you are syncing to host like the ff, should be at the @sample or the @block, which one is ideal? play_state & 1 ? ( host_sample_pos = floor(play_position * srate); beat_counter = host_sample_pos % (samples_per_beat * steps); ) : ( beat_counter = 0; );
Asked by Syncing (197.251.240.x) on August 24 2025, 7:55am
Reply on August 24 2025, 1:08pm:

@block should probably do the initial calculation, then @sample can count where it is relative to the block start 1 Comment...

Question: HELP ME...SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS..NOT A JOKE, NOT A BOT, I M A REAL HUMAN, PLEASE ANYONE
Asked by BRK_ (90.166.225.x) on August 23 2025, 7:16pm
Reply on August 23 2025, 8:13pm:

sorry this is not the right venue to ask for help, there's no specific ask either so yeah what can you do? Comment...

Question: here is a 360 video of a session where we used (for the first time ) p2p Sonobus and Ninjam in paralell , both in private rooms , with the use of the brandnew separate outputs , youtube.com/watch?v=F74qscY_Q1A, How can we make the VDO Ninja sync ? haha ...
Asked by Bernd Keul (85.197.6.x) on August 22 2025, 10:16pm
Reply on August 23 2025, 12:48pm:

very cool! 2 Comments...

Question: Im looking for the access for the wacup project and on the wacup site it's not working to get part of it. Wanna look around over the code and when i have some time i would love to integrate some lines.i even say learn reading and writing for programming stuff. Fun fact.
Asked by James Minter (61.8.130.x) on August 22 2025, 2:10pm
Reply on August 22 2025, 3:49pm: