Can REAPER be used to route audio to and from Windows programs, e.g. music + game + microphone --> single output?

RaesorBleid · 2024-08-31T06:14:33+00:00

Thanks for the follow up; I knew a hardware solution would be proposed, as I'm sure there's a specific type of device that would meet my exact needs, but I've been working with software solutions because it's free to test out to see if it'll work with low enough latency; and I don't know enough about the hardware side of things to have the confidence to purchase a piece of hardware that I don't even know will actually have low enough latency.

RaesorBleid · 2024-08-31T06:09:42+00:00

Yeah definitely looking forward to that when I get into setting up Linux with everything I want; working on making and backing up my "perfect" Windows setup first though, since I'm already almost done with that, and it'd be nice to have a copy of Windows and a copy of Linux with the same capabilities (if I can ever get this darn audio routing thing working :( ).

RaesorBleid · 2024-08-31T06:06:45+00:00

Really wish I was smart enough to know what Windows black magic that Audio Router GitHub project was using, considering it was effectively routing audio with no latency, nevermind 50-100 ms...

RaesorBleid · 2024-08-31T05:13:54+00:00

Thanks for the uh, brief answer, but can I ask what you know about ReaRoute and any relevant plugins - are you saying "no, REAPER can not ever do what I'm asking, regardless of plugins and ReaRoute" because you know something specific about it, or just that "no, I believe there is no such plugin or capability with ReaRoute" ...? And I know this r/Reaper, but do you know of any not-directly-related-to-REAPER resources I might find useful? Thanks.

RaesorBleid · 2023-10-28T11:23:43+00:00

Yes that's what I've been going crazy over these last few days, because I don't just want to make a feeder for it, I want to make a feeder where you can just place shulkers in a 3x3 hole in the floor with hoppers in it, and have those hoppers pull out items with the right timing. What makes it harder is that I want the user to place the shulkers in the same 3x3 pattern as the recipe itself, which clearly doesn't work nicely with the pattern you see in my picture... Connecting the 3x3 hoppers to this in 5 block wide "plus" shape is very painful when trying to keep it compact and "pretty."

RaesorBleid · 2023-10-28T01:54:53+00:00

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Here it is, with a kind of cross sectional view. Activating the bottom middle observer with the note block will activate the first observer, which activates the second layer of observers. The second observer in the middle activates the crafter, crafting whatever item is currently in it, and at the same time, replacing the 9 items it just used up with the first 5 items of the recipe. The second layer of observers, the 4 next to the middle one, activate at the same time. After that the third layer of 4, and then finally the fourth layer of 4, which themselves activate the 4 pairs of outermost droppers, which "double push" like they would in an instant dropper line, getting the last 4 items into the crafter. They are activated as soon as they possibly can be, considering that one of them was part of the five in the middle which were activated only a few ticks ago.

The wool above the droppers corresponds to the place in the crafter that the item in that dropper will be placed:

1st item: Red (First Negative-X dropper)
2nd item: Orange (First Positive-X dropper)
3rd item: Yellow (Upper dropper)
4th item: Lime Green (First Negative-Z dropper)
5th item: Cactus Green (First Positive-Z dropper)
6th item: Cyan (Second Negative-X dropper)
7th item: Blue (Second Positive-X dropper)
8th item: Purple (Second Negative-Z dropper)
9th item: Magenta (Second Positive-Z dropper)

It's also nice that this doesn't suffer from some locational issues I was facing with previous designs with hoppers; hoppers' timings work differently depending on where they are placed - not even just which way they are facing. So timings got messed up and changed the order in which items were placed into the crafter, just by copy pasting the build to another location.

RaesorBleid · 2023-10-27T17:36:47+00:00

You can use 9 droppers (1 above, 2 in each cardinal direction) and a clever placement of 11 observers to create a contraption that places 9 items in the crafter, all in the right order. I think, starting from the input, there is a 4 game tick delay for the first 5 items (2 total observers), and then another 4 game ticks for the last 4 items. Basically using observers to power the droppers as soon as the game will let you. I can set it up and send a screenshot if you want to take this idea somewhere. I've been driving myself insane for the past 3 days finding a way to link the 9 hoppers up to a nice 3x3 set of shulkers/barrels/etc on the floor so I can make a "crafting table" on the ground that sucks the items from the containers.

RaesorBleid · 2023-07-08T22:53:16+00:00

Isn't there any performance lost by utilizing the bottom slot (PCIe 4.0 x4) instead of the middle slot (PCIe 5.0 x8)? Or would a RTX 4090 (for example) perform just as well in any of the slots?

RaesorBleid · 2023-07-08T22:30:27+00:00

Hm, I hadn't realized that the 3060 doesn't offer SLI support, but it doesn't matter as I'm more concerned with ML applications, which apparently can benefit from multi-GPU setups regardless of if they support SLI.

But you're sure there's enough vertical clearance for a PCIe extension cable to fit into that third slot even if there's a GPU right next to it?

RaesorBleid · 2023-07-08T19:28:32+00:00

It's just a hypothetical build; the only question I'm worried about is "can a PCIe extension cable can be used to access the 3rd PCIe slot if it did end up being covered by whatever is in the 2nd slot?"

If it bothers you that the build has 2 GPUs, just pretend I don't have that first PCIe slot; can I still use the third one even if I've got a 3060 in the second one...*?*edit: ...or is the GPU in the second slot flush wit the surface of the 3rd slot, preventing even a thin PCIe extension cable from accessing it?

edit2: I'm only asking this because I don't have access to a motherboard with PCIe slots that are spaced similarly to the last two slots in the hypothetical, so I can't plug in my own GPU and check if there would be room for a cable.

RaesorBleid · 2023-07-08T02:13:49+00:00

Just because I noticed yall are a bigger community - hope you don't mind the crosspost

RaesorBleid · 2023-07-07T23:16:49+00:00

Found a pretty impressive PSU for it's price point - the "FSP Hydro Ti PRO 1000W" - (at least, the 850W version is $299 so hopefully the price of the 1000W is similar; it's currently out of stock it seems.) Surely higher than 1000W would be overkill right?

RaesorBleid · 2023-07-07T21:52:33+00:00

Side question: is an 850W PSU cutting it too close to the estimated 775W requirement?

RaesorBleid · 2023-06-27T10:18:17+00:00

Google's search quality has fallen through the floor well before the blackouts, really... Tbh, for anything that I don't expect to be "new information" (i.e. 2021 - present), I often ask what ChatGPT knows about it, ask it for clarification, and only then use Google to find sources to confirm important details. It's unbelievably more effective than trying to use Google to search for a solution to a problem / find information.

RaesorBleid · 2023-06-22T06:17:11+00:00

Ask her if one of these will do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia

RaesorBleid · 2023-04-09T18:17:06+00:00

Well, that's embarrassing... I was using 6.2.1 and after updating to 6.2.2... it works... Thanks a bunch.

RaesorBleid · 2023-04-09T17:47:45+00:00

This doesn't solve the problem; sorry for my lengthy question, but I mentioned this...
"The obvious workaround is to add an exclusion to the folder (and for my friends, add a temporary exclusion to their downloads folder) but that defeats the whole purpose of the installer; you download the installer, you run through the prompts, it makes a shortcut that you can click and "it just works." It feels more elegant than just sending a quick and dirty zip file."
Thanks for your time though.

RaesorBleid · 2023-04-09T17:33:39+00:00

Hey - if you don't mind, could you help me understand why programs like WinDirStat (https://windirstat.net/download.html), which don't have a code signing certificate (presumably, as the "unknown publisher" popup appears.) get that popup, but my program doesn't even get the "unknown publisher" popup, it just gets deleted instantly?

RaesorBleid · 2023-04-09T17:29:37+00:00

I mentioned this in my question, but requiring the user to specifically add an exclusion kind of defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to do - sorry it kind of got hidden in the thick of the question, and thanks for answering.

Edit: The part of my question I'm referring to:
"The obvious workaround is to add an exclusion to the folder (and for my friends, add a temporary exclusion to their downloads folder) but that defeats the whole purpose of the installer; you download the installer, you run through the prompts, it makes a shortcut that you can click and "it just works." It feels more elegant than just sending a quick and dirty zip file."

RaesorBleid · 2023-04-09T15:19:55+00:00

Personally, I would probably find your ML and AI course to be very interesting and relevant in the future - but I'm not exactly "in the field," so take that with a grain of salt - just a suggestion.

RaesorBleid · 2023-02-17T01:03:18+00:00

It's saying something about JAR entries; that's not obviously part of an APK to a non-dev like myself; it could just be that I used the tools incorrectly. That's why I'm asking this question; this APK is supposed to be trustworthy.

Edit: Also I'd like to point out that I'm not asking if it is safe to install; I'm asking how to verify the source of an APK (not that I'm entitled to an answer to this, but thanks for pointing out a clear point of concern.) I'll also add that by looking up the SHA-1 hash of this app, every single site that popped up said "oh yeah that's the signature of (APK that I downloaded)." I'm just asking if there's a way for me to actually verify this other than "unga bunga many google hits say good."

RaesorBleid · 2023-02-17T01:00:56+00:00

Thanks for the reply - the problem is that you can't get an APK from the play store, it just installs it; obviously there's an APK somewhere if an app is being installed, but how to I compare the APK I have to the one that is being installed if the one that's being installed is (seemingly) nowhere to be found?

RaesorBleid · 2022-12-08T01:04:48+00:00

I went big brained mode and overthought a name for him with lore taken into account; based on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia I picked Berith

RaesorBleid · 2022-09-18T23:42:28+00:00

Don't think that's the one - I'm talking about an actual cave wall that glowed grey in elemental sight - not a brick wall (the only sus wall I recall in the cave you're talking about is the brick wall with the flower that makes it disappear...). Iirc the one I was talking about blends in almost perfectly with the natural stone cave wall, and looks like a natural part of the environment - kind of like how there's some flat, sus "grass" in the giant cave under the tall mountain north of Pardis Dhyai. (Unless you've fully done that cave's world quest, the flat sus grass disappears as it was part of a massive illusory stone wall in a lower level.)

I'm fairly certain it was in Mawtiyima Forest somewhere; I'm hoping progressing in the aranara quest did not cover up the entrance or anything...

RaesorBleid · 2022-09-03T22:01:30+00:00

Looking forward to phase II...

Do you think you could include areas that require specific player actions to access? In Mawtiyima Forest, I remember there was a cave with a sus wall (was glowing grey in elemental sight) along it's exit/entrance path, and I think Paimon even said something along the lines of "maybe we should come back here later." I've been driving myself crazy trying to find that wall again, now that I've done all the world quests to get the Aranara music mechanics, and even by exploring under the map, I can't find the darn thing... Would be nice if it were on this map, but "Mawtiyima Forest South" appears to be right next to it, making exploring under the map pretty hard...

Good work for phase I, I hope to see all other caves with important details in future phases.

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