On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Ricard Wanderlof wrote: > > > > I would argue that it would be better to have both options, somehow. I.e. > > active sensing is mostly a nuisance, but I can imagine occasions > > (analyzing the output from a sequencer perhaps) where one would want to > > keep the rest of the real time messages. > > I can imagine this too, and even more complex filters. > > But the amidi tool is designed to be simple, and works on the lowest > level, with raw MIDI bytes. This makes it appropriate to handle SysEx > stuff and to debug low-level hardware problems, but when you care about > the semantics of the messages, you should use a higher-level tool, such > as aseqdump. > > Filtering out clock messages serves an actual need. But I am not > willing to add complexity for a problem that is, at the moment, nothing > but a figment of our imaginations. My argument is really that currently amidi has an option for filtering out active sensing, which has probably been added as it serves a useful purpose in its own right. The patch replaces that filter with one that filters out everything from F8 (clock) and up, I think it would be better to keep the existing option, and add a new one, rather than to essentially change the meaning of the existing option. I agree that more advanced filtering should be left to another application. /Ricard -- Ricard Wolf Wanderlöf ricardw(at)axis.com Axis Communications AB, Lund, Sweden www.axis.com Phone +46 46 272 2016 Fax +46 46 13 61 30 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
