Ricard Wanderlof wrote: > 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 consider this change a bug fix; I just forgot about clock messages when I originally impemented the filter. > 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. That would be a new feature. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
