[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] amidi: ignore not only Active Sensing but all System Real-Time messages

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, Clemens Ladisch wrote:

> By default, amidi ignores Active Sensing messages because they are sent
> by many devices in the background and would only interfere with the
> actual messages that amidi is supposed to capture.  However, there are
> also devices that send Clock messages with the same problem, so it is
> a better idea to filter out all System Real-Time messages.

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.

/Ricard
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