From f74acc6e7921e82842b1c33eb7da00204c6f3039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:52:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] note to midi devs.

---
 libs/ardour/midi_ring_buffer.cc | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libs/ardour/midi_ring_buffer.cc b/libs/ardour/midi_ring_buffer.cc
index c2e040d947..7e88f5ff45 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/midi_ring_buffer.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/midi_ring_buffer.cc
@@ -165,6 +165,18 @@ MidiRingBuffer<T>::skip_to(framepos_t start)
 
 		++count;
 
+		/* TODO investigate and think:
+		 *
+		 * Does it makes sense to keep track of notes
+		 * that are skipped (because they're either too late
+		 * (underrun) or never used (read-ahead, loop) ?
+		 *
+		 * skip_to() is called on the rinbuffer between
+		 * disk and process. it seems wrong to track them
+		 * (a potential synth never sees skipped notes, either)
+		 * but there may be more to this.
+		 */
+
 		if (ev_size >= 8) {
 			this->increment_read_ptr (ev_size);
 		} else {