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Hello! Happy owner of a Nome II here. Its been a stellar master clock in my studio and live. Thanks Simon for the great work.

I have two questions about the Midi Forwarding capabilities and would be thrilled with any help y'all can provide. I've seen in the manual that the Nome II can forward midi messages that it receives from a DAW and will integrate them into its midi outputs along with the midi clock signal. Knowing this, my two questions are:

1) Can it perform this same function with midi messages from a midi controller (not a DAW)? So far, I have not found success with this. My setup is:
- Nome is master clock
- Midi controller sending Note On message to the Nome via USB on midi channel 12
- Nome's Midi Out 1 is connected (via Kenton USB midi host because ) to an OP-1 Field, which is set to receive midi note information on channel 12.
- OP-1F is correctly receiving clock from the Nome, but not the Note On message.
- I've confirmed that the Note On functionality of the midi controller works when connected directly to the OP-1F.

If this can be done, then my second question is:

2) Will the Nome quantize the timing of the message to its clock before outputting? I.e. will the Note On message arrive at the OP-1F in sync with the midi clock from the Nome?

Thanks again for reading!

Hi

Thanks for the nice words, and welcome to the forums!

biggiebiggie11 wrote: ↑03 Jan 2026, 05:58 1) Can it perform this same function with midi messages from a midi controller (not a DAW)?

Technically yes (and no need to send on Channel 12, any channel will work), but the issue is they have to be sent to the 2nd or 3rd USB-MIDI interface. Using a computer you can easily select which USB-MIDI interface to send the messages to, while most MIDI to USB Host adapters will only send to the first interface (which in the Nome's case is the "Commands" interface). See the list of interfaces in the Nome Manual, section 5.
Maybe the larger hardware MIDI hub like the mioXL or the M8U can do that - I'm not sure. Otherwise if you can send the MIDI through a computer you can use a routing software to send from one interface (for example a MIDI port on your audio sound card) to another (the correct Nome interface). The PocketMIDI application can do that, and it's free.

biggiebiggie11 wrote: ↑03 Jan 2026, 05:58 2) Will the Nome quantize the timing of the message to its clock before outputting? I.e. will the Note On message arrive at the OP-1F in sync with the midi clock from the Nome?

This is not the case at the moment, the MIDI messages are simply "forwarded" when they are received. But that would be a great feature! The challenges would be:

1. How to know which note to quantize to? Especially if the notes arrive with a lot of delay, they might be a lot closer to the next 8th or 16th note than the note they should be quantized to
2. The notes will almost always arrive "later" than the clock, especially if the Nome is sync'ed to a DAW via U-SYNC with a negative delay, in this case it will not be possible to send the notes "back in time"!

Sending the notes over U-SYNC instead of traditional USB-MIDI would solve both those problems (which is on the pipeline for U-SYNC 2.0), but this would not be possible without a computer and a DAW.

Got it. Thank you for the thorough reply, Simon! I very much appreciate it.

Looking forward to whatever else you've got in store for the Nome