U-SYNC: sending MIDI Notes on time

[Simon]

Right now U-SYNC, and generally the Nome, is only used for MIDI Clock and MIDI Start/Stop.
You can send MIDI Notes to your machines either directly from your DAW or through the Nome using the MIDI Forwarding feature.

But that feature simply "forwards" the MIDI Data received, at the time it was received. In other words, it does not do anything to improve the timing of the MIDI messages sent by the DAW, which can be terrible and not in time at all with the U-SYNC timing.

For sequencers that's not a problem because the note sequence is usually in the sequencer and can be triggered with a MIDI Start message, sent perfectly on time by the Nome. But it's an issue for arpeggiators, or simply synths you want to "play" directly from MIDI Notes in your DAW.

So, with that in mind, the idea is to add the possibility for U-SYNC to send MIDI Notes as well, perfectly on time with the clock timing.

Any thoughts?
Simon

PS: there has been quite a few discussions about this, in particular @asender on this topic but also @dheeraj found a workaround using Ableton's tempo follower in that topic.

[Manu W.]

I would love to have this feature in Nome II as I have issues from time to time to get my recorded MIDI-Events in Logic in time to my analog synths and back recorded in time! It`s annoying to shift the recorded regions by hand to be right... One time the recorded audio was even before the first note (maybe happened because of Logics latency compensation).

Furthermore when a DAW-project is more filled with plugins causing latency the problem gets worse. I don´t know: is it possible that U-SYNC could also help in that case or is this a "natural" latency problem that can't be improved?

[Simon]

Thanks for your thoughts Manu!

Plugin latency should not affect this as it should be compensated by PDC (Plugin Delay Compensation) in your DAW. Check your settings
(in fact the U-SYNC plugin, in order to be able to send things on time, adds also a bit (7ms) of Plugin latency)

[MPrinsen]

This would be great!

[spdk]

Yes please, I'll have that too