Benn Jordan made a video about midinous a year ago where he explains that the author, Nornec who is a music producer, liked Nodal so much but wanted improvements so direly they just learnt to program and developed modinous [1].
So yes, it’s completely inspired by nodal and the research papers which were published about it. It basically aims to be a better nodal in a lot of way. Also great origin story.
https://nodalmusic.com/
I used to play with an earlier version of Nodal, great for someone that has an ear for music but no formal training. Also, Brian Eno.