Midi into Arduino From Ableton Live

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Hey, complete noob here,

I am trying, with no avail, to have Ableton send midi data to an arduino and then triggering solenoids with this midi signal.

I am using this library

Arduino Playground - MIDILibrary.

I have read so much about how I might so this. can someone take me through the programming steps to make mu sarduino sketch read midi from an outside sequencer?

Do I need to use newsoftserial to then read the midi data in the serial monitor?

Thanks

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The purpose of this library is not to make a big synthetizer out of an Arduino board, the application remains yours.

Or synthesizer, either.

I am using this library

In what sketch? The library alone won't do all the work. You still need to create an instance of the class and call the appropriate methods at the appropriate time, in the appropriate order.