[PLZ HELP] MIDI over USB with Arduino

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Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you so much for clicking on this, any help i can get is extremely thanked for.

I am an artist currently studying in chicago that has had some interest as of recently to build my own MIDI controller to be used in sound interactive performances and also to get familiar with building software/hardware on my own.

I have very RUDIMENTARY knowledge on how to code and how to use the arduino (so far no success on my own, which is why i am here).

I am trying to follow this tutorial i found while on the web, I was able to build and test the circuit and run it while getting a response in HAIRLESS MIDI, confirming that everything plug in well (at the least), BUT when i went to check in the serial port, only question marks were shown when pressing any of the buttons,
also this was showing up in hairless midi:

I am planning on scaling up into something like this but with a different form factor.

I have one week from today to complete this project, so time sensitivity is something to deffinately take into consideration.

AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING THIS <3

I ask you to please point me in the right direction, and post any resources you know that could facilitate this for me, even if i have to divert from using an arduino, i must get this built by next week.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

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BUT when i went to check in the serial port, only question marks were shown when pressing any of the buttons,

That is only to be expected, the serial monitor in the IDE can only show ASCII characters so MIDI messages are not displayed correctly.

It also looks like you have not set up the baud rate in the hairless configuration to match what you have set up in the Arduino, these must be the same

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Grumpy_Mike:
That is only to be expected, the serial monitor in the IDE can only show ASCII characters so MIDI messages are not displayed correctly.

It also looks like you have not set up the baud rate in the hairless configuration to match what you have set up in the Arduino, these must be the same

Thank you so much for your reply,
i changed the baud rate to match hairless MIDI and i got some MIDI messages to appear!!!!

some progress, now its about getting a full understanding of digitalWrite and digitalRead so i can use pushbuttons to send those messages,
any ideas on this?

thank you

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Look at the basic examples in the IDE under the files menu, there is a digital read and write example.