Sparkfun MIDI Shield

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Hello Everyone.
I am working on a project and I am in need of a little help. I have recently purchased a sparkfun MIDI shield for an arduino and the shield did not come with any paperwork on how to use it or what all it can do with it.
(link for sparkfun product: SparkFun MIDI Shield - DEV-12898 - SparkFun Electronics)

For my project I am building a "keytar" and I need my arduino to read the MIDI that is coming into the port. I have no idea how to start the code I need to read the MIDI.

Can anyone supply or help in any way with the coding I would need to read MIDI from this shield? I would greatly appreciate any help!
Thanks!

2

Did you try the sample Arduino sketch on the page you linked to?

3

I have that code however, when I try to verify the code on the arduino program, it says that a certain part of the code is invalid.
The programs reads:
void Midi_Send(byte cmd, byte data1, byte data2) {
Serial.print(cmd, BYTE);
Serial.print(data1, BYTE);
Serial.print(data2, BYTE);
}

At this point the arduino notifies me that: "The 'BYTE' keyword is no longer supported" and in the box below it reads:
"As of Arduino 1.0, the 'BYTE' keyword is no longer supported.
Please use Serial.write() instead."
How would I use that? I am unfamiliar with this type of arduino programming.

4

You put Serial.write in place of Serial.print and you miss out the coma and the word BYTE from the brackets in each of the three lines.