Need help with wireless Bluetooth low energy MIDI

[John]

I'm a wireless novice, but have electronics experience.

I'm looking to add bluetooth low energy communication from a battery powered MIDI controller to a Macbook Air (or other BTLE compliant laptop). The device will always be less than 10 feet from the laptop.

Has anybody worked on this using Nordic parts (maybe nRF8001 starter kit)?
I'm unclear on how to package the data on the transmit end, and how to translate the data to something usable by audio software (MIDI input) on the receive end.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[TIE Fighter]

Can you use the lightblue application that is available for OS X to check if it can see your shield, I assume you have checked that your Macbook air supports Bluetooth 4.0. OS X natively supports Bluetooth low energy and the same APIs as iOS are available.

An example application for OS X is here

You can use the Bluetooth low energy SDK for Arduino in devzone.nordicsemi.com/arduino , temperature/thermometer example to be used with the shield.