@shensley , Thank you for pointing out that the DaisyDuino library is the one that must be installed to use properly.
@Deeek777 , I strongly recommend a walk through the vMicro tutorials. I balked at first and then I gave in and did a cursory review that gave me at least 90% of the answers I was looking for.
incase anyone else needs to update their GPIO code after the v8.0.0 update which uses the pin structs with port / number format. the assignments from MCU pins (D0, D1, D2 etc) to (PORTB, 12) are in the daisy_seed.h header file line 198
hopefully that spares you the headache of combing through the .cpp file wondering where the assignments were (in the header of course!)