I’m a bit old-fashioned. I wrote a “scale” generator way back when so I could play a MIDI file of a Major/minor scale sequence.

These days I use “MIDIplayer X” to play my scales. The classic ‘t2mf’ is used to create the MIDI file from a shell script…

#!/bin/bash


# SCALE="C" SCALEM="a" N1=60



let N1=N1+0


let N2=N1+2


let N3=N1+4


let N4=N1+5


let N5=N1+7


let N6=N1+9


let N7=N1+11


let N8=N1+12



let NM1=N1-3


let NM2=N1-1



cat >$SCALE-$SCALEM.txt <<EOF


MFile 0 1 24


MTrk


0 Meta Text "$SCALE major scale"


0 On ch=1 n=$N1 v=64


12 On ch=1 n=$N1 v=0


24 On ch=1 n=$N2 v=64


36 On ch=1 n=$N2 v=0


48 On ch=1 n=$N3 v=64


60 On ch=1 n=$N3 v=0


72 On ch=1 n=$N4 v=64


84 On ch=1 n=$N4 v=0


96 On ch=1 n=$N5 v=64


108 On ch=1 n=$N5 v=0


120 On ch=1 n=$N6 v=64


132 On ch=1 n=$N6 v=0


144 On ch=1 n=$N7 v=64


156 On ch=1 n=$N7 v=0


168 On ch=1 n=$N8 v=64


180 On ch=1 n=$N8 v=0


190 Meta Text "$SCALEM minor scale"


200 On ch=1 n=$NM1 v=64


212 On ch=1 n=$NM1 v=0


224 On ch=1 n=$NM2 v=64


236 On ch=1 n=$NM2 v=0


248 On ch=1 n=$N1 v=64


260 On ch=1 n=$N1 v=0


272 On ch=1 n=$N2 v=64


284 On ch=1 n=$N2 v=0


296 On ch=1 n=$N3 v=64


308 On ch=1 n=$N3 v=0


320 On ch=1 n=$N4 v=64


332 On ch=1 n=$N4 v=0


344 On ch=1 n=$N5 v=64


356 On ch=1 n=$N5 v=0


368 On ch=1 n=$N6 v=64


380 On ch=1 n=$N6 v=0


392 Meta TrkEnd


TrkEnd


EOF



t2mf $SCALE-$SCALEM.txt >$SCALE-$SCALEM.mid

I assure you that weird characters in file names can be odd.

7 Mistakes Audio Engineers Make When Setting Up a Home Studio — Audio Issues : Audio Issues:

Setting up a studio can be expensive. All too often, engineers blow their entire budget on gear and forget to buy cables to hook it all up.

I found out about TS vs. TSR (balanced vs. un-balanced) cables 15 seconds in to installing by JBL LSR305 monitors. Balanced cables everywhere except for the guitar cables.

I have “little or no acoustic treatment”, but! Wall behind monitors has non-flat surface, reflections are “different”. Ceiling has coved corners, so angles are odd. Right wall has bookcase with assorted things on it. Back wall is bookcases with assorted things. Front left corner is bare. When doing room correction with ARC2 I can actually hear the corner being weird. With Sonarworks Reference I can see the odd curves in the correction model.

My speakers are isolated with yoga blocks. Fantastic stands. $10/pair. Currently using one pair per side.

No sub-woofer here. The <40 Hz response on the JBLs is enough to get me happy bass. Got rid of the sub-woofer in my TV room as well. Nothing useful there. If I want big bass I’ll just go to a club, throw the -20 dB earplugs in, and let my body be pummeled. 😉

Good tips