Scale exercises: No D# harmonic and melodic minor?

[trickybilly]

Hello,

In scale exercises there is the F# major scale, but the corresponding D# harmonic and melodic minor scales are missing. Is this a mistake?

[Bavi_H]

It looks like the minor scales starting on D♯/E♭ use the key signature of E♭ minor (6 flats, the same key signature as G♭ major).

If you would prefer them to use the key signature of D♯ minor (6 sharps, the same key signature as F♯ major), maybe you can extract a copy of the minor scale MIDI files embedded in Synthesia, use a MIDI sequencer to change the key signature, then open your new modified MIDI files in Synthesia when you want to practice minor scales.

To extract the MIDI files of the built-in songs embedded in Synthesia:

Spoiler:

On Windows, you can install 7-Zip, then
1. Right-click on Synthesia.exe and choose Open Archive.
2. Go into the .rsrc folder, then go into the SONGS folder.
3. Right-click on MUSIC and choose Open Inside.

On Mac, you can
1. Go to your Applications folder.
2. Right-click on the Synthesia app and choose "Show Package Contents".
3. If you look around in there, you will find a music.zip file that contains MIDI files for all of Synthesia's internal songs. You can copy that file to another location to look at it. Be careful not to modify anything inside of the Synthesia app package contents as that might mess up Synthesia.

[trickybilly]

Thank you so much. You have helped a lot