I'm using the ruse to get round the funny feature where Interval Recognition with the melodic setting holds down the sustain pedal so you get the interval played harmonically as well, by using the xylophone patch.
But...the xylophone patch (i think that's the term for it) on my Win7 pc is out of ...

thanks, I found that.

I am particularly interested in improving my ear in the bass range. How do you get the questions under Melodic Dictation to be in this range only?

Thanks for getting back to me. Yes I have it set at an octave, but my questions are 1) why only one octave? what about 9ths etc?
2) Even with max interval set at one octave in all the questions I've done, i'm getting a vast majority of 2nd/3rds, a spinkling of 4ths, 5ths and no 6ths, 7ths? (I've ...

I'm no super ear, but whilst doing the melodic dication I notice that the max ambit is an octave, and when I have this setting up to that, most of the intervals in the questions are in the minor2-minor3 category with a sprinkling of 4ths and 5ths. I've tried creating a custom scale (to try to cheat ...