Thanks a lot for the advice!
I've now managed to get most of the settings I need to play an exercise, also showing the Angolsaxon note names instead of the solfege. However, the standard violin tuning is an octave lower than the normal violin tuning and the sound file that plays during exercises is ...

I downloaded the trial version of EarMaster Pro 6 to test whether it would be suitable to use with my violin students.
I set up the instrument as violin and it works beautifully with picking up the sound of the violin with the melody sight reading part, but when I tried out the melody dictation ...