Galactiv8 Ultimate MIDI Pack

A complete package of over 600,000+ MIDI files.

Exploring many scales in every key:

Multiple MIDI file types:

• Arpeggios
• Bass lines
• Chords
• Melodies
• Progressions
• Stabs
• Alternate voicings

Drag and drop these MIDI files into your DAW for super quick creation of progressions.

Scales included:

• Aeolian (Natural Minor)
• Altered Scale
• Arabic Maqam
• Augmented
• Bebop Dominant
• Bebop Major
• Blues
• Chromatic
• Diminished
• Dorian
• Double Harmonic
• Enigmatic
• Gypsy
• Harmonic Minor
• Hirajoshi
• Hungarian Minor
• In Sen
• lonian (Major)
• Iwato
• Locrian
• Lydian
• Lydian Dominant
• Major Blues
• Major Pentatonic
• Melodic Minor
• Minor Pentatonic
• Mixolydian
• Neapolitan Major
• Neapolitan Minor
• Persian
• Phrygian
• Phrygian Dominant
• Prometheus
• Spanish
• Ukrainian
• Whole Tone

Includes unique signature variations that highlight the cultural vibe / identity of the exotic scales. 

Includes a starter pack for beginners and the full pack for more advanced progressions. 

What Makes This Pack Unique?
 

Most MIDI packs give you notes. This one gives you music that
knows where it comes from.
 
Every file in this pack was generated by an engine built on
documented music research - from a 19th-century Japanese
treatise to Arabic maqam theory to flamenco performance
practice - and every musical claim behind it is written down,
sourced, and explained in the "About this scale" guide inside
each folder.
 
Here is what that means in practice.
 
 

1. Melodies That Rise And Fall Differently - On Purpose

Many of the world's scales are not the same going up as they
are coming down. The melodic minor is the famous example, but
the same is true of Japanese koto scales, Maqam Hijaz Kar,
flamenco's Spanish Phrygian, and Verdi's enigmatic scale.
 
Eleven scales in this pack are DIRECTION-AWARE: when a melody
or arpeggio climbs, it uses the scale's ascending form; when it
falls, it uses the descending form. Your DAW has never done
this. Almost no MIDI pack ever has.
 
A few examples:
  - Melodic Minor rises with a raised 6th and 7th and falls
    back into natural minor -- exactly as classical practice
    prescribes.
  - The Spanish scale rises with a bright major third and falls
    with a dark minor third: the flamenco "mixed thirds" that
    mirror the Andalusian cadence.
  - In Sen, Hirajoshi and Iwato follow the ascending and
    descending forms documented in Uehara Rokushiro's 1895
    study of Japanese melody -- including his rule that the two
    alternate tones never sound back to back.
  - Arabic Maqam (Hijaz Kar) lowers its 7th on the way down,
    as maqam performance practice expects.
 
Where the research said "this tradition's directionality is
about phrasing or ornament, not different notes" (blues,
harmonic minor, Hungarian minor, and others), we did NOT force
it -- those scales stay honest.
 
 

2. Melodies Built Like Hooks, Not Scale Exercises

Every melody follows a real phrase plan: a motif is STATED,
then ANSWERED with a varied ending, then CONTRASTED, then
RESTATED -- and every phrase closes with a proper cadence.
That call-and-answer repetition is the oldest songwriting
trick there is, and it is why these melodies sound intentional
instead of wandering.
 
The shapes themselves respond to each progression's mood:
building progressions climb, melancholy ones fall, and the
long-form 8/16/32-bar arcs cadence at the end of every section.
 
 

3. Cultural Phrasing, Not Just Cultural Notes

Scales carry their tradition's sense of phrase:
  - Maqam and flamenco melodies open high and descend -- the
    characteristic sayr of Hijaz Kar and the falling gesture of
    the Andalusian cadence.
  - Japanese scales play sparser lines that orbit and land on
    the two "nuclear tones" of tetrachord theory.
  - Persian phrases end with a forud -- the descending cadence
    onto the tonic that defines dastgah performance.
  - Bebop scales favor descending runs, and their extra passing
    tone appears only on the way down, exactly as bebop
    pedagogy teaches it.
  - Scales with a signature color tone (Phrygian Dominant,
    Double Harmonic, Hungarian Minor and family) get idiomatic
    ornament figures -- turns and leans, not repeated notes.
 
 

4. Played Dynamics, Producer-Friendly Grid

Melodies, arpeggios, basslines and stabs carry real per-note
velocities: downbeats lean harder, melodic peaks swell, phrase
endings breathe, subdued versions play soft and close, intense
versions hit wide and hard.
 
Two deliberate exceptions, for your benefit:
  - Timing is NEVER humanized. Everything sits perfectly on the
    grid, ready for your own groove and swing settings.
  - Block chord progressions and voicings keep flat velocity
    and full-bar holds -- they are raw material for YOUR
    performance, not ours.
 
 

5. Basslines That Know The Style

Six bass behaviors, chosen by the scale's culture and the
progression's mood: jazz scales get a walking bass with
chromatic approach notes into every chord change; flamenco and
maqam scales get a grounded pulse; builds pump driving eighths;
intense versions bounce octaves; calm moods hold a deep root.
 
 

6. It Teaches While It Delivers

Every scale folder contains "About this scale.txt":
  - one plain-language line if you are new to theory,
  - one theory line if you are not,
  - the exact notes in your chosen key,
  - and, for direction-aware scales, both forms spelled out
    with the tradition they come from and how firmly the rule
    is documented (strict rule / strong convention / soft
    preference).
 
We are honest about limits, too: real maqam and dastgah
performance uses microtones that standard MIDI cannot carry.
Those folders say so, and tell you what to listen for.
 
 

7. Two Ways In

FULL PACK: 36 scales x 12 keys x 46 progressions -- every
voicing, arpeggio pattern, triplet feel, and signature variant.
 
STARTER PACK: one key (C), 12 essential scales, the single best
progression for each mood, core files only. Small enough to
explore in an afternoon, musical enough to finish a track with.
 
Filenames carry their mood tags, every file embeds its
description in the MIDI itself, and everything is deterministic
-- the same settings always produce the same pack, so you can
rely on what you heard yesterday.
 
 

Every progression, in every scale, in every key. Researched,
sourced, and generated with the rules the music itself asks
for.

Download the zip files and explore the pack instantly. 

Works in any DAW that supports MIDI files. 

LARGE FILE - MAY TAKE A WHILE TO UNZIP - STORING ON DROPBOX TAKES A LONG TIME TO SYNC DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF SMALL FILES (630,000+ files)