Task

Output the 8 notes of the C major diatonic scale to the default musical sound device on the system. Specifically, pitch must be tuned to 12-tone equal temperament (12TET) with the modern standard A=440Hz.

These are the notes "C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C(1 octave higher)", or "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si/Ti, Do(1 octave higher)" on Fixed do Solfège.

For the purpose of this task, Middle C (in the case of the above tuning, around 261.63 Hz) should be used as the starting note, and any note duration is allowed.

For languages that cannot utilize a sound device, it is permissible to output to a musical score sheet (or midi file), or the task can be omitted.

c = string.char
midi = "MThd" .. c(0,0,0,6,0,0,0,1,0,96) -- header
midi = midi .. "MTrk" .. c(0,0,0,8*8+4) -- track
for _,note in ipairs{60,62,64,65,67,69,71,72} do
  midi = midi .. c(0, 0x90, note, 0x40, 0x60, 0x80, note, 0) -- notes
end
midi = midi .. c(0, 0xFF, 0x2F, 0) -- end
 
file = io.open("scale.mid", "wb")
file:write(midi)
file:close()
 
-- (optional:  hex dump to screen)
midi:gsub(".", function(c) io.write(string.format("%02X ", string.byte(c))) end)