Alankaars vs Swarmandal

Start building Alankaars in 3 easy steps! For music learners and enthusiasts, Alankars is a place to explore, build and practice new musical patterns to help you improve your musical ability and fluency. You can now save and share your favourite Alankaars. This app gives you the ability to create patterns in both Indian Classical and Western notation systems. Follow these three simple steps to start creating alankaras in seconds! 1. Select a scale (a Thaat or mode or custom scale) 2. Select your vocal/instrument's range 3. Start building your pattern ... this will generate both the ascending and descending pattern! Get practicing An Alankar (alankara, alankaram) or Palta used in Hindustani, Carnatic classical music is a pattern of musical decoration a musician or vocalist creates in a progression of swaras (or notes). Features to look out for in upcoming releases: - Playback to play along with your alankaar creations

Swarmandal is a Hindustani classical music instrument app that brings the swarmandal and tanpura to your iPhone and iPad. * Swarmandal - Pluck individual strings to play swars across one, two, or three octaves. Each string is sampled from a real swarmandal and pitch-shifted to your chosen Sa, so the instrument always sounds authentic, in any key. * Tanpura - Toggle a continuous tanpura (drone) loop as a harmonic foundation for practice or performance. Adjust the volume to blend it under your playing. * Thaat & Raag Modes - Choose from all 10 thaats of Hindustani music, or switch to Raag Mode to explore individual raags. In Raag Mode, strings are coloured to show which notes belong to the aaroh (ascending) and avroh (descending) of the raag. Play the pakad, aaroha, or avroha with a single swipe. * Design custom layouts - Create a completely customised string layout that supports split strings (same swar but different variant for aaroh vs. avroh). * Shruti support - Use microtones for raags and custom layouts. * SmartPlay - Swipe across the strings to play a phrase. SmartPlay detects your direction and velocity, then continues the sequence automatically, decelerating naturally as it reaches the end. * Choose Your Sa - Set Sa anywhere from G#2 to A#3 across multiple octaves. The app reloads all sounds for the new key instantly, and the tanpura follows automatically.