SwarShala is a wonderful tool for anyone interested in Indian classical music, whether beginner or advanced, by providing means of learning, practicing and composing this style of music.

Such a user will be able to create fully customized practice sessions with the required instruments, cycles, pitch, tempo, acceleration, etc... and select them to be played at wish.

World music composers will also acknowledge SwarShala as the best tool to create tracks of most Indian instruments for their compositions. Version 3.0 provides them with a Tracks view on which they can sequence rhythmic/melodic components to create long tracks which can then be exported as wave or MIDI files. Also those who are more familiar with the western notation will be able to switch to a standard Piano Roll view.

Changes in v3.3.2

• Corrected a bug that was sometimes crashing SwarShala when playback reached the end of the composition after dragging an item into it.
• Corrected a bug that was desynchronizing the beat count in Practice pane after a certain time.
• Corrected a problem where screen size was not retained properly across sessions.
• Restored reverb settings in Preferences > Playback tab.
• Fixed a crash when dragging a drum loop into a track of a drum with different strokes.
• Tracks set on channel 9 were not playing any sound.
• A new “AudioTrailMS” setting can be added to the resources/SwarShala.properties file to define the nr of milliseconds to add at the end of an exported audio file. Default value is 1000 (1 second) to capture trailing sound. Setting it to 0 doesn’t add any trailing space.
• Various other bugs fixed

Changes in v3.3.1

• New beat & bars count view
• Better Practice Pane playback
• Improved overall playback (more reactive)
• Rhythmic/melodic loops no longer pause if the other instrument cycle is not of the same nr of beats
• Fixed drag & drop of tree item as a MIDI loop (was not working on certain software)
• Display bars and sam in Sequence view when defined for an item
• New “Select cells at Beat/Bar” options for globally adjusting specific cells.
• Improved cell resizing through drag & drop of border
• Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V now also work for selecting copy/pasting cell ranges
• Rearranged Preferences dialog into tabbed panes
• Fixed problem where Product Key was not retained across sessions
• Included instructions for adding iShala content into the user manual
• Various usability improvements