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 v3.3.1

• 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