About SwarShala

(click here for version 2.0)

Indian music students/lovers

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.


Fusion music composers

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/aiff or MIDI files. Also those who are more familiar with the western notation will be able to switch to a standard Piano Roll view.

Platforms

Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP

Mac OS X version 10.2 or higher (including Mac Intel)



"SwarShala is a great tool for anyone interested in Indian music. It is my privilege to enhance this world-class software with my tabla samples."

Pt. Anindo Chatterjee




Certified educational product by the
Department for Education and
Skills, England


SwarShala flavours

SwarShala 3.0 comes in various flavours:

  • Hindusthani Edition* with up to 35 North Indian instruments and a Hindusthani Tutorial

  • Carnatic Edition* with 18 South Indian instruments and a Carnatic Tutorial

  • Xtra Edition with 74 instruments from all over India and both Tutorials

These different versions can be ordered at our online shop.

* Currently only Full & Xtra Editions are available on Mac


Featured Instruments

Click here to see a list of all featured instruments and listen to a sample for each one of them.