iTanpura - Tanpura Player

HIGHLIGHTS

The iTanpura - Tanpura Player is now available for $14.99 for both iPhone and iPad owners.The application is designed for use in English language. It weighs in at only 10MB to download. It is highly advisable to have the latest app version installed so that you don`t miss out on the fresh new features and improvements. The current app version 7.9.9 has been released on 2014-11-24. The Apple Store includes a very useful feature that will check if your device and iOS version are both compatible with the app. Most iPhone and iPad are compatible. Here is the app`s compatibility information: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
More Info: Find more info about iTanpura - Tanpura Player in Prasad Upasani`s Official Website : http://upasani.org/iTanpura

An excellent sounding tanpura They seem to have thought of everything Tuning can be changed both by cents and more traditional means You basically get 2 tanpura each with 2 strings all can be set differently and played at the same time if desired Ability for user presets thank you L R pan Loops can be varied by minutes or not at all continuous I patch this out of my iPhone and into my Roland and then in to DAW Works great And oh you can find the master volume under the Harp icon                     Excellent Edward Piercy

This app has saved me several times when I was asked to sing and didn t have a sruthi box Before this app i use to have hard time singing at my pitch during an adhoc request Very useful convenient and life saver for singers I would highly recommend it I have tried using other apps but none as effective                     Very useful and convenient SSRIVATSAN

Never really written a review for an app before thought this app was well worthy for it One of the best apps I ve ever purchased Hands down                     Excellent app in my opinion TJ Floyd

Very very useful app Sometimes it sounds a little sharp but I love the app Portability is a big big plus without having to lug the sruti box Still have to learn some of the functionality but overall a great app                     Love the app Music lover Charlotte

It stopped my sound system and suddenly stops working I have been having issues with this app for months and now my sound system doesn t even work Never buy it it s a waste         Fails Bk is a awesome game !!!!

I had iTanpura Lite for a couple of days before I upgraded to the full version glad I did What an amazingly well thought out design I love this app and use it all the time a perfect accompaniment for practicing my Tablas and when I get together with Sitar players the closest you ll ever come to a live Tanpura player                     great app taylormadeaudio

This is truely great app My old electronic tanpura broke so I tried it out The quality of sound is truely close to the real thing The swarmandal is great I recommend this app to anyone who needs to practice music                     Great app for accompaniment Grgupte

This is an amazing app for Indial classiscal music learners and professionals Thanks for creating such a wonderful app The inclusion of sruthi box helps young leaners to stick to the swaras when they do the alapana I would appreciate very much if you could also please and please and please include the carnatic notes in the sruthi If possible please also provide some presets for carnatic ragas My 11yr old daughter became crazy of these presets and overall with the app since I purchased it                     Amazing app sendiv

Sounds exactly like a real tanpura Absolutely lovely                     Beautiful sound 17costu29

The sound of the tanpura is so pure and it gives the most accurate shruti I have ever heard                     Ms sirichills

Thanks to Prasad Upasani for making continuous improvements One of the best                     Have been using it for few years Fabulous app RedmondParent

Love this app Use it nearly everyday Thank you                     Dance instructor Saru J

I tried the free app for a few months and then got the full app I love the presets they make singing in a particular raga so much easier Also the sound is very good given the middle of the road electronics of the iPhone                 Great app for singers of classical based compositions RAJ_DETROIT

A portable Shruthi box Best Sound                     AWESOME Vipersnake

This is awesome Best sound coming out of an electronic I use it wherever I go It is a very useful app                 iTampura GauthamS

It is absolutely great Must get for singers You can play it whenever and wherever Great                     Itanpura Naman Jain

UPDATE Now there are additional components The one I used instantly is the extremely accurate tuner I tuned my guitar and it is easy to read and to tune Can also tune exactly to the tamboura I checked it to my other tuners and of course it is precise Actually this is one of the best made apps I have and I have over 90 This truly is a most exquisite and well conceived and functional app The tanpura sounds like the authentic instrument we play in our kirtans The other instruments are luxurious layers of sound They play so harmoniously together It took me about 10 or 15 minutes to find my first great sound I put the auto loop on and it took me into meditation Thank you Sir for this valuable tool                     WHAT A BEAUTIFUL APP Cosmo tc

Couldn t resist the urge to write a review abiut this beautiful piece of software Very handy for students who does not have a shruthibox Connect your ipod to an external speaker and it will sound as good as a RADEL I rate it 5 stars                     No longer need a shruthi box babilu

I like the tone and voice of it I just love playing and listening to it Continuous updates are also very useful More raga presets would be appreciated                 Musician Rasriya

This has been one of my most used apps since I bought an iPhone and in fact one of the main reasons I got an iPhone in the first place Some of the things I love about it Awesome sound Really anyone who doesn t like the sound doesn t know what good tanpura sound is or most likely needs better speakers The tanpura sound is just heavenly and the the swar mandal sound gives it that extra dimension When I have two tanpuras surpeti and swar mandal playing through my Bose speakers the effect is just beautiful The presets feature is amazing I love that I can just pick my raag and start singing and if my raag isn t there then I can just tune everything the way I want and save my own presets The new multi tasking is really well implemented and lets me keep the tanpuras playing in the background while I access my music notes in another app Love to be able to instantly use the tuner to tune it to a harmonium during a concert This is a wonderfully innovative and useful feature I have not seen anywhere else                     Fantastic feature amazing sound gowdafamily

Don t get wrong I m not saying this is not a recommended app but based in reviews u expected it to substitute my real tambura or my Radel It doesn t I m a professional Carnatic vocalist and I was really looking forward for an app like this so that I could use it in concerts Although i m still impressed with the software part of the app the tonal quality is just not good enough to make it as my primary tambura source When you ve done an app as good as this one and paying as much also I really expected it to have uncompromising tonal quality Just because it is not as good as it could have been I cannot rate this beyond 3 stars which makes it a novelty item And it s too pricey for a non serious app             NOT Professional Grade Sound Quality Manu SF

A billion billion Thanks for this wonderful app It has changed the way I perform However now a days after I got the update the app suddenly exits when I try to adjust the volume or panning it s quite frustrating when this happens on stage Is there a way this could be rectified                 But Vishwadasa

I use this app every day to play long tones on the trumpet This drone is the best I ve ever found for both intonation and tone quality because the drone has so many overtones above the fundamental all perfectly in tune so you can match pure intervals above the drone                     Not just for Indian music intonationpractice

This is a great sounding easy to use ap Almost makes the Raagini obsolete Samples are great and the many tuning options are invaluable Both manual and presets allow proper tuning for different ragas The swar mandal is pretty good though not quite as convincing as the tamboura Well worth the cost                     Great ap Dharmadas

This is by far the best electronic sound of the Tanpura I have personally experienced I had been wanting to buy a real tanpura tambura in South India for sometime now and after buying this app I decided to postpone my purchase I would readily recommend this application to any classical indian music lover It is a bit pricier than some of the other generic music apps This is not a generic music app This is a serious effort to bring out the best for everyone Kudos to Prasad and his team                     iTanpura tamburasruthi

This is an excellent app Probably better than any electronic tanpura available in India But I have a suggestion to make Enable multitasking facility now that the new iPhone OS has come and make it available in the upgrade                 Excellent electronic tanpura Harsha Nagarajan

The sound is fantastic but I am giving this 3 stars instead or 5 because I cannot multitask I would like this app to run in the background while I check email etc Now with ios 4 please enable multitasking             Mrs Paddyrags

Ever since I purchased this app My Raagini Digital has been collecting dust This is a pleasant surprise                     Rich lovely sound HAUSMANN

Excellent app Sound quality is superb Similar software costs 100s or dollars but this has better sound quality And thanks a million for all the updates The swarmandal perfect the tuner perfect It helped me finally realize what s the right pitch for a swar Thanks                     Excellent app perfect for riyaz anytime icmNY

I have played sitar professionally for 22 years shehnai for 9 years I just used the app for the 1st time the app performed wonderfully Any chance of a tavil app Peace Love                     Great app Shaadikishehnai.com

This is my favorite app Extremely useful A bit over priced but that is fine Keep improving it By the way when are u coming up with i tabla Waiting Come on At least the basic thekas to start with                     Very good app Praveen chaddha

Get this app Practice your ragas and skip over the next few incarnations This things sounds so nice you ll be at home evolving and not running around doing things to foul your karma Excellent sound and inviting to use                     Get evolved ElectricelloMan

With it s flexibility of on the fly tuning capabilities I see this app as a permanent member for future recordings Fantastic                     Vital app for composers All Music World

I m a long time student of Indian classical music I have a Raagini electronic tanpura like many folks but a there are times when it s too bulky to pack along with my instrument and b there are limited options on it for alternate tunings to the non Sa string just Pa Ma and Ni THIS on the other hand gives you all the tempo tuning and fine tuning features of a Raagini x 2 TWO tanpuras pan able in stereo with the option of any other note for the non Sa With the latest version the two tanpuras whose sample quality also is superior to the Raagini the tempos of the two can be varied relative to each other giving it a more realistic playing style as two actual players would be unlikely to be in sync and indeed would try not to be as the point with tanpura is to NOT draw attention to it with too distinct a rhythm Additionally wait there s more it slices it dices you get a tunable swarmandal surmandal with independent volume and with the latest version a surpeti Sa drone also with its own volume Prasad is equally knowedgeable in Indian music as a performer and in app development this shows through in the design it s one of the best uses of the iPhone Os s API I ve yet seen The UI is well thought out I highly recommend this app to any student or performer of Indian music                     One of the best iPhone apps I ve seen in ANY category kaimuse

Addendum to 4 5 As an iTanpura user since version 1 0 I am amazed at the frequency of updates and useful improvements ITanpura is a steal at its current price but I appreciate that it remains any easy choice for Indian musicians both student and professional and also for crossover musicians who want a superb and flexible tanpura sample and for meditators massage practitioners or even as a sleep aid although for me it would just keep me singing all night This application literally changes my life as a student practitioner of Indian music It is the application I ve been waiting for since it occurred to me that something like this might be possible on the iPhone Better than the electronic tanpuras I ve heard for 1 10th of the price And available any time in the car for instance Hard to believe but it s really a performance quality instrument If you perform music that would require a tanpura and have an iPhone or iPod Touch this application is 1000 worth the dinner out it will cost you It produces the sound of two 4 string tanpuras or one sampled from good well tuned Hemraj tanpuras with well set jawari tunable from male B to instrumental Eb an octave and a third with one cent microtuning adjustments It sounds superb through speakers or headphones and not too bad just out of the iPhone speaker The developer also seems very responsive to user input Definitely a winner                     A Professional Quality Tanpura on Your iPhone rcgordon

This is a fantastic application Sound quality is exceptional it s user friendly comes with great features and is easy to navigate I use this for my yoga classes and vocals Yoga students love the sound and you don t have to understand indian music to use this app The presets make it so easy Love it                     Not just for musicians gotbliss

This is a great device to have if your a muscian Highly recommend it                     Great app Kjaan

Thanks for making the best electronic drone to date And also for making it affordable I can only pray you all make a tabla accompaniment ap next that can change tals without losing the beat I hope you make a nice nut from this gem and keep up the good work                     Best drone ever Semrehnoraa

Prasad Upasani knows Indian music and has here created a Tanpura application that will appeal to scholars of raga new age composers those who meditate to the tanpura s relaxing voice and more This has replaced my 100 hardware Raagini I look forward to using iTanpura in my own compositions chakra and hypnosis backgrounds No scholar of Indian music myself though I do play a little sitar I find the instrument flexible and perfect for my use It is the most expensive app I ve purchased and a real bargain Congratulations to Prasad on a rare accomplishment and wonderful use of the iPhone s potential                     Simple perfect Bobbo924

This app works great Used in several concerts so far The fine tuning makes it easy to tune with the non standard harmoniums which is needed a lot of times The panning also gives a great effect especially when the first string is tuned to different notes Prasad thanks for coming up with such a wonderful product and making it easy to use                     Wonderful product Mahesh Kale

Beautiful sound with fantastic feature and all in a small mobile form factor that I can keep with me at all times makes this a must have electronic tanpura Not to mention its much cheaper than the the big shruti boxes I used to carry around And the Swar Mandal just puts it over the top                     Sounds great mus1clover

I am a vocalist and tabla player and I use iTanpura and iLehra every day I was blown away when I saw them in the first place and bought them both immediately as the first apps I purchased on my phone iTanpura has incredible sampled real tanpura sound that you can plug into any speakers or just use the phone s speakers We recorded sarod and tabla with a digital condenser recorder with the iTanpura in the background and it sounds like there is a real tanpura in the room We even had to turn the phone down without having it connected to any speakers ilehra is great for practicing and with future updates will continue to be my most heavily used app Save yourself the 300 on an electric tanpura by getting this app It s just as good maybe better                     pasasaSa Benjamin Stewart

This is a great application one that convinced me to purchase an Iphone In fact Apple should be giving the creator of this app some commission instead of the other way around The sound quality and attention to detail is simply marvelous The controls are very easy to use For instance I was able to quickly transform a pre selected Ahir Bharaiv from G to A and a C The dual Tanpura opens up a whole plethora of options With this app one can practice on the go instead of carrying a tanpura e tanpura around You can now have a music class in a car                     Fantastic BayAreaMusiclover

this is wonderful simple yet professional quality please consider making a tabla as well                     thank you zippydoo

This thing sounds incredible My sitar teacher is here from India and was so impressed that he s going to pick up an ipod touch just to have this app                     Wow tablaji22

It s hard enough finding tanpura software for the computer that is usable tunable and not priced out of this world so to have a product like this for the iPhone iPod Touch is fantastic No more portability issues no more dealing with a computer no more having to use untunable CDs Highly recommended and worth every penny                     Thank you thank you thank you jeffhrsn

Saves lugging around large machines Looking forward to tabla version                     Superb Application Obamama

The sound is very good and clear especially when having 2 tanpuras in stereo I really ask for the promised upgrade with tempo control and if possible more tuning or transposing possibilities of each tanpura separately I know this might not be in the rules of classic indian music sorry but are we not in a fusion time of all cultures nowadays Let s open our imagination and creativity I ll give it 5 after such an upgrade                 Good sound and good concept Jfantomaster