Shruti Laya5.13 - App Store

Shruti-Laya is a Carnatic music practice companion. Three independent,
perfectly phase-locked voices - tanpura, mrudangam, and manjira - play
together against the tala grid you choose, for steady, musical
accompaniment any time.

TANPURA DRONE
. Choose your tonic (Sa) across a wide range and the supporting string -
pancham (Pa), madhyama (Ma), nishada (Ni), or upper Sa.
. Adjust pluck rate and volume.

MRUDANGAM
. Tala-driven stroke playback with adjustable tempo (40-150 BPM).
. Optional pattern variations for a more lifelike accompaniment.

MANJIRA
. Cymbal strokes on every beat, on claps, on sam, or off.

PICK YOUR TALA
. All seven Suladi Sapta Talas - Dhruva, Matya, Rupaka, Jhampa, Triputa,
Ata, Eka.
. Set jaati and gati/nadai - Tisra, Chatusra, Khanda, Misra, Sankeerna -
plus a kalai multiplier. (Adi tala = Triputa with Chatusra jaati.)

BUILT-IN TUNER (new)
. Tune your voice or instrument to your selected tonic.
. Live swara name and a sharp/flat cents bar, right in the display.

Practice-friendly: pause and resume from the lock screen and Control
Center, and the drone keeps playing when the screen sleeps. Works on
iPhone and iPad.

NOTE: The Tuner feature uses the microphone to detect the pitch of the user's
voice or instrument and show how it compares to the selected tonic. Tap
"Tuner" above the on-screen display to try it; the app requests microphone
permission on first use. No audio is recorded, stored, or transmitted.

Version History - Double-speed strokes are now possible. StrokeSpec.matraOffset changed from Int to Double, so a stroke can land between two matras (e.g. 24.5). adiCadence's beats 7–8 now play at double density (8 strokes instead of 4) as a worked example.
- Cadence plays more often. The Mrudangam variation phrase length dropped from 8 avartanas to 2, so the cadence-into-sam now shows up every other avartana instead of every 8th. (Trade-off: the other two Adi variations — "Ornamented fingers" and "Ta dhin dhin na" — no longer get a turn, since the only non-base slot is now always claimed by the cadence.)

Rhythm count-in (new feature)
- Pressing Rhythm Play now always plays a 4-click count-in before the avartana starts — and always starts fresh at sam, never mid-cycle from wherever a quick pause/resume left off.
- The LCD (both the small always-on display and the full-screen Performance LCD) shows 4 dots during the count-in instead of a confusing "beat 1": one dot disappears per click, and a "GET READY" label appears in bright yellow.
- The count-in uses the non-clap tick sound, so it doesn't get confused with the actual clap on sam.
- Under the hood, several correctness passes: the dots now track the same audio clock the clicks are scheduled on (so they can never drift out of sync), and a stale-engine-anchor bug that occasionally made the avartana restart at a random beat after a stop/start is fixed. 5.13 Jul 9 Few enhancements. 5.03 Jun 23 Minor improvements 5.02 Jun 20 - Lock screen and Control Center now show play/pause controls for the drone.
- The Tuner now exits cleanly if you switch away or lock the screen, so
playback returns to normal automatically.
- Refreshed app icon. 5.01 Jun 15 New in 5.0 — Built-in Tuner

Tune your voice or instrument to the same Sa your tanpura is playing,
without leaving the app.

• Tap "Tuner" above the display to start. It listens through the
microphone and shows the detected swara plus a sharp/flat cents bar
right inside the LCD.
• It tunes against your currently selected tonic, so what you hear and
what you tune to always match.
• Works with or without headphones — with no headphones, the rhythm
pauses and the tanpura drops to a soft reference level so the mic
hears you, not the app.

Also in this release:
• Refreshed mrudangam stroke samples for a cleaner, more natural tone.
• Stability and audio-engine fixes.
• Pause and resume the drone right from the lock screen and Control Center. 5.0 Jun 12 What's New

- Color themes — choose Saffron & Maroon (default), Indigo Night, Teal Sea, Rose & Plum, or Classic in Settings. Refreshed colors
with better contrast in Dark Mode.
- Landscape layout — a roomy two-column view: Tanpura and Rhythm on the left; tonic display, Volume, and playback on the right.
- Now on iPad, and supports iOS 15 and later, so it runs on more devices.
- Smooth fades — voices gently fade in and out when you start or stop them.

Improvements

- Set volumes before you play — adjust Tanpura, Mrudangam, and Manjira levels up front.
- Keeps playing through the mic — the Tanpura no longer cuts out when another app uses the microphone (e.g., when you record
yourself practicing).
- Default tonic is now G.

Fixes

- Fixed a tuning issue where the drone could sound slightly flat after another app used audio.
- Playback now recovers automatically after interruptions (calls, Siri, alarms); unplugging headphones pauses instead of blasting
through the speaker. 4.01 Jun 3 UI clean up. Added missing Talas 4.0 Jun 2 Icon update 3.1 Jan 26 Updated Tamburi and Majira sound. 3.00 Jan 5 - Remember previous settings for each Tala (Jathi, Nadai, Tempo)
- Volume settings are easier to select compared to pop-up list before
- Jathi and Nadai now show count 2.10 03/11/2023 Minor fixes 2.09 11/10/2021 Fixed loss of tala sound after app goes to background. 2.08 10/27/2021 - Fixed Tala sounds. It was muted by mistake. 2.07 10/18/2021 - Improved Tala sounds.
- Nadai was confusing to several testers. Removed temporarily. Will re-introduce in a future release. 2.06 10/11/2021 - Rupaka Tala added. 2.05 10/09/2021 - Tambura 'low volume' issue has been fixed.
- Tala volume has been slightly increased. 2.04 10/07/2021 - Ability to increase or decrease tambura speed
- Bigger beat counter and Shruti display.
- Normal speed button between to quickly come to medium tambura speed. 2.03 09/20/2021 - App now has selection of SPS, SMS and SNS.
- You can also turn the P, M, N string OFF
- Khanda Chapu and Mishra Chapu tala now have beat pattern commonly used.
- Main beat vs Jathi beats have different sounds. 2.02 09/14/2021 - Playing Tambura and Tala sounds now possible when 'Silent Mode' is ON. 2.01 09/13/2021 Completely re-done Tambura and Tala. Preliminary support for Nadai supported.

More fixes and features coming soon. 2.0 09/12/2021 - Improved Tambura sound.
- Performance improvements.
- Shruthi config takes effect immediately now. 1.5 02/15/2020 - Updated AppIcon to indicate what the App does. 1.4 02/11/2020 - Fixed crash reported by a test user.
- Adjusted the Sruthi(drone) sound per suggestions from a music teacher. 1.3 02/04/2020 1.2 02/01/2020