Shruti Box App Reviews

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update doesn't work... no sound. and crashes as a bonus

Easy to use portable Shruti Box!. I'm using this app with my iPod Touch 4g and a small battery powered bluetooth speaker. The sound is excellent! It compares quite favorably with a real wood shruti box. We use this app in our Celtic music duo with harp, hammered dulcimer, flute, bouzouki, fiddle, and concertina. You can easily configure a very pleasing drone sound with a tonic and the 5th above - - - or even add a third, if you wish. There a 5 different voices: shruti box, vocal choir, harmonium, button accordion, and organ. The sounds are rich and slightly wavering, just like a real shruti box, so you don't get a robotic sine wave generator sound. There is an option to have the sounds be an octave lower. You can switch between a tempered scale and a harmonic scale. I give this app a 5 star rating.

It Actually Works Great!. Those who dislike it simply don’t understand it. It works perfectly and has beautiful “voice” selections. The virtual Shruti box can be “pumped” by moving the volume slider up and down with one finger - actually easier than a “real” Shruti box.

Not a true Shruti sound. This is more like a synth drone. Might be better if it had some way to control vibrato or a simulation of squeezing the bellows. Doesn't quite get the sounds right either.

Lousy sound. Doesn’t sound even remotely like a Shruti Box

Almost there. I think this app, as well as the developer's harmonium app, have potential but aren't quite there yet. I think this app seems a bit more stable (in a 1s & 0s programming sense) than my experience with the harmonium, but as I said in that review I'm partially rating this higher than the current version may deserve simply because I got the impression that the app's creator is genuinely working on making the app better. One thing I think this app could really use is some type of bellows feature (like the other shruti app has) not only for the sake of authenticity, but also because of the pulsating sounds possible with the bellows. So I suppose this app isn't quite where the competition is yet, but it seems to have a good starting point.

not a good app. didn't like it I cannot select. sa pa sa

Good instrument for my music - so nice atmosphere. Thanks for this instrument, I like the atmosphere it creates. Very well in tune. I'm playing flute and doing some vocals, it's very usefull and I'm having pleasure to play... Please, add more great sounds !

A fine effort!. As the writer of the 'other' srutibox, I commend this app as a functional take on authentically useful Carnatic droning, with a straightforward and familiar interface. The timbres could stand a bit of the breath- like growliness of an 'analog' shruti box, but maybe you can add that later. But - Simple is also Good!

Not useful for Carnatic music. Not very helpful for Carnatic vocal

Not so good. The instruments sound no where close to originals as claimed. Poor midi like sounds.

Horrible tone generator. Not a shruti sound, no dynamics, just a tone generator. Not really worth a buck.

Charles W.. Great idea but it needs more souunds and vocal vowels specifically. I work in an orthodox church and 'ison boxes' like this cost a pretty penny, I can assure you.

Great sounding Shruti box.. Very welcome update, but still needs Audiobus or IAA compatibility. The lack of these options limits its use. Please add!

Need help. Please give us help by providing examples of tuning to play Carnatic songs.

No. Sounds like Brian Eno in a portapotty

No sound on iPhone 6s. Will not produce any sound on my iPhone 6s. I had to download a free software after forking out money for this app.

Mr Neyzenx. This is a great app! I think the other reviewers don't understand what a Shruti Box is used for. If you are doing Indian Music you will like this app. The Pa and Ma are actually beatless against the Sa, if one selects Harmonic in the settings. The interface is obvious to folks who have used a real acoustic Shruti box.

outstanding!. After getting a glimpse of Vidya Multimedia's applications with iTabla, I have been eagerly awaiting their next iTunes product. Shruti box is first rate. Very very good sound and like iTabla, very tweakable. Other than an ability to save presets, I can think of little to improve it.

Needs to more user friendly. Not the most user-friendly app. Needs default settings such as c# etc to be preset and all I need to do is click and play....right now it seems very convoluted with me having to fiddle with each key. If I cannot configure this within a minute, Im wasting my time on a paid-app! The output sound quality isnt good either. The throughput/volume is too low compared to the sound from my other musical notes.

Very difficult to use. This app is not very user friendly. As a beginner i wish it was easier to work with.

Decent, but no tanpura. There are unfortunately no sound samples posted on the maker's website, and had I listened I would not have bought it. If you, like me, wanted an app substitute for those shruti boxes that can go up to $200, this is not it. The sound is very sine-wavy and is fine for practicing, but not for presentation. You're better off downloading tanpura recordings of various pitches that are available free online and putting them on loop in your iPod or iPhone's iTunes, as I will be now doing.

Finally, a real sounding shruti. I bought the other Shruti when I first got my iPhone. It was basically a tone generator, with no reedy sound. This version is much better, and has many options for tuning and tone. I just bought their Harmonium as well, and am hoping they do a Tanpura, and Tabla to complete my Indian instrument collection.

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Nearing a dream app!. Nice application, I like the selection of tones available and the ability to shift the fundamental. All I could ask for would be a few more temperaments/some discrete values for the reeds and this would be near perfect. Thanks

Glitch box. Sounds are pretty good when it actually is working but tactile response is poor. Hope an update fixes this soon.

Shruti. I own a shruti box and this app is so good I am tempted to use it in conjunction with my PA at events instead of the real thing. Plus it has many additional features not available on the real shruti and they make it so much fun with such a great range of sounds. One of my best buys and only 99c! Thanks for this app....

Shruti box. This app seems to only emit a constant drone. Cannot find how to make it ebb and flow like a shruti should.

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Absolutely brilliant!. Strongly recommended for practice with any wind instrument.

Don’t bother.... ...not worth the space on your device.

Didnt like it. Please need a refund sent an email to u quality is poor

Not an authentic sound at all. Terrible sound:( crappy synth sounds instead of a sample.

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