A Professional Quality Tanpura on Your iPhone

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.
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This application literally changes my life as a student/practitioner of Indian music. It is the application Ive been waiting for since it occurred to me that something like this might be possible on the iPhone. Better than the electronic tanpuras Ive heard for 1/10th of the price. And available any time; in the car, for instance. Hard to believe, but its 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!

rcgordon about iTanpura