SrutiBox Відгуки

Doesn’t sound at all like a Shruti box. COMPLETE RIP-OFF!!

I have been using this app for years. Love it. Dr. Pauline Oliveros?! That’s high praise.

Thank you for your huge effort to update this greet app!

essential app

You have to have a little theory & program it, but you can make WONDERFUL SOUNDS with this thing!

I am not sure if the programmer tried once. Most useless I ever bought, minimal criteria for this program is sound, which I don't get it. Apple should remove from its site.

This is a great sounding and feature packed app. I am a just intonation enthusiast and i love the amazing amount of flexibility allowed in specifying intervals and timbres. Very useful and unique. My first app review-- just had to say something about this one.

Sadly it seems Mr. Lowengard is focusing on Droneo, but the srutibox is fun and *CAN* sound wonderful, if you're willing to play with the settings. I use a variety of noisemakers at night to help me get to sleep, and the problem with most of them is that they offer only a limited set of preprogrammed sounds. I enjoy the variety and customization that srutibox provides. Although a built-in sleep timer would be wonderful, you can use your ipod/iphone timer instead. Get this if you like drones and aren't afraid to fiddle and knobificate!

Sounds are very very bad. Waste of money. Should be marketed as a simple multiple sine wave generator.

I bought this after listening to the audio examples on the developer's site; it makes a surprising variety of timbres, and with the Churn feature, you can crossfade between any two for an animated sound. It's a lot deeper and sweeter-sounding than it appears from the drab Formica interface. I'm enjoying exploring alternate tunings and learning how harmonics layer to form chords and textures. I don't like the clicks you hear when changing some settings, and I told the developer an echo effect would make the drones even spacier, but he replied that would detract from the authenticity. (Bonus points for responding at length to my emailed suggestions!) He also said he'll be concentrating on his Droneo app, so I'll probably buy that next.

I love this app! The interface allows you to easily layers different tones, timbres, pitches, and frequencies. If you are a fan of ambient drones, you must get this...

If you know music theory, you can have a ball with this. I was originally looking for something that could emulate a Tanbura. This gets close, with the right scale, but it could use a preset voice for the Tanbura, and something to distort the waveform to get it to sound like a Tanbura drone. I realize that it wasn't intended for that, it is a SrutiBox simulator, but it seems like it wouldn't take much to add the Tanbura, and it would make it much more useful (at least for me). Still, think it is a great app.

Thank you so much for Sruti Box. In addition to being able to adjust notes from the harmonic series, it also gives you the ability to play notes in a variety of tunings, as well as create your own! An amazing instrument and learning tool for musicians of any level! -michael Uhler

Its fun to have something like this if only to manipulate interval and chord tones against each other on your ipod at your convenience. I think the haters that are whining about the 3 bucks and I should have used logic and all of that are missing the point completely. The sounds are soothing and pleasant enough even if they are not totally authentic, and kind of remind me of some of the non-westernized pedal tone drones used on some of the recordings I have from people such as Ustad Bismillah Khan.

Is the new version causing anyone else's iPhone to overheat and stay overheated until the app is uninstalled? I had this installed for a couple days before I tried it. After trying it, I didnt notice anything odd, but a few hours later my iPhone felt really warm. I thought it was a body heat thing, since the phone was kept in an inside coat pocket. But the temp never dropped, even when I kept the device off-charger and near a fan. At some point I recalled that v1.0 of Sruti mentioned slight heating while Scrutibox was played...I guessed that maybe some function in version 1.1 wasn't releasing all of its resources, and this was causing some sort of runaway heating...to test this, I uninstalled Srutibox. I noticed almost instantly that my iPhones temp was normal. Has anyone else experienced this? This is not a knock on the app at all...I really enjoy it and wish I could find a way to port the sound to my Boss BR-600...but I can't play it if it's going to overheat my phone.

Thank you for this app! Please continue to support it. I love using it at gigs as a backup drone, and I'd love to see added functionality. Maybe a stereo reverb setting to amp up the room wetness?

This is not, as one reviewer said, a "simple sine wave oscillator", it allows additive synthesis of 12 oscillators. While it may not match the authentic sound of a harmonium, it is in fact very cool. I agree that the sliders are a bit hard to control (it got easier when I found I could tap on the location I want it to go to, rather than trying to drag the button). My other complaint is that the help text is way too small to read; the zoom gesture did make the text larger, but then it was too hard to scroll. I'm only going to 4 stars because it is totally lacking in modulation options.

I have a harmonium, and have use a shruti box many times. for those of you thinking you're going to get the deep responant, reedy tones of a shruti with this app.... SORRY! Like on of the other reviewers has said, and I didn't listen. It's a tone generator.

Really fun app, very soothing sounds.. Can be stretched and detuned to make some less soothing more forboding sounds as well.. Really great little noise machine. It's great to play along to the drone on another instrument. It is a very mesmerizing and relaxing sound generator and I'm very happy I have it. Thanks!

I love the sound it makes and I'm definately going to use it live at an improv gig next weekend. Only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because it's next to impossible to control 2 sliders at once because they're so small. I should note that i have big fingers; someone with smaller ones might not have that problem. So I have a feature request: please add a button to hide the top controls and expand the width of the sliders to fill the extra space.

Didn't really know what is was, but once I figured it out it was pretty cool. I enjoy music but it's not like a piano or guitar. It makes differnt noises which comes across relaxing.

$2.99 for a generic sine wave oscilator...rip off. Create your own tones in Logic, Reason, or Ableton...save your money; I wish I did.

perfect for creating ambient music...

As I am interested in using this for meditation purposes I would like to see a save option for different settings. Choose my custom settings such as calming, focusing, etc. Love playing with the different sounds and frequencies. Wonderful app considering I knew nothing about a sruti box.

What a nice surprise. This is a well designed, useful and friendly little app. Great for practicing, composing, daydreaming. If you've ever used a real sruti box you'll be pleased to find here a variety of reed timbers and tunings plus the random detune feature. Fantastic job, Mr. Lowengard. What else can you drum up?

Tune in..turn on...bliss out...! Love it!

I am ecstatic that you thought of this and brought it out for us to use. Thank you. I like to play Carnatic music, and now I do not need to carry a Tamboura, or even a srutibox. I predict the convenience will engender more music. My suggestion is to go beyond a srutibox and add the sounds of a Tamboura as well: i.e. to be able to sound notes individually in time as strings. Then we could even use this in concert situations!

I'm happy someone thought of this. The sound is not very authentic, but the idea is right on. I usually use a raagini (electric tanpura) to provide a drone. This definitely doesn't have the same sound quality, but the developer is already thinking about this based on the update plans. This is also about 1/100 of the price, so that said - it's amazing. Get it if you want to drone out blissfuly (albeit digitally).

As a wanna-be enlightened zen master I am drawn to anything that brings me closer to oneness. With this app I can create a sound which helps induce in me a calmness rarely experienced. A teacher once told me to take 5 minutes at the beginning of each hour to do 'nothing.' With my custom background drone I am that much more in control of my mental state, which is simultaneously chilled and activated. I'm glad I got this.