SurRoots
by Sound of Roots
A free tanpura, pad and tabla for riyaz, tuned to your Sa.
Tanpura, pad & tabla
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Tanpura
Drone in your Sa
Pad
Soft synth Sa and Pa, same key
Tabla
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Plays in this page. Nothing is recorded.
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Where these sounds come from
Tabla: real recordings from the “tabla bols” pack by mmiron on Freesound (CC0, public domain). Tanpura: real acoustic tanpura recordings by sankalp (Sankalp Gulati) on Freesound: Tanpura 10 (CC0) and Acoustic Tanpura 5, 11 and 12 (CC BY 4.0), time-stretched, equalised and levelled by us. With Sa or Ni as the first string it is rebuilt in your browser from measurements of tanpura-string recordings by luckylittleraven on Freesound (CC0; a Swar Sangam). Sam sounds (optional): ornamental manjeera by johnnyguitar01 and ghantee-10 by pbimal on Freesound (both CC0), trimmed and levelled by us. For the thekas we referred to SwarGanga, David Courtney’s chandrakantha.com and Prof. Ramesh Gangolli’s University of Washington course notes.