News: Swar Systems

Swar Systems, the vanguard in Indian music software, has just released a new sequencer primarily designed for both modern and traditional music from the Indian subcontinent.

Swar Studio includes both Indian and Western virtual instruments to allow users to recreate their favorite film song from past or present days (or their own compositions) without the need of any additional tool and for a fraction of the cost of a full-fledged home studio. 

Swar Studio in a glance:

• Fully featured, cost-effective DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)
• Audio tracks for recording or dragging audio loops
• Instrument tracks for recording from keyboard or dragging MIDI loops
• 36 in-built virtual instruments
• Library panel with hundreds of included MIDI loops
• VST and Audio Unit effects
• Piano Roll editor for MIDI loops
• Link to external tools
• Quantization
• Drag loops directly from SwarShala or Swar Librarian
• Export to audio or MIDI files
• Windows and Mac OS X
• Free updates

Built-in virtual instruments:

Accordion, Bansuri, Bass, Bells, Brass Section, Brightness, Cello, Chimta, Choir Aahs, Clean Guitar, Dhol, Dholak, Drums, Duff, Duggis, Electric Bass, Electric Guitar, Ghatam, Guitar, Gunghroo, Harmonium, Manjeera, Piano, Santoor, Sarod, Saxophone, Sitar, Slap Bass, Strings Ensemble, Tabla, Tambourines, Tanpura, Trumpet, Tumbi, Vibraphone, Violin.

Retail price: $69. More at www.swarsystems.com

Swar Systems, the vanguard in Indian music software, is
proud to unveil SwarGroove, its new multi-tracks Indian
drums plugin. SwarGroove is a VST/AudioUnit (RTAS expected
shortly) plugin that lets you add Indian drums ensembles to
your compositions and live performances. It comes with
various traditional/folk styles from different parts of
India like Garba, Qawwali, Ghazal, Bhangra, etc... 

Listen to a clip with a short extract of some of the
featured grooves: Medley of SwarGroove styles (2 MB)

SwarGroove in a glance

• VST/AudioUnit plugin (RTAS expected shortly)
• Synchronizes with host time or plays on its own timing
• Uses up to 40 of SwarPlug's high quality Indian drums
• Includes 16 default grooves (more to come for registered users)
• Hundreds of loops/fills for unlimited possibilities in your compositions
• 100% MIDI. Speed and pitch can be fully adapted to perfectly match your needs
• Multi-layers per velocity on certain drums for better dynamics
• Full track playback customization, including audio effects
• Trigger specific loops through MIDI keys for live performances

Pricing

SwarGroove comes as an add-on to SwarPlug ML (uses it as its
synth) and can be purchased by registered SwarPlug ML users
for only $69. Others can purchase the SwarGroove + SwarPlug
ML combo for $349. This includes the complete SwarPlug Xtra
Edition plugin with no less than 74 perfectly sampled Indian
instruments that can also be used independently from
SwarGroove. More on SwarPlug at www.swarsystems.com/SwarPlug/.

Clients living in the Indian subcontinent will be granted
specific prices in Indian currency. Just email us at
sales-india@swarsystems.com for more details. 



Meet us at the Musik Messe

We'll be present at the Messe this year. If you want to meet
us for a demo or to answer any questions, please email us to
sales@swarsystems.com with your availability and contact
information/mobile nr so we can arrange for the best meeting
times.

Swar Systems, a Switzerland-based company specializing in Indian music software, has announced that their VSTi/AU plugin SwarPlug featuring 49 Indian instruments now also runs on Mac Intel platforms.

With this release, all Swar Systems products now run on both PPC and Intel Macs, as well as PCs.

SwarPlug

After 2 volumes focused on North Indian instruments, Swar Systems has gone south to bring composers a collection of instruments and loops from the abode of the carnatic tradition. These new sounds are for use with the SwarPlug virtual instrument.

Featured instruments are:

• Mridangam
• Kappi Mridangam
• Ghatam
• Kanjeera
• Morsing
• Veena
• Nadaswaram
• Tavil
• Tamte
• Udukke
• Dollu
• Chende
• Ghat Singhari
• Konnakol

All these instruments come with a collection of groovy rhythmic/melodic loops.

Swar Systems has also updated the SwarPlug plug-in which is used to play these new sounds, as well as the previously released two volumes of North Indian instruments. SwarPlug is now available in Audio Unit format, based on the CronoX 2 sampler, in addition to VSTi format. More controls have been added to the user interface as well, including envelope sliders and dual pitch knobs (for tuning drums with two sides). The SwarPlug update is free to registered users.

SwarPlug also comes with thousands of MIDI rhythms and melodies from the Indian subcontinent and Librarian software to browse them.

SwarPlug with the Volume Sound 1 sound set for Mac or Windows costs $170. Upgrades for existing SwarPlug users that wish to add the South Indian sound to their library are available for $30.