When you tap or click on the note selector button , you get a full screen note selector, according to your reference scale:

You can see three parts in the page.

The scale header

It shows the current musical scale, or rāga, with it’s eventual flavour:

It’s important to remember the rāga and flavour in this note selector as:

• the swaras notes of the rāga will be represented in bold
• and the others in grey and italic

The notes which are not in the rāga are in grey, but you can still select them. It’s up to you to tune a tanpura (or other instrument) using notes outside of the rāga.

Octave selector

Then, you see the octave selector:

With it, you can select the octave from -2 octaves, to +2 octaves. It’s quite a big range of 5 octaves!

Also, this part provides a On/Off button for the note, to start/stop the note without closing the note selector. It will be present when the note represents a string (of tanpura), a voice (of shruti), …

See 👆 On/Off button with volume selection for more details.

Notes selector

Then, you have the note selector, adapted for the kind of reference scale.

Indian reference scales

Indian reference scales are using 22 shrutis, and notes from Sa to Ni (See 👆 Indian 22 shrutis system).

Here is the note selector you’ll get:

Then just select the note you need. It will be highlighted:

12 tones scales

Tempered scale is using 12 tones, and notes from C to B.

Here is the note selector you’ll get:

Usage of a page turner pedal or keyboard

You may use a page turner pedal or a keyboard to select the notes in the note selector :

• Left/Right: select the previous or the next shruti.
• Down/Up: select the previous or the next swara in the musical scale (rāga).