Before starting a manual tuning, you may select a tanpura tuning, close to your goal before starting a manual tuning. This way, you’ll quickly get a nice result.

Create your own tuning

On the tanpura page, if you tap or click

you’ll get the manual tuning options for all the tanpura strings:

• The note used to tune the string

  Follow 👆 Musical note button with octave for more details.

• A switch to start or stop playing this string

  It also enables you to change the sound volume of that string. Follow 👆 On/Off button with volume selection for more details.

• The duration, in seconds, between the pluck of the string and the pluck of the next one:

  The sum of all the duration between the strings is equal to the precise length of the tanpura cycle. It can be rendered more natural, with some fuzziness in the plucking tempo with

Tanpura fine tuning

For experts, you may change the pitch in cents of the string’s note with

This is useful if you want to go out of the path of the provided 22 shrutis reference scale, or 12 tone reference scale.

Note: The pitch tuning of a string is only available if you activate

Manage application options settings then Advanced options settings_suggest then Show fine tuning

Save your preferred tanpura plucking tempo pattern

When you select a tanpura tuning, a predefined plucking tempo is applied, usually 1 second between each string.

If you want your own plucking tempo to be used, you have to tell iTabla Pandit Studio Pro this is the tempo I love for Pancham tanpura !!

It’s quite simple to tell it:

1. Select a tanpura tuning, for example Pancham. All tanpura settings are reverted to the one associated to that tuning.
2. Switch to the tuning Manual Tuning
3. Now set the plucking gaps you want between each of the notes and the random tempo fuzz parameter
4. Then say I love it with favorite_border
5. Now, every time you select Pancham tuning, then your plucking tempo will be applied. It also works when you select a rāga which selects automatically Pancham.

Note: The random fuzz parameter will also be saved along with the tempo pattern. If you don’t want to use, just set it to zero.

If the heart is displayed as favorite, a plucking tempo is stored for that tuning. You may change it as your convenience by pressing again the heart.

If you change the plucking pattern without pressing the heart after, it will be lost next time the tuning will change.

In case the symbol heart_broken is displayed, it means that the studio don’t know which tanpura tuning you’re using. In order to like and save a plucking tempo pattern, you have to select a tanpura program and then open manual mode, without leaving the page in between.