Swar Systems has introduced Swar Studio, a new DAW designed specifically for both modern and traditional music from India. Or as Swar describes it – an ‘Indi Pop, Bollywood Sequencer’.
Swar Studio Features:
- Fully featured 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
Swar Studio is priced at US $69.
Sounds are nice, but it reminds me magix musix maker or sth
didn’t really watch the video so I cant comment on the sounds but just looking at the features this sounds amazing for that price.
I would have liked to know more about (and hear more of) the virtual instruments – are they synths? samplers? physical models? I assume it’s kind of a Bollywood ROMpler, but physical models of Indian instruments would be unbelievably awesome. I also wonder how it handles inflections and microtunings.
Nonetheless I think it would be an great brain transplant to try to make a song using this rather than Reason or Live.
They should have put more time in building a lib for KONTAKT instead of their own little version of software. There would be more control and programming they could have done.