Let your music shine with NaadSadhana for iOS

In this episode, Kushal Solanki revisits NaadSadhana for iOS. This Apple Design Award-winning app is a comprehensive musical companion that offers a suite of features for both practice and performance. Musicians can hone their skills with Note and Ear Workouts, and explore a multi-octave keyboard and various essential instruments for free. The app allows users to perform alongside a Live Orchestra, featuring an extensive collection of 27 instruments, 262 Ragas, and 54 Taals across 10 Styles/Genres. Additionally, users can create professional-quality audio and video recordings with automatic mixing and microphone enhancements. The app’s rich instrument library includes the Tanpura, Surpeti, Metronome, Swarmandal, and more, catering to a wide range of musical tastes and styles. With features like Note and Beat guidance, Karaoke with pitch shifting, In-Ear Monitoring, and iCloud sync, the app is designed to be an all-in-one solution for music creation and practice, making it easier for artists to share their work and manage their repertoire.

Note: The free and paid subscription versions of the NaadSadhana iOS app are:
Free Version
Provides access to basic features like note and ear workouts, pitch detection, multi-octave keyboard, and essential instruments like tanpura, metronome, and swarmandal. Allows practicing with a limited set of instruments and ragas.

Paid Subscription (NaadSadhana Pro)
Unlocks the full "Live Orchestra" feature with 27 instruments across 10 world music styles, 262 ragas, 54+ taals/rhythms. Enables creating audio and video recordings that are automatically mixed, with microphone enhancements. Provides additional features like note/beat guidance, song presets with lyrics and tuning, karaoke mode with pitch shifting and looping, in-ear monitoring with reverb and EQ, iCloud sync for songs/playlists, and smart song suggestions.

The subscription is available as monthly ($4.99), quarterly ($12.49), or annual ($39.99) plans.

So in essence, the free version is focused on practice tools, while the paid subscription unlocks the full performance capabilities with the virtual orchestra, multi-track recording studio, and additional utilities for serious musicians and learners.

NaadSadhana on the App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/naadsadhana/id1348181386

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Good day AppleVis, and today on this podcast I'll be demonstrating the NAD Sadhana app.

Now I did do a podcast on this in 2021.

So today is going to be about revisiting the app, because since my podcast in 2021, the app has undergone major changes when it comes to accessibility, like when it comes to features as well as accessibility improvements, simply user interface and all that great stuff.

And the developers really committed when it comes to accessibility, which is really great to see.

And what this app basically does, it basically listens to you and according to your singing, it will improvise.

The app is primarily based for Indian classical musicians, but the cool thing is that it also has styles for Western music as well.

And so you can say it's not primarily an Indian classical music app, it is for all styles of music really.

And it's really great and it will, the app leverages artificial intelligence and based on artificial intelligence, it listens to you and it improvises according to your singing and your instrument playing.

So without me ranting on too much, we will get right straight into the demonstration.

Now I will open the Naad Sadhana app, so the way it's spelled is N-A-A-D-S-A-D-H-A-N-A. So I'll open the Naad Sadhana app, so I'll double tap here.

So the first thing you'll see is welcome to Naad Sadhana premium.

Devotional style, so this is the first thing you'll see here.

Devotional style, music, heading, music, perform, heading, perform with live orchestra, guidance, karaoke and audio recorder button, perform with live orchestra, karaoke and all that because as I said, the app has gone major changes and improvements and new features.

One of the features is added is karaoke as well, so you can sing along with the karaoke track as well.

Video record your performance with live orchestra and karaoke button.

Video record your performance, practice, heading, find my pitch button, find my pitch, guided workouts button, guided workouts, explore and learn button, explore and learn, smart keyboard button, smart keyboard, bar, selected, music, tab, one of four.

This is the music tab, songbook, tab, two of four, songbook.

So now what the developers also done is now there's one of the features that he's added is you can basically create a song in the app.

Like you know, you can set the style of, you know, music, your genre, everything and you know, the instruments and stuff as well.

Also even paste the lyrics of the song and all that, you know, it's really cool how he's implemented it.

Recordings, tab, three of four, recordings, help, tab, four of four, help.

So we'll explore all the tabs and details.

Selected, songbook, go to the songbook tab, all songs, songbook, all songs and playlists sync to iCloud drive, songbook, heading, my songs, zero button, create new song button, create new song, song is a shortcut for preserving and applying instrument presets, tuning configurations and more.

My playlists, zero button, create new playlist button.

A playlist is a list of songs that can be played with the right swipe.

Tab bar, music, tab, one of four.

So that's the songbook tab.

Recordings, tab, three of four, search from the music tabs, perform more record section, zero recordings, heading, search recordings, search from the music tabs, perform more record section, initiate an audio or video recording.

Once the recording is stopped, it will automatically show up here.

Tab bar, music, tab bar.

Now that I don't have any recordings in here, but if I did have a recording in here, what I'd be able to do is go into the recording and by magic, uh, doing a two finger double tap or a magic tab, I'll be able to play the recording.

Also I'll be able to, you know, set things like effect, um, and you know, volume adjustments and all that stuff.

So because this app has a multi track shooter, multi track recorder, you can adjust all the tracks individually.

And now there's also another option of quick mix and style presets as well.

So you can quickly mix, like for example, microphone, you know, if you need to adjust or higher or lower or, you know, melody and harmony and rhythm and percussion, all that.

So it's like a quick mix and then you can export all the tracks either as a folder or, you know, export a single file, like, you know, merge all the tracks and make a single file.

So that's also another option.

So yeah.

So this is the recording tab.

Now we'll go to songbook, tab, tab, tab, tab, help center, heading purchases, heading premium plan, manage renewal Friday, June 28th, 2024 in 26 days button tutorials and help heading tutorials and help.

Now as you can hear heading, like the developers made really good use of the heading rotor so you can also swipe down with one finger or swipe up, you know, through the headings, you know, when you've set the heading rotor and we'll see that in a minute play introduction button play introduction, new button demo, creating a music video button demo, creating a music tutorials, YouTube playlist button tutorials, YouTube playlist frequently asked questions button frequently asked featured heading, get featured heading, get your music video button, submit your music video, visit a YouTube channel button, visit our YouTube collaborate with it.

Now it's that hander underscore app button collaborate with, you know, so now you can also collaborate.

Like if you've made a recording, you send it to your friend who has an outside the app, then you can, you know, merge, like collaborate on top of each other and all that really support heading, suggest new features button, suggest new features, ask a question button, ask a question.

Enjoying not satana.

Let us know button, report a problem collapsed and we'll tap to expand problem button, report a problem expanded button, report a button enjoying not but report report a problem via mail app button, report a problem via Gmail button, careful heading, reset all tips button, reset all settings button v nine.

So that's the nine zero dot 14.8 Sandeep Rene production button, privacy button, not satana.com button credits button link tab bar music.

So that's the help tab.

Now if I characters use the heading to headings, careful heading, support heading, get featured heading, support heading, get featured tutorials, purchases, help center heading so I can swipe up or down wire via the headings music tab.

So now we'll go back to the music tab selected tab bar, practice video, perform, perform, heading, perform.

Now we will go to the perform tab here, um, perform with live orchestra.

So let's double tap on the perform heading, perform with live music, back music, back button music, the back record audio off button, record audio.

So that's the first thing you'll see here.

So if you double tap on this, you know, you'll be able to record your choose microphone button, pop up button, double tap to activate the picker, playback destination button, playback destination selected guidance tab button heading.

Now there's three, four options here, guidance instruments, tab zero and 27 on heading songs tab button heading karaoke tab button heading and karaoke selected instruments.

We will select instruments, song, karaoke tab, but essentials heading.

So now the catch here is a few karaoke tab, but try to slide down with one finger using the headings router performance controls heading that will take you to the performance control.

So what you need to do karaoke tab, but songs tab karaoke is swipe right essentials heading until you get to the essentials tab, uh, the essentials heading and then swipe right, uh, swipe down studio heading harmony and melody, hit guitars, hitting rhythm, hitting percussion, hitting performance controls, hitting.

So then you'll be able to, um, go through all the instrument sections, 50, 40, 34% selected maximum harmony and studio essentials heading.

So essentials, um, music, music, music, all of that.

Let's check out the styles of music as well.

So I've, I've selected the devotional style at the moment form heading, but if I go back, now there's two ways of selecting your music genre or style.

So you can either do it from the perform, you know, with live orchestra or video or you know, any other options, um, and select the style or you can go back and devotion.

The first option you'll see is, you know, the genre music genre activate to dismiss pop up window style heading close button selected Indian button one of three Western button two of three worlds button three of three world.

Let's personalize your experience for your musical genre.

So this is the Indian styles, uh, all right, you know, different styles of style, Hindustani tuning, gander or just intonation, Kyle bandish Tarana heading style kinetic tuning, gander or just intonation rag arm, Tanim, Palavi heading style, druid tuning, 22 shrewd your microtonal druid, Damar, Haveli heading style, semi classical tuning, gander or just intonation Ghazal Thamri Dadra heading selected style devotional tuning, 12 tone equi tempered or general budgeon Abhanga Kirtan heading double tap to start devotional style, Bollywood tuning 12 tone equi tempered or general light music, Babji medley heading style, 22 shrewd tuning, 22 shrewd your microtonal Kyle bandish Tarana heading style 20.

So that's all the Indian genres so Western button.

So that's personalized style, Western tuning, 12 tone equi tempered or general pop rock metal heading style, Latin tuning, 12 tone equi tempered or general pop rock salsa heading double tap style world button select style fusion tuning, 12 tone equi tempered or general and those possibilities heading style fusion Western button for um let's work out demo and all that which I'll be doing in a style Latin tuning style like the Western tuning 12 western style perform video perform with go back to perform music back button music record or tuner beat into choose microphone but describe image playback guidance select songs tab essentials head headings so now there's this this is the essentials tab here so drone left off button drone left so that's the tanpura or the drone instrument drone left tuning B D sharp button drone left tuning D sharp drone right off button drone right tuning F sharp A sharp button organ drone off button metronome off button studio heading in ear monitor off button harmony and melody heading Indian harp off button all the different Indian harps basic fills only button one of three it's called a swaramundan in Indian uh that's the Indian smart creative fills button selected maximum and piano off button piano basic fills only button one of three smart creative piano piano Indian harp off from the Indian harp section or any other instruments so this is you've got three Indian basic basic basic fills smart creative fills button two of three smart creative maximum energetic fills button three of three and maximum energetic fills so i've got selected from maximum piano off button piano basic fills only button one of three piano basic fills smart creative fills button two selected maximum energetic fills button radiance off button radiance that's another instrument strings off button harmonium off button brass off button guitars hitting guitars so that's the guitars heading off button guitar off guitar basic fills only button one of three smart creative fills button selected maximum energetic fills but bass guitar off button bass guitar basic fills only button smart creative fills but selected maximum energetic fills rhythm hitting tabla off button tabla so that's the Indian tabla basic fills only button one smart create selected maximum energetic fills button tabla bass off button so that's the bass tabla uh lol pitch one tabla bass basic fills only smart creative fills but selected maximum energetic fills but cajun off button that's another instrument percussion instrument uh rhythm instrument sorry cajun basic fills only but smart create selected maximum drums off button now so this is the acoustic drum kit as well so that's also been added so you can turn on the drums all at once or acoustic drum kit kick off button snare off button toms off button hi hat off button cymbals off button percussion hitting hand cymbals off button so that's the hand cymbals all manjaro hand cymbals basic fills only button one smart creative fills button selected maximum energetic fills ankle bells off button ankle bells basic fills only button one of three smart creative fills button selected maximum shaker off button shaker basic fills only button smart creative fills button two selected maximum energetic fills button three tambourine off button tambourine basic fills only button smart creative fills selected maximum claps and snaps off button claps and snaps that's another new claps and snaps basic fills only smart create selected maximum energetic fills but vertical scroll bar performance controls now the instrument sections has finished now we get to the performance controls so performance controls hitting western style button western style so now as i said from here you can also select the style of music on button pop up button create a song preset show keyboard button show keyboard so you can through direct touch you can play the keyboard as well settings button settings so we'll have a look at it melody and harmony off button melody and harmony off so this is the style of music that you can select so i've selected on on it's called bhagya street which is an indian classical raga or style of music c sharp pitch button c sharp that's the play melody and harmony fill button play melody and harmony rhythm and percussion off button tap to start songs or cushion off so you can start all the rhythm instruments all at heart until tall 16 beats button that's the 16 beat tile or the swing zero percent collapsed button double tap tempo 155 bpm collapsed button double tap to expand 155 zero percent so at heart swing zero at heart let's rhythm at heart take a look at the different activate to dismiss activate clock sir selected tile button one of tile which is the indian classical rhythm button two or four groove so that's a western metronome button three of four all 54 button or selected tile so let's have a look at groove button two or four select make all fifth tap to request new disco slash house four by four button disco slash house four by four button rock four by four button shuffle rock four by four button shuffle shuffle now we'll go back to the tile now there's different types of tiles here and in the classical you know beats that have been added we won't activate rhythm hitting activate take quite a long time selected temp at heart rhythm and play at heart until swing zero percent this is a swing section so if i swing zero percent selected swing half notes button swing quarter notes button two of two adjust swing zero percent adjust a set swing to 16 percent button set swing to 20 but set swing to 25 set swing to 33 set swing to 50 set swing to 66 percent set swing to set set set set a dot swing selected swing half notes but rhythm tempo one swing zero percent expect rhythm tempo swing zero percent collapsed rhythm rhythm tempo 100 now we'll go to the tempo section here tempo 150 155 beats decrease tempo rhythm now this is the tempo so now decrease decrease the tempo by increments of five so it's on 155 beats per minute at the moment decrease tempo to 150 bpm button 155 beats per minute tap tap tap to set tempo or slide to adjust increase tempo to 150 bpm button half tempo to 77 bpm button large decrease to 138 bpm but minus one to 154 bpm plus one to 156 b large increase to 174 bpm double tempo to 300 bpm but double tempo so that's the tempo section now you can also you know double tap on all the rhythm um like decrease increase whatever or you can also through direct touch you can also tap on the screen and through that you can adjust the tempo as well and direct touch is also used for playing the smart one decrease tempo rhythm tempo 100 tempo 100 rhythm so this is the last section here rhythm rhythm phoenix ended rhythm solo off rhythm phoenix and rhythm solo off button rhythm solo rhythm laggy off button toggle double speed laggy mode so top uh it's a double speed rhythm pause rhythm off button pauses rhythm instruments then plays a solo when unpaused pauses rhythm instrument as you see pause percussion off button mute slash unmute percussion instruments pause percussion off button rhythm rhythm phoenix ended rhythm sweet advanced rhythm play melt c-sharp so now melody and harmony setting music main thing the main thing i wanted to show you here is the new added feature of the fun notes workout and the ear training and then i'll do a little bit of a demo of the um app as well of me singing and how the app improvises find my pitch guided practice now i'll double time on guided workouts notes button notes training button ear training workout history button selected music note button now first things we'll go to the notes section here level easy guided descent and descent of the rugger or scale starting from the root note pick your workout level style reference drones heading drone left off drone right off button because i've already selected a style of music um and also with the app you can also select automatic harmonizer which means if you don't know what style you're singing for example if you start singing the app will try and gauge your singing and you know improvise according to you know your singing so you can use the automatic harmonizer for that is really really useful drone off button studio heading in a monitor off button western style button western style you can also adjust the style from here as well so there's different places where you can select the styles um either from the perform options from the performance control or from here level easy button pop-up button level easy so you can this is a pop-up where you can select reference drones off button tap dispatch a sherry rugger button now you can here's the way you can select the style of music rugger c-sharp pitch button start notes workout button start notes workout sing or play note note locator try singing workouts note workout heading now this is a note locator try singing or playing the note hint off button ah sing or play note d sharp and hold steady sing or play note c sharp and hold steady 11 workout done sing or play note low b and hold steady 17 workout done ah sing or play note c sharp and hold steady 23 workout done ah so this is the workout back button um so we'll double tap work because otherwise music workout we'll be spending our no ear training but music work no ear training button but now we will go to ear training no workouts notes music note ear training button level easy listen to a note and identify its name pick your reference drone drone left drone organ drone western level for the ear training demo we'll pick the hard level so dismiss content hard button organ drone start ear training button start ear training so in the ear training there's 12 rounds so basically it's like a multiple choice thing so when you hear the notes you're going to be you've got to select what notes they are so i'll double tap on here or to start the ear training start ear training round one of 12 listen then choose the correct notes in the order you heard them heading so i've got a guess empty backspace dimmed butt play button empty each workouts work ear training heading round one of 12 listen then choose the correct notes in the order empty empty empty backspace dimmed button play button i can play to play you know hear the notes again c sharp button d sharp but c sharp button dp dc sharp button double tap to select this is a little bit different because it's it's the hard level so you have to select all the notes in order so like the correct c sharp button double play stisha e but fg e button so double tap to select so b f sharp but e d sharp c sharp d button e fg sharp button g sharp your answer is correct so that was the correct answer round two of 12 listen then choose the correct notes in the order you heard them heading round two round empty backspace play c sharp button so this is round two so reference drone drone left up drone organ drift cb c sharp up arrow button c g sharp f sharp e f sharp organ drone drone right or drone for eight percent or eight and and eight and a drop drift d button cb a sharp g sharp f sharp button f sharp your answer is correct round three of 12 listen then choose the correct notes in the order you heard them heading so it really tests you like you know your listening skills empty um work so we'll work out because music um so that was the notes and the ear training work tab bar help music back music what tab bar help helped collect it help you to play and play the on-boarding introduction as well so you kind of get a feel of how the developer play introduction on boarding play introduction from here you can also set hander understand all of music not sad not sad hander understands your music and plays a virtual live orchestra helping you practice and reach new heights and record mix and share your music effortlessly next button later button later but next button so double tap on next next what's your style hit indian heading style hindu stany kyle bet style kinetic ragam style drooper drooped style semi-classical gazelle style devotional budgen abhanga kirtan so if i double tap on any style what do the rhythm instruments that will kind of play like a preview sort of thing if i double tap on devotional selected style so that will kind of play the preview back but start i'm gonna select the devotional style because that's what i'm gonna use that to demo help center heading tap music music so i'll go back to the practice here uh perform perform with live orchestra guided music back button now the cool thing is the developers made really good use of magic tap as well to start and stop the melody and rhythm instruments and percussion instruments as well so rhythm and percussion and melody and harmony so if i double tap once double tap with two fingers or magic tap as it's called if i do that once starting melody and harmony starting melody and harmony if i double tap with two fingers again starting rhythm if i double tap with two fingers again rhythm and percussion again melody and harmony stopping melody and harmony stopping so that's how you can basically start and stop the instruments now i will do a quick demo starting melody this is a really nice composition um basically it's of you know the idol of god being adorned in the like sandalwood pace because in india at the moment it's summertime so to court you know to have you know cool but you know not get too hot the idol god is dressed in clothes you know enriched with sandalwood paste so i will start the demo now as you can see the app is improvising it's improvising you know and you'll see in a minute ah ah ah ah um ah so ah ah ah ah rhythm melody and so there you have it guys it is this app really stands out from all the other apps the way it listens to you and improvises um i do apologize for the little bit of a audio stutter i think um it normally doesn't do it i think probably because it's screen recording um but yeah do try this app out it is a great app and the developer's commitment to accessibility is really really great like if i have raised a bug you know he will try and fix it you know really quickly and you know it's just really really great the developer himself is a really great singer and a really great indian classical singer and yeah no so do try this app out it is a great it is subscription based it's about 65 australian a year so yeah it is worth it and one thing i did forget to tell you is the app also the the reason this app also stands out from the other apps is because if you're singing or playing an instrument the app will tell you whether you are hitting the right notes or not so it basically will tell you you know whether you're singing sharp or singing flat or you know whatnot um so yeah there you have it guys thanks for listening and bye for now