Carnatic Music Guru / JRaaga Files

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Hi please find herewith the link for the carnatic music software I have written.
It is in Beta version and expected to have some bugs.

For Windows - Please download JRaaga-xxx.exe and Mac download the complete directory of JRaaga-xxx-osc-installer.app.

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FEATURES:
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  - It will generate / play carnatic music lessons for all 72 melakartha raagas and raagas with 6 or 7 notes in their aarogana/avarogana - for any thaala/jaathi combinations
(Though that was the intent - some combinations are yet to be implemented - for which I am yet to understand the asthetics of janya raagas)
  - Kalpana swaram generation using Markov Chain model
  - Kalpana swaram can be generated from a notation file or from lessons
  - It supports Veena, Violin, Sitar, Sarod and Piano as instruments for playing. You can select upto two instruments at the same to play the notes.
  - It supports percussion Using Mridangam, Tabla. You can configure off/on percussion.
  - It also supports playing solkattu alone (very limited feature as of now)
  - You can have your own notes and play them too.
  - For now you can save the music as wave file.
  - You can save the lyrics as a PDF. The notes will have subscripts, double/triple speed as overlines.
  - You can save the lyrics as LilyPond file. The file can be used as in input to LilyPond software (www.lilypond.org) to generate the PDF with Western Staff notations. If you have LilyPond installed in your computer, you can specify the location of LilyPond executable.
  - The software is supported in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, French, German, Spanish and English.
  - You can also sing and check your Shruthi and set it for instruments.

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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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To use this software you need Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 or above.
If it is not installed in your computer, please install from the one of the below links:

Mac OSX:
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    http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=81813

Windows 32 bit:
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	http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=81819

Windows 64 bit:
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	http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=81821


Please download the files from the link below:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/carnaticmusicguru/files/
 Windows
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 Please download the latest JRaaga-xxx.exe.
 Double click that file and proceed with the installation.

 From the installation directory, 
  Run the JRaaga.bat from a command prompt ( or Double Click)
       Or if java.exe is already setup in the path
  you can directly double click JRaaga.jar
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 MAC (The program has not been tested on a Mac Platform. Any feedback appreciated)
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 Download the complete directory of JRaaga-xxx-osc-installer.app.
   You wont be able to download the directory.
      Which means you have create the directory manually in your computer
      For example - see below. "Download" means download to that directory. 
	"Create"  - means manually create the directory in the computer

	JRaaga-1.0.5-osx-installer.app     	CREATE
        !____ Contents                     	CREATE
               !_____ MacOS                	CREATE
	       !	!__ installbuilder 	DOWNLOAD
	       !	!__ installbuilder.sh	DOWNLOAD
	       !	!__ osx-10.2		DOWNLOAD
	       !	!__ osx-intel		DOWNLOAD
	       !	!__ osx-ppc		DOWNLOAD
	       !______Resources			CREATE
	       !	!__ installbuilder.icns DOWNLOAD
               !______ Info.plist               DOWNLOAD

After you download you run the installbuilder.sh - to extract the application.

To run the application, use the following commands.

 chmod a+x JRaaga.sh
 JRaaga.sh
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 if java is in the path you can also execute the following command directly.
 java -jar JRaaga.jar 

For more help
 Press help menu or read files from help folder.


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RELEASE VERSION HISTORY
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See WhatIsNew.txt