Get Your Tabla On

"Taalmala Digi-100 - The first MIDI compatible Indian musical instrument. The digi-100 is a state-of-the-art digital musical instrument that has been designed by the pioneers in Indian electronic musical instruments. This instrument has a sampled natural tabla sound along with sophisticated features unmatched by any other model of electronic tabla.


These are:
* 100 thekas in various taals that can be played at any tempo.
* Thekas to suit classical music, Thumri, Ghazals, Bhajans and light music.
* MIDI Compatible -the first Indian MIDI instrument
* Tihayee facility for various thekas.
* FILL-IN facility for all 100 thekas.
* Laggi for selected thekas.
* Ten of the thekas can be modified by the user and stored in memory.
* A multi-functional digital display for indicating taal number, matra number, pitch, tempo and laggi group.
* Digital tuning of pitch with facility for fine tuning within half notes.
* Two settings for bayan (dagga) depth.
* Memory for storing the fine tuned pitch, tempo and bayan setting.
* Two user programmable thekas that can be stored in memory.
* Automatic operation on any voltage from 90-260v or six (‘C’ size 1.5v) internal dry batteries.
* Line-out and Speaker/headphone-out facility (to fit 1/8" jack)"

I remember seeing the Riyaz (pictured below) at a local music shop before, and thinking, hmm, this might be interesting; they kind of look like an old funky SEM type module. Unfortunately the Riyaz did not have MIDI.



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