Elektron Musical Instruments

Though he may use "electronic tabla" boxes for a gimmick or an "effect" I
can guarantee that most of his tabla in his music is actually him playing
the drums.  I've seen him play solo tabla live and he is quite amazing.  He
is a classically trained tabla player, playing since he was very very young.

I've seen the "electronic tabla" boxes and they're pretty dumb if you ask
me.  They are several hundred dollars, and they offer around 10-15 different
rhythmic cycles and allow you to change the tempo of each cycle, and
sometimes offer a different variation (or kayada) of the cycle.  They are
used mainly for people practicing melodic Indian instruments like sitar,
santoor, bansuri, etc.  They are essentially a fancy metronome.  They do
not, however, give you any freedom to program the sounds yourself, so I
would still recommend using a sampler for this purpose.

-brent

Once upon a time, Flavio Alvarez wrote the following:

> Not too long ago someone on the Yahoo Sp-808 user's
> group found some guys in India that make electronic
> tablas. It's a little drum machine with sequencer that
> makes all orts of tabla sounds. I would not be
> surprised Talvin Singh uses one of those. If you look
> at the old posts of the Roland Sp-808 you will
> definitely find it.
> 
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