When apps such as iTabla are FREE it makes life just a little bit better. If you need to get your Indian percussion groove or drone on there is no better place to look than with Vidya Multimedia’s great music app iTabla. This app functions and sounds great. So what is a Tabla and who is Tanpura? Here is an explanation from Wikipedia:

The tambura (Devanagari: तम्पूरा) is a type of stringed instrument found in different versions in different places around the world; most are plucked lutes. The New Grove Dictionary of Music assigns the term to the Eastern European variety of the saz, and to the Indian fretless drone lute.

iTabla also comes with a powerful tabla of course. The tabla is an Indian percussion instrument used in all types of music from classical to popular to religious.

The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres. The term tabla is derived from an Arabic word, tabl, which simply means “drum”.

iTabla does a great job at replicating the sound of both instruments and is awesome because it lets you customize so many little nuances of your sound. This little Free app is powerful if you look under the hood.

• Real high quality tanpura sounds which you can control the pitch and tempo of all tanpura strings. Comes with a few sound flavors.
• Real high quality tabla sounds. Control pitch of bayan & dayan.
• Metronome with 5 sounds, adjustable pitch, easy to choose beats per bar and number of bars. Shows beat number
• Tone player
• Global tuning

  

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