Carnatic Thaalam Robot
Carnatic Thaalam Robot
The official app & game
Distributed by UptoPlay
SCREENSHOTS
DESCRIPTION
Use UptoPlay to play online the game Carnatic Thaalam Robot.
Introducing Carnatic Thaalam Robot, a feature rich app to put thaalam for you with natural hand gestures as done traditionally.
Designed & developed by a professional musician, this app is your thaalam assistant for practice at home, recordings, teaching classes and even play with in events/concerts if you have no one to put thaalam for you.
It does
- the common thaalas
- Aadi, Rupaka (3 beat), and
- Saptha (7) thaalas - (Eka, Rupaka, Thriputa, Matya, Jhampa, Dhruva & Ata) with pancha (5) jaathis (thrisra, chathurasra, khanda, mishra, sankeerna),
- with pancha (5) gathis (nadai)
- including double beat (chaukam) mode
- the Khanda, Mishra & even Sankeerna chaapu thaalas
It also features
- alternate styles of Mishra / Sankeerna chaapu
- slow/fast styles of khanda / mishra / sankeerna gathis (a god-send for pallavi rendition)
- a Metronome beats mode
- a wide speed range (10-140 bpm), with fine speed adjustment (+/- 0.1, 0.5, 1, 5 bpm) & precise laya
- speed sensing by tapping screen
- Saved Items List
Featuring an intuitive dual visual display of thaalam cycle with
- animated hand
- total beats/sub-beats
- current position in the thaalaangaas
- decipherable sounds
makes it easy to visualize laghu, dhrutha, anudhrutha ... beats, fingers & usi (flipped palm) & sub-beats for various gathis just like a human.
These features ensure you a perfect sense in thaalam cycle, living up to its name as a thaalam robot. It is a perfect "must have" companion for Carnatic musicians, teachers & students - instrumentalists, percussionists as well as vocalists; from beginners to seasoned musicians. Your practice, musical thoughts, joy & motivation will improve tremendously with it. This is a "must have" for improving swarakalpana, mukthayis, varnam/keerthana/pallavi rendition. It can even help you play a concert when you find no one to put thaalam. Percussionists can explore their math skills/patterns/ideas while practicing without depending on anyone for thaalam.
Its features, described below, come in 3 progressive level upgrades to suit various levels of musicians making it affordable & available for all levels. Most importantly, the app's basic level is free & well suited for early stage students to motivate them learn & play with focus.
NOTE: At any level, you can
- Try & see playable features of higher levels without purchasing (thaalam stops after 4 CYCLES each time - you can try as many times as you want),
- decide & upgrade progressively to higher levels.
Basic Level
Good for Beginners to Intermediate level students
Includes
- Adi thaalam, Saptha thaalaas in native Jaathis, i.e, Thrisra Triputa, Khanda Ata, Mishra Jhampe & the rest in Chathurasra Jaathi
- Chathurasra gathi in 1 or 2 beat modes
- Metronome beats in Chathurasra gathi
- Sensing speed by tapping screen
- Pair Mode - facilitates teacher/student use app for thaalam while in a music session on phone/video call
- Save an Items List with desired thaalam & speed, pick from List with single click
Limitations of Basic Level
- Stops after MAXIMUM of 20 CYCLES each time. [Level 1 Upgrade removes this limit]
- Pair Mode stops after MAXIMUM of 4 alternating cycles. [Level 2 Upgrade removes this limit]
- Saved Items List limited to 4 items. [Level 1 Upgrade removes this limit]
Level 1 Upgrade
Useful for Senior level students
- Removes "MAXIMUM 20 CYCLES" limit of Basic level
- Adds 3-beat Rupaka thaalam
- Removes Saved Items List limit of Basic Level
Level 2 Upgrade
Useful for Teachers & Performing level students
- Adds Khanda, Mishra & Sankeerna Chaapu thaalas
- Makes all 5 Jaathis available for all Saptha thaalaas
- Adds Chaukam (double beat) mode
- Adds Thrisra Gathi
- Enables continuous Pair Mode
Level 3 Upgrade
Useful for Teachers & Concert level musicians, instrumentalists, percussionists, pallavi experts/learners
- Adds alternate mode of chaapu thaalaas
- Adds Khanda, Mishra, Sankeerna Gathis in two modes
Enjoy with UptoPlay the online game Carnatic Thaalam Robot.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Developer: Venkata Narasimha Prasad Mantraratnam
Genre: Music & Audio
App version: 1.0.17
App size: 1.1M
Recent changes: Saved Items List - Prepare & manage [Add, Delete, Rename, Update, Mark *, Unmark *] a list of named items with desired thaalams & speeds. With a single click, you can load a Saved Item's thaalam & speed. This is very useful feature for senior & performing level musicians to save the precise speed finalized during planning / practicing at home which can be just picked precisely right in the concert.
Available from Basic level (limits to pick from top 4 items). Level 1 Upgrade removes this limit.
Comments:
A very good app for knowing talam while learning carnatic music. Its a free app with absolutely no ads. There is a limit on the number of cycles a talam will be played if you are a free user and the normal talams played by beginners all have 20 cycles, after which we can restart the play. Also for buying, there are 3 different levels of buying. A beginner like me neednot pay the full amount. I can pay a small amount for the first level which is sufficient for a beginner. Upgrade as u progress.
hi, this is a very good attempt and very useful to instrumentalists. usually many violinists tend to close their eyes and follow the varying sound of the metronome to realize the timing. as an improvement can you add different sounds at different stages of thalam? like for example first 4 beats of adi thalam has one sound and can be selected by user and next 2 beats will have one sound and last 2 beats will have another sound. also can we have total iteration count? helpful in swara prastaras
Dear Mantraratnam, appreciate your help in promptly attending to my query and providing a quick clarification. The app has been functional the way it has been described, but it was my misunderstanding. Apologies. Coming to the app itself, I am yet to find its nearest competition on the store. It has been creatively thought-out and intelligently designed. 100 marks to your animation idea of palms and fingers! Although I am yet to explore other features, I can say this is the best for Karnataka classical music which the students can immensely benefit from. Well done sir!
It's a very nice app for musicians. I had a problem. It stops after 4 cycles. I want to extend the tala count till I want to stop it. I also wanted to change the speed of the tala. How di I change it
So far enjoying the app. It is amazing. Appreciate your effort in building this app. But could you tell me if it is one time payment? Or monthly. I'm using an option, that says level 2. And thalam completes in 4 cycle."
Page navigation: