The Taalmala Digi-108 produces an amazingly realistic sound of the traditional tabla by utilizing the latest state-of-the-art sampler technology. It is the newest in the range of Radel Taalmala tabla instruments.
It is a sophisticated instrument which not only plays 108 pre-set tabla thekas, but is capable of simulating a ‘live accompaniment‘ effect, so that it can be even used in concerts. It has a variety of attractive Fill-ins, Laggis, and Tihayis. MIDI IN and MIDI OUT facility has been provided, making the Taalmala Digi-108 the only Indian musical instrument that can be connected via MIDI to a keyboard synthesizer or computer.
It has many improvements over the Taalmala Digi-100 Plus:
- An even more stunning realistic sound
- Convenient front-mounted attractive LCD display for ease of use
- Eight new thekas (# 100 – 107) plus several modifications to earlier thekas, most importantly the 48-matra ek-taal (#11) and a new Bhajan theka(#90)
- Power-saving and longer use on battery
- Improved MIDI interface
Other special features are:
- Live accompaniment mode
- Manjeera Sound
- Digital display on an attractive blue front-mounted LCD screen
- One octave pitch range with fine tuning in between standard settings
- 4 settings of dagga depth
- Saving of user settings of pitch etc
- Intelligently played Long and Short Fill-ins
- Sync with Radel Sunadamala lehra
- Connect through MIDI to keyboard Synthesizer (MIDI IN and MIDI OUT provided)
- Editing of Taals by user
- User can create 5 new thekas of 99 matras each
- Housed in a sleek, lightweight ABS cabinet (size: 230mm x 135mm x 90mm, weight: approx 1kg)
