Concatenated Tabla Sound Synthesis to Help Musicians
Uttam Kumar Roy · Research in Computing Science · 2015
Tabla is the prime percussion instrument used in the music of many Asian countries.This cheap instrument can produce variety of pleasant sounds and has high sense of pitch.However, it is difficult to play and consequently there is a huge lack of tabla percussionists.Majority of musicians like to perform with a few known players.Since tuning requires long time and its range is also limited, players are to carry many sets of instruments tuned at different pitch for quick switchover from one scale to another.This paper proposes a scheme to synthesize pre-recorded tabla sounds to help musicians.Since recorded sound is used, the clarity and quality of the sound is unquestionable.The rhythm (taal), tempo or even pitch can be customized depending on musician's requirement.The method can also synthesize some table sounds which otherwise would be impossible to play by table percussionist.