Carnatic Thaalam Robot

Name: Carnatic Thaalam Robot
Rating: 4.4 (9 reviews)
Author: Venkata Narasimha Prasad Mantraratnam

By: Venkata Narasimha Prasad Mantraratnam

Thaalam Robot for Musicians

Features & Capabilities

A feature rich app with hand display to render Thaalam for Carnatic Musicians, Teachers, Students & Performers. Works with iPhones, iPads, iPods with iOS 11.0 or higher.

Introducing Carnatic Thaalam Robot, a feature rich app for Carnatic musicians to display thaalam 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

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Venkata Narasimha Prasad Mantraratnam

Rating:

4.40

(9)

Version:

1.0.17 Last updated: 2018-11-29

Version code:

829414348

Creation date:

2018-10-18

Compatible devices:

Size:

8.79MB

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Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-11

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Developed by:

Venkata Narasimha Prasad Mantraratnam

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/carnatic-thaalam-robot/id1438376299

User Reviews

Great app. Please consider allowing family sharing of in app purchases. Or allow transferring in app purchases to family members. I purchased the app on my phone for my 9 yr old daughter who’s learning music. She used to use my phone for practice but now that she has her own older iPhone, which she uses solely for Shruti etc, she wants to use your app on her own phone. Alas, I now have to pay up again to have the app shared onto her phone even though I have already paid for the app on my phone and never use it, since I bought it only for my daughter. This is like textbook example of why apple enabled the family sharing feature. Pls enable it on your apps in app purchases too! Would have been a 5 star app with the family sharing enabled. Thx!

by ca*****, 2022-01-16

The Carnatic Thaalam Robot is a first of its kind application that was greatly needed by the Carnatic music community for a long time, this need has now been fuilfilled completely. This Thaalam robot app keeps Thaalam and provides Metronome beats. It supports multitude of thalas commonly used in carnatic music including different chapu talas in tisra, chatursha, khanda, mishra and sankeerna gathis or nadai. A MUST have app for every student or performing carnatic musicians. The functionality offered is rich and more over is very precise in layam. This app can be used to play thalas in various speed with fine control, set gathi/nadai,thala anagas are visually displayed with a graphical hand similar to the way a student would render the thala in person. The biggest utility of this app is it will help the student to keep a precise laya during practice sessions, very useful for varnam, kritis, swarakalpana, muktayis - improves focus for all levels upto a performing musician. Pallavi rendering and practice is made easy with this app by the display of the thala cycle and the beat counts. The customizing features are good, user can customize the tone volumes to distinguish anghas of the tala like beats, finger, chaukam beat, gathi, sub-beats. The app can sense the tala speed using the tap mode. The controls are well placed for easy reach, the app is very easy to use. The metronome mode with delay feature helps student(s) in their practice of sarvalaghu patterns repetedly. I highly recommend all the levels, each level stacks functionality over previous level. All the features are free to try in the basic level.The basic level and level 1 update is what I recommend for beginners who are starting with sarale/janta/dhatu and alankara lessons. Level 2 and 3 for advanced students and carnatic musicians. This app completely replaces the electronic metronome (Radel tala box or Korg MA-1). The basic version (free) itself has loads of features which these electronic box metronomes does not have. The app is not only a thala/metronome app, but with the configurable "pair mode" provides usage of thalams in a typical student-teacher learning session over a live or audio/skype session. The issues of thala lag experienced during a video learning session is solved with the unique pair mode approach, I have found this pair mode very useful and productive in a student-teacher learning session. The pair mode essentially allows thala cycles to alternate with a delay (configurable) betweem two manually synchronized app instances on two phones/ipads (student and teacher). This innovative idea is used to solve lag experienced in an online session with a tala box or metronome. I highly recommend this app as it completely fuilfills the needs of the carnatic music community for a tala support application. Five stars and A++++ is my rating for this app.