Better directions for virtual tabla

OK, so having to go to a new page to view directions was tiresome. What's more, the search engines were indexing the directions more than the actual tabla page! So I've put the directions on the virtual tabla page, and it actually looks way better now. enjoy.

Virtual Tabla uptades

I just added a new feature: background music. This really puts the tabla in context, try playing some notes with the background tune and it will sound much better! Better yet, play the background tune with some of the prerecorded tunes, and you'll see how the tabla sounds with music*.

*Guitar sounds were made using Cakewalk Kinetic 2 software

Pop India Radio improvements

Added a status bar that basically tells you if the song is still loading or not - I noticed that sometimes you would have to wait a while for the song to start. Now at least you will know that its just loading and hasn't actually crashed! Also, the application will tell you which language you are listening to (tamil, punjabi, or hindi) .. just in case you can't tell ;)

Finally, added a nice little icon for the website in general. I found a nifty website that helps you make a .ico file from an image you already have:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

Upcoming fixes

There seems to be a lot of traffic coming these days, and pop india radio seems to be getting kind of slow. It's possible that the traffic is the culprit, in any case, I'll be adding some more tools to better the experience (loading bar, status text etc.)

Also, for the Virtual Tabla, I'm thinking of adding a few new sounds. Namely "DheRe" and the "slide" effect for the bayan (bass). If you've ever heard the tabla played before, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about!

For those of you who've never heard all the amazing sounds you can play with the bayan (the bass drum), let the Tabla master show you below! (I know I know, the guy on the flute is a bit funny)

Pop India Radio is up

It took a while to make, but Pop India Radio is up. You can listen to a variety of popular Indian music (hindi, punjabi, tamil) . More updates to come.

http://www.talastudio.com/popindiaradio.html

tabla updates

Created a 'virtual tabla directions' page to help those not familiar with tabla. It gives some basic idea of how to play more complicated sounds like "dha" and "tirikite" etc.

Also modified the look of the tabla webpage a bit to make it more navigable.

These days im working on making some of the other elements talastudio.. 'pop india radio' :)

हिंदी बोलने वालों, मे सोच रहा हूँ कि वेबसाइट हिंदी मे ट्रांज़्लेट करूं।लेकिन मेरी सपेललिंग बहूत खराब है ... देखेंगे !