Re: [Taalpulse-user] Modifying defaults and adding more lehra's and tanpura tuning

[Guillaume P. <gpo...@gm...>]

Hi, thanks for your interest!

>
> 1) How do I modify startup defaults, for example my Teacher's gharana
> (Itawa) uses slightly higher tuning (A = 448 Hz) , and everyone pretty
> much uses "SA = C#". I would like to change the tuning to 448 Hz and
> root to C# instead of C..

It's really easy: if you run TaalPulse on a desktop computer, you can
easily save the state of the program: make the window a bit larger and
click outside of the area occupied by TaalPulse; this should bring a
menu, and one of the options is Save. Choose that, and the next time
you restart TaalPulse the current settings will be loaded.
If you run TaalPulse on a PDA, then you must first do the operation
above on a desktop computer, and then upload the modified image file
to your PDA.
Let me know if you have problems with these instructions.

> 2) How can I add more Tanpura notes, so I can adjust it according to my
> Sitar style.

The simplest way would be for you to tell me exactly which notes you
want, and I'll create a new release with this addition.

Otherwise, if you feel like doing it yourself, here is how.

In TaalPulse all compositions (lehra, drone & theka) are MIDI files.
Checkout the source code with Subversion into the directory that
contains the TaalPulse image:
svn co https://taalpulse.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/taalpulse/trunk .

After doing this you should have, among other things, a "snd"
directory alongside the TaalPulse image. If you have a "trunk"
directory instead, check that you included the final dot in the
command above.

Drone tracks are in snd/tracks/drone/
You will notice that there are two kinds of files: midi files and .srg
files. The midi files are the ones actually used by TaalPulse. So you
can add a midi file, then run TaalPulse and in the System page press
the restart button: this will reload all tracks.
The srg files are the "source files" for the midi files. They are
actually a textual description of the tracks, if you look at them you
will immediately understand how they work. I wrote a little program to
convert .srg files to midi, which you can also find in the subversion
repository under Sargam2Midi. This is a Java program, so you have to
compile it, and then run the Convert class, giving as an argument the
path to the directory that contains the tracks to convert.
So you can either directly create new midi files, or write a .srg file
and convert it (I find the latter much simpler).

> 3) How do I add more lehras.

Same as above!

>
> 4) Is there any way we can do meend, because this tool can actually
> become a good teaching tool.
>

Again, same as above. TaalPulse understands midi pitch change events,
and the srg to midi converter also has a syntax for meends. However,
the bad news is that they do not  sound nice at all... which is why
none of the included lehras use meends. I guess the synthesizer I use
is too basic, or maybe the samples are too low quality. If you know
about digital music synthesizer and how to make meends sound good, do
not hesitate to help!

Regards,
g

>
> Regards
> Iftikhar
>
>
>
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