Tāl Chakra vs Konstrukt

Your guru draws a circle on the board, marks the beats, claps the vibhags, and suddenly the taal makes sense. Tāl Chakra puts that moment in your pocket. This is not a tabla machine. It is an interactive guide to the rhythmic architecture of Hindustani classical music. Each taal is drawn as a circle (the way musicians have understood rhythm for centuries) and brought to life with real tabla recordings, animated playback, and tools that let you take the structure apart and put it back together. 16 TĀLS, ONE CIRCLE From the 6-beat Dādrā to the 16-beat Tīntāl and the rare 14-beat Ārā Chautāl, each taal plays with studio-recorded tabla samples across three dynamic layers. Watch the bead travel the cycle, hear each bol as it lands, and build an intuitive sense of the rhythm that no metronome click can give you. X-RAY MODE Peel back the layers of any taal. Concentric rings reveal vibhāg groupings, tālī and khālī accents, and mātrā positions side by side. See instantly why Rūpak feels nothing like Jhaptāl, even though they are only one beat apart. Compare two tāls with the same beat count by crossfading between them. LAYKĀRĪ LAB Practice subdivisions against a running cycle. Choose from nine ratios: from barābar (1:1) up through sātgun (7:1), plus the fractional cross-rhythms kuāḍ and āḍ. Colour-coded chips group the ratios into three families. Tap Auto and the app cycles through whichever family your current ratio belongs to, advancing one step per full taal cycle, the way your guru would push your speed in a lesson. Watch the subdivision dots appear between the beats and hear a second layer play against the taal. TIHĀĪ BUILDER Compose three-phrase cadences that resolve on sam. Set the starting beat, phrase length, and gap, then watch three coloured arcs draw themselves around the circle in real time. Green means it lands. Red means it doesn't. Tap play to hear your tihāī against the running taal, and feel the resolution when the third phrase hits sam. Includes 48 classic preset patterns across the tāl library, tailored to each rhythmic cycle. TEMPO LAB AND PERFORMANCE MAP Explore the relationship between tempo and density across five laya zones, from Ati Vilambit to Ati Drut. Then zoom out with the Performance Map to see how rhythm lives inside a full rāg performance: from the unmeasured ālāp, through the gathering intensity of the gat sections, to the climactic final cadence. BUILT FOR SERIOUS PRACTICE A tanpura drone in all 12 keys gives your practice a tonal anchor. Haptic pulses mark sam or every beat, so you can close your eyes and still feel the cycle. A session counter tracks completed cycles and elapsed time. A glossary of 50+ terms with Devanāgarī script helps you learn the vocabulary alongside the music. Designed for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Konstrukt is a patchable instrument for iPad and iPhone. Design the surface you play, sequence it, give it sound with built-in instruments and your own AUv3 plug-ins, mix and record it — and when you want to go deeper, unlock the visual graph underneath and rewire all of it. Standalone, and as an AUv3 in your host. SURFACES YOU DESIGN • The KB-1 keyboard suite — piano, diatonic chord pads, scale-locked keyboard, MPE Seaboard ribbon, MPE Strings grid (4ths) and a 4×4 drum-pad grid, each with an arpeggiator. Successor to the KB-1 Expressive Keyboard Suite. • Knobs, faders, XY pads, buttons, live visualizers and channel strips on a snapping grid, in pages like hardware banks. Bind any control to MIDI CC — or, with the unlock, to any parameter in the patch. A SUITE OF SEQUENCERS • Drum, melody, chord, analog and CC lanes, the Drum Grid, a Metropolis-style Stage Seq and a Matrix note grid — tap to edit, with per-step velocity, probability, trigger conditions, ratchets and microtiming. • Patterns up to four bars, eight banks per lane. Record into patterns step by step or live, then fix it in the grid. A Looper with quantize, undo and expression capture. • Players: one tap on a lane writes a pattern from a style and a Complexity slider — drums with fills, a bass under your chords, chord stabs and pushes. • One patch key and scale every lane can follow, custom scales, and chord lanes with their own rhythm layer. INSTRUMENTS AND YOUR PLUG-INS • Built in: a two-oscillator Synth, a Wavetable synth, Drums, MegaSaw, a Sampler and a loop Slicer, plus Drive, Filter, Delay, Reverb, Compressor, EQ, Chorus and Phaser — each with its own panel. • Host your AUv3 instruments, effects and MIDI effects inside the patch (standalone app), with floating plug-in windows, presets and bindable parameters. THE RACK • A strip per instrument: fader, pan, mute and solo, inserts, pre- or post-fader sends to bus strips, sidechain, MIDI Learn, master inserts, and scenes recalled with a fade. Hardware synths join as External Instruments. • Bring a mic or guitar in on its own channel. Record the master and stems to 24-bit WAV. Tap tempo, metronome with count-in, Ableton Link, MIDI clock in and out. Multi-output routing on a multi-channel interface. UNLOCK — THE GRAPH EDITOR (in-app purchase) Everything above runs on one visual graph that carries MIDI and audio. Unlock the editor to rewire it: • 80+ node kinds — arps, scale quantizers, chords, echoes, swing, euclidean rhythms, LFOs and CC tools, wired MIDI In → processors → instruments or MIDI Out. • Components — save a cluster of nodes as one card with real ports, its surface cards included; drop saved components into any patch and edit them inside. • Audio on the same canvas — cable instruments through effect chains and hosted effects, split sends to buses, key a sidechain. The Rack is this graph seen as strips. • Emergence generators — Game of Life, Turing machine, Wolfram rules, Markov chains, bouncing balls, a Lorenz attractor — patterns that evolve instead of loop. Every keyboard is a routable node, every knob can drive any parameter. Factory graph patches open and play without the unlock. The unlock is the editor and nothing else. WITH HARDWARE, OTHER APPS OR A DESKTOP DAW • MIDI out over CoreMIDI, extra output ports and an always-on virtual port: 16 channels plus MPE. • One USB cable to a Mac, or Bluetooth MIDI — two MPE surfaces and a controller that reshapes per track, no driver needed. • As an AUv3, load Konstrukt as a MIDI processor or as an instrument in hosts such as AUM, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Cubasis, Drambo and Loopy Pro. PRICING One-time purchases, no subscription. The app is the whole instrument; the graph editor is a single optional unlock. One purchase covers iPad and iPhone. Requires iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later; on iPhone the app runs in landscape. Plug-in hosting, audio input and recording are part of the standalone app. No user data is collected.