Talea: Drum & Groove
Songdeed LLC · Music
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Drums that know where the music turns. Every other drum generator asks what genre you want and how busy it should be. Talea asks where your music turns — and then plays it. HOW IT WORKS • Set the bars, the time signature and the tempo, and mark a section wherever the music changes. That is enough — chords are optional. • Talea works out which bars the form leans on: a section arriving, a phrase closing, the ending. Gold ticks on the timeline show you where, before you press play. • The fill lands in the bar before the turn. The crash lands on the downbeat after it. The louds and softs lift into the turn and settle after. • Press Generate. Press Next take for another reading of the same form. WHAT'S INSIDE • Fifteen styles. Ten for the kit: rock, pop, funk/R&B, jazz, bossa nova, samba, reggae, Motown, boom-bap, four-on-the-floor. Five for concert percussion: march, bolero, tarantella, swell and tutti. • Nineteen time signatures, in three families — simple, compound and irregular. Each style is written against the pulse of the bar rather than against "beat 2 of 4/4", so 6/8, 5/4, 11/8 and 2/2 are not special cases. A 7/8 rock groove exists because the rule does; so does a 6/8 march. • Five kits, all synthesised on your device: acoustic, 808, 909 — and Concert and Orchestral, which are the same voices re-voiced as timpani, tam-tam, triangle, tambourine, suspended cymbal and concert bass drum. • Section feels: half-time, double-time, broken, build and stop-time. The control names the bars it will change before it changes them, so a chorus goes half-time and nothing else moves. • Density, Motion, Fills and Swing — and a tempo you can type exactly, not just drag. • A real engraved percussion staff: two voices, hands up and feet down, beamed by the pulse, x noteheads for cymbals, ghost notes in brackets. • Export MIDI on General MIDI channel 10, or MusicXML as a percussion staff for NoteFlight, MuseScore, Sibelius or Dorico. A concert kit names its instruments properly on the way out. • Import a bass line and the kick locks to it. Import a drum part and Talea reads its style, density and swing off the file and moves the sliders to match — visibly. • Import from Anacru and its cycle rides over your bar as polymeter, phasing against it and realigning on a schedule the app shows you. • Fully offline. No account, no sign-in, no ads, no in-app purchases, no subscription. • Talea collects nothing. Nothing leaves your device. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO It will not adopt an imported drum part for you to edit hit by hit. Talea is a generator, and a pattern it could not regenerate is a pattern its own controls cannot touch. It will not pretend to be a polymeter sequencer. Talea counts in one meter, and an imported cycle rides over it as a voice rather than as a second bar — because the thing that lets one style library serve 4/4 and 7/8 is a single pulse map. It will not guess at a control it cannot read from a file. Anything it is unsure of is left alone, and said so. Talea is by Songdeed. Pairs with Anacru for the polymeter, Mediant for the chords, Continuo for the bassline, and Melisma for the words.
What's new · 1.1
Concert percussion, five new idioms, nineteen time signatures — and polymeter. FIVE CONCERT IDIOMS March, Bolero, Tarantella, Swell and Tutti join the ten drum-kit styles. They are written against the pulse of the bar like everything else, so a March in 6/8 becomes a quickstep on its own and a Tutti in 7/8 needs no special case. Swell is the one to hear first. It is the only style whose subject is the turn map itself: cymbal and timpani rolls that crescendo INTO where the form turns, and quiet bars that are nearly empty on purpose. CONCERT AND ORCHESTRAL KITS The same fourteen voices, re-voiced. Concert is a band or pit — concert toms, a crisp field snare, tambourine, splash and suspended cymbals. Orchestral is symphonic — timpani in place of the toms, tam-tam, triangle, and a soft-mallet bass drum. Picking a concert idiom moves the kit for you, and says so. They rename and renumber themselves on the way out, so the file says what you heard: a tambourine leaves as GM 54 Tambourine, not as GM 42 Closed hat. NINETEEN TIME SIGNATURES 2/4 3/4 4/4 5/4 6/4 7/4 3/8 2/2 3/2 · 6/8 9/8 12/8 15/8 · 5/8 7/8 8/8 10/8 11/8 13/8, in three families. 2/2 is not 4/4 with a different label: its pulse is the half note, so the same groove puts its hats on quarters instead of eighths. POLYMETER, FROM ANACRU Import a file from Anacru and its cycle rides over your bar, going in and out of phase with it — five quarters against 4/4 realigns every five bars, and Talea tells you so in bars rather than in numbers. You choose which layer rides, what it plays, and whether it sounds every pulse or only the accents. ALSO • Type an exact tempo in the field beside the slider, instead of dragging for it. Still one purchase. Still no account, no ads, no subscription, and nothing leaves your device.
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