Hi,

There are many products available to generate synthesized sitar sounds, unfortunately most require that you actually understand how to play the instrument, the rest are basically synthesisers that you plug a guitar in to and it generates harmonics and over tones that sound something like a sitar but most sound like the creator never actually listened to the instrument as played by Ravi Shankar.  Some of the loops that are available are real sitar players and sound very good but their functionality in a Music Maker composition is limited.

There are some hardware products that are available and the expensive ones sound pretty good but the realistically prices ones for the most part sound pathetic.  I like the sound of the instrument but have no clue how to play it, so I don't use that sound in my material at this point.  If you find one, please let me know, and if you know where to find a decent tabla synthesizer I would love to know where I could locate it.

My family background is not from India, I just really like the sound of the instruments used in some of the music from India.  There are a few people on this froum whose background is from India, so hopefully one will have more information on something that can actually generate a realistic sound of the instrument at a reasonable price.

Good Luck,

George