Ah, I see, Fritz.

As long as you aren't talking about waterboarding a tamagotchi, I totally get what you're saying.

In that respect, I haven't run across anything (that I know of anyway) that manipulates the natural sounds of the tabla in such a way. Could be interesting.

Fritz, "Riyaz Master Professional" also offers an electronic tabla, though I don't know how natural it would feel to click some buttons and turn some dials in order to reproduce the sounds you'd normally get by actually playing the instrument.

If you follow this link and scroll half-way down the page, you'll see the "Electronic TABLA" box.

Cool -- I wasn't aware of Ghazal. I'll have to check them out.