New tools, workflows and improvements are constantly being added to Manouke. Here you can see the most important recent changes without digging through technical patch notes.
Exercises and Learning Paths, harmony analysis, multi-instrument learning content and deeper connections between creating, teaching, practising and playing music.
Manouke can now go beyond complete songs and grilles. Exercises focus on a specific musical idea, while Learning Paths connect Exercises and Grilles into a structured sequence that can grow from a simple concept into practical playing.
Grilles can now be explored as harmony, not only as chord names. The Viewer can show Roman numerals, scale degrees, solfรจge and harmonic functions while keeping the original chords available alongside the analysis.
One Exercise can now support different instrument profiles, allowing the same musical lesson to use instrument-specific chord voicings, settings and guidance without creating separate copies of the whole Exercise.
Exercises and Learning Paths are not limited to content created by Manouke. Build your own material, keep it private, share it with students or friends, or submit useful content for publication in the public library.
The chord system has been expanded and refined with a stronger voicing library, better instrument-specific choices and more consistent preferred chord positions across the Viewer, Editor and learning tools.
Instrument playback continues to improve with better handling of note lengths, chord backing and audio loading, making practice playback more consistent across different instruments.
Rhythm data is now handled more consistently between the Editor, Viewer and Player, so detailed patterns, notation and overrides can travel through the same workflow without falling back to older rhythm formats.
Exercises can include guidance connected directly to the musical structure, so explanations and practice instructions can appear where they are actually needed in the grille.
Learning Paths can guide players through a sequence of material while keeping progress and completion connected to the exercises being practised.
The V2 Editor and Viewer received another round of improvements around Exercise properties, instrument profiles, teaching notes, chord presentation and safer editing workflows.
A new Viewer and Practice Player, Learning and Teaching tools, Ensembles with synchronized rehearsals, four languages and a much stronger workflow for creating and sharing music.
The grille viewer has been rebuilt around interactive playback and practice. Follow the current position, start from a chosen bar, change speed, use a count-in and repeat selected material with bar, section or AโB loops.
Logged-in users can now build a real practice history around the music they play. Practice sessions, active practice time, assignments, completion and progress can all stay connected with the grille being practised.
Teachers and students can connect inside Manouke. Teachers can create assignments, set practice or tempo goals, leave feedback and follow student progress while keeping the work connected to the actual music.
Create a group, invite members, build shared repertoire and start rehearsals directly from Manouke. Sync connects multiple devices to the same session while each musician can use the instrument or view that fits their part.
Manouke is now being localized across English, Czech, French and Brazilian Portuguese, including the main catalogue, viewer, Learning, Teaching and Ensemble tools.
Songs now use richer artist and credit information instead of relying on one legacy author field. My Songs and My Grilles make it easier to manage drafts, private material, publication and revisions.
Manouke continues to expand instrument-specific playback, chord positions and voicings for guitar, ukulele, Low G ukulele, cavaquinho and piano.
Find more playable alternatives when the current chord shape is uncomfortable or unnecessarily difficult.
Explore simpler versions of difficult harmony without manually rebuilding an entire grille.
Chord tools can focus on shapes and voicings suited to Gypsy Jazz and Jazz Manouche playing.
Alternative chord positions can be explored across a wider part of the fretboard instead of being concentrated around open positions and the first few frets.
The rhythm system now supports structured patterns with much more detailed timing and notation, while the same data can be used for playback and practice.
Rhythm patterns can be heard as well as read and can now support both grille playback and editor previews.
Tempo is now part of a broader practice workflow, including playback speed and target tempo for assignments.
Songs can distinguish composers, lyricists, arrangers, musicians and other roles while artist pages connect those credits across the library.
Registered users now have a personal catalogue for their songs, including drafts, publication state and revisions.
Personal grille drafts and private versions can be managed separately from the public catalogue.
Private grilles can stay outside the public library while still being shared with an Ensemble for rehearsal.
The dictionary continues to grow with terminology, musicians, instruments, techniques and cultural context connected with Jazz Manouche and Gypsy Jazz.
The Time Signature Game and leaderboard remain part of the learning tools around the main grille library.
Manouke will keep developing around the same idea: make music easier to understand, adapt, practise and play together. Some of the next experiments will build on the harmony, rhythm and practice systems already inside Manouke.