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.
Rhythm Trainer, achievements and practice sharing join the growing Learning, harmony and multi-instrument tools across Manouke.
Rhythm Trainer is now available on Manouke with several ways to practise timing and rhythm. Free Play, Learning, Practice, Challenge, Tempo Ladder and Survival build on the same recognition engine, with microphone calibration and immediate timing feedback after every attempt.
Practice can now lead to achievements and Rhythm Medals. Progress is connected to real training activity so milestones can reflect what has actually been practised rather than simply which pages have been opened.
Manouke now has its own notification system for important activity such as newly earned achievements and medals, giving progress and future learning features a shared place to reach the player.
Rhythm practice can now build a saved history instead of disappearing when a session ends. Completed results can be revisited, personal progress can be compared over time and supported results can be shared.
Learning Paths and related learning content now have a stronger review and publication foundation, helping new material move from creation to public learning content without losing its revision history.
The Grille Viewer now offers completely new ways to follow music while playing. Inline view turns the whole arrangement into one continuous musical timeline, while TAB projects Rhythm and exact Viewer chord voicings directly onto the instrument. Switch to Piano and the same music becomes a pitch-based keyboard view automatically.
Harmony Analysis is now integrated more deeply into the Viewer. Chords, Roman numerals, scale degrees, solfรจge and harmonic functions can be followed directly above TAB or Piano without changing the underlying rhythm, voicing or playback.
Exercises focus on individual musical ideas, while Learning Paths connect Exercises and Grilles into structured sequences. Lessons can include instructions, instrument-specific material and progress tracking from first practice to mastery.
Articles can now include interactive Manouke content directly inside the page, including Grilles, Songs, Artists, navigation, dates, countdowns and multi-instrument musical excerpts. Learning material no longer has to stop at plain text.
Exercises and embedded musical examples can adapt to different instruments and tunings while preserving the same underlying lesson. Guitar, ukulele, cavaquinho and piano can each use their own appropriate chord realization.
Publishing workflows for Songs, Artists, Exercises and other community content are becoming more structured. Contributors can prepare changes and publication requests while published content remains protected from accidental edits or broken references.
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.
Development continues around the same goal: connect instruments, chords, practice and playing into one system. Current work is focused on making Manouke understand not only which chord is being played, but which instrument, tuning and voicing a player actually wants to use.