Manouke Patchlog – Updates & Changes

30 September 2026 Rhythm Trainer, achievements, saved practice history and stronger learning and contribution workflows.

🥁 Rhythm Trainer — launched rhythm recognition and training with Free Play, Learning, Practice, Challenge, Tempo Ladder and Survival, using microphone calibration and immediate timing feedback.

🎯 Practice modes & progression — different training modes can now build on the same rhythm material while supporting guided practice, tempo goals, challenges and longer survival-style runs.

📊 Rhythm history & personal progress — completed rhythm attempts can now be saved and revisited, allowing players to compare results and follow their development over time.

🏅 Achievements & Rhythm Medals — real practice activity can now unlock achievements and rhythm milestones connected with what the player has actually practised.

🔔 System notifications — added a shared notification system for events such as newly earned achievements and medals, creating a foundation for future learning and account notifications.

🔗 Shareable practice results — supported Rhythm Trainer results can now be revisited and shared instead of existing only inside the original training session.

🎓 Learning publication workflow — strengthened review, revisions and publication for Learning Paths and related learning content.

🧩 Contribution & attribution foundation — more created and published content can now retain structured information about its origin, contributors and revisions.

18 September 2026 New Viewer modes, instrument-aware TAB and Piano, richer harmony, publishing workflows and stronger foundations across Manouke.

🎼 Inline Viewer — added a continuous horizontal playing view with synchronized chords, harmony, lyrics, exact voicings and a fixed playhead that follows the complete runtime arrangement.

🎸 Instrument-aware TAB — Rhythm V9 attacks can now be projected through the exact Viewer chord voicings to create playable Guitar, Ukulele and Cavaquinho TAB without introducing a second timing system.

🎹 Piano view — selecting Piano while using TAB now automatically switches to a pitch-based keyboard visualization using the same rhythm, harmony and exact Viewer voicings.

🧠 Harmony inside TAB & Piano — chords and harmonic analysis are now displayed as continuous spans above the music, with Roman numerals, scale degrees, solfège and harmonic functions available during playback.

▶️ Improved playback views — Inline, TAB and Piano share a compact docked Player with Play/Pause, Stop, progress, speed controls and synchronized Follow behaviour.

🎵 More accurate TAB engraving — improved rhythm alignment, beams, flags, augmentation dots, ties, fallback rhythm rendering and handling of simultaneous Bass, Comp and Treble roles.

🎶 Exact voicing preservation — different physical voicings of the same chord name now remain distinct across supported instruments instead of being unintentionally merged into a single chord card.

📰 Interactive article content — articles can now embed Grilles, Songs, Artists, navigation, dates, countdowns and multi-instrument musical examples directly inside editorial and learning content.

👤 Artist contribution workflow — expanded Artist profiles with contributor edits, image proposals, publication review and safeguards for Artists already referenced by published content.

🎼 Song publishing workflow — structured song credits are now the authoritative source for composers and other contributors, with improved review, publication and search behaviour.

🧱 Stable Grille structure — bars now use permanent identities independent from their displayed order, creating a safer foundation for editing, teaching, assignments, analytics and future musical analysis.

🛡 Maintenance mode — Manouke can now remain available for browsing during maintenance while write operations are safely blocked until normal operation resumes.

🧹 Legacy cleanup — retired remaining legacy Grille persistence and older runtime paths after migrating current Viewer, Editor, rhythm and publication workflows to their canonical models.

⚡ Viewer reliability & performance — improved cache handling, keyboard controls, Player restart, instrument switching, synchronized lyrics, voicing resolution and consistency between Viewer, Editor and playback.

12 September 2026 Exercises, Learning Paths, harmony analysis and a stronger foundation for learning and practice.

🎯 Exercises — added focused practice material that can live independently from a complete song, with its own instructions, settings and publication workflow.

🛤 Learning Paths — Exercises and Grilles can now be connected into structured learning sequences with progress and completion tracking.

🎸 Multi-instrument learning — one Exercise can support different instrument profiles, voicings and guidance without duplicating the whole lesson.

✍️ Create & share learning content — users can build their own Exercises and Learning Paths, keep them private, share them with students or friends and submit useful material for publication.

🧠 Harmony Analysis — added Roman numerals, scale degrees, solfège and harmonic functions directly alongside the original chords in the Viewer.

📝 Teaching instructions — Exercise guidance can now be attached directly to musical positions so notes and explanations appear where they are needed.

🥁 Unified rhythm system — Editor, Viewer and playback now use the same current rhythm model, replacing the remaining legacy rhythm paths.

🌍 Localized learning content — Exercises, instructions and Learning Paths now support the multilingual content workflow used across Manouke.

🛠 Editor & Viewer — improved Exercise properties, instrument profiles, teaching-note layout, editing workflows and consistency between saved and displayed grille data.

🗃 Publishing & revisions — expanded the existing draft, review and publication workflow to support the new learning content more consistently.

10 September 2026 A larger and more consistent chord and voicing system.

🎶 Chords V2 — expanded and reconciled the chord and voicing library, preserving instrument-specific positions while improving consistency across the Editor, Viewer and Player.

🎸 Preferred voicings — improved selection of preferred chord positions for different instruments and made those choices more consistent across viewing, editing and playback.

🔁 Occurrence-specific voicings — repeated appearances of the same chord can now keep their own selected voicing instead of unintentionally changing together.

▶ Chord playback — improved the connection between selected voicings, chord diagrams and Player backing so the chosen position is represented more consistently during practice.

29 August 2026 Practice, teaching, ensembles and a much broader international Manouke.

🎓 Learning & Practice — added saved practice sessions, active practice time, assignment progress, completion tracking and practice goals connected directly with the music being practised.

👨‍🏫 Teaching — teachers and students can now connect through invitations, create assignments, set tempo and practice goals, leave feedback and follow student progress.

👥 Ensembles — added groups with members, roles, shared repertoire, private grille sharing and rehearsal history.

🔄 Sync rehearsals — improved synchronized playback across multiple devices, six-character code joining, rehearsal lifecycle and access to private grilles shared through an Ensemble.

▶ Viewer V2 — the new production viewer now brings together interactive playback, practice controls, Performance mode, rhythm playback and instrument-specific audio.

🌍 French & Brazilian Portuguese — localization expanded beyond English and Czech across the catalogue, player, Learning, Teaching and Ensemble tools.

🎼 Song credits — songs now use structured artist and credit roles instead of relying only on the original single author field.

🗂 My Songs & My Grilles — improved personal catalogues for drafts, private material, publication state and revisions.

🔒 Private content workflow — private grilles can remain outside the public library while still being shared safely with an Ensemble.

🪕 Instrument playback — continued work on guitar, ukulele, Low G, cavaquinho and piano playback, including better sample mapping and instrument-specific behaviour.

📊 Practice & grille analytics — restored and expanded tracking for grille views, playback, practice sessions and active practice time.

🧭 Localized routing — more account, song, Learning, Teaching and Ensemble pages now preserve the selected language throughout navigation.

22 August 2026 Player, localization and public-interface polish.

▶ Grille Player — added scheme-aware playback with metronome, rhythm and visual modes, start-from-bar controls, count-in, playback speed and practice loops.

🎯 Playback workflow — improved current-bar following, compact movable transport, pause/stop behaviour and restoration of the player position.

🌐 Czech localization — public pages and core grille controls can now be switched between English and Czech.

🧭 Public navigation — About, Features and What's New were reorganised and localization-aware navigation was completed.

18 August 2026 Rhythm tools, instruments and smarter chord handling.

🥁 Rhythm Reader & Editor — expanded rhythm data and notation with accents, tuplets, dotted values, pickups, tempo and playback.

🎸 Instrument system — expanded support for guitar, ukulele, cavaquinho and piano, including instrument tunings.

🔄 Chord conversion — improved conversion between instruments using the actual chord tones.

🪶 Playable chord alternatives — Easy Chords, Easy Harmonize, Manouche voicings and broader fretboard searches.

16 August 2026 More context around songs and the people behind them.

👤 Artist pages — dedicated profiles now connect composers, lyricists, arrangers, musicians and groups with songs.

🎼 Richer song credits — credits can distinguish different musical roles instead of storing only a single author field.

📘 Manouche Dictionary — expanded the discover/learn part of Manouke with terminology connected with Gypsy Jazz and Manouche culture.

13 August 2026 Learning tools and a cleaner application structure.

🎮 Time Signature Game — added several game modes for recognising time signatures.

🏆 Leaderboard & stats — game results can be compared and tracked.

🔎 Discovery — filters, navigation and public song/artist pages were reorganised as Manouke grew beyond the original grille list.