Sometimes you want to let a few people view a document without having them register with Patantara and having to explicitly give them permission through their email addresses. Link sharing is a way to do that without making your document public.

Sometimes when practicing, you just need that extra bit of a hint about the timing of the various svaras/lyrics that make up a line … before you take off on your own. With the new “hints” facility, Patantara will now highlight lyrics or svaras during playback, practice or recording using a bouncing ball.

Warning: This is work in progress and is subject to change.

We all have our own pace, rhythm and techniques of practice. When working with a teacher, repetition and alternation are two important ways to reinforce our learnings. The new “practice sets” facility of the Patantara player helps you set up such a repetition and alternation pattern of your choosing when you’re working on a composition.

A built-in tala player is now available for documents with audio tracks.

I’ve been exploring some ways to provide online teaching/learning aids for Carnatic music via the Patantara site. It is about time I captured some of the principles that we would like to stand by in a recognizable logo. While the finesse of the logo hasn’t been executed yet, here is a shape that has stuck with me for some time now.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

Patantara supports a notion of “collections” to help teachers maintain access permissions for a set of documents they give access to their students. This post describes how to use them.

For most compositions, the “svarasthana” notation which uses the letter SrRgGmMPdDnN for the 12 svara sthanas serves pretty well. For ragas which treat R as “ga”, for example, this doesn’t work as it creates a difference between how the svara is written and how it is sung. This also creates difficulties with typing out svaras where you know the raga isn’t going to change.

The “substitutions” feature in the Patantara editor helps with these situations and this post is about how to use it.

In the previous post, we saw how to use a document that has audio tracks assigned to notation lines. In this post, we’re going to see how to go about creating such a document. Sticking with tradition, we’ll use examples from Gaṇarājēna Rakṣitōham for illustration.

The ability to have audio tracks integrated with music notation would be of great use to students of Carnatic music. Towards that, we’ve now added support for anyone adding documents to Patantara to also attach audio recordings to the notation lines. We’ve also added a couple of commonly used and requested tools to aid learning and practice that’s integrated right into the notation documents published on Patantara.

In this post we first show you how to use a document which has audio tracks associated with notation lines. In the next post, we will describe for authors how to create such documents.

Earlier, we wrote about the preamble, using which you can change the file name of a document by which it is catalogued. We’d mentioned that the document preamble is intended for more controls on the document being available in a versioned manner. In this post, we introduce how you can control who can view/edit your document.