Blog post: Development update (February 22)

website/blog/2020/02-21-development-update.md

@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ There were also some more commits to the master branch afterwards, but those wer
 work, i.e. upgrading the package dependencies, incl. `mypy`/`pylint`, which triggered some code
 cleanups. I just did not bother to create a new branch for that.
 
-# What's new
+### What's new
 
-## Sample track improvements
+#### Sample track improvements
 
 [[thumb:2020-02-21-sample-tracks.png]] I made various improvements to the sample tracks (which I
 should really rename to "Audio Track") to make them at least somewhat usable - for my current
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ are now correctly rendered as well.
 
 There are still no advanced features, like editing, enveloped, disk streaming, etc.
 
-# Internal changes
+### Internal changes
 
 * Audio files are now decoded into raw files (32bit floats, single channel per file) into the
   project directory, which can be directly loaded into memory for playback.

website/blog/2020/02-22-development-update.md

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+Title: Development update (February 22)
+Date: 2020-02-22
+
+Oops, already the [next
+commit](https://github.com/odahoda/noisicaa/commit/8fd99a2ef97b1dc89ac517d857db80f0dd8f2383), though
+not a very big one (and I have to admit that I was already working on it when I wrote yesterday's
+update).
+
+### What's new
+
+#### New toolbar
+
+[[thumb:2020-02-22-toolbar.png]] The toolbar has been redesigned. Instead of using the normal
+`QToolBar` widget, this is now using a custom layout. I rearranged the buttons, added buttons to
+move the playhead back and forward by a single beat, added a widget to display the current time
+(both in musical time and wall time), added a VU meter to display the master output level and move
+the engine load graph from the status bar at the bottom of the window into the toolbar.
+
+#### VU Meter node
+
+[[thumb:2020-02-22-vumeter.png]] A simple node with just a VU meter display. I just needed the
+processor, which is invisibly added to the engine in order so send the master output level to the
+toolbar. Adding a UI to it and thus making it available to the user was simple enough.
+
+#### Snap-to-grid when moving the playhead
+
+Not much more to say about this.
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+* Some previous refactoring broke the status updates of the playback and loop buttons.
+* The time alignment of measured tracks (Beat and Score tracks) got out of sync with the other
+  tracks due to rounding errors.