SunVox audio tracker software

scott_puopolo18 · December 30, 2022, 11:06pm

Has anyone seen this tracker audio software. @danboid perhaps I saw you in the forums there.
https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
I’m not sure if it would be useful to Haiku. I can say that it is fun to experiment with!

danboid · December 30, 2022, 11:09pm

Yeah that would’ve been me. It’d be cool to see it get ported to Haiku. I expect it’d be easy to port and would probably happen if there was enough demand but Haiku tracker users is such a small niche.

scott_puopolo18 · December 30, 2022, 11:12pm

I couldn’t find any mention of source code other than it is ported to seemingly everything under the sun.

danboid · December 30, 2022, 11:14pm

Yeah there is no publically available source but I think there is source code of an early version of its sound engine somewhere.

danboid · December 30, 2022, 11:19pm

SamuraiCrow · December 31, 2022, 1:38pm

I don’t see any open-source license in that source code. I don’t think it’s legal to distribute.

…unless you got permission from the author. He lists his gmail on the “about” page on warmplace if you want to contact him.

scott_puopolo18 · December 31, 2022, 1:55pm

I saw a BSD license.

github.com

warmplace/sunvox_sources/blob/master/sundog_engine/docs/license.txt

==============================================================================
SunDog engine Release License:
==============================================================================
The BSD License

Copyright (c) 2002 - 2009, Alex Zolotov <nightradio@gmail.com>
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, 
  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, 
  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation 
  and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived 
  from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS

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SamuraiCrow · December 31, 2022, 1:58pm

Ok. I looked again and it’s in https://github.com/warmplace/sunvox_sources/blob/master/sunvox_engine/docs/license.txt

Edit: ninja’d

Edit2:

It’s only the player code though. The editor is closed source.

csgraves · December 31, 2022, 3:15pm

Ooh! YES PLEASE!! I ran this on Android, Linux and Windows for a long time and would love to see it ported.

SamuraiCrow · December 31, 2022, 6:48pm

The editor is not open-source, only the player code. At most we can expect a translator to load the music on MediaPlayer from the open source code using TranslatorKit. The Linux version needs SDL2 and a particular version of GLibC but it has to be the original author that decides whether and how to port the commercial editor code to Haiku.

win8linux · December 31, 2022, 6:57pm

This would be great already though, as there’s a bunch of SunVox music floating around already.

scott_puopolo18 · December 31, 2022, 7:22pm

I sent Alexander an email asking about the possibility of SunVox on Haiku and/or how Haiku could port this. Can’t hurt to ask, right?

danboid · January 1, 2023, 6:02pm

That’s what I said

scott_puopolo18 · January 21, 2023, 9:29pm

Here is my inquiry:

Hi Alexander! I’m writing to you on behalf of Haiku (haiku-os.org). Do you know of this os? It is a continuation of the beloved BeOS. I recently discovered SunVox. It is a blast, simple to learn, but deep in its possibilities! Have you ever considered porting SunVox to Haiku (or BeOS in the past)? If not, how could the Haiku community make that happen? I don’t believe the source is available, correct? Please let me know if you are interested and how the Haiku community could be of assistance. Thank you for reading and for your amazing software.

Scott Puopolo

Here is the reply:

Hi Scott!
Sorry for the late reply… I will definitely try to port SunVox to Haiku one day – Alexander Zolotov (NightRadio)
http://warmplace.ru/