Overview of Radiant Voices

Part of the Metrasynth project.

Radiant Voices provides tools to create, read, modify, and write SunVox files. This includes project files ending in .sunvox, and module/synth files ending in .sunsynth.

SunVox data structures and APIs

Radiant Voices strives toward 100% coverage of all data structures used by SunVox files, exposing APIs for creating and manipulating those structures.

Using these APIs, you can do things not possible with the standard SunVox interface or the SunVox DLL, such as:

• algorithmic composition
• parametric synth/module design
• structure and complexity analysis
• automatic graph layout of modules
• and more…

Our collective imagination is the limit!

Support for multiple languages

Multiple programming languages are supported.

This is accomplished by combining a structured file format specification with a code generation framework.

Supported languages currently include:

• Python 3.8+
• Typescript

Interaction with the SunVox DLL

By combining Radiant Voices with sunvox-dll-python for Python (or the SunVox library wrapper for your language), one can also create alternative editing and performance tools to use alongside, or instead of, the official SunVox app.

The two packages work together to provide convenient high-level APIs for loading project and module objects directly into playback slots managed by the SunVox DLL.

Some possibilities might include:

• alternative project editors
• generative sound design using genetic algorithms
• network-enabled performance tools

What can you come up with?

SunVox file format documentation

Radiant Voices intends to serve as a de facto source of documentation about the format, as there is currently no official documentation for the SunVox file format.

The interpretation of SunVox file formats is based on a mix of “clean room” style inspection of what SunVox writes to disk when a file is edited a specific way, the most recent BSD-licensed source code for the SunVox audio engine, and consultation with NightRadio (the author of SunVox).

Documentation is provided in the form of prose in the English language, as well as a specification defined in YAML format.

Requirements

• A supported programming language.
• OS and platform supported by sunvox-dll-python, if working with the native SunVox DLL.

About SunVox

From the SunVox home page:

SunVox is a small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker). It is a tool for those people who like to compose music wherever they are, whenever they wish. On any device. SunVox is available for Windows, OS X, Linux, Maemo, Meego, Raspberry Pi, Windows Mobile (WindowsCE), PalmOS, iOS and Android.