Alternatives to SunVox
A small modular synthesizer with a pattern-based tracker sequencer for desktop and mobile. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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SunVox
A small modular synthesizer with a pattern-based tracker sequencer for desktop and mobile.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as SunVox.
Renoise
A multi-platform digital audio workstation that composes music with a tracker-style pattern editor.
Renoise is a paid, full DAW built on tracker-style sequencing with phrase scripting and microtuning, running on Windows, macOS and Linux but without mobile versions.
VCV Rack
A virtual Eurorack modular synthesizer for Windows, macOS and Linux with a large module library.
VCV Rack is an open-source virtual Eurorack modular synthesizer with a large module library, but it has no built-in tracker and runs on desktop only.
Furnace
An open-source multi-system chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules.
Furnace is a free, open-source chiptune tracker that emulates many classic sound chips instead of offering SunVox's modular synthesis, and runs on desktop only.
MilkyTracker
An open-source, multi-platform music tracker compatible with FastTracker II modules.
MilkyTracker is a free, open-source FastTracker II style tracker with a built-in synth and sample editor, but it lacks modular synthesis and mobile builds.
OpenMPT
A free tracker for Windows for composing and playing module music, based on ModPlug Tracker.
OpenMPT is a free, open-source tracker for IT, XM, S3M and MOD files with VST plugin support, but its editor runs on Windows only.
Cardinal
Free, self-contained virtual modular synthesizer based on VCV Rack, as a plugin and standalone app.
Cardinal is a free, open-source modular synthesizer based on VCV Rack that runs as a plugin or standalone app, but it has no tracker sequencer.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
LMMS
A free digital audio workstation with a piano roll, beat sequencer and a pile of built-in synths.
Surge XT
An open-source hybrid synthesizer available as a plugin and a standalone app.
Vital
A wavetable synthesizer plugin that uses spectral warping to reshape waveforms by acting on their harmonics.
Pure Data
Open-source visual programming environment for building interactive audio and multimedia works.
Hydrogen
Program drum patterns with a desktop sequencer and drum machine.
