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samaaron • yesterday at 6:48 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Actually v5 no longer uses SuperCollider’s scsynth engine.

I completely replaced it with my own port called SuperSonic - which targets native (used in this Sonic Pi release), WASM and embedded.

See https://github.com/samaaron/supersonic

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skor • yesterday at 10:52 PM

Hi! why a port and not contribution to the original project? What were the reasons? Will this be 100% compatible in the future? Thanks!!

spacechild1 • yesterday at 8:01 PM

Hi, Sam! I have to say that's a strange statement. SuperSonic still uses scsynth as its synthesis engine. How is that a "complete replacement"?

I see that you are trying to circumvent the GPL, with somewhat dubious arguments. I'm pretty sure that running scsynth in an AudioWorklet creates a combined program and not an aggregate. (I'm not the only one who has raised this concern.)

Since scsynth is the foundation of Sonic Pi, why not respect the intention of its author?

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glimshe • yesterday at 7:17 PM

It seems that SuperSonic also uses GPL, no?

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