Creating a new synth plugin from a standalone app

[danboid]

I've been working on a remake of the tank game in Atari's Combat for the open hardware Uzebox modern retro console:

https://github.com/danboid/IKD

I've almost finished it now, I've just got a few finishing touches left to sort out before I'll consider it 'done', one of which is making some music for the title screen.

Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware there isn't a tracker, DAW or sequencer that has a Uzebox sound engine simulator so there is no nice workflow for writing music for it that I'm aware of.

The nearest thing to a Uzebox sound engine simulator plugin that I've found is the Uzebox patch studio:

https://github.com/flaviozavan/uzebox-patch-studio

What might be the easiest way to convert UPS into a CLAP or LV2 plugin that I could use with something like Qtractor, Ardour or Zrhythm? I'm aware that there are a few frameworks and toolkits that exist to make this sort of thing easier but I wouldn't know how they compare or whats on offer?

Thanks

[danboid]

Yes, that is a good suggestion. That way I'd only have to add JACK support to UPS, which I'm sure is easier said than done.

[danboid]

I see UPS uses SDL for its sound output. If I build SDL with JACK support then that might sort the audio output so it would then be a case of adding (JACK) MIDI input support and likely other tweaks to make loading patches work in a nice way.

[Basslint]

Just a suggestion for those interested, Furnace (https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace) is a tracker which supports many consoles, including modern/fantasy ones. The easiest way to write a program to make music for the Uzebox would be to make a chip module for Furnace, IMHO.