I have not used Sunvox but I make music as a hobby using trackers like Renoise, and also various DAWs. I would still say that there is an advantage to having a specially designed hardware synth with intuitive knobs and faders. I'm glad that KORG can make reasonably affordable and professional synths while using off the shelf hardware like the Pi. In my opinion the presets and ease of use of paid synths (both software and hardware) are still quite a bit ahead of free options.
I don't want to make SunVox or its other fans look bad so I just encourage anyone reading this to give it a whirl.
It's jam packed with features and stellar patches/examples despite its simple and clean interface. It really is a joy to work with, especially on a tablet sized screen. It's so good when scaled properly that I prefer it over physical controls sometimes.
You may or may not like the pattern editor because it's a tracker interface, but the rest of the tool is so good live that you can initially ignore it and then slowly incorporate it into your workflow.
