diff --git a/srcpkgs/sonic-visualiser/patches/config.patch b/srcpkgs/sonic-visualiser/patches/config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..98fb5281d49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sonic-visualiser/patches/config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- checker/checker.pri.orig	2017-05-25 10:26:10.000000000 +0200
++++ checker/checker.pri	2017-08-15 10:32:05.033468727 +0200
+@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
++include(../config.pri)
+ 
+ CONFIG += qt stl c++11 exceptions console warn_on
+ QT -= xml network gui widgets
+--- checker/helper.pro.orig	2017-05-25 10:26:10.000000000 +0200
++++ checker/helper.pro	2017-08-15 10:32:44.558652327 +0200
+@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
++include(../config.pri)
+ 
+ TEMPLATE = app
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sonic-visualiser/patches/musl-timeval-fix.patch b/srcpkgs/sonic-visualiser/patches/musl-timeval-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dd681b9c0ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sonic-visualiser/patches/musl-timeval-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- svcore/base/test/TestVampRealTime.h.orig	2017-08-13 18:03:48.667779610 +0200
++++ svcore/base/test/TestVampRealTime.h	2017-08-13 18:03:40.378733419 +0200
+@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
+ #include <QDir>
+ 
+ #include <iostream>
++#include <sys/time.h>
+ 
+ #include <vamp-hostsdk/RealTime.h>
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sonic-visualiser/template b/srcpkgs/sonic-visualiser/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a8bec4e6a39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/sonic-visualiser/template
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Template file for 'sonic-visualiser'
+pkgname="sonic-visualiser"
+version="3.0.3"
+revision=1
+build_style="gnu-configure"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config capnproto-devel"
+makedepends="qt5-devel qt5-svg-devel liblrdf-devel vamp-plugin-sdk-devel
+ rubberband-devel libsndfile-devel libsamplerate-devel bzip2-devel sord-devel
+ serd-devel libmad-devel liblo-devel jack-devel portaudio-devel fftw-devel
+ liboggz-devel libfishsound-devel libid3tag-devel pulseaudio-devel capnproto-devel"
+short_desc="Viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files"
+maintainer="newbluemoon <blaumolch@mailbox.org>"
+homepage="http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/"
+license="GPL-2"
+distfiles="https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/attachments/download/2246/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=bed25e6f88ddc110e4a59e4fed05be4ea026126369d50f17c896c7defef49f87
+
+if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	hostmakedepends+=" qt5-qmake qt5-svg-devel"
+	configure_args+=" lrdf_CFLAGS=-I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include/raptor2"
+fi
+
+post_extract() {
+	# piper.capnp.c++ and piper.capnp.h are precompiled with capnproto 0.6.0
+	# this leads to a version mismatch error with void’s newer version of capnproto
+	# the source file piper.capnp is not included in the source tarball
+	xbps-uhelper fetch "https://github.com/piper-audio/piper/raw/master/capnp/piper.capnp>piper-cpp/vamp-capnp/piper.capnp"
+	capnp compile -o c++ piper-cpp/vamp-capnp/piper.capnp
+
+	# don’t run target-built testing-binaries when cross building
+	# on i686 1 out of 36 tests fails and compilation aborts
+	if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ] || [ "${XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE%%-musl}" = "i686" ]; then
+		sed -i -e 's|QMAKE_POST_LINK = ./$${TARGET}||' test-svcore-base.pro
+		sed -i -e 's|QMAKE_POST_LINK = ./$${TARGET}||' test-svcore-data-fileio.pro
+		sed -i -e 's|QMAKE_POST_LINK = ./$${TARGET}||' test-svcore-data-model.pro
+	fi
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	vbin sonic-visualiser
+	vbin piper-vamp-simple-server
+	vbin vamp-plugin-load-checker
+	vlicense COPYING
+	vlicense deploy/linux/doc/${pkgname}/copyright
+	vdoc README
+	vdoc README.OSC
+	vdoc CITATION
+	vinstall icons/sv-icon.svg 644 usr/share/pixmaps
+	vinstall icons/sv-icon-light.svg 644 usr/share/pixmaps
+	vinstall deploy/linux/deb-skeleton/usr/share/applications/sonic-visualiser.desktop 644 usr/share/applications
+}
+