Bristol Softsynths

[philip888]

Bristol is an emulation package for a number of different 'classic' synthesisers including additive and subtractive and a few organs. The application consists of the engine, which is called bristol, and its own GUI library called brighton that represents all the emulations.

There are currently twenty something different emulations, each does sound different although the author maintains that the quality and accuracy of each emulation is subjective. One of the main reasons for putting together this site (host by Sourceforge which provides the rest of the services required by bristol) is to depict all the different emulations.


http://bristol.sourceforge.net/

I just compiled and installed and I must say I am very impressed overall.

Hope you enjoy


Philip

[Louigi Verona]

I am very impressed too. I had no idea such a thing exists. Looks very good, sounds good too, but I can't get MIDI work. Without MIDI the package is useless for any serious audio work, though.

[SR]

I am very impressed too. I had no idea such a thing exists. Looks very good, sounds good too, but I can't get MIDI work. Without MIDI the package is useless for any serious audio work, though.

Interesting. PlanetCCRMA provides Bristol packages for Fedora that seem to work fine with midi (at least with my limited experimentation I was able to control them via vkeyboard).

[Chipfryer]

Wow!
Thank you.

Cannot wait to try all this stuff out.
Thanks very much I'm just a kid in a sweet shop of late

[Louigi Verona]

Okay, midi works fine!
Synths are great!

They do need tweaking and better presets, but some pf the presets are superb. Rhodes is absolutely beautiful!

[Louigi Verona]

Tried Prophet 1 - fantastic arpeggios and I really like the filter.

[uburoland]

I tried to compile the latest version of Bristol (0.50.2) on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), but I wasn't able to run the software.
When I launch the command startBristol -b3, I got an error message of this kind:

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TCP port: 5028
connect failed: Connection refused

Does anybody have a step-by-step procedure to solve this problem?
Is it a problem of the latest Ubuntu? What about compiling Bristol in other distros (for example Debian)?
Thanks in advance.

[raboof]

When I launch the command startBristol -b3, I got an error message of this kind:

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TCP port: 5028
connect failed: Connection refused

Is that all? I get a lot more when I start Bristol, and it works here:

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checking availability of TCP port 5028
using port 5028
Copyright (c) by Nick Copeland <nickycopeland@hotmail.com> 1996,2010
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `<Ctrl> w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `<Ctrl> g' for details of GPL terms.
starting logging thread [@1266270260.716194]
starting logging thread [@1266270260.719086]
Feb 15 22:44:20 brighton [0.000025] starting console logging [@1266270260.716194]
Feb 15 22:44:20 brighton [0.000168] brighton version 0.50.2
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000012] starting console logging [@1266270260.719086]
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000085] bristol
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000098]     -rate 44100
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000110]     -count 256
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000122]     -b3
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000134]     -port 5028
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000145] Fixing samplerate at 44100
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000156] rescheduled thread: 40
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000167] midi sequencer: bristol
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000178] Opened listening control socket: 5028
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000189] opened control socket
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000200] midiOpen: 5028(100)
Feb 15 22:44:20 bristol  [0.000210] bristolMidiSeqOpen(bristol)
Feb 15 22:44:21 bristol  [0.641686] Client ID = 129
Feb 15 22:44:21 bristol  [0.641728] Queue ID = 1
Feb 15 22:44:21 bristol  [0.641740] opened device socket
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [0.921728]   brighton
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [0.921768]     -b3
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [0.921780]     -port 5028
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [0.921790] starting event management thread
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [0.922343] connected to :0.0
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [0.922359] display is 1680 by 1050 pixels
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [0.926271] Window is w 1680, h 1050, d 24, 0 0 0
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [0.928700] Using DirectColor display
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [1.019870] waiting for window creation
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [1.033665] Initialise the hammondB3 link to bristol: 90c89c8
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [1.033696] hostname is localhost, bristol
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [1.033707] TCP port: 5028
Feb 15 22:44:21 bristol  [1.030226] Accepted connection from 0 (3) onto 2 (9)
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [1.034814] Connected to the bristol control socket: 8
Feb 15 22:44:21 brighton [1.034829] bristolengine already active (0)

(etc)

[autostatic]

FYI, I've packaged 0.50.2 for Karmic:
https://launchpad.net/~autostatic/+arch ... hive-extra

So Uburoland, maybe that helps to get it going for you.
And did anybody try the mixer that comes with Bristol? Is it useable?

[Louigi Verona]

not yet. tried it a long time ago, but since then Nick did not do any new versions as far as I know. The site says it's in experimental stage.

[uburoland]

@AutoStatic: I solved the problem by installing your .deb file. Thank you very much for your precious help!