Bristol

Bristol is an open source software synthesizer for Linux. Bristol consists of two components, the emulation or synthesis engine itself called bristol, and a graphical user interface called brighton. As of 2007 there were about 25 keyboards implemented, a range of organs, electric pianos and synthesisers. Various parts of the bristol software were taken from a previous project by the same author, a direct to disk recording application called SLab.... more

Bristol is an open source software synthesizer for Linux. Bristol consists of two components, the emulation or synthesis engine itself called bristol, and a graphical user interface called brighton. As of 2007 there were about 25 keyboards implemented, a range of organs, electric pianos and synthesisers. Various parts of the bristol software were taken from a previous project by the same author, a direct to disk recording application called SLab. That project is now pretty much defunct, the main component that was kept was the audio interface library, although parts of the MIDI library were also salvaged. The original intention was to combine the two applications and the user interface for a mixer is available with Bristol, albeit without the engine support behind it. This is now unlikely to happen as the author has other ideas concerning mixing techniques that are more likely to be built into Bristol from scratch. SLab was programmed in C with TCL/TK as the graphics toolkit. The... less