[linux-audio-user] ANN: bristol 0.9.5-60

Dragan Noveski perodog at gmx.net
Fri Sep 29 09:09:06 EDT 2006


Nick Copeland wrote:
> Bristol has been updated with a user configurable ARP 2600 synth. It 
> has the usual pre-patching as the original and, additionally, outputs 
> can be redirected to arbitrary inputs. This was a few changes to 
> bristol to adjust the engine buffer management for data that may feed 
> back on itself, and additionally a few extra operators for 
> electroswitches, reverb and ring-mod, etc. The envelope follower has 
> not been tested at all and not all the patch possibilities either as 
> there are honestly too many to go through - about 600 possibilities 
> with just a single cable.
>
> The biggest changes were in the GUI. To support the user patches an 
> extra layer was added for their representation, then this was 
> converted into a transparency layer so the cables can be layered over 
> the GUI to allow control of the parameters without them 'getting in 
> the way', then the cables were coloured perhaps somewhat randomly - 
> yellow patches carry signal left to right, red cables carry signal 
> right to left when see from the user interface.
> Once that was done I put in a cheesy watermarked logo - you can clear 
> it with the 'l' key or use the '-logo' option on the command line, but 
> the effect was too good to miss out on. The transparency can be 
> toggled with the 't' key to allow you to foreground and background the 
> layer, and 'o'/'O' will adjust the depth of opacity. Load memory 
> number 17, and play with the 'o' and 't' keys to get a feel for how 
> the interface works. To patch, select an output (the jack sockets 
> light up for outputs) and then select an input (these are just 
> 'momentary'). This will direct the new engine routing algorithm for 
> each voice and then paint in the GUI. To clear a patch just select 
> either jack socket at the cable ends.
>
>
> The net output of the synth is reminiscent of the sounds from the BBC 
> Radiophonic Workshop's greatest ever hit - the theme tune to 'Dr Who'. 
> If you don't know what that is don't worry, it's perhaps a bit 
> obscure. The original was composed on the elder brother of this synth 
> - the ARP 2500 of which the BBC had a few, so the results came as a 
> pleasant surprise.
>
> Graphics can be seen on the sourceforge homepage. Downloads as well of 
> course.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=157415
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick.
>
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hi, very nice application, since bristol is now jack-capable.
in my case rhodes, and rhodes-bass arent working, segfault?
but the question that i have is, what i should copy in to usr/local/bin 
or /usr/local/lib, so that i can put some menu-entries, so being able to 
start from menu?

cheers,
doc



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