Bristol
Bristol is an
emulation package
for a number of different 'classic' synthesisers including additive and
subtractive and a few organs.
Bristol consists of an audio engine and an associated photo
realistic graphical user interface called Brighton.
There are more than 20 different emulations available for a
diverse range of vintage synthesisers, electric pianos and organs; each
sounds differently, not least due to that the
original instruments used different modulations and mod
routing. All emulations are available from the same engine, just launch
multiple
GUIs and adjust the midi channels for multi timbrality and layering.
Bristol Audio Emulations:
- Moog Mini - the renowned 3 oscillator non-modular
synthesiser from Moog. Best known at the time on Pink Floyd 'Dark Side
of the Moon' and other albums
- Moog Voyager - the last released Moog synth from the 90's
with extra modulation features but still with the same general
capabilities having oscillator/filter/envelope routing
- Memory Moog - this included the capabilities of
the Mini with addition of
microprocessor driven memories and 6 voice polyphony
- ARP Odyssey - Axxe and the Odyssey were competitive to
diverse Moog synths
- ARP 2600 - Axxe and the Odyssey were competitive to diverse
Moog synths
- Mono - the Korg Mono/Poly is a polyphonic hybrid, korg made
a number of similar designs. It has 4 oscillators bug a single set of
filters and envelopes and a very basic sequencer/arpeggiator
- Poly - Korg Poly-6 is similar in build to the Mono/Poly,
trading in some flexibility for true 6 voice polyphony
- Korg MS-20 - unfinished emulation of the Korg repatchable
synth
- Prophet-5 - a 5 voice analogue unit
- Prophet-10 - a 10 voice dual manual monster synth, each
keyboard can be a separate synth, the two keyboards can be layered on
top of each other or can be played with 10 voice polyphony
- Prophet-52 - a hybrid of the Prophet-5 adding a stereo
flanger to expand the sound dimensions and is specific to bristol
- OB-X - Oberheims 5 voice competition to the SC Prophet-5,
similar to the Oberheim fully modular systems where each voice had its
own control panel, however here every voice has the same set of
parameters
- OB-Xa - basically two OB-X systems in a single case
- Hammond B3 - a tonewheel organ emulator. It can produce all
90 something wheels simultaneously, then each key taps off the required
harmonics allowing for some emulated features difficult to reproduce
without a bespoke design like bristol
- Vox - a British classic organ from the 60's.
- Vox 300 - the dual manual Vox Continental
300/SuperContinental/Continental M-II
- Rhodes Stage 73 - uses the FM emulator
- Rhodes Bass Piano - another GUI to the Rhodes
- DX FM Synthesiser - a full FM synth but takes a few
exceptions to the 'DX' specification. It implements 6 FM operators but
takes slightly different parameterisation
- Juno-6 - the Roland equivalent to the Korg Poly-6
- Jupiter-8 - supports 8 voices with split and layer
facilities, arpeggiation, sequencing and chording, all emulated here
- ARP Solina String Machine -
- Crumar Roadrunner Electric Piano - the definitive cheasy
80's electric piano
- Crumar Bit-1 - late 6 voice, split/layered synth
- Crumar Bit-99 - late 6 voice, split/layered synth
- Crumar Bit-100 - late 6 voice, split/layered synth with
bristol modifications
- Realistic MG-1 ConcertMate - monophonic synth with
neopolyphonic organ circuit
- Synthi Aks - unfinished Synthi Aks
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