[PlanetCCRMA] Bristol (was 'Alsa Modular Synth')

Thu Mar 8 08:10:01 PST 2007

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:16 +0100, Frode Petersen wrote:
> Frode Petersen skrev:
> > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano skrev:
> >>> Have anyone tried Bristol btw? (vintage synth emulator)
> >>
> >> Yep, briefly, very very nice.
> >> I just added it to the fc5/fc6 repos (only tested on fc6 i386). I did
> >> not add a menu entry for it as it starts several processes and there is
> >> no way of cleanly exiting all of them from the GUI (that I could see).
> >> If you type "bristol -help" you should get some help - that help is
> >> missing the "-jack" option which is the one I used.
> >> I tried (for example) "bristol -jack -2600" and got a nice ARP2600
> >> replica ... ohhhhh ... :-)
> > 
> > Got to try it then!
> 
> I have some problems running Bristol. I checked the 
> /usr/share/bristol/bin directory, and it contains only startBristol. 
> Should there be more there? In smart, the bristol package content 
> listing does not show anything not installed.
> 
> Here's the output:
> 
> $ bristol -jack -2600
> /usr/share/bristol/bin/startBristol: line 202: [: too many arguments
> /usr/share/bristol/bin/startBristol: line 229: [: 128: binary operator 
> expected
> ldd: /usr/share/bristol/bin/bristol: Ingen slik fil eller filkatalog
> Requested Jack drivers, not compiled into bristol
> $
> 
> It's strange since you issued the same command and got it running.

As I said, only tested on fc6 i386... I bet you are running on x86_64...
something went wrong on that build. I'll check later. Sorry. 

-- Fernando