Bristol is a vintage synthesiser software emulator suite.

The application consists of an engine itself called bristol and a graphical
user interface called brighton.

The graphical interface is a bitmap manipulation library to present the diverse
synth devices such as potentiometers, buttons, sliders, patch cables and which
generates the messages to configure the synth emulator.

The engine is an infrastructure that hosts the emulator code that couples
together the different audio operators required to generate the audio.

The engine and GUI are started together with the startBristol script which sets
up the required environment for the two to connect together. It is not
generally envisaged that bristol and brighton be started outside of the script
however there are options to the script to only start one or the other. Bristol
also has a command line interface that can be used rather than the GUI.