Cherry Audio Pro Soloist

Cherry Audio Pro Soloist

Cherry Audio Pro Soloist: Pro Soloist Synthesizer. Get Under the Hood.

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Description

Pro Soloist is the latest in Cherry Audio’s roster of ultimate “what if?” virtual instruments. Featuring the precision-crafted and circuit-modeled DSP designs of award-winning developer Mark Barton, Cherry Audio’s Pro Soloist goes far beyond emulating the treasured, preset-based monophonic analog synth originally released by ARP in 1972. Pro Soloist not only exactingly reproduces the expressive controls, 30 infamous presets, and the unique underlying architecture of this prog rock classic, it breaks it out of its cage by making it fully programmable and expanding it with full polyphony, splits and layers, a mod matrix, integrated studio-quality effects, and more.

Overview

Cherry Audio has added a dual-layer voicing architecture, with 16 polyphonic voices per layer, that enables two different presets simultaneously, with independent panning for rich stereo timbres and complex, layered sounds. Pro Soloist also supports a split keyboard mode and an option to simulate polyphonic aftertouch with a monophonic aftertouch controller for more expressive performance possibilities beyond the standard touch sensor effects.
With its distinctive three-panel interface, this Pro Soloist is far more than a preset synth. In Performance mode, each original paddle preset has been precisely recreated with MIDI-mappable switches. In Edit mode, we’ve exposed all of its unique analog synthesis architecture parameters, most notably, the fully-variable, five parallel bandpass filter “Resonator Bank” – the key to the Pro Soloist’s realistic acoustic orchestra timbres.

Features

• A best-in-class virtual instrument based on ARP’s 1972 preset-based monophonic analog synth
• Exactingly reproduces the expressive controls and 30 infamous presets
• Massive dual-layer voicing architecture with 16 polyphonic voices per layer
• Two different Pro Soloist style sounds simultaneously playable, in either a keyboard split or stacked layer mode, with discrete controls for layer volume and panning
• Three-panel interface: Performance mode, with the original paddle presets
• Edit mode, revealing all of the original’s unique analog synthesis architecture parameters; and Arp/FX mode
• All Pro Soloist voicing parameters reproduced and exposed
• Including the five parallel 2-pole bandpass filters of the Resonator Bank, expanded with individual frequency curves
• Touch Sensor Effects controls to apply aftertouch to volume, brilliance (filter), and portamento, with adjustable touch sensitivity
• Mono (retrigger or legato, low or high-note priority) and polyphonic modes, with a “last” note option to simulate polyphonic aftertouch
• Voltage-controlled oscillator with sawtooth and pulse waves, plus a “Super Wave” option for fatter tones
• VCO modulation with ADSR PWM, AR PWM, LFO PWM, and LFO FM
• 24dB/oct Voltage-controlled filer (VCF) with filter invert and modulation with ADSR, AR, LFO, Growl (a specialized low-frequency oscillator), velocity, and keyboard tracking
• Voltage-controlled amplifier (VCA) with modulation by ADSR, AR, LFO, and velocity, and independent per-layer control over volume and panning for expansive and breathtaking stereo tones
• Tempo-syncable LFO with sine, ramp, sawtooth, and square waveforms
• Resonant highpass filter with cutoff frequency from 20 Hz to 1300 Hz

Tech Specs

MAC
OS X (macOS 10.13 or above. macOS 13 Ventura supported)
Memory: 8 GB
CPU: Native Apple M1 or greater processor support, including Ultra. 3.4 GHz Quad-Core or M1
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX, STAND-ALONE
WINDOWS
Windows (Windows 7 or above (including Windows 11))
Memory: 8 GB
CPU: 3.4 GHz Quad-Core computer
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX, STAND-ALONE

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