Flying solo
The newest in its growing stable of properly vintage synth emulations, Cherry Audio reveals Pro Soloist…
Cherry Audio is riding high after a year of solid classic synth-resurrecting releases: its latest release, Pro Soloist, continues to re-love those oft-forgotten early innovators. The ARP Pro Soloist was a much beloved synthesiser. A player’s machine, its early aftertouch capability attracted solo noodlers such as Tony Banks, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock, among many others… yet next to today’s wonder synths, it’s, well, just a 30-preset monosynth.
If you are Cherry Audio, what are you going to do? Go original, or go 2023? Why not both? Yes, in the new Cherry Audio Pro Soloist, the best of old and new is merged, vastly bumping up the original’s specs so the software version has full programmability, path and the 30 original presets. Then Cherry Audio used that as the engine and ladled the extras on top. There’s a dual-layer voicing architecture so you can mix and match two sounds at once, each with 16 polyphonic voices per layer and independent panning. With this feature alone you can create more complex tones which you can now save (again, unlike the original). There’s also a split keyboard mode and what Cherry Audio calls the ‘Last Note’ option that simulates polyphonic aftertouch using monophonic aftertouch controllers.
