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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.
At the beginning of the 70s analog synthesizers were just making their way into the hands of working musicians and their operation was still a mystery to most folks outside of a college music lab. To avert potential user intimidation and bring synthesis to the masses manufacturers introduced simple monophonic preset synths that were intended to sit atop an organ.
ARP led the charge in 1970 with the Soloist the first commercial preset synthesizer featuring 18 presets and basic controls.
