Cherry Audio | The Story of Chroma

[@CherryAudiovst]

Check out Introduction to Chroma by Mitchell Sigman after this video! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZSwqYGfq5Zpfpo

[@paulgrooveside2803]

I was a Chroma expert user and sound designer for Fender in the UK back in the 80s. The Chroma was an exceptional instrument. I'm delighted that Cherry Audio have made a Chroma that everyone can enjoy.

[@SynthOSphere]

Thanks for sharing!

[@russ254]

wouldn’t it be wonderful to see you in a video sharing your experience with this instrument?

[@MediaWest]

wonderful idea. we had 2 back then, their stability and issues made it a fixture in our shop. this should be really interesting. now if we could only get a real poly aftertouch keyboard.

[@paulgrooveside2803]

@@russ254 thank you, it's a great compliment to be asked, I very sincerely appreciate it. There will be several videos by KZbinrs on the Cherry Chroma, ranging from 'playing the presets with no talk' - style demos to reviews and discussions, many from people to whom the Chroma is new and unfamiliar, sharing their discoveries. They all are helpful and the Chroma is deep enough that there is a LOT to joyfully discover and learn. I'm away from home and my studio for a couple of weeks now , caring for my 90-year-old father for some time and working at different locations across the UK. My laptop isn't up to the task of running instruments, but I'll keep abreast of posts and videos and documentation. On my return, I'll invest time in the Cherry Chroma, and if I feel I can add anything useful to what's being said, I certainly will. This is a fantastically excellent recreation of a wonderful and unique instrument. Each person can discover and shape the Chroma with their own personality. I hope everyone will discover it and make it their own. I'm loving the fact of its existence and it's superlative quality. I'll support anyone's enquiries - please just ask! - - and if I can produce anything that helps people and brings the Chroma forward for you, I gladly will. Enjoy it!

[@dylangadwa3119]

WOW. I just bought Chroma and I'm beyond impressed. No joke, this thing seriously gave me the chills. It's not just "indistinguhable from analog" ... it goves me those honest-to-Yahweh analog chills down my spine. More than my money, my sincere thanks to everyone at Cherry Audio who deliverd this. ...and to the OG's that designed and produced the original. It stands as an amazing achievement and has been vastly underappreciated.No danger of being forgtten now. The Chroma lives forever!

[@mikemorrisonmusic]

Ok, I’ll just sit here for a week.

[@electronicperspectives]

Thanks to Daniel Liston Keller for being the driving force that brings with great little mini-documentary to us!

[@paulgrooveside2803]

What fantastic news this is! Only Cherry Audio have the skills and vision to be able to make a Chroma that really does justice to the original design team's intentions for it. A wonderful job well done!

[@GeorgeLocke]

I went to a party in 1993 or so outside Boston. I was 13 or something. In the house was one of these things. I asked the kid hosting it if I could play it. The kid's dad said he'd been part of the team who made the thing. It sounded awesome. One odd thing I remember was that if you set the waveform to sine and pushed the cutoff slider up you'd get an almost super saw/ PWM sound out of it. Thanks random acquaintance's dad!

[@mr.katnip1513]

I just listened and watched in my car 🚗 I was transported with the sound!! 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️

[@SynthOSphere]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! For everything you folks are doing. This is a treasure. Auto-buy. And glad 5% will go to the ARP foundation! ❤

[@KarlMiller-DjKarl]

Hats off to the designers, engineers, and technicians... Who took part in creating these instrumental works of art... ☮🔥 🌎☮NOW!

[@sklarkestra]

This is very cool. I am an original Chroma owner. I found it very logical to program , and got sounds out of it even the Chroma developers in Woburn Mass didnt think it could do.

[@peterbondy]

Maybe approach Cherry about maybe doing a sound pack? I’m sure users would love what an experienced programmer would be able to get this little marvel to do.

[@goodwilj]

I can't wait. This sounds amazing, gorgeous.. It's been awhile. I am sure this will be worth the wait as usual. I own just about every synth they sell.

[@docjoesweeney]

❤ what a heart filled set of interviews and incredible history. Well done CA for bringing this story to life. And the sound! As always, the team has knocked it out of the park. 🎉

[@thainmlh]

I am a Chroma owner and I just had to own this VST! Great job as always!!!!

[@DRP6812]

A BIG THANKS FOR ADDING THAT EXPANDER ❤❤❤!!!

[@ironinquisitor3656]

I fell in love with the Chroma when I heard the sounds of it being played live by Gabe Katona when he was touring with Starship in some of the few live concert vids on KZbin.

[@joesalyers]

I have waited years for someone to model this synth, and it had only been available in samplers like UVI. I use to have Rhodes Polaris which was the second version but it died in the late early 2000s at an outdoor show. Ever since it died nothing has recreated my patches but I'm sure this will do the job perfectly!!!

[@macronencer]

Ah, now this is good news indeed! A fair price, too. Thanks, CA! You'll be getting my money soon :)

[@DRP6812]

OMFG HOLY COW AND HALLELUJAH!!!!!!! ANOTHER TEC AWARD AWAITS ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@MPHORROCKS]

With those colours and designs, if it's NOT a Chroma I'm reporting the entire C.A. marketing department to the trading standards authorities, LOL!!!! Oh, and I've just notice that the Chroma textured panel covering is coming through nicely here! ;)

[@RobertSaintJohn]

That marketing guy is NOT to be trusted!! 😂 He shoulda been fired after “Mr Beatbox”, I’m tellin’ you…

[@MPHORROCKS]

@@RobertSaintJohn Well, it WAS a box! And it DID make beats, lol! ;)

[@fallingmanuk]

Wow - another fantastic synth at an incredible price as always! I don't know how Cherry Audio do it (you should rename yourselves "Cheery Audio" 😀). So glad to see Peter-John Vettesse get a special mention as I always remember seeing Jethro Tull at Birmingham NEC in September 1984 and the sounds he got out of his Chroma were so clean and huge. Another instant buy...

[@nickelodeus]

Wow, really awesome, inspirational video. The vision and passion are palpable, and the soundtrack just makes it. Can’t wait to get hold of this! Huge thanks 👏 ❤

[@MediaWest]

since you already recreated my old memorymoogs, and cs80. alesis andromeda?

[@VPXM2012]

Omg yes, that... would be my dream come true as well

[@tonyduncan4875]

Andromeda would be sweet as hell!!!

[@MediaWest]

i think its going to be the chroma. which was an amazing idea and the tech was not able to do what they designed it for. we had 2, and they never really worked well.

[@keykiyox]

Immediately bought this and resonance is great. Different nicely from other releases by Cherry Audio to date, and sounds like a real thing. That trembling low end…..hey this one is great.

[@DirkFellhauer]

Wow…. Simply wow…..what a BEAST of a sxnth!

[@paulgrooveside2803]

Good evening! I'm really lookin g forward to this!

[@lemop]

Wow. Im SO excited for this one!! I really love the way you’ve setup the controls for familiarity, top design work there! Vid said you can import original sysex patch data directly - that’s INCREDIBLE. Will this work with the CC+ MIDI conversion kit language?

[@TeddyLeppard]

Looking forward to this one.

[@kadiummusic]

Wonderful! 😎

[@martysmagicalmusicmancave]

I’ve got my cup of tea and biscuits ready…..

[@paulgardener5525]

Yes please. :)

[@MediaWest]

ha! cant wait to dig in. 😅

[@synthfellow]

Saved a seat waiting 😊

[@ruudvanroijen2335]

Wauw, what a suprise!

[@jjhcw]

Nice!!!

[@jimlemons9231]

Oh Hells yeah!!! =)

[@robbieferrero]

Nice

[@telogic1]

How we all doing

[@devadiponeness]

Here I am....

[@patscanga1996]

ARP / Rhodes Chroma??? Thanks in advance :)

[@supercompooper]

Swish! Zow!

[@mendiapodaca]

These experts live in little glass panels, like the baddies in Superman 2.

[@garyhoffman1]

Well, the price of my Chroma just tanked. “Hey kids! Sorry, but your inheritance is gone. Go get a job!”

[@synthlab]

I guess (and hope) it is the Matrix ...

[@tonyduncan4875]

After watching the other video it definitely looks like a Chroma

[@tonyduncan4875]

Colored squares though…Jupiter… not that I don’t love it, but there’s plenty of them out there already…

[@richardbates1]

CA did such a great job with the Mercury 6, I hope they make a Mercury 8 in the near future.

[@davecrippin4725]

Cue Tim S.

[@caesargarcia1313]

Knew it

[@prospectnyc]

Emu Planet Phatt emulation

[@danluther9078]

Told ya...

[@JoseVGavila]

14th May is my birthday. I hope it is worth it, so I will have a good gift for me 😅

[@marcelbossaert]

Lucky U. Have a nice birthday

[@russ254]

happy bday!

[@CMTieman]

Looking forward to it i am curious

[@dominikadubiel9204]

Maybe someone will finally make Ensoniq VFX or SD-1? Enough of the old analog crap