Pro Soloist | Cherry Audio

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 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 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.
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Also available in Cherry Audio's new Synth Stack 4 collection! store.cherryaudio.com/bundles/cherry-audio-synth-stack-4 To get users up and running with Pro Soloist, Cherry Audio and Tim Shoebridge have again teamed up to create an introductory tutorial video walking users through the extensive features of this iconic virtual synthesizer instrument. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3XVgHaOp8Z6o68

[@AlanRPearlmanFoundation]

Thank you for loving my father's work so much!

[@mrbmodules2938]

Hi Dina, I had a total blast recreating the Pro Soloist and appreciating it for the amazing instrument it is. I'm sure the Cherry team feels the same.

[@amonster8mymother]

Hi dini long time no see.

[@dnashofficial]

i just want to say THANK YOU!!! i've been a taurus and pro soloist user for decades, and have never been able to fully realize those amazing synths in VST form, though Anti's Taurus.dll and Pro SoloVST from AM Music came close. however, BOTH which ceased to be available once i switched to mac, and then went 64 bit many years ago now. those were treasured plugins, and recreations i have been PRAYING would be revisited SOMEDAY by somebody. ANYBODY. then, this year, within a span of two months, i scored both emulations from you. i'm so incredibly happy, not only to finally have software counterparts to my hardware, but BRILLIANT recreations to boot. they just get me "there" flawlessly, and i never have to worry about my vintage pieces being exposed to the road again. thank you so much for your amazing products!!!

[@elettrofonico]

Just to quote my own post on the first teaser "Having lived my entire life in a recovery community for lost Genesis fans😇😍, a sort of Colony Of Slippermen, you couldn't have given me a more welcome gift than an emulation of the Arp Pro Soloist!!! Thank you Cherry Audio guys, you are truly fantastic!!!❤ P.S. I hope that Tony "God" Banks will have the opportunity to appreciate this fantastic work of yours by playing it!

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Now that's a KILLER Demo!!😃

[@classicarcadeamusementpark4242]

It looks good and thanks for "bringing the Pro Soloist" back to VST format (a good was was out years ago that replaced my original). Not surprisingly, the most inspirational keyboardist to me is given the shaft and not mentioned in the promotional video as a classic use of the synth. And we're talking about, Dennis Deyoung of Styx. He was an early user of this instrument along with the 2600. Styx was once the most popular band in America. Surely deserves a mention when it comes to some of the ARP's or Oberheim's. I had Dennis sign my Pro Soloist. Sadly, the pen we gave him didn't work so all I got was an impression of it. Of course, Tony Banks is my 2nd most inspirational keyboardist to me, or tied. All the rest like Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson and others come well after them. I've seen all the greats on tour though back in the day with their most famous bands.

[@orangeman1131]

I have an ARP Pro/DGX and did an A/B comparison. For me, this is either spot on or very, very VERY close in every sound I tried. Great job Cherry Audio! And thank you!

[@mrbmodules2938]

Thank you, thank you. I actually spent more time matching the stock presets than coding the instrument. There are so many variables you have to get spot on. When I thought I was done, I went around all 30 multiple times adding little tweaks here and there. It took weeks. Then two more people went at it to put on final touches, so to find out we got "VERY" close is "VERY" satisfying. Thanks again.

[@orangeman1131]

@@mrbmodules2938 you did a fabulous job and your hard work is very much appreciated. The Brilliance slider didn’t always match up to my specific unit, but that’s a 10-second adjustment and then all is well. I’m amazed that you were able to replicate it so well, not to mention all the additional features and control that we now have!!

[@FilmlessSoundtracks]

What a dream to be able to play and write music on such an instrument. Chery Audio has been making the impossible, possible! They show so much respect to the synthesizers that I grew up hearing, but never owning, until now.

[@SynthgodXXX]

I love it! Soooo awesome!

[@thebreathalyzer]

Congratulations!!!!

[@housebandthexenos2569]

This is a brilliant idea! I had 2 of em. Totally unique tone but only could use their few sounds.

[@russ254]

C'mon CA, let's see a Roland 100M.

[@stevencarlfarrell5565]

Arp Pro Soloist RMI Electra 368 That Pro Soloist is one of the last synth emus I've been after. Once someone puts out the Elka Rhapsody 610, I can finally put my wallet away.

[@BlackWinnyFr]

I will perhaps (hmm... with Cherry Audio not sure I will one day) after someone puts out a Farfisa Syntorchestra or Polychrome. 🤗But for now, I'm pretty sure we shall get an ARP Pro Soloist or Pro/DGX and perhaps also a B3 or an L122. 🤗

[@Thoracius]

awesome!

[@MankyFrilla]

Let's go people

[@blueeyedsoulman]

Now we NEED a Prophet 10. That's a horse of a different colour!

[@stonethemason12]

well i think you're gonna have to hold your horses

[@TeddyLeppard]

Oh, this could be fun.

[@LinoBento]

Wow, what great news! ARP Pro Soloist and Mellotron. There's a Mellotron, including the logo, under the Minimoog.

[@gregmakesmusic8805]

9 minutes left 😊

[@fallingmanuk]

At last! Please can you publish that backing track somewhere it sounds awesome, the drums especially sound very Collins in keeping with the Banksian vibe!

[@neilloughran4437]

Love my ProSoloist.. I was never that much into Genesis and prog rock usage though... for me it was all about jazz funk and Johnny Hammond Smith... loved his solo on Lost On 23rd Street... think it's the trombone preset... also Judy Roberts Never Was Love... the key thing is definitely the aftertouch effects though... lots of weird stuff there... My ProSoloist is still in bits however...

[@BlackWinnyFr]

I keep on my opinion: 1-The main synth is an ARP Pro Soloist (or the DGX which is nothing else than a kind of improved Pro Soloist). 2-And in the big case there could be an organ as a Hammond B3 or a Hammond L122. The ARP (Pro Soloist or Pro DGX) was used by a good number of prog rock bands from 1973 to 1980 and it is (the Pro Soloist) the synth used by Tony Banks on Colony of Slippermen (though it was not his most famous use of this synth)... and the Hammond B3 (and sometimes the L122) was abundantly used by absolutely ALL the bands which have their sticker on the big case. All !

[@HaloSerene]

An ARP Odyssey would be welcome 👃

[@wrldonwill]

Watch me get pair this with the Lowdown vst and get my Genesis on!

[@pauljeavons8878]

❤

[@thewookiee9511]

I bet it will be a keyboard based virtual instrument form the 19nn's

[@BlackWinnyFr]

Ha ha ! You're the winner ! 😁

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

Smart money is still on the Arp pro-soloist

[@faragher]

Really hope so!

[@thebreathalyzer]

I've about given up on guessing, I'm never right. Pro Soloist and ARP Solus maybe? Since everyone else has done Odyssey already...of course CA2600 can do those sounds and more.

[@russ254]

hey, you got it this time!

[@101Licious]

Is it NKS ready ?

[@shawcunningham]

That was a Genesis lick... Arp Pro Soloist?

[@pauljeavons8878]

Prog rock. ARP stuff. Pro Soloist. Got to be. Let's face it those genesis solos where just so fab. Rick did his on the mini but I doubt if it's mini.

[@riftwytch]

I think it's an ARP, too. Cherry has already done a Minimoog clone, and I don't hear anything in the music that sounds like a Mellotron or a Hammond. Whatever is in the box (or boxes...), we'll know in a few hours.

[@peterbondy]

They were indeed!

[@hexfix93]

I really hope you do the Roland sh5 next ........ please please please....

[@pauljeavons8878]

I would like them to go for a PPG as Waldorf have neglected their vst and it's just not got the modern interface.

[@MPHORROCKS]

I've emailed Waldorf so many times and they couldn't give a toss about the PPG, it seems. I heard that Brainworx had bought the rights but now it's NI who know what'll happen. Let's hope a decent company take up the gauntlet.

[@russ254]

Waldorf has done a perfectly good job with the PPG VST already.

[@celebutante]

It's difficult to make a PPG sound right in modern form because of the archaic way they did digital back then. That's why none of the Waldorf variants or plug-ins sound right. Apparently 3rd Wave did a pretty good job.

[@heinerbreuer6160]

Resizable GUI for the PPG would really be appropriate by now. The other Waldorf VST have resizable GUIs, but they do not store the chosen setting and will launch in default size every next launch. That should be improved.

[@TheJohanMT]

Still longing for a Korg Trident.

[@donnas8408]

Owned a real one they are not that special

[@TheJohanMT]

Here we have different opinions. I played synthesizer in a progressive band and among other things had a Trident with me for 5 years. It created magic in the sound. @@donnas8408

[@tobytodelafontena]

I hope it will inspire new bands to make new music. What about someone who would call his band Genesis and use this synth? No, no one would do that, I'm pretty sure. We're in 2023.

[@orchestratedpassage9468]

missed the chance to call it the poly soloist😄

[@LoveAndPeace-co6ol]

Back in the day when this Arp mono synth existed the political word "unprecedented" was never used or even heard before.

[@michaelhutt4902]

... I'll never give away my 'real one' 🥰 ... but without 'effects' the mystery doesn't happen ... Delay/Reverb etc. 😉 ... same with a CS-80 or so many more 'vintage synths' ...

[@Siete7Black]

I feel the opposite, when you add effects to a vintage synth it loses its raw character and identity. I use a chorus and a little bit of reverb from time to time (it depends on the song)

[@menacerisamir198]

sound neat but i got the arp quadra vst , all the cherry audio vst are great, i will wait for the next one

[@CherryAudiovst]

The Pro Soloist is a very different synthesizer from the Quadra! The architecture of the Pro Soloist is extremely unique, and the sounds that it makes can't be recreated with any vintage synthesizer short of a modular synthesizer. You should try the demo and hear it for yourself!

[@dulleeblogondy3020]

@@CherryAudiovst Not true. Quadra is capable of everything Soloist did and MORE. Quadra was an amalgam of every decent ARP synth available by 1978. It failed as proper polysynth upon launch, yet every best tech ARP had at the moment was thrown at Quadra. Strings, leads, bass, synth section. And a very unique 14-stage phase shifter. Tony Banks successfully replaced Soloist with Quadra as soon as it became available and didn't look back since.

[@CherryAudiovst]

@@dulleeblogondy3020 We'll agree to disagree, especially as Quadra (a fine instrument, no doubt) shared virtually no common components with the Pro Soloist, especially the resonator bank. Quadra was an amalgam of Odyssey, Omni, and Solina. We know both instruments exceptionally well. It's a comparison between an apple and an orange, though they are both fruit from the wonderful tree of ARP Instruments!

[@mrbmodules2938]

As the author of the DSP of this synth, allow me to put a lid on this argument. The Quadra is definitely not capable of producing Pro Soloist sounds. It lacks the resonators and other capabilities that are crucial to the Soloist's personality. In fact no keyboard synth-in-a-box can duplicate it. I challenge you to recreate the CELLO or FUZZ GUITAR sounds on the Quadra. It simply cannot be done. The fact that Tony Banks started using the Quadra doesn't mean it sounded the same.

[@dulleeblogondy3020]

@@mrbmodules2938 Then, I guess, I don't need cello or fuzz guitar patches. However, Tony Banks sounded just the same on Quadra as he did on Soloist. That is enough for me. If he couldn't recreate those early Genesis sounds on Quadra, he'd have to keep the Soloist. But he didn't. End of story.

this still does not sound like a Yamaha CE25.😢

[@nickdiba7512]

Too bad the "background" music is so low. As a result, one can understand at least 3 or 4 words that are said, and that shouldn't happen!

[@macronencer]

0:38 What's going on here? It looks like Tony's playing chords! Is he just doing rapid broken chords at that point?

[@mrbmodules2938]

Octaves with grace notes on the bottom. Part of the Cinema Show solo.

[@macronencer]

@@mrbmodules2938 Thanks, well described! I've gone and watched the live video, and it all makes sense now.

[@schneider-martin-com]

simply perfect!