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Pro Soloist是Cherry Audio最新推出的终极"假设"虚拟乐器。Cherry Audio的Pro Soloist采用了屡获殊荣的开发人员Mark Barton精心制作和电路建模的DSP设计，远远超出了ARP于1972年最初发布的珍贵的基于预设的单声道模拟合成器。Pro Soloist不仅精确地再现了这部前卫摇滚经典的富有表现力的控件、30个预设和独特的底层架构，还通过使其完全可编程并扩展为全复调、分割和分层、模组矩阵、集成工作室质量效果等，将其打破了束缚。

在70年代初，模拟合成器刚刚进入职业音乐家的手中，对于大学音乐实验室以外的大多数人来说，它们的操作仍然是一个谜。为了避免潜在的用户恐吓并将合成带给大众，制造商推出了简单的单声道预设合成器，旨在放在风琴上。ARP在1970年率先推出了Soloist，这是第一款商用预设合成器，具有18个预设和基本控制。

1972年，ARP推出了Pro Soloist，用革命性的数字只读存储芯片更新了模拟预设控制（提高了调谐稳定性），并将预设选择扩展到30个。最令人印象深刻的是引入了一种创新的"触摸传感器"键盘（现在通常称为后触摸），在弹奏音符后用力按压会改变声音，从而实现极具表现力的演奏。具体来说，Pro Soloist的触摸传感器控制可以实现音调弯曲、哇、咆哮、亮度、音量和颤音。这在70年代初是令人兴奋的事情，Pro Soloist因其能够快速模仿主要乐器的声音（如号角、弦乐、木管乐器等）而受到音乐家的欢迎。

尽管与进步摇滚有联系，但这位亲独奏家还是很受欢迎，他的表演包括《橘子梦》、加里·努曼、堪萨斯、赫比·汉考克、帕特里克·莫拉兹、斯泰克斯、约翰·恩特威斯尔、议会、比利·普雷斯顿、范吉利斯、大卫·鲍伊、布莱恩·威尔逊、俄亥俄州球员、奇克·科雷亚、普林斯和约瑟夫·扎维努尔。最著名的是《创世纪》的托尼·班克斯，对他来说，Pro Soloist是他的第一个合成器。1973年专辑《Selling England by The Pound》中的曲目"The Cinema Show"展示了这位职业独奏家的许多预设，这些预设构成了他史诗般的独奏，其中包括"Fuzz Guitar 1"预设。

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 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.

In 1972, ARP followed it up with the Pro Soloist, updating the analog preset control with revolutionary digital read-only memory chips (which improved tuning stability) and expanding the preset selection to 30. Most impressive was the introduction of an innovative "touch sensor" keyboard (now commonly known as aftertouch), where pressing harder after playing a note introduces changes to the sound, allowing highly expressive playing. Specifically, the Pro Soloist's touch sensor controls enabled pitch bend, wow, growl, brilliance, volume, and vibrato. This was heady stuff in the early 70s, and the Pro Soloist proved popular with musicians for its ability to rapidly emulate lead instrument sounds such as horns, strings, woodwinds, and more.

Despite its association with progressive rock, the Pro Soloist was popular with acts as varied as Tangerine Dream, Gary Numan, Kansas, Herbie Hancock, Patrick Moraz, Styx, John Entwistle, Parliament, Billy Preston, Vangelis, David Bowie, Brian Wilson, the Ohio Players, Chick Corea, Prince, and Josef Zawinul. Most notable was Tony Banks of Genesis, for whom the Pro Soloist was his first synthesizer. The track "The Cinema Show" on the 1973 album Selling England by the Pound showcases many of the Pro Soloist's presets building up to his epic solo featuring the "Fuzz Guitar 1" preset.