Pro Soloist's Resonator Bank is a rather distinctive feature seen in very few other synths, and we've improved it considerably from the original implementation. There are five individual resonators, arranged in a tabbed user interface.
The original Pro Soloist contained ten fixed frequency, non-modulatable resonators, with up to five of these active per patch. We redesigned this to be five fully adjustable resonators with continuously variable frequency and resonance controls. The frequency curves of the originals are accessible via a simple popup menu. Best of all, Resonator Bank parameters are all individually modulatable via the Mod Matrix.
Resonator Bank Tabbed Interface
Since Pro Soloist includes five individual resonators, each with identical controls, they make use of a tabbed user interface. The tab background coloring works as follows:
The currently selected resonator tab will be gold. The controls will affect that resonator only.
If a resonator is not currently selected and is disabled, the tab background will be black.
If the resonator is currently enabled, but not selected, the tab background will be white. This makes it easy to see which resonators are currently active without having to individually click each tab.
Resonator Controls
It's helpful to know that each of the resonators are in fact 2-pole bandpass filters with adjustable frequency and bandwidth. When used subtly, they are excellent for mimicking the formant and body resonances of acoustic instruments (the Resonator presets will further help you with us).
Enable Resonator- Turns the resonator on.
Frequency (Freq)- Sets the center frequency of the resonator bandpass filter.
Resonance (Res)- Sets the bandwidth of the resonator bandpass filter.
Level-
VCF- Sets the volume of the resonator signal routed to the VCF input. Use this if you'd like to further process the signal with the voltage-controlled filter.
VCA- Sets the volume of the resonator signal routed to the VCA input. Use this if you'd like to bypass voltage-controlled filter processing and route the signal directly to the VCA.
Preset triangle- Remember when we mentioned the original Pro Soloist's fixed resonator frequency curves? We've built these into a popup menu - simply click on the upside-down triangle to select one of the "factory" frequency curves. Unlike the original instrument, any of the resonators can be set to any of the curves, in any combination.