Cherry Audio Rhodes Chroma Manual

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Cherry Audio Chroma User Guide - 1

Getting Started

The Rhodes Chroma by Cherry Audio is an incredible replication of one of the

most advanced analog poly synthesizers ever conceived. Conceptually, its

intention was to combine the massive ﬂexibility of a patch-cable analog

modular synthesizer with full digital control and memory, as well as up to 16-

voice polyphony. If this wasn't enough, a rare keyboardless Expander module

was produced in small numbers that doubled the Chroma's capabilities.

The conception, creation, and demise of the original Chroma is a famous

story in the annals of synthesizer history. Though released and branded as a

Rhodes instrument (makers of the world's most popular electric piano), in

actuality, the Chroma was developed by ARP Instruments. Sadly, its

development was completed in 1981 just as ARP was going into receivership;

fortunately, the Rhodes company wisely acquired productions rights (as well

as key members of the development team), otherwise the Chroma might

never have seen the light of day.

So what makes the Chroma so special? At a glance, it appears to be a typical

80s-era, single-slider-controlling-many-parameters, analog polysynth.

Furthermore, its sound generation utilizes then

de rigeur

Curtis ﬁlter, VCA,

and envelope chips. The answer lies in its advanced signal routing,

modulation, and layering capabilities, which were far ahead of almost any

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other analog polysynth (to be fair, Oberheim's Xpander and Matrix-12

featured some pretty awesome mod capabilities, but the the Xpander wasn't

released for another three years in 1984).

The Chroma's primary innovation was its ability to reconﬁgure ﬁlter and VCA

signal paths, enabling numerous series and parallel ﬁlter routings and audio-

rate ﬁlter and amplitude modulation, as well as multiple oscillator sync and

ring modulation options. This enabled an incredibly wide sonic palette. The

Chroma also featured an advanced keyboard action with genuine wooden

keys and precise weighting for highly expressive velocity and aftertouch

control. And though it's easy to overlook these days, the Chroma was also an

innovator in the pre-MIDI realm of connectivity and computer control - it

included a 25-pin D-sub connector that allowed interfacing with either

another Chroma, the aforementioned Chroma Expander, or it could be

connected directly to an Apple II computer for sound programming via

proprietary software.

Unfortunately, the Chroma had a number of factors going against it. Most

signiﬁcantly, given the hardware limitations of the time, its user interface

didn't adequately support the vast quantity of menus and parameters,

making sound programming a frustrating slog entailing constantly reference

to a printed chart of parameter information and signal routing diagrams. Not

long after its release, the Chroma was in the unenviable position of being a

large, heavy, and expensive instrument when Yamaha released its world-

beating and aﬀordable DX-series FM synthesizers. Rhodes did release one

more polyphonic synthesizer, the Chroma Polaris, but this was a far more

conventional (and more aﬀordable) six-voice polysynth, designed to compete

in the mid-level market segment occupied by instruments such as the Roland

Juno series, Korg Poly-61, Kawai SX-210, and others.

Due to its relative rarity and expense, the Chroma became what we refer to

as a "unicorn" instrument - a seldom-seen-in-the-ﬂesh powerhouse that few

musicians get to experience. Cherry Audio's Rhodes Chroma resurrects the

spirit and sounds of this incredible instrument with a mind-blowing accurate

replication. Due to its highly complex and quirky nature (and sheer amount

of parameters), this has been one of the most challenging instruments we've

created thus far, and we couldn't be more proud of the results. From a

synthesis perspective, every single aspect has been recreated with exacting

precision - in fact, sysex patch data from the original instrument can be

loaded directly into Rhodes Chroma. At the same time, we've radically

altered the user interface, hugely improving the sound programming

experience, with super easy-to-use multiple button menus and dozens of

Produkt Specifikationer

Mærke:	Cherry Audio
Kategori:	Audio Software
Model:	Rhodes Chroma

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