The phenomenon of spatio-temporal phase modulation made possible by re
sonance is investigated in detail through the analysis of an example p
roblem. A simple family of exact solutions to the Ablowitz-Ladik equat
ions is found to be modulationally stable in some regimes. This family
of solutions is determined by fixing antiperiod 2 boundary conditions
, which determines two wavenumbers. Within the family of solutions, th
e frequencies do not depend on amplitude; this feature ensures that th
e antiperiod 2 boundary conditions will be enforced under modulation.
The family of solutions is described by four parameters, two being act
ions that foliate the phase space, and two being macroscopically obser
vable functions of the phase constants. The modulation of the actions
is described by a closed hyperbolic system of first order equations, w
hich is consistent with the full set of four genus 1 modulation equati
ons. The modulation of the phase information, easily observed due to t
he presence of two resonances, is described by two more equations that
are driven by the actions. The results are confirmed by numerical exp
eriments.