UVI – AURORA Textured Piano

UVI Aurora is born from the need for a creative, contemporary piano sound that enhances the piano’s powerful tonal signature with a wide range of carefully selected textural elements and atmospheres for an entirely new and unique expressive experience.

From playful and delicate to thoughtful and atmospheric, Aurora’s sounds are rich in emotion and profound creative possibilities. Explore new sources of inspiration, create immersive sonic tapestries, and rediscover the piano as an innovative and thoroughly modern studio instrument.

Creative Multi-Layer Engine

The sounds of Aurora are unified by three distinct sound signatures; a concert grand piano, a dual-layer texture engine, and an ambience layer – each of which is easily editable and offers unique emotional components that can be shaped to create new, memorable instruments .

Exquisite Acoustic Grand Piano

Aurora’s piano sound is based on a world-class concert grand piano recorded at the renowned Guillaume Tell Soundstage in Paris. This meticulously sampled piano offers an extraordinarily natural playing experience, accurately conveying the most subtle and nuanced performances through a combination of deep sampling and advanced scripting.

Textures and Atmospheres

Aurora expands the distinctive piano sound with a carefully curated set of textures and ambiences. Explore dozens of unique augmentations and individual sound enhancements, grouped into categories: Attack, Keys, Machines, Material, Nature, Orchestra, Electronic, Keyboard, and World.

Deep Sound Design

Each of Aurora’s three discrete sound engines features its own editor, offering powerful and intuitive controls for source, amplitude, pitch, dynamics, and tone, while dual LFO modulation engines and a built-in motion designer make it easy and precise to add movement throughout your patch.

Semi-Modular FX

The sounds of Aurora are only the beginning thanks to an all-new semi-modular effects engine. 3 customizable effect slots can be outfitted with any combination of Drive, Tone, Grains, Flanger, Chorus, Phaser, Redux, and Convolver, with dedicated multimode Delay and Reverb, EQ, and Limiter effects to finalize your sound. Over 50 creative preset chains are included, arranged in categories including: Cloud, Echo, Experimental, Lo-Fi, Phase, and Room.

Powerful One-Knob Controls

Quickly make broad stroke changes to your sound with powerful one-knob controls on Aurora’s main page, including: Color, Dynamics, Mute, and Intensity. Here you can also quickly explore Aurora’s library of effect chains, adjust overall effect mix, and set the limiter threshold. Each of these parameters make for powerful performance controls, perfect for automation.

Incredible Presets

Aurora comes with an incredible selection of factory presets, offering unique sonic visions hand-crafted by the sound designers at UVI and some of today’s most innovative piano artists, including: Julia Gjertsen, Ben Crosland, Akira Kosemura, Joe Kirby, Ole -Bjørn Talstad, Arvid Holst, and Dustin O’Halloran. Discover new inspirations, tweak to taste, or craft your own from scratch.

Aurora is a powerful and distinctly modern interpretation of the piano, offering a wide range of new sound signatures, rich with emotional resonance and new expressive landscapes to explore