Textured Piano

Based on the rich and powerful sound of a world-class concert grand piano
3-layer engine with 100+ customizable textures and atmospheres
200 hand-crafted presets including innovative artist series

$129.00

Reference : UVISC121

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Creative, Intimate and Modern Piano

UVI Aurora comes from the need for a creative, modern-oriented piano sound - reinforcing the piano's powerful tonal signature with a wide range of curated textural elements and atmospheres for a completely new, and uniquely expressive experience.

From playful and delicate to brooding and atmospheric, the sounds of Aurora are rich with emotion and deep with creative possibility. Explore new inspirations, create breathtaking sonic tapestries, and rediscover the piano as an innovative and definitively modern studio instrument.

IN-DEPTH

Creative Multi-Layer Engine

The sounds of Aurora are threaded together with 3 discrete sonic signatures; a concert grand piano, a dual-layer texture engine, and an atmosphere layer - each deeply editable, offering unique emotional components that can be sculpted to create evocative new instruments.

An Exquisite Acoustic Grand

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

Textures and Atmosphere

Aurora expands on the piano's distinct sound with a curated selection of textures and atmospheres. Explore dozens of unique augmentations and custom-made sonic reinforcements, arranged in categories including: Attack, Keys, Machines, Material, Nature, Orchestra, Electronic, Keyboard, and World.

Deep Sound Design

Each of Aurora's 3 discrete sound engines is outfitted with its own editor, offering powerful and intuitive controls over source, amplitude, pitch, dynamics, and tone, while a dual LFO modulation engine and integrated Motion designer allow you to easily and precisely 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 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.

Akira
Kosemura

Arvid
Holst

Ben
Crosland

Joe
Kirby

Julia
Gjertsen

Ole-Bjørn
Talstad

Dustin
O'Halloran

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.

SPECS

WHAT YOU GET

Size:	4.45 GB (FLAC lossless encoding, was 18.46 GB in WAV)
Content:	211 presets, 8170 samples
Sample Resolution:	44.1 kHz. Recording at 88.2 kHz
License:	3 activations per license on any combination of machines or iLok dongles

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Runs in UVI Workstation version 3.1.11+, and Falcon version 2.8.5+
iLok account (free, dongle not required)
Internet connection for the license activation
Supported Operating Systems:
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave to macOS 14 Sonoma
- Windows 10 to Windows 11 (64-bit)
5 GB of disk space
Hard Drive: 7,200 rpm recommended or Solid State Drive (SSD)
4GB RAM (8 GB+ highly recommended for large UVI Soundbanks)

COMPATIBILITY

Supported Formats:	Audio Unit, AAX, VST, VST3, Standalone
Tested and Certified in:	Digital Performer 8+, Pro Tools 2019+, Logic Pro X+, Cubase 7+, Nuendo 6+, Ableton Live 8+, Studio One 2+, Garage Band 6+, Maschine 1+, Tracktion 4+, Vienna Ensemble Pro 5+, Reaper 4+, Sonar X3+, MainStage 3, MuLab 5.5+, FL Studio, Bitwig 1+, Reason 9.5+

MANUAL

>> Download Aurora Manual >> Download Soundbank Installation Guide

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REVIEWS

Akira Kosemura

Composer and pianist

"Aurora is very inspired and beautiful plugin to be able to make the specific useful sounds intuitively. I have many plugins focusing the piano but this is one of my best recommendation to make the textures based on the piano."

Arvid Holst

Composer and producer

"If you are looking for an untraditional piano plugin, look no further. Aurora is well-know piano sound, twisted to sound like it's out of this world. Highly addictive and inspiring."

Ben Crosland

Composer and sound designer

"Aurora is fantastic tool for when you need an inspiring piano sound with vibe - it’s simple to use, but surprisingly deep!"

Dustin O'Halloran

Pianist and composer

"I have really enjoyed exploring UVI’s new piano instrument, Aurora. Beyond some great-sounding piano samples, there are a lot of ways to explore more treated and sequenced sounds, which can really spark your creativity."

Joe Kirby

Pianist and composer

"Aurora stands out as an incredibly intuitive and robust tool tailored for professional musicians and producers. Offering unparalleled control, it empowers users to meticulously shape every aspect of piano sound, while also offering boundless opportunities for crafting accompanying sounds."