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The Keyboards: The Core of Expression

Uranograph's dual keyboards layout is more than just an input devices—it's the expressive heart of the instrument, offering an intuitive yet deeply responsive interface for performance and sound exploration. Their stainless steel touch plates provide an ultra-sensitive playing experience, responding to the most delicate gestures with precision and nuance. Unlike conventional mechanical keybeds, Uranograph's capacitive surface allows immediate, fluid articulation, enabling new microtonal performance, dynamic phrasing, and real-time sound shaping possibilities.

Velocity & Aftertouch Sensitivity

Uranograph's keyboard is highly responsive to touch, velocity, and aftertouch pressure. Each press translates into a continuous, organic sound variation, making it possible to shape phrases naturally, much like on stringed or wind instruments.

By default, pressure is routed to the instrument's VCA/filter, and the envelope sustains level volume.

An additional routing can be set to send the intensity of pressure to whatever other parameters you prefer, a dedicated knob is also implemented for instant control of the amount of this.

This continuous pressure-sensitive surface offers a playing experience closer to acoustic instruments, bridging the gap between electronic synthesis and natural musical expression.

Microtonal Flexibility & Custom Tuning

Uranograph notes output takes advantage of a series of prepared Keyboard, where each key can be easily assigned to any pitch or pure frequency, offering complete keyboard design and tuning flexibility.

Whether adhering to traditional Western tuning, exploring Arabic maqams, Indian ragas, Just Intonation, or experimental microtonal divisions, Uranograph provides an expansive range of tonal possibilities.

• • Preloaded with 50+ keyboard layouts
    
  • Customizable keyboards allow users to design and store personalized layouts.
    
  • Instant recall ensures seamless transitions between different tonal systems.
    

This adaptability makes Uranograph an ideal instrument for non-standard tuning, enabling deep engagement with diverse musical traditions and avant-garde soundscapes.

Control Keyboard: Real-Time Sound Shaping

Beyond pitch control, Uranograph features a dedicated control keyboard designed for dynamic, hands-on sound transformation. Unlike traditional mod wheels or faders, this touch-based control surface enables intuitive, real-time interaction with synthesis parameters, allowing for expressive, gestural modulation.

The control keyboard is divided into three functional sections: Articulation, Octave Shift, and ModKeys.

Three dedicated articulation plates provide instant access to advanced phrasing techniques and canonic musical articulations found in stringed instruments: glissando, trillo, and staccato.

Four ModKeys serve as fully assignable, pressure-sensitive controllers for precise real-time modulation of synthesis parameters

Each plate dynamically responds to pressure, enabling simultaneous control over multiple parameters.

By integrating expressive modulation gestures with the performance keyboard, players can shape fluid, evolving textures that respond organically to touch—enhancing expressivity and immediacy in synthesis.

ModKey destinations and maximum values can be adjusted in the menu and stored during pattern changes.

Octave Shift & Bend Functionality

At the bottom, two integrated octave shift plates provide instant transposition, allowing players to increase or decrease the octave range in momentary or latching modes.

• • Momentary Mode: Holding a plate temporarily shifts the octave.
    
  • Latching Mode: Tapping once locks the new octave until changed.
    
  • Bend Mode: Pressing both octave plates simultaneously activates the pitch bend feature, allowing for fluid and expressive pitch manipulation, similar to bending notes on stringed instruments.

Advanced Harmonic and Phase Manipulation

Uranograph's core is built on additive and phase morphing synthesis, offering an innovative approach to shaping its five oscillators.

The primary sound source is a core oscillator that starts as a pure sine wave and transforms through multiple synthesis techniques, generating a spectrum of timbres from warm, organic tones to sharp, digital textures.

Uranograph provides multiple methods to modify the primary sine wave, introducing even and odd harmonics and sidebands, shaping both harmonic and inharmonic spectra. By altering the phase of a sine wave without changing its fundamental frequency, Uranograph transforms simple waveforms into dynamically evolving textures that range from warm and bell-like to metallic and aggressive.

Primary Controls

• • Size (Phase Warping & Spectral Expansion): Stretches waveforms, altering harmonics similar to pulse-width modulation.
    

• • Tilt (Asymmetric Amplitude Distortion): Inspired by the Casio CZ series, this phase distortion skews waveforms asymmetrically, generating sounds from soft and vocal-like to harsh and metallic.
    
  • Fold (Wave Folding): Nonlinear reflection of signals creates a harmonic-rich spectrum, akin to West Coast synthesis.
    

Effects

Uranograph's core sound engine is enhanced by a suite of tailored DSP effects, meticulously designed to shape and refine every aspect of its timbres. These effects are fully integrated into the synthesis architecture, ensuring seamless interaction with the instrument's dynamic sound design. From spatial depth to harmonic reinforcement, these tools expand the Uranograph's sonic capabilities, offering immersive and evolving textures.

Uranograph's stereo delay system is engineered for rhythmic enhancement and spectral manipulation, seamlessly blending traditional echo effects with Karplus-Strong-style resonation.

DeltaT knob controls delay time with two distinct behaviors: in the first 25% of its range, time adjustment functions as a micro-timed continuous shift, allowing the delay to function as a resonator, producing rich tonal textures.

Beyond this range, the knob locks into a BPM-synced grid, ensuring precise rhythmic subdivisions, including:

1/32, 1/16T, 1/16, 1/8T, 1/8, 1/4T, 1/4, and 1/2 notes.

To further sculpt the spatial and rhythmic complexity, the Regen knob controls feedback intensity, with an internal function allowing for infinite regeneration without system overload.

Additionally, Delay Shift introduces a percentile offset between the left and right channels, unlocking possibilities for polyrhythmic textures, expanded stereo imaging.

Complementing the delay network, the built-in parallel reverb (diffuse knob) is designed as a one-knob solution that smoothly transitions from subtle, intimate reflections to vast, enveloping ambiance.

A diffusion control automatically adjusts the density of reflections and functions as a natural acoustic enhancer or a synthetic atmospheric effect.

In its first half, it behaves like a tight to medium room reverb, perfect for adding clarity and presence to percussive elements, resonant leads, and evolving pads.

At its most extreme, the reverb creates dense, cloud-like textures that blur the boundaries between rhythm and space, producing dreamlike, ethereal environments.

Looper: Real-Time Layering & Manipulation

At the core of Uranograph's performance capabilities lies its double-reel tape looper, an integrated system designed for real-time sound capture and layering. Inspired by Frippertronics-style looping, this system enables continuous overdubbing, fostering an organic, evolving composition process.

The looper captures the post-effects mix and sends it in parallel to two independent tape reels, which continuously record. Both reels share the same time-division settings, selectable in clock counts: 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, or 16 beats.

A common separate input and output volumes control the recording level.

Two activator buttons determine which reel is actively recording—allowing for independent recording, simultaneous recording on both reels, or switching between them.

Each reel features an erase head fader, which adjusts how much of the recorded material is preserved:

• • At zero, recordings remain indefinitely, allowing infinite layering.
    
  • At maximum, the reel continuously erases itself, functioning like a transient looping buffer.
    

Uranograph is a dual-CPU digital instrument designed for high-performance audio processing and real-time control. The audio engine features a 24-bit high-quality codec, delivering pristine sound fidelity.