IK Multimedia UNO Synth Pro

The Italian manufacturer presents a new synthesizer with a 37-key Fatar keyboard that, although part of the well-known UNO Synth, is a new instrument that joins the UNO family with impressive features and a high-quality build that is more powerful, with more and better connections, greater control in a super-portable format, and robust thanks to its metal casing.

UNO Synth Pro offers a premium 37-key semi-weighted Fatar keyboard, features rubber buttons with a firm feel for the control sections, as well as LED-backlit indicators and an LED display that provides key information, making it easier than ever to use Uno Synth Pro live on stage or in deep programming sessions in the studio.

As for sounds, UNO Synth Pro offers 256 user-editable presets, each of which captures the complete state of the sound engine, from the oscillators to the effects.

An onboard 64-step sequencer offers step and real-time recording, and with automation of over 40 parameters, it allows you to create incredibly complex, detailed, and dynamic soundscapes. You can even write CV and Gate automation.

And a 10-mode arpeggiator makes it easy to create complex patterns and performances, plus a new "chord mode" that takes advantage of the UNO Synth Pro's paraphonic design.

UNO Synth features 3 analog oscillators that offer continuously variable waveforms, including pulse width modulation. The oscillators can be synced to achieve harmonically more complex tones, and the FM (frequency modulation) oscillator allows you to design everything from bell sounds to harsh industrial tones. UNO Synth Pro also includes ring modulation to achieve sci-fi sounds and a white noise generator for a wide range of percussion sounds and epic build-ups.

In addition to the 2-pole OTA multimodal filter of the original UNO Synth, UNO Synth Pro adds a new 2/4-pole SSI LP filter with its own resonance. The dual filters can be used in series or in parallel, with reversible phase, to have a total of 24 possible filter modes.

UNO Synth Pro offers 2 full ADSR envelopes, one dedicated to the filter and the other to the amplitude, and both are available as sources to modulate everything from oscillator pitch and waveform to LFO speed or even other envelope stages.

2 LFOs (low-frequency oscillators) can create classic synth vibrato, wah, and tremolo, as well as perform more complex modulations including the FM audio range. And a 16-element modulation matrix makes routing all of this very easy. You can quickly and easily design even the most sophisticated modulation scheme, with internal and external sources, including MIDI controllers.