| Drag / wheel | Look around / zoom (also knobs 4–6) |
| Arrows | Walk around the plateau |
| Space | Play / pause time |
| G / B | Go to dawn / back to dusk |
| 1 … 8 | Sunset, civil dusk, nautical, full night, midnight, astro dawn, nautical dawn, sunrise |
| [ ] | Time speed down / up |
| C P T | Campfire, people, telescopes |
| M / O | Fireball now / meteor outburst |
| L N S | Constellation lines, names, snow |
| A / R | Night sounds / record video |
| U D F H V | Auto tour, info, fullscreen, hide controls, moon on/off |
| Shift-click | Any knob/button/fader, then move a MIDI control: MIDI-learn |
X-Touch Mini: knobs 1–8 = the 8 knobs, fader = night, top/bottom button rows = the 16 buttons, knob push = reset. Launchpad Mini: rows 1–2 buttons, row 3 time presets, rows 4–8 meteors / speed / fireballs / exposure / fire levels. nanoKEY2: first 16 keys = buttons, next 8 = time presets.