Acustica releases Aero Volume C — Inspiring Japanese distortion, boost, overdrive & fuzz pedals

[Acustica Community]

About Aero

Aero is a plug-in suite consisting of two FREE players, Aero Stomp and Aero Amp, both available in VST2, VST3, AU, and AAX format. They represent a pioneering and innovative new project from Acustica aimed at the world of sound design and guitar.

This is the first Acqua plugin to use our revolutionary new AI-based Terra technology.
Their design and development took a long time, but this time, which we gladly spent, has been amply repaid by the incredible results achieved.


We hope AERO will enhance your approach to ITB effects, giving you entirely new tools to get the results and sound quality you're looking for thanks to our state-of-the-art sampling.






Aero Free Player includes:

Aero Stomp - focused on Pedals and Tonestacks

• 1 American Tonestack model.
• 3 Different pedals (from Distortion, Overdrive, Boost & Fuzz models).


Aero Amp - focused on Amps and Cabinets.

• 4 Head emulations derived from the same Classic American amplifier model with different settings that represent some of the best American tones from the 50s and 60s.
• 5 Emulations from a US cabinet according to the 5 selected mic and derived from an American Classic cabinet.


Features

• Two powerful FREE players with clean interfaces.
• A fully-fledged suite consisting of four modules: Amplifier, Cabinet, Tonestack, and Pedals.
• Supreme tools for sound designers focusing on distortion.
• The possibility of loading an impressive range of combinations of pedals, amplifiers, and cabs, available in additional volumes.
• Pro-quality and inspirational guitar tones with a great and distinctive sound.
• New AI-based Terra technology.
• Low latency button.



Changelog

Thanks to new performance optimization techniques, the latest release of Aero (A017) has lower CPU usage than previous versions.



Aero - Volume C

Aero Volume C compiles the best 12 pedals of the Asian continent, more specifically manufactured in Japan for our Aero Stomp player.

It includes:

• Japanese BoXX (5 different emulations)
• Japanese GTA5 (2 different emulations)
• Sidekick Fuzz Special
• Japanese 80s Amp Screamer
• Japanese Super Drive
• Japanese Divine Distortion
• Japanese Custom Plexiglass







Additional packs will be available on our website. Acustica, as with other products, will release additional Volumes so that you can enhance and expand the setup of pedals, amps, and cabs in the Aero plugin suite.


Aero overview




Aero demo video





Technical information

• Plug-in Format(s): VST2, VST3, AU, AAX
• System Requirements
• Available sample rates: 44.1 - 48 - 88.2 - 96 kHz
• Windows 10 compatible
• M1 macOS Monterey compatible

Important

- To install any Aero volume correctly is mandatory to install the Aero (tool), free player, first.
- Remember to update Aero Player and any additional volumes in advance.



Price and availability

Aero Vol. C price: €29 | Fixed price Buy now!


The product is at an introductory period for the first four weeks after release or until the first official version is released; this implies that the product may receive improvements, changes, or fixes available through Aquarius Desktop updates.


How to install the free 30-day trial, free o commercial products
Note: Trials are only available in 44kHz and 96 kHz sample rates.
Please be careful and remember that trials expire 30 days after authorization, and we strongly recommend not using trial products in commercial sessions or any important project.


Aero user's manual



Aero Volume A webpage: https://www.acustica-audio.com/store/pr ... erovolumea

Aero Volume B webpage: https://www.acustica-audio.com/store/pr ... erovolumeb

Aero Volume C webpage: https://www.acustica-audio.com/store/pr ... erovolumec

Aero main webpage: https://www.acustica-audio.com/store/t/acqua/tools/aero

[beely]

"New AI-based Terra technology." - which does what exactly, apart from giving "incredible results" and being "revolutionary"? These are still sampled according to the blurb, so what does this new thing do that's over and above the previous sampling efforts?

Confused, as if this new tech was so revolutionary, I would have thought you'd have actually mentioned what it actually does...

[Acustica Community]

"New AI-based Terra technology." - which does what exactly, apart from giving "incredible results" and being "revolutionary"? These are still sampled according to the blurb, so what does this new thing do that's over and above the previous sampling efforts?

Confused, as if this new tech was so revolutionary, I would have thought you'd have actually mentioned what it actually does...

There are a few more details about the tech is in the Aero manual, but it's basically a new proprietary algorithm based on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

[beely]

Thanks, but that doesn't answer my question though. That just re-iterates "hey there's cool new tech inside" but still gives me zero idea about what's cool about it, why it's a good marketing point, and what value it adds to the product.

I got this from the website:

Terra Technology™ represents a new technological advancement by Acustica, bringing several innovations in terms of new features integrated into a new AI-powered intelligent plugin line. This new tech features an engine optimization that introduces a new highly efficient and innovative powerful algorithm based on forensic audio analysis, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Still no clue about *what it actually does*... it just seems like a whole bunch of non-specific waffle and tech buzzwords, and tells me literally nothing solid about the benefits to the end user.

[Ploki]

lol AI is the new Analog

[TMaudio]

lol AI is the new Analog

[El°HYM]

The Annunaki have been using Terra - forming - technology on this Planet since 1.250.000 B.C. and before.

[Acustica Community]

Thanks, but that doesn't answer my question though. That just re-iterates "hey there's cool new tech inside" but still gives me zero idea about what's cool about it, why it's a good marketing point, and what value it adds to the product.

I got this from the website:

Terra Technology™ represents a new technological advancement by Acustica, bringing several innovations in terms of new features integrated into a new AI-powered intelligent plugin line. This new tech features an engine optimization that introduces a new highly efficient and innovative powerful algorithm based on forensic audio analysis, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Still no clue about *what it actually does*... it just seems like a whole bunch of non-specific waffle and tech buzzwords, and tells me literally nothing solid about the benefits to the end user.

Terra uses artificial intelligence to model real-world hardware very accurately, with a much faster sampling process. Also, since the process works on continuous comparisons with the real hardware, we have a mathematical way to know how far we are from the real thing and perfect our emulation to the best we can faster than before.

This is a bit different approach from our AI presets in the Acqua EQs, which have more of a "user-side" orientation, by analyzing the audio you are feeding to the plugin and making moves on the parameters.

[Ploki]

Automated blackbox then, like TAIP and similar.