Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has acquired Greek audio plugin developer Accusonus. According to sources, the deal is valued at anywhere between €70 and €100 million.
Alex Tsilfidis (CEO) and Elias Kokkinis (CTO) started the company in Greece in 2013. They were both passionate about sound, acoustics and music technology. Elias was a drummer in local heavy metal/punk bands and was working as a sound engineer. Alex was an electronic musician mainly composing soundtracks for theatre plays and films.
After obtaining their Computer Engineering diplomas, they pursued PhDs in Audio Signal Processing and worked as audio researchers in the same academic lab. Michael Tzannes (Chairman) joined as an angel investor some months later and the company incorporated in the United States with Alex, Elias and Michael as co-founders. Michael, formerly the CEO of Aware (NASDAQ: AWRE), brought significant expertise as a tech entrepreneur and seasoned business executive.
Accusonus have made several technology based audio products using AI including the ERA-D bundle and Regroover rhythm software.
When companies like Meta start investing in music technology companies it’s worth taking notice.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook has acquired Greek audio plugin developer Accusonus. According to sources, the deal is valued at anywhere between €70 and €100 million.
Accusonus has announced the release of ERA 6, their most complete audio repair suite to date with a revamped and intelligent Audio CleanUp Assistant, a huge update to SFX Cellar, with AI-powered search and favoriting functionality, new effects in Voice Changer, UI improvements, and too many other things to list here.
In this article, we highlight a range of audio restoration software packages, some stand-alone, some plug-ins and some that offer both options that we think you should try out.
This article was inspired by a plugin Julian realised he could create using three other plugins and some mixer routing before he twigged that that was exactly why it had been created!
In this video for Production Expert, Audrey Martinovich demonstrates how to remove mouth clicks from audio with the Accusonus' Mouth De-Clicker, which comes packed in their ERA 5 Bundle. Audrey shows us how Mouth De-Clicker can seamlessly solo the mouth clicks and target the noises you want to remove.
Accusonus has announced ERA 5.2, the latest addition to their audio repair repertoire further improving the range of tools for new and existing users. The primary addition is ERA Bundle is the all-new Mouth De-Clicker.
When I heard about the Accusonus ERA 5 Bundle, I was intrigued even though I didn’t fully expect that it would work as promised, but as they say, “don’t knock it till you try it,” so try it I did.
Accusonus announces ERA 5 - an audio clean-up solution for video and audio creators. In its biggest update yet, version 5 adds several new plugins to enhance and repair low-quality audio and makes improvements to every single ERA plugin.
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