Meta (the parent company of Facebook) has acquired Accusonus. Reuters reported on February 1, 2022, that Meta Platforms Inc. was close to acquiring Greek audio software startup Accusonus. This news came from “a person with knowledge of the deal.” Reuters also reported that Facebook spokespeople declined to confirm the deal, and that Accusonus representatives did not respond to calls or messages requesting comment.

The Accusonus website currently consists of a brief (and vague) message, surrounded by artistic representations of its ERA Bundle and its Auto Clean Up Assistant. The message reads as follows:

Thanks for your support!

Accusonus is embarking on a new adventure! We are grateful for your support throughout our journey! If you have purchased an accusonus product before March 4, check out our FAQs.

The FAQs include questions that Accusonus believed people would ask. These are followed by a disappointing answer to those questions. Here is one example:

Can I still use the ERA Bundle and Voice Changer?

Yes, definitely!


We will sunset the ERA Bundle products and Voice Changer early next year. Until then, we will be releasing compatibility updates and offering email support to any existing customers.

You will still be able to use the ERA Bundle products even after next year; however, we will not be providing support, maintenance, and updates.

The products will stay at the final version of ERA 6.2.00 & Voice Changer 1.2.10, so no further development will take place. Thus, the plug-ins will not be tested in newer systems (Windows or Apple OS) or when compatible DAWs/NLEs are updated.

The answers to the other questions follow the same format. For whatever reason, there is no mention of Meta Platforms anywhere on the Accusonus website.

However, Accusonus sent email to users titled “Changes to your accusonus account”. Some who received the email took a screenshot of it and posted it on Twitter. It said:

Dear user,

We’re excited to announce that accusonus has joined Meta. This partnership will give us the chance to democratize content creation by developing technology for billions of users.

I find it incredibly strange that both Meta Platforms, and Accusonus, made an effort to avoid any public mention that Accusonus had been acquired by Meta Platforms. Typically, a company that has been acquired by a larger company cannot wait to tell the world about it.

Accusonus has introduced BeatMarker – a free Adobe extension for editing to music. Sync your cuts to a track’s rhythm, fast. BeatMarker is free on the Adobe Exchange.

Timing your edits to a musical beat is one of the oldest editing techniques around. Similar to how a good sea shanty helped sailors synchronize their rowing strokers, a rhythmic beat was often used as the basis for early animation. It was super common throughout the 20th century.

Despite its prevalence, the art of editing to the beat is still a laborious task. Not quite to the level of hand-drawn 1920s animation or manually cutting reels of film, Accusonus admits. But finicky enough to slow down your workflow.

Available now for free, BeatMaker is an easy solution for editing your content to a musical beat. Simply add a track, and it highlights your song’s beats as clearly-identifiable markers. Right there on the timeline, all within Premier Pro – no external software, no manual work.

You can then grab these markers to edit in sync with your track, faster than ever before. Grab it now, and use it forever.

With a free tool like BeatMarket, you have room to experiment. There’s no looming payment date, no free-trial period to constrain your creativity. Just a tool through which you can try new things, test ideas and optimize your time spent editing.

Accusonus introduced Voice Changer. It allows you to craft perfect voice effects fast. Transform regular voices into any character you can imagine. Advance your dialogue into new scenarios, with creative environments and voice effects. A quick, simple, but powerful voice modifier.

Character

Your content portrays a ton of varying characters, who need varying voices. From epic movie trailer tones to subtle whispering, evil AI voices to baby robots. An alien, a dragon, a monster, a ghost, a giant… Quickly modify your voice, and create great anime voice filters or scary voices. Use vocoder effects and morph your character into a robot, a girl, a man, a woman, a baby or anything you want. Start off by altering Voice Changer presets, or dive straight in and create your own character’s sound.

Effect

When your mic meets accusonus Voice Changer, it can be any device you want. Emulate old-times news broadcasts, car radios, walkie-talkie chatter – or any voice filter you want. Simulate sound from a range of mediums, including a VHS tape, megaphone, CB radio, and phone.

Environment

Leap out of your office or studio setup, and lay out a virtual landscape behind your voice. Recording inside a cave, crypt or canyon used to be tricky, but not now. Stadiums, airports, bathrooms, cathedrals… Even mountain echo sounds. You can ‘Record’ anywhere, from home!

Voice effect presets

Combine and tune these 3 voice modifiers: character, effect, environment. Design your own voice effect presets, or explore Voice Changer’s comprehensive preset catalogue to find quick solutions for common sound design problems. Make your track sound like a 90s video tape, an airport announcement, a crowd megaphone, a kitchen radios living room TV and beyond. Emulate a dialogue from the next door apartment, a phone call, or explore fantasy and robot preset sounds.

Regular Updates

Get voice effect and sound design ideas on the fly. With Accusonus’s new update system, you will frequently receive new preset packs in real-time, without even having to close your session.

Voice Changer is designed for a wide range of people who work with voices in audio. Here are some examples:

• Content Creators like YouTubers, Streamers, Influencers and Podcasters looking to swiftly and easily increase their production value.
• Marketing and Media teams in need of fast ways to optimize their creative workflow.
• Filmmakers, Voice Over Actors and Video Artists looking for fast sound design with a cost-effective tool.
• Audio Professionals, Post-Production teams and Engineers who require speed and simplicity, that’s reinforced with powerful tech.

Voice Changer requires a $4.99/month subscription.

Accusonus has an Early Black Friday sale. Some of the items that are part of this sale are only available for a limited time. The sale price for those items ends on November 29, 2020.

The Early Black Friday Sale includes:

Creator Suite: Get all you need to achieve a great sounding result. Includes ERA Bundle Standard and SFX Cellar Premium. Sale price $5.99/month. (Regular price: $9.99/month)

Post Production Suite: The go-to solution for sound professionals. Includes ERA Bundle Pro and SFX Cellar Premium. Sale price: $17.39/month. (Regular price $28.99/month)

ERA Bundle Standard: Get all 9 single-dial plugins for fast audio repair. Includes Denoise, AutoEQ,Voice Deepener, Derverbation, Leveler and many more. Sale price: $4.79/month (Regular price: $7.99/month)

ERA Bundle Pro: Get 4 spectral-processing modules and 9 single-dial plugins for fast audio repair. Includes Denoise Pro, Deverb Pro, De-Esser Pro, Room Tone Match, AutoEQ, Voice Deepener, Leveler and many more. Sale price: $14.99/month (Regular price $24.99/month).

SFX Cellar Premium: Unlimited royalty-free sound effects, available in high quality WAV format. Embedded metadata. Clearance for any personal or commercial project. New sounds added every month. Sale price: $4.79/month. (Regular price: $7.99/month)

accusonus All Bundle: The All Bundle includes all products from accusonus. (Regroover Pro, Rhythmiq, All Expansion Packs, Beatformer, drumatron2, ERA 5 Bundle Pro). Sale price: $999.

Beat Making Bundle: Innovative beat production using the industry standard AI tools. Includes Regroover Pro, Rhythmiq and Beatformer. Sale price $149.

Regroover Pro: Split your loops into stems and enable new beat making workflows. Also part of the Beat Making Bundle. Sale price: $99.

Rhythmiq: Instantly jam with your beats with the turn of a single knob. Also part of the Beat Making Bundle. Sale price: $79.

Beatformer: Sculpt your beats with an easy-to-use interface. Also part of the Beat Making Bundle. Sale price $59.

Regroover Essential: Loop un-mixing at an unbeatable price. Available with a perpetual license. Sale price: $9.99.

Visit the Accusonus website about their Early Black Friday Sale for more information.

Accusonus is celebrating the release of the ERA 5 Bundle, so they will give you the opportunity to save big. Find the right plan for you now and you’ll get the reduced price forever as long as you remain subscribed! In its biggest update yet, ERA Bundle 5 adds adds several new plugins to enhance and repair low-quality audio, and makes improvements to every single one of your favorite ERA plug-ins.

Automate the equalization process with the groundbreaking ERA Voice AudioEQ! Add warmth and depth to your voice recordings with the ERA Voice Deepener. Works even faster and smarter with the ERA Audio Clean-Up Assistant. Take advantage of the pro workflows of ERA Noise Remover Pro, ERA Reverb Remover Pro and Room Tone Match.

Get SFX Cellar and explore Accusonus’s carefully-curated library of royalty free sound effects.

Don’t wait too long! The 25% savings on the ERA Bundle is only being offered for a limited time. You only have until October 31, 2020 to redeem this offer.

Accusonus has released Mauvio, which can be used to make your mobile videos sound professional. It is available on the App Store, and is for iPhone and iPad.

A sound studio in the palm of your hand. Create better-sounding videos to tell your stories and wow your audience. Take the quality of your mobile videos to the next level, using simple sliders. Get that pro sound in just a few seconds, with Mauvio!

To use Mauvio, the first thing you need to do is import a video from your library or record a new one directly through the app. You can also select “Copy to Mauvio” when exporting a video from any other app.

Features include:

• De-Noise: Bring down the noise. Instantly reduce background noise from air conditioners, computer fans, busy roads, and machinery or electric noise like hum, buzz, and hiss.
• Balance: Loud and clear. Even out audio level inconsistencies throughout your video.
• Enhance: Shape your voice tone. Apply smart tonal shaping on any voice and achieve broadcast quality speech results.
• Volume: Boost that volume. Intelligently boost or reduce the loudness of your video, without compromising audio quality.

When you are finished repairing and enhancing your video, you can save the video to your library or share it directly to social media and other video editing apps.

Accusonus announced their Beat Making Bundle Sale. It features the Beat Making Bundle 2, which includes Rhythmiq, Regroover Pro, Beatformer, and all expansion packs, for $299. (Regular price $750). This sale is valid until March 19, 2020.

The Beat Making Bundle 2 includes:

Rhythmiq allows you to instantly jam with your beats. Get unlimited beat variations with the turn of a single knob. Generate and save new Rhythmiq patterns and instantly create fills and build-ups. Enable your A.I. Beat Assistant and let Rhythmiq perform your beats in real-time like when you are jamming with a human band-mate.

Rhythmiq is usually priced at $149. It is priced at $109 if you buy it individually as part of the sale.

Regroover lets you extract stems from your audio loops and enable new beat-making workflows. Use Regroover’s Artificial-Intelligence engine and get previously-unreachable sounds from inside your audio samples. Craft the isolated beat elements to create your personal drum kits. Instantly remix your loops and create your own loop variations.

Regroover is usually priced at $219, but is on sale at $129 if bought individually as part of the sale.

Beatformer enables you to effortlessly shape the sound of your beats with 4 intuitive controls: Boom, Punch, Squash, and Air. Blend analog-style processing with modern digital technology. Transparently fine tune or fully transform your beats with the turn of a simple dial.

Beatformer is usually priced at $99. You can buy it individually for $69 while the sale lasts.

Accusonus has extended their Cyber Week Sale. It will last through December 8, 2019. You can save on ERA 4 Bundle, ERA 4 Bundle Pro, Rhythmiq, Regroover, Drumatom 2, Beat Making Bundle 2, Drum Mixing Bundle, or “All Bundle” (which appears to include all of the above).

ERA 4 Bundle Standard is a collection of single knob audio cleaning plug-ins that are incredibly fast and easy to use. Get great results with minimal effort, even if you’ve never edited audio before. With the ERA Bundle, you don’t have to be a pro to sound like one.

ERA 4 Bundle Pro has multi-patented next-generation audio repair tools that offer both fast and high-quality processing. As a professional in post and music production, you deal with impossible deadlines. Accusonus’s smart tools will help save you tons of studio time by doing most of the work for you.

Rhythmiq allows you to instantly jam with your beats. Get unlimited beat variations with the turn of a single knob. Generate and save new Rhythmiq patterns and instantly create fills and build-ups. Enable your A.I. Beat Assistant and let Rhythmiq perform your beats in real-time like when you are jamming with a human band-mate.

Regroover lets you extract stems from your audio loops and enable new beat-making workflows. Use Regroover’s Artificial-intelligence engine to and get previously-unreachable sounds from inside your audio samples. Craft the isolated beat elements to create your personal drum kits. Instantly remix your loops and create your own loop variations.

Drumatom 2 reduces or completely eliminates drum bleed. Not only during pauses, but on exact drum hits as well. Control Hi-Hat bleed on your Snare track, tighten up your close mics and free up headroom for the rest of your tracks. Fix poorly recorded drums and experiment with your mixing tools (EQs, Compressors, etc) without drum bleed.

Accusonus has a post-Halloween sale on ERA 4 Voice Leveler. You can buy it for $9 during this sale. (Regular price is $59). The post-Halloween sale is valid until November 8, 2019.

Are you a podcaster, videographer, vlogger, dialogue editor, or post production engineer? The ERA Voice Leveler will help you save time and you will be able to focus on the creative side of your work.

Instead of spending hours on manual gain adjustments, use the new ERA Voice Leveler to normalize the volume levels of speech or dialogue recordings in seconds, without leaving your DAW or NLE environment.

The ERA Voice Leveler is a single knob tool that uses new patent-pending algorithms to automatically detect audio level problems in voice recordings and connect them in real-time.

Apart from the “Normal” mode, the Voice Leveler also has a “Tight” mode that results in a more focused “radio” sound. This helps your dialogue tracks to stand out from the background music or effects. This is especially useful in cases such as audio and video ads, podcasts, vlogs, etc.

In addition, the Voice Leveler features a unique “Emphasis” mode. This automatically detects problems in tonal balance of voice recordings. Such problems can for example happen when a speaker is not directly facing the microphone or has moved significantly from the mic between takes/scenes. When the “Emphasis” mode is engaged, it allows you to apply subtle processing to compensate for those spectral disparities and ensure consistent tone and quality.

Accusonus introduced Rhythmiq. It allows you to instantly jam with your beats. Get unlimited beat variations with the turn of a single knob. Generate and save new Rhythmiq patterns and instantly create fills and build-ups. Enable your AI Beat Assistant and let Rhythmiq perform your beats in real-time like when you are jamming with a human band-mate.

At the time I am writing this blog post, Rhythmiq is on sale for $99 (an introductory price). The regular price is $149. This sale is valid until October 31, 2019.

Features include:

Instantly jam with your stems. Jam with your beats like never before. Get unlimited beat variations with the turn of a single knob. Generate and save new Rhythmiq patterns and create breaks and build-ups. Enable your A.I. Beat Assistant and let Rhythmiq perform your beats in real-time.

Meet your Beat Assistant. Your new “virtual electronic drummer” analyzes your beats and introduces nuanced micro-variations or musical, evolving changes. This will allow to focus on other parts of your music while your beat is organically evolving.

Fine-tune Rhythmiq’s AI in real-time. Although it uses ground-breaking AI technology, Rhythmiq is still controlled by you. Decide how much density, space, and variation you need. Experience the new way to perform your beats and find inspiration.

Save and Launch beat variations, always in sync. Generate breaks, fills and build-ups from your beats or layered stems and save them without stopping the music. Stay in the flow while you transform your beats into a performance. Use your hardware controller to shape your sequences and manipulate your beats. Use Rhythmiq’s arrange, reverse and silence functions to perform your stems live or to jam in the studio.