Darta Persona: Zero One combines a captured amp, four pedals and NAM support
The Brazilian plugin packs a complete guitar rig into VST3, AU and standalone formats at a R$249 launch price.
· Edited by Peter Luha
Credit: Darta Digital Audio (via source)
Brazilian developer Darta Digital Audio has released Persona: Zero One, a self-contained guitar-rig plugin built around a captured British-voiced amplifier, four effects pedals and a cabinet-and-rack section. Guitarload reported the launch on October 23, while Darta’s product page lists a launch price of R$249 before a regular price of R$399. The software is available for Windows and macOS in VST3, Audio Units and standalone formats, with activation on up to two computers and a trial version offered.
The signal chain starts with four purpose-built pedals: the Monkey Komp compressor, Okto polyphonic octave, Aristocrat overdrive and Freebird multimodulation effect. The amplifier section is paired with cabinet simulation, and the rack adds practical tools including a tuner, metronome, gate or suppressor and a transposition control spanning one octave down to one octave up. Darta supplies 32 presets as starting points rather than limiting users to a fixed set of factory tones.
Persona: Zero One also supports loading third-party Neural Amp Modeler captures, including the newer NAM A2 format, as well as user impulse responses. That turns the plugin from a closed signature rig into a host for a player’s existing capture and cabinet collection. Darta says the software can work offline after activation, a useful detail for stage machines and studio computers that are not kept continuously connected.
The release arrives in a crowded amp-simulation market, but its value proposition is unusually clear for players in Brazil: a locally priced all-in-one rig with native Portuguese documentation and compatibility with the open NAM ecosystem. The four named pedals cover compression, octave, drive and modulation before the amp, while the utility rack handles the jobs that otherwise require several separate plugins. For guitarists already collecting NAM captures, that combination can simplify a session without locking them into one manufacturer’s models.
Why it matters
Persona: Zero One gives Brazilian players a locally priced route into an all-in-one rig while remaining open to their own NAM captures and impulse responses.
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