Drily Lit Raga wrote:

I spent quite a bit of time on the Aura web site last night, and while
it IS a collaboration with Akai, well known mfr. of samplers, I did not
see anything that explicitly stated it was a sampler. In fact in the
little video of Larry Fishman, he "poo-poos" modeling.

I spent some time trying to talk to someone (unfortunately not Larry)
at the Fishman booth at NAMM last year when the Aura was new and
couldn't get any useful information out of him at all. It sounded like
an mic modeler (which could just be some fixed frequency response
shaping) to me. It probably does something that no other box does, but
I never thought the guitar plugged into it sounded like the decent
guitar that it was, with a good mic on it.

I guess it's OK, though, because it does give you some flexibility for
adjustment, some EQ, some feedback suppression, and it's not too
complicated to operate.