Song Athletics has announced the release of Ruiner, an all-in-one sound destruction plugin for macOS and Windows (VST3 & AU), saying:
Ruiner makes adding character to your sound simple. We've curated 8 of our favourite go-to effects and combined them in one device, with singular knobs for each, so that you can delightfully degrade any signal with ease. From a light dusting to full harmonic overload, there's just so much scope for ruin.
Ruiner enables you to combine and apply 8 destruction effects to an incoming signal:
- Stutter - beat repeater where dial controls probability and rate of repeat.
- Granular - dial controls a custom-grain manipulation which increases in complexity.
- Compress - a punchy compressor, where dial controls threshold.
- Bit Crush - stepped control from 16-bits down to 8 bit.
- Harmonic Distortion - dial controls combination of dry/wet and drive.
- Overdrive - dial controls amount of modelled diode clipping.
- Tape - Dial controls combination of dry/wet and various degradation options of the tape model.
- Static - dial controls amount of combined static noise sources: originally-sourced analogue circuit noise and vinyl surface noise.
The mix control allows you to define the overall blend between the original and affected signal.
Tech Specs:
- VST3/AU.
- Runs on Windows 10/11 and MacOS 10.11 (or later).
- Supports Intel Macs.
- Download size: 194 MB uncompressed.
- Engineered by John Howes aka Cong Burn.
Price: £20.
