Ruinator

Introducing Ruinator – the ultimate dual-stage distortion and degradation plugin for anyone ready to unleash pure sonic chaos. Transform simple sounds into endlessly mangled textures and aggressive tones with a plugin designed for true creative destruction:

• Dual-stage, multi-mod architecture: Chain two unique distortion circuits for raw layering, just like swapping pedals on a pedalboard—but with endless custom flex.
• Stack or Split the signal chain: Run the two stages in line or split them by frequency, midside or stereo feed.
• Dynamic modulation: Add movement and unpredictability thanks to an envelope follower and powerful LFO. Inject energy, rhythm, and evolving character into static audio.
• Total control: Every stage and modulation source is fully tweakable, putting innovative, twisted sound-shaping right under your fingertips.
• As it is, Ruinator comes with 5 distortion modes:
  • Soft Clipping - A softer, more saturation style sound, the Character knob controls the harmonic balance.
  • Hard Clipping - The same, but more gain, this is the most 'pedal' distortion to me. Again the Character knob controls the harmonic balance.
  • Fuzz - Fuzz is Fuzz... The character control changes the Bias. All the way up makes the sound more chopped and gated sounding.
  • Bitcrush - Reduces the bitrate from 16-bits down to 1bit, with the character controls Mu, this helps preserve dynamics while still distorting and crushing the sound.
  • Sample Reduce - Reduces the sample rate from..., the character control increases jitter.
• Pitch Distort - The wild card. This is based on chaining pitch shifters, one up then one down. The Distortion knob increases the interval the sound is shifted, from 1 semitone all the way to an octave. As it uses delay lines to implement this, the Character knob changes the delay speed, modulating this gets things into the glitchy arena.

Ruinator takes the spirit of classic stompboxes, fuses it with creative modulation tools, and smashes all boundaries to help producers, sound designers, and musicians find their new signature sound. Get Ruinator now and turn your sonic urges into devastating reality.

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