RUINER by Song Athletics – Degrader Plugin VST3

The all-in-one sound destruction plugin.

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.

Recording Notes

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 Spec

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.