Song Athletics have introduced Ruiner, a versatile ‘sound destruction’ plug-in designed to give users a variety of creative controls to manipulate audio. Combining eight carefully curated effects into one plug-in, Ruiner provides a simple yet powerful way to distort, degrade and shape sound.
Ruiner features tools for rhythmic and textural manipulation, including a Stutter effect that controls the probability and rate of beat repeats, a Granular control that increases in complexity as the dial turns and a Compressor for dynamic control. These features make it easy to introduce glitchy, evolving, or compressed textures to any signal.
For more aggressive sound sculpting, Ruiner also offers a suite of distortion tools. The Harmonic Distortion blends clean and driven signals, allowing for anything from gentle harmonic warmth to all-out destruction. A separate Overdrive setting replicates diode clipping, recreating classic analogue distortion, while the Bit Crush effect steps down the resolution from 16 bits to 8 bits for gritty lo-fi tones.
Rounding out the plug-in is the Tape effect, simulating vintage tape saturation and degradation, and a Static control that adds analogue circuit noise and vinyl crackle. These elements help users layer natural imperfections into their sound design. The overall mix control provides a finishing touch, allowing users to seamlessly balance and blend the dry and wet signals.
Available as a VST3/AU plugin for Windows and MacOS, Ruiner has a download size of 194 MB and has been engineered by John Howes, the creator behind Cong Burn.
Price & Availability
Ruiner is available for download now, priced at £20.
