Free Plug-ins for your DAW

Ever wanted a Ruina Versio but don’t have the budget? Always wanted to have a polyphonic ‘iteritas’ oscillator that blends, bubbles, screams, and morphs into amazing pads, metals, beats, basslines, and leads?

Noise Engineering just released public beta’s of their 95% finished DAW plugins. I normally don’t cover plug-ins on this modular channel, but these are too good to be free. But they are! Free for everyone who has a Customer Portal account or can create one. This suite includes five plugins which can be used in any DAW that supports VST, AU, and AAX formats. These include clever tools like Ruina (a distortion unit), Imagene (a multifunction sampler), Virta (an oscillator/filter), Pura (a comb filter), and Terci Ruina (a multi-band distortion). Once you have your desired settings and sounds in your DAW, you can easily send audio from DAW to OBS for streaming or recording purposes.

Sinc & Virt Vereor are synth voices with a built-in envelope, filter, and chorus. Ruina is a pretty exact port of the Ruina Versio module code. This video is just me fooling around with the plug-ins for about an hour, so they’re easy to install (remember they’re VST3‘s on windows, so you need Ableton to find it) and even easier to play with them. Best with automation!

Pricing and Availability

If you have an account on the Noise Engineering Customer Portal, you have them already! Just navigate to the Software tab, and Bob’s your uncle, you have plugins. No account? No problem. Pop on over to portal.noiseengineering.us and create one. As soon as you verify your account, your plugins will be waiting for you with open arms.

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New Ruina Versio and Electus Versio

Ruina Versio is a stereo distortion like you’ve never heard: it’s actually a stack of distortion, filtering, and mangling tools that can be rerouted and CV’d to completely destroy any sound you run through it — in a good way, of course. This is the first time that the infinifolder featured on oscillators like the BIA can be used to process external signals. Plus, there’s a Smoosh button and a DOOM knob. Doesn’t get any better than that, does it?

Ruina Versio – “Versatile destruction”

• Ruina — from Latin: “Destruction”
• Versio — from Latin: “Versatile”

Ruina Versio answers the age-old question: how many different types of distortion can we fit on a single module? The answer is a lot, as it turns out. Need a wavefolder? Noise Engineering got a wavefolder. Want some multiband distortion? Of course, you do! And that’s not even including the DOOM parameter! Noise Engineering also decided that Smoosh was a parameter we needed in our lives: press it and add 128dB of a drive. Yes, you read that right: 128dB. Why have SOME drive when you can have ALL the drive?

Ruina isn’t the only new Versio: Noise Engineering announces Electus Versio, too. Electus isn’t its own module, but you can flash it onto any Versio module from the Customer Portal absolutely free, as usual.

Electus is the clocked companion to Desmodus, by popular request! Noise Engineering rethought the delay structure to allow for longer, more distorted, and more focussed tails that worked with time-syncing. It also has its own flavor, and Noise Engineering found ourselves switching back and forth between Desmodus and Electus when Noise Engineering wants some atmosphere in our patches.

Pricing and Availability

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If you’re already a Versio owner, you can re-flash your current Versio into a Ruina right now at the NE Customer Portal. Want a dedicated Ruina Versio? Pre-order yours today. They start shipping on March 25, 2021.

Current Firmwares Lineup

Desmodus: Stereo synthetic tail-generator reverb designed for creating abstract, often infinite spaces
Imitor: Stereo in, stereo out 12-tap multimode delay with clock sync and tap tempo
Ampla: DSR-controlled stereo VCA/MMF gate and chorus
Electus: Not quite a reverb, not quite a delay: the clocked atmosphere generator you never knew you needed.
Ruina: Stereo distortion with wave folding, octivizing, phase shifting, multiband saturation, notch filtering, and DOOM.

Ruina Versio Firmware

Noise Engineering already had five different distortions in the catalog. They’re the masters of grit, saturation and rectification. Having a distortion on the Versio platform was inevitable and now, Ruina Versio is here. It ‘s available as a dedicated module with its own faceplate (shipping end of March), but if you own Desmodus or Imitor, you can already download it and install it for free. It’s always fun to make a video with the Versio series, but playing with the Ruina is something else. If this doesn’t bring a smile on your face, nothing will. Masterpiece!