SVARTRUNA
$69.99 USD
Ever Lose a Riff While Chasing Tone?
You sit down to write a riff. A real one. The kind that has been living in your head all day while you were at work. You hum it the whole drive home so you do not forget it.
You grab your guitar, work it out, and it is there. It is good.
Then you open your DAW, load up an amp sim, and the moment starts to die.
The plugin takes a while to load. Then come the dropdown menus. The cabinets. The IR browser. The mic placements. The extra pages. The pedals. The endless second-guessing.
An hour later, you are still tweaking.
And the riff? Gone.
The moment is dead.
This Is Not a Workflow Problem. It Is a Complexity Problem.
Complexity is the real creativity killer. It has been bleeding your best ideas dry for years.
- Too many menus kill momentum.
- Too many options kill decisions.
- Too much setup kills the song before it starts.
- The real cost is not time. It is unfinished music.
Think about all the riffs you never recorded, the songs you never finished, and the albums still trapped in your head. That is the true cost of complexity.
Seven Pedals. Four Slots. Your Chain.
Choose from seven pedals and build a chain of up to four. Add, replace or remove pedals, then drag them into the order you want. Stack drives, add fuzz, or leave slots empty for a simpler sound.
SCREAM, SNARL, HYPER + CHAOS
Tighten the amp with SCREAM, add overdrive or distortion with SNARL, explore fuzz with HYPER, or bring chainsaw aggression with CHAOS. Their mode switches and MIX controls give you more ways to shape the front end.
MERCILESS DRIVE, OD-X + SWOLE
The expanded board adds the Vic Audio MERCILESS DRIVE and MERCILESS OD-X, including the OD-X PUSH switch. SWOLE adds thick fuzz with SUSTAIN, FILTER, LOUDNESS and MIX, plus CRUNCH and SCOOP switches.
Build The Order That Works
Use up to four pedals at once. Reorder the chain, replace a pedal in its slot, remove one, and switch pedals individually. Drive into fuzz and fuzz into drive produce different results. Dial in the chain around your riff.
What You're Getting
A Complete Guitar Rig
One extreme-metal amp voice with nine captured gain stages. Seven pedals, four board slots, three cabs and custom IR loading keep the signal chain together.
Pitch Without Retuning
The top-panel TRANSPOSE control shifts the input by whole semitones from -12 to +12, with its own on/off switch.
Space, Shape And Control
Tempo-synced and ping-pong ECHO, CHAMBER reverb with shimmer, a 10-band CONTOUR EQ, tuner, noise gate and MIDI learn.
Own It Forever
Simple once off activation, then it is yours. No subscriptions, no monthly fees, no iLok, no licence server phoning home. Buy it once and make music.
The v2.5 Feature Set
Savage black metal and death metal tone, with the tools to finish the whole guitar sound. The expanded pedalboard, pitch control and effects are all inside the same plugin.
Amp + Pedalboard
- One extreme-metal amp voice with nine captured gain stages
- Seven pedals: SCREAM, SNARL, HYPER, CHAOS, MERCILESS DRIVE, MERCILESS OD-X and SWOLE
- Four pedal slots: add, replace, remove and reorder
- Individual pedal switches and pedal-specific controls
- Three built-in cabinet choices
- Load custom WAV impulse responses
- Cabinet bypass for an external IR loader
Pitch + Stereo Effects
- TRANSPOSE: -12 to +12 semitones, with on/off
- ECHO delay with TIME, FEEDBACK, TONE and MIX
- Host-tempo SYNC and PING PONG switches
- CHAMBER: Room, Plate, Hall and Spring
- Separate SHIMMER switch for reverb
- Independent Mono/Stereo choices for ECHO and CHAMBER
- CONTOUR 10-band graphic EQ: 31 Hz to 16 kHz
Recording + Workflow
- MIDI CC and note learn for supported controls
- Absolute/expression and toggle-footswitch mappings
- Session-saved MIDI mappings survive sound-preset changes
- Built-in rack tuner overlay and noise gate
- Input/output control and metering
- Factory presets and user preset save/load
- Right-click PEDAL, AMP or FX for section bypass
- VST3, AU and AAX formats; standalone app included
Your Rig, Within Reach
SVARTRUNA keeps the main controls visible and the signal chain easy to navigate. Switch between PEDAL, AMP and FX, open the tuner over the current page, and use the top rail to set input, gate, transpose and output.
Gain + Level
Input, Pre, Gain, Output
Tone
Low, Mid, High, Presence
Attack + Weight
Tight, Tame, Shape
Pitch + Gate
Transpose -12 to +12 semitones, noise gate
Cab + Effects
Cab A / B / C, custom IR loading, ECHO, CHAMBER, CONTOUR
Set the amp, build a pedal chain, choose a cab and finish with stereo effects. Right-click a section button to bypass that section.
Built For Real Sessions
SVARTRUNA keeps the whole chain together. Save your sound as a preset, use MIDI learn to put supported controls under your feet, and check tuning without leaving the page you are working on.
Preset System
- 30 factory presets, grouped by contributor
- Save, load and remove user presets
- Browse presets or step through with the arrows
- Presets recall the amp, pedalboard, cabinet and effects
- MIDI mappings stay with the DAW session across sound-preset changes
Factory Preset Contributors
Oracle Sound
Chernobyl Audio
Evil Wizard
Corey Hunter
Case - Breakkaway
Utility Workflow
- Rack tuner overlay with output muting while tuning
- Noise gate with threshold and bypass
- Right-click PEDAL, AMP or FX for section bypass
- Cabinet bypass and custom WAV IR loading
- MIDI CC/note learn with expression and toggle modes
- Independent Mono/Stereo modes for delay and reverb
Simple Once Off Activation. No Subscriptions. No iLok.
SVARTRUNA is a one-time purchase. Activate it once with your serial key and it is yours — no monthly fees, and no licence server phoning home every time you want to make music.
- One-time purchase
- Simple once off activation
- Yours forever
- No iLok required
- No subscription trap
Your Riffs Are Waiting.
One extreme-metal amp voice with nine captured gain stages. Build your chain from seven pedals, shift pitch with TRANSPOSE, choose a cab and finish with ECHO, CHAMBER and CONTOUR. The whole rig stays in one window.
Extreme tone. Zero friction. One purchase.
System requirements
Any Windows PC or Apple Mac machine that is capable of real-time audio processing is required. Make sure that your platform meets the minimum specifications, for example:
Windows
- Windows 10/11 or later (64-bit)
MacOS
- MacOS 10.15 Catalina or later
- Intel or Apple Silicon
In both instances, a modern CPU (within the last 5-8 years) and sufficient RAM (8-16GB or more) are highly recommended for optimal performance.