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Lifeline Console excite-audio (MAC)

£19.99

Product Description

Tech Specs ( SUPPORTED M1, M2)

  • Platform:ย Mac
  • Upgrade/Full:Full
  • Download/Boxed:ย Download
  • Bit Depth:32-bit, 64-bit
  • Format:AAX, VST, VST3, AU
  • Hardware Requirements โ€“ Mac:ย Intel Core 2 Duo or higher, 4GB RAM minimum
  • OS Requirements โ€“ Mac:OS X 10.9.5 or later & M1,M2

ย Instant Analogue Character

The Lifeline series continues with Lifeline Consoleโ€“ a creative modular channel-strip that
brings recordings to life with the warmth and charm of analogue audio processing.

While Lifeline Expanse simulates the space and characteristics of real recording environments and re-amping methods, Lifeline Console focuses on mixing in a control room, offering you the sound of sought-after hardware and analogue formats all within your DAW.

Each of the pluginโ€™s five modules brings a particular vintage flavour to your signal chain:

  • Pre-amp warms and enhances the signal with colourful saturation via a customisable frequency response.

  • EQ offers characterful spectral shaping with a choice of analogue circuitry.

  • Compressor makes quick work of dynamics duties and contains an innovative Auto Makeup control.

  • Modulation imparts the movement and life of warped records and tape speed variations.

  • Wear adds the charm and imperfections of old-school playback, introducing the noise, artefacts and unpredictable nature of tape, vinyl and cassette.

Whether youโ€™re adding gentle sheen and signal enhancement, degrading a sound into a nostalgic, lo-fi production, or anything in between, thereโ€™s a module combination for whatever you need.

ย 5 Effects Modules

Modular Workflow

15 Unique Algorithms

Resizeable UI

5 Interactive Displays

Zero Latency

ย Lifeline Console in Action

Hear how Lifeline Console can add an analogue feel to any kind of audio.

Drums
Dry / Wet
Bass
Dry / Wet
Keys
Dry / Wet
Guitar
Dry / Wet
Vocal
Dry / Wet

Enhance Warmth

The crucial first stage in a recorded signalโ€™s journey, a preamp adds gain but can also impart warmth, drive and excitation.

Consoleโ€™s pre-amp combines this classic preamp workflow with the customisability of the digital realm, letting you shape the frequency response curve of your circuitโ€™s character to perfectly suit the instrument youโ€™re working with.

Three modes help you further refine the type of drive and enhancement needed:

  • Bright offers a high-end presence and sheen that can bring an airy, sparkling quality.

  • Warm adds body, smoothness and presence, particularly useful for midrange frequencies.

  • Dark brings weight and punch to low frequencies.

Push-Pull saturation warms the signal with a weighted frequency response and then brings the overall gain back down โ€“ leaving only the spectral character of the preamp.

Dial-in the exact character of the response using Bias, Q and Shape controls.

Shape Tonal Balance

Sculpting the frequency range of your audio is essential both for shaping the tonal balance of each channel and for allowing each element its own place in a mix.

Lifeline Consoleโ€™s EQ offers a classic parametric four-band approach with a choice of three modes:

  • Gain mode offers a clean circuit for simple and precise EQ jobs.

  • Vintage Circuit mode introduces additional harmonics to drive a signal when boosting.

  • Dirty Circuit mode brings all-out saturation and distortion into the EQing process.

With a low cut or shelf filter, low-mid and high-mid bands, plus a high cut or shelf filter, and the ability to work in 3dB or 30dB modes, Lifeline Consoleโ€™s EQ offers everything from subtle tone shaping to powerful harmonic enhancement.

Colourful Dynamic Control

Right from the early days of the studio, compressors and been essential to the sound of music. Today, compression is used more than ever before, and in many more applications.

Lifeline Consoleโ€™s compressor module puts characterful dynamics control at the forefront and lets you choose between three compression types to suit a variety of sources and uses.

The Comp module provides three compression styles to deal with different production tasks:

  • Analogue smooths out signals and imparts the character of revered compressor hardware.

  • Transparent gives a clean, modern response thatโ€™s great for catching peaks while retaining a soundโ€™s body.

  • Variable provides an input-dependent response thatโ€™s great for smoothing vocals, glueing busses, and for mastering applications.

Controls on the Comp module include Threshold, Ratio, Attack and Release. Lifeline Consoleโ€™s unique Auto-Makeup control simplifies the make-up gain process, by listening to your audio and applying the exact amount of gain required.

Further features include a Dry/Wet mix for parallel processing, a bandpass filter for frequency-specific compression and a gain reduction meter. As with all Lifeline Console modules, the compressor offers Mid/Side and Left/Right functionality.

Nostalgic Pitch Warping

In analogue audio formats, playback speed isnโ€™t always perfectly consistent, and replicating this effect can lend a warm, nostalgic feel to lifeless digital audio.

The Modulation section brings back the magic of pitch variations as experienced with Tape, Vinyl and Cassette, reintroducing the sound-warping character of these media, but with precise control over their properties.

Tape mode introduces subtle pitch modulation where the speed and depth are compensated โ€“ an increase in speed is countered by a corresponding decrease in depth. Vinyl simulates the warping of a record, lending a moderate pitch modulation with some speed and depth compensation. Cassette achieves a more extreme pitch modulation effect as heard on compact-style tapes, an effect which is left untamed by keeping speed and depth independent.

The Modulation sectionโ€™s dual X/Y pads give you graphical control over two parameter combinations: Wow Speed and Depth, plus Flutter Speed and Depth.

Wow and Flutter is found in all three modulation modes, and can even be synced to your DAWโ€™s tempo. Their Waveform Shape can be set to Sine, Linear or Random, and a Dry/Wet control lets you blend pitch modulation into an analogue flanging or chorus-style effect.

Creative Textural Layers

The signal degradation and pitch variation caused by vintage equipment are usually connected and dictated by the physical format. Lifeline Console instead allows you to mix the Wow and Flutter from one format with physical wear from another.

Use noise, hum, artefacts and dropouts to shape a soundโ€™s tone and feel. Add life, realism or even a lo-fi texture to a mix, and use these factors creatively as part of your sound design and production workflow.

Three Wear modes โ€“ Tape, Vinyl and Cassette bring three types of recognisable degradation to your audio, and the Age control introduces the saturation and deterioration that occurs over time in these formats.

Noise properties in the Wear module include Amp (hiss), Hum (electrical noise), Mechanical (physical movement and whir), and Dust (light artefacts).

These signals can be ducked or triggered by input audio, letting you harness noise as a creative effect. The interactive display also reacts to your audio, noise, age, artefacts and dropouts.

Create musical elements out of your Artefacts and Dropouts such as light rhythms and subtle gating by syncing them to your project tempo.

Blend Vintage Circuitry

Find your ideal console to work on for each session with the Triangle Pad, which houses both Clean and Vintage emulations of mixing desk circuitry, allowing you to find the perfect blend between the two and your dry signal.

The Warm knob enhances the low frequencies of an entire mix, helping to glue the bottom end together. The Shine knob achieves a high-end sparkle thatโ€™s perfect as a final stage of sheen to give your track an extra edge.

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