Lifeline Expanse by Excite Audio
Lifeline Expanse by Excite Audio is a fantastic new multi-fx plugin that really grabbed our attention. Having lots of different fx plugins can take up a lot of your computer’s resources and can just be confusing to keep track of. Lifeline Expanse could really help you out here by offering a great combination of fx in this one plugin.
The fx are all designed to add some vintage character to your sounds, from dirt, space and more. It works really well and the different fx sections really compliment each other. I think this plugin would be great alongside other vintage-style Vsts, Cassette and Super VHS are great examples.
Being very easy to use, you can just slam it onto a track and start playing around. This is a great entry to the plugin world from Excite Audio, the plugin looks and sounds great. We look forward to more plugins from Excite Audio.
Keep reading below to learn more about Lifeline Expanse or click the thumbnail on to watch the video.
You can grab a copy here: https://bit.ly/LifeLineExpanse (Plugin Boutique)
Breathe Life Into Your Audio
Excite Audio announces the first release from its new Lifeline series. Lifeline Expanse is a new multi-effect plugin that creates authenticity and realism by bringing together intricate re-amping techniques within a sleek, modern workflow.
Specially made for creative music producers and mixing engineers, Lifeline Expanse enhances digital audio by focusing on contemporary processing techniques rather than vintage-inspired effects. Instantly add ‘live’ character to dry audio signals with the speaker emulation, saturation, audio resolution reduction, stereo widening and reverb effects modules.
This authenticity and realism are created by using intricate re-amping techniques. Re-amping is the process of taking an audio signal and playing it out in an environment. The signal is sent through amps, mics and effects to add colour, texture and depth, then re-recorded.
This complex technique is served as a modern, sleek workflow that offers producers instant flexibility and control over every element. Rearrange the signal chain and delicately blend effects using each module’s main controls or the more focused under-the-hood functions.
Lifeline Expanse Modules:
Re-amp: Replicate Realism
Expanse has a versatile range of speaker emulations to experiment with, ranging from classic recording equipment to modern-day devices. From a Gameboy and vintage 8-track recorder to high definition monitors and an electric guitar cabinet, decades of audio authenticity is ready and waiting.
Easily manipulate the age, drive, tone and mix of each element to instantly create live environments in just a few clicks.
- Device: Emulations of small consumer electronics such as phone and laptop speakers.
- Cabinet: Emulations of medium-sized guitar cabinets.
- Monitors: Emulations of larger studio monitors with a rich frequency response.
- Vintage: Uses the impulse responses from vintage recording equipment including a classic 8-track cassette recorder and a ribbon microphone.
Dirt: Enhance Harmonics
Dirt’s four algorithms instantly add distortion, saturation, aggressive harmonics and noise to any sound you want. Warm your mixes with gentle tape or tube saturation, or add a gritty edge to vocals, guitars, basses, synths and drums.
- Tube: Smooth saturation for all-around analogue warmth. Increasing the drive provides heavier distortion.
- Tape: Adds subtle warmth, glue and fullness. Increase the drive for extra punch.
- Rectify: Introduces extra harmonics and fuzz an octave above the incoming signal.
- Fuzz: A heavy guitar fuzz for extreme harmonic overtones.
Format: Digital Damage
Every element of Format brings a distinct flavour. Reduce the bit-depth and sample rate, toy with the resolution of the signal’s volume peaks, or flood the audio to twist the sound wave into a bubbling, corrupted MP3.
- Degrade: Reduces bit depth of incoming audio and causes digital distortion.
- Resample: Reduces the sample rate of the audio and causes digital distortion.
- Washed: An ‘underwater’ distortion that sounds like a corrupted low-quality MP3.
- Flatten: A combination of a gate and bitcrusher that reduces the resolution of the audio during transients.
Width: Dream in Stereo
Width gives your audio movement, energy and tension by making the most of the stereo field. Access the full spectrum of your audio’s potential by using effective, streamlined parameters.
Expanse’s unique width controls help create vast soundscapes, captivating leads and intimate vocal takes.
- Haas: Creates stereo width by duplicating the audio signal.
- Mid / Side: Alters the balance between the mid and side signal.
- Detune: Adds pitch variation for a wide, chorusing effect.
- Mono: Reduces the width of the audio
Space: A New Dimension
Taking inspiration from classic reverb functions, Space focuses on four different algorithms that each offer a wide spectrum of depth and time manipulation.
Use Expanse’s ultra-flexible Space module early in the signal chain as a reverb effect pedal or place it at the end to create a limitless environment for your instruments to explore.
- Plate: A classic, fast sounding plate reverb producing the sound of vibrations through metal.
- Hall: A real-sounding room reverb at its smallest and a large concert hall at its largest.
- Spring: An emulation of the metallic and vintage-sounding spring reverb from a guitar amp.
- Slap: Slapback delay that can either add a single realistic, early reflection or create metallic feedback mayhem.
Lifeline Expanse Features
- 5 Effects Modules (Re-amp, Dirt, Format, Width & Space)
- 20 Unique Algorithms (1024 different combinations)
- Multiband functionality per module (For Gain and Effect processing)
- Drag & Drop Modular workflow
- Resizeable UI
- 250 Presets
- Zero Latency
Global
- Linkable Input/Output Gain Controls
- Frequency Smoothing & Gain Safety control
- Global Bypass
- Low-Cut/Hi-Cut Filter
- Dry/Wet Mix Control
Re-amp
- 8 Speaker Emulations
- Speaker Age control (With Adv. Multiband processing)
- Speaker Size & Drive controls
- Bass Separation control
- Close Mic / Room Mic Distance & Blend controls
- Output Gain, Tone, Dry/Wet Mix controls
Dirt
- 4 Saturation/Distortion algorithms
- Drive control (With Adv. Multiband processing)
- Frequency Smoothing & Dynamics Preservation control
- Dry/Wet Mix, Output Gain & Tone controls
Format
- 4 audio resolution reduction algorithms
- Crush control (With Adv. Multiband processing)
- Frequency Smoothing & Noise generation controls
- Dry/Wet Mix, Output Gain & Tone controls
Width
- 4 Stereo Width algorithms
- Stereo control (With Adv. Multiband processing)
- L/R Balance & Bass Mono controls
- Phase correlation meter
- Dry/Wet Mix, Output Gain & Tone controls
Space
- 4 Reverb algorithms
- Reverb Time control (With Adv. Multiband processing)
- Room Size, Predelay, Stereo width controls
- Internal Sidechain ducking
- Dry/Wet Mix, Output Gain & Tone controls
Lifeline Expanse Links
If you would like to grab Lifeline Expanse by Excite Audio then please check it out using this link, which helps support Producer Life, thank you. Check the video from our YouTube channel showing Lifeline Expanse in action.
https://bit.ly/LifeLineExpanse
