Lifeline Expanse creates authenticity and realism 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.

Lifeline Expanse distils this complex technique into 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 in Action

Hear how Lifeline Expanse can breathe life into any kind of audio.

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. You can easily manipulate the age, drive, tone and mix of each element to emphasise each device’s individual qualities.

• 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.

The Tube, Tape, Rectify and Fuzz algorithms instantly add distortion, saturation, aggressive harmonics and noise to any sound you want.

Using the Drive, Smooth and Tone controls, the intensity or smoothness of each effect can be easily dialled in to suit any context.

• 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.

Every element of Format brings a distinct flavour. Degrade and Resample reduce the bit-depth and sample rate to collide two contrasting directions of digital distortion.

Flatten combines these effects with a gate to toy with the resolution of the signal’s volume peaks, whilst Washed floods 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.

Whether it’s through panning, pitching, signal boosting or detuning, Expanse offers balanced and detailed control over your mix.

Access the full spectrum of your audio’s potential by utilising effective, streamlined parameters to produce any kind of stereo width processing.

• 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.

Taking inspiration from classic reverb functions, Expanse focuses on four different algorithms that each offer a wide spectrum of space and time manipulation – the resulting reflections can be realistic and organic or synthetically stretched out.

With reverb, time and space are key, and Expanse gives you the parameters and tools to precisely apply as much as you need.

• Hall: A real-sounding room reverb at its smallest and a large concert hall at its largest.

• Plate: A classic, fast sounding plate reverb producing the sound of vibrations through metal.

• 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.