XLN Audio RC-20 & Excite Audio Lifeline Console Bundle

An exclusive bundle of two iconic plugins that immediately inject warmth, life and character into your tracks. Whether you're looking to sculpt sounds or fine-tune your mix, these are the powerful tools you need. 

Lifeline Console

Instant Analogue Character

Lifeline Console brings recordings to life with the warmth and charm of analogue audio processing

Each of the plugin’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 you’re adding gentle sheen and signal enhancement, degrading a sound into a nostalgic, lo-fi production, or anything in between, there’s a module combination for whatever you need.

Enhance Warmth

The crucial first stage in a recorded signal’s journey, a preamp adds gain but can also impart warmth, drive and excitation.
Console’s pre-amp combines this classic preamp workflow with the customisability of the digital realm, letting you shape the frequency response curve of your circuit’s character to perfectly suit the instrument you’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 – 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 Console’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 Console’s EQ offers everything from subtle tone shaping to powerful harmonic enhancement.

Features

• 5 Effects Modules (Pre-amp, EQ, Compressor, Modulation & Wear)
• 15 Unique Algorithms (243 different combinations)
• Interactive Display for Each Module
• Left/Right and Mid/Side functionality per Module
• Drag & Drop Modular workflow
• Scrollable & Resizeable UI
• 350 Presets
• Zero Latency

Learn more about Lifeline Console.

RC-20 Retro Colour

Quickly Add Character and Analog Warmth to any Track or Mix

RC-20 Retro Color is a creative effect plugin that easily recreates the warm feeling of vintage recording equipment. It adds life and texture to any recording and also works perfectly in any modern production setting.

RC-20 Retro Color's 6 Effect Modules work great on their own or together:

Noise Generator

Add life and texture with one of RC-20's many noise types, from subtle vinyl crackle and tape hiss to ambient studio noise, electric circuit hum and stompbox static noise.

Wobble & Flutter

Wobble adds pitch inconsistencies associated with unstable playback on analog gear, like vinyl record players and tape machines.

Saturation & Distortion

Add everything from mild saturation to raging fuzz with one of RC-20's many distortion types.

Degrader & Bitcrusher

Recreate the sound of vintage digital gear like old-school samplers, and the unmistakable way limited sample rates and bit rate reduction color sound.

Reverb

Add depth and width to your tracks with RC-20's tailored reverb module.

Volume Drops

Reproduce the wear, tear and volume loss associated with recording and playback on tape and tape recorders.

Easily Scale All of RC-20's Effect Modules and Controls with a Single Slider

Dial in the perfect amount of your effects, or quickly create intros, outros, drops and transitions to take your mix to the next level.

Presets for any Track or Mix

RC-20's tailor-made presets for drums, keys, guitars, bass, full mixes and post-production let you get to work right away.

Learn more about RC-20 Retro Colour.

System Requirements

RC-20:

Mac

• macOS 10.10 or later (M1 Native & macOS 12 Monterey supported) (64-bit only)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• Internet connection (during installation only)
• VST, AU, AAX
• DAWs supported: Ableton Live 9 or later, Logic Pro 9 & 10, Pro Tools 11 or later (Pro Tools First is not supported), Cakewalk by Bandlab, FL Studio 20, Reason 9.5 or later, Reaper 5 or later, Cubase 8 or later

Windows

• Windows 7, 8, 10 (64-bit only)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• Internet connection (during installation only)
• VST, AAX
• DAWs supported: Ableton Live 9 or later, Logic Pro 9 & 10, Pro Tools 11 or later (Pro Tools First is not supported), Cakewalk by Bandlab, FL Studio 20, Reason 9.5 or later, Reaper 5 or later, Cubase 8 or later

Please Note: This software is 64-bit only and will not function on 32-bit systems.
 

Lifeline Console:

macOS

• macOS 10.9 or higher (Intel / M1 Apple Silicon supported) (64-bit only)
• Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX, Standalone
• DAW's Supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
• Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.

Windows

• Windows 7 or higher (32 / 64-bit)
• Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AAX, Standalone
• DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
• Compatibility: 64-bit and 32-bit compatible.

Please Note: An internet connection is required to authorise this software.