Lifeline Format

Digital Damage

Reducing audio resolution and replicating the digital distortion found in early digital systems can impart a distinctive character to your audio, add intriguing textures and boost your sonic creativity.

This is where Format shines – restricting digital audio data to produce warm, grainy layers, or much harsher digital deconstructions, depending on how far you want to take it.

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.

Features

• 4 audio resolution reduction algorithms
• Crush control (with advanced Multiband processing)
• Frequency Smoothing & Noise generation controls
• Dry/Wet Mix, Output Gain & Tone controls
• Multiband functionality for Gain and Effect processing
• Input/Output Gain Controls
• Global Bypass
• Resizeable UI
• Zero Latency
• 50 Presets

System Requirements

macOS

• macOS 10.15 or higher (Intel / Native Apple Silicon supported).
• 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
• Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AAX, Standalone
• DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
• Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.