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Mission 49 · World 4
Roar
Multiband, modulated saturation. Tonal weapon.
Multiband, modulated saturation — Live 12's tonal Swiss Army knife.
+70 XP🏅 Tone Shaper
// WHAT IT DOES
Roar is a saturator with up to three stages of distortion. You can run them one after another, in parallel, or split your signal into 2–3 frequency bands and saturate each band differently.
It also has its own LFO and envelope follower built in — modulation that changes the saturation amount over time, without leaving the device.
Think of it like → Like a guitar pedalboard you can configure as series, parallel, or split-by-frequency — all in one box.
▸ WHY YOU CARE
- • One device covers warmth, grit, fuzz, bit-crush, wavefolding.
- • Multiband mode means you can roughen the highs without crunching the lows.
// SEE & HEAR IT
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LOWPASS CUTOFF
Listen for the brightness. High cutoff = open and bright. Low cutoff = dark and muffled.
Your value6.1kHz
200Hz12.0kHz
▸ HOW IT WORKS
Source → optional split → Stage 1 → Stage 2 → Stage 3 → recombine → output → wet/dry.
▸ Signal flow — watch the dot
▸ SIGNAL FLOW
Glowing dot = your signal travelling through Live.
▸ LISTEN FOR
- • Saturation that sits 'inside' the tone, not over it.
- • Per-band character changes.
▸ WALKTHROUGH (3 steps)
- 1. DO: Drop Roar on a vocal bus. Set mode to Multiband 2.▸ LISTEN: Two bands appear at the crossover.
- 2. DO: Saturate only the top band, Tube algo, mix 20%.▸ LISTEN: Vocal gains air without grit on the body.
- 3. DO: Map the LFO to top-band drive, slow rate.▸ LISTEN: Air content breathes in and out.
▸ COMMON MISTAKES
- ✗ Cranking drive on every stage — sound implodes.
- ✗ Forgetting Mix knob — wet 100% by default.
// QUIZ (QUICK)
Question 1 / 30 correct
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