00:10production time I'm Reed Stefon real
00:12puppet in the game today we're doing a
00:15complete breakdown of the newest and
00:18most disrespectful plugin in Ableton 12
00:21I'm talking about Roar and this brand
00:23new audio effect is a distortion plugin
00:26but as you're going to see in this
00:27tutorial you can use it as a sound
00:29design tool tool an EQ a harmonic
00:32generator compressor and so much more
00:34I'm going to be applying this plug-in to
00:36Drums syns ad weights and vocals to show
00:39you how it can enhance all different
00:41sounds inside your mix the song that I
00:43have pulled up is a track called shot
00:45CER top 10 by easy McCoy I'm going to
00:47drop Roar right onto this string
00:55instrument now I don't want distorted
00:58strings so we're going to use this as an
01:00EQ the secret to doing that is right
01:03here in this routing menu by default you
01:05get a single stage of distortion but I'm
01:07going to switch this down to multiband
01:09which is one of my favorite ways to use
01:11this plugin this almost turns it into
01:13Ott for Distortion your signal gets
01:16separated into lows mids and high
01:19frequencies and you can adjust where
01:20your lows cross over and where your
01:22highs cross over but 200 HZ and 2,000 HZ
01:25are perfect place for me let's turn off
01:28our highs and mids and and just solo the
01:33lows and let's bring in our
01:41highs so just by doing that I could tell
01:43that our lows were a little bit lacking
01:46in this instrument and I want to use
01:47harmonic saturation to enhance the
01:49warmth of these strings all we're going
01:51to do is increase the saturation amount
01:58band let's go extreme just so you could
02:05difference and we'll just solo the
02:08strings so as we increase the amount
02:11we're increasing the sensitivity where
02:13saturation starts getting applied to the
02:15signal if we have the amount low we
02:17would need a whole lot of drive for
02:19Distortion to get distorted but if we
02:21have the amount High it'll distort at
02:23very low levels which is perfect for
02:43difference so without eqing it we've
02:46eqed these strings we've used harmonic
02:48saturation applied it just to the low
02:50end and dialed it into taste to really
02:52fill in the warmth of these strings we
02:54can also experiment with different
02:56Shapers and these adjust the shape of
02:59the clipping curve I really like the
03:02tube preamp especially when you're
03:03trying to add warmth to
03:08stuff just really smooth pleasing as you
03:25isolate or have this pre
03:28distortion I like having it
03:33post let's go without
03:41Roar let's start with the
03:47mix let's go to a different string and
03:49let's say we want to do the opposite
03:52these strings only happen when the drums
03:53are going so they might not need that
03:57end let's use Roar to clean up the low
04:01end so just like the last strings I'm
04:04going to put it into multiband
04:05mode and let's just turn off the
04:12boom such a clean way to filter out the
04:15low end and of course you could pick
04:17where it gets filtered here maybe for
04:19this I'll do it at like
04:21150ish and let's do this 1500 on the
04:26end and let's do just the mids
04:36cool focus on Mye theal
04:43there home let's do something cool to
04:51pad so this is static very acoustic very
04:55organic sounding but we could use Roar
04:58to do some sound design and add some
05:02it one of my favorite things to do is to
05:04open up this and switch it to a sine
05:07wave modulation source and let's change
05:10the rate to be uh let's do quarter notes
05:14just so it's easy to
05:17he and now let's go into our Matrix and
05:19we're going to apply lfo1 let's do this
05:22to our frequency and we could turn up
05:38maybe not so much just
05:46subtle but that's enough processing
05:48synths and instruments let's get into
05:50enhancing some drums one of the first
05:52things that I hear when I listen to this
05:53beat that I want to enhance is the
06:01they don't sound bad but they could be
06:02just a little bit tighter and brighter
06:04so let's add Roar on here onto the group
06:07of both of them and let's switch it into
06:09parallel and this gives us a blend of
06:12two different stages of Roar settings so
06:15we can take the first stage and put this
06:17into noise injection and let's turn the
06:23up and for the second stage we're going
06:33you can turn the compression up on
06:35this and then let's turn the overall dry
06:38wet down just to mix half in
07:00we can also use this tone switch to do
07:03some shelving if we push it up it
07:05reduces the base and makes our signal
07:07brighter and if we pull it down it makes
07:09our signal heavier in the low end and
07:11reduces some high so let's push this
07:20up let's he it before and
07:32hey adding that little bit of noise
07:34helped them cut through the speakers so
08:27another trick we could do here in Roar
08:28to make our clap feel even wider using
08:31this noise shaper is switching it into
08:33midside instead of two different layers
08:36of distortion you now get one layer for
08:38the mids and one layer for the sides so
08:40let's put noise out here on the sides
08:43and let's do shards here on the mids and
08:45let's really push up the amount on the
09:06on so not only we creating brightness by
09:09adding harmonic saturation we're
09:11creating stereo information with
09:13harmonic saturation all using Roar let's
09:17go down here and process the snare drum
09:19roll that we have here in the
09:23buildup I feel like this whole Loop
09:25snare could use a little bit more spice
09:29so let's just brighten it up so when I'm
09:31using saturation as an EQ I'm almost
09:34always going to be using this in
09:35multiband mode and I'm going to go into
09:37the highs and use our crossover point to
09:40increase how high our Highs are I mean
09:42we're processing a snare right now and I
09:44want it to be really Snappy so let's go
09:46from 4K to 6K and let's push up the
09:55hey maybe we could try something a
09:58little bit more hard on this like a
09:59digital clip let's hear it in the
10:13on insane how crispy and tight Roar
10:17makes that snare drum sound and if you
10:19want to Sauce up the mids a little bit
10:21with it too you can but I really liked
10:36I find myself using this almost the same
10:38way that I use Exciter by isotope such a
10:40handy alternative to eqing because a lot
10:43of times eqing feels like fake
10:45brightness whereas putting harmonics up
10:47there creates actual bright content you
10:50get to be as aggressive as you want now
10:52speaking of aggressive let's jump into
10:55mixing some 808s the preset that I keep
10:57going back to is what I call the license
11:00plate rattling off the trunk of your car
11:02now this is where I pull it into
11:04parallel mode and we're going to go
11:06really really crazy on two different
11:08processed versions you don't actually
11:10get that dry signal unless you pull in
11:13your wet dry mix but if you know me you
11:15know that I don't like wet dry knobs I
11:17would much rather have something be
11:20layered in an audio effect rack so we're
11:22going to group our Roar and we're going
11:24to put it next to a dry chain and adjust
11:26the level of our Distortion
11:28independently from our dry so let's
11:34808 believe this is from disrespectful
11:384 and it sounds good but we're going to
11:41do a little bit more sound design on
11:45injection o that already sounds
11:49nice and in stage two we're going to hit
11:57shards that's a a little bit too
11:59disrespectful let's try tube
12:05pramp oh that's real
12:09Saucy so we're getting two flavors of
12:11distortion in parallel and you can blend
12:14between these two but instead of
12:16blending between our wet and dry here
12:18we're doing it over here in our rack
12:20let's hear it in the mix in the context
12:22of our whole track ah the top 10's right
12:30Roar down a little bit of
12:55noise you know maybe for the outro you
12:58want an extra disrespect P the
13:01noise just because you got space too why
13:04not now the one section we haven't
13:06touched much yet is the feedback mode
13:09and this feeds the output of the
13:11Distortion back into the Distortion to
13:14get it twice as disrespectful and
13:27distorted it's almost like feedback on a
13:51goodness so obviously if you're trying
13:53to turn your song into rock and roll the
13:55feedback knob is going to be the control
13:58for you and let's go down into this
13:59vocal one of the ways I could definitely
14:01see myself using Roar on any vocal is
14:03before my entire chain to emulate what a
14:06preamp would do that would be like a
14:08single point of distortion and it would
14:11probably be a tube preamp so let's see
14:13what this does on our voice it's my year
14:15my time every day all day no lie I be
14:19doing what I'm doing on the grind you
14:20don't know me like that I don't pay you
14:22no mind but I'm still getting paid every
14:24day on time a shot Calla the crowd of a
14:27bower big dog stepping in don't cross
14:30them no I live good my life awesome we
14:33can even combine that with our low cut
14:35and this could even be like the high
14:37pass filter in our vocal chain if I was
14:39mixing male vocals I would probably do
14:40it somewhere around 80 or so maybe a
14:43tiny bit of resonance right on the roll
14:45off point let's go pre-
14:51distortion on top I'm a living legend
14:54future Hall of Fame game one game seven
14:56keep my head locked in forever I'm top
15:09compression honestly the built-in
15:11compressor here doesn't sound too bad on
15:13vocals so I could even bypass the
15:15regular compressor plugin that I had
15:16after this and this is your preamp EQ
15:19and compressor for your vocal chain all
15:21in one plugin there's only one more spot
15:23in this song that I want to add this and
15:25that's to enhance this deep vocal here
15:31I feel like we could use this right
15:35the the entire chain and let's do
15:37something a little crazier than two
16:07me so as you can see whether you're
16:09trying to do something complex or basic
16:12quick or deep dive Roar has everything
16:14you need to be Distortion EQ harmonic
16:18saturation modulation an all-around
16:21sound design tool that very well could
16:23be my new favorite stock plugin here in
16:26Ableton 12 if you want to check out more
16:28videos of me using Roar and other stock
16:30plugins I'll link an entire playlist in
16:32the description below and catch you guys
16:34next time in another
