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Technica Specification Overview Buetooth Version: Buetooth 3.0 Operating Frequency: 2402-2480 MHz Lithium Ion Battery: 6000mAh USB Input: 5V 500-1000mA DC Output: 5V 1000mA Energy Saving Information Power consumption - Standby/Off : 0.2 W - Networked Standby : 1.7 W (Buetooth) 1.9 W (USB) 1.9 W (a network ports activated) Power Management - Power consumption < 0.5W after 28 hours inactivity when a network ports are deactivated /disconnected - Networked standby after 20 minutes inactivity (Buetooth, USB) Activation & deactivation of wireess network port(s) - To activate, perform Buetooth device pairing - To deactivate, disconnect from externa device Power Adapter Information Brand: Creative Mode Number: GPE024W-150160-Z Input: 100-240VAC 50/60Hz 0.75A Output: 15VDC 1.6A Operating Temperature range: 0ºC to 45ºC Supported Buetooth profies*: A2DP (Wireess Stereo Buetooth), AVRCP (Buetooth Remote Contro), HFP (Handsfree profie) Supported Codec: SBC, aptx, AAC Operating Range: Up to 10 meters, measured in open space. Was and structures may affect range of device. Supports microsd cards of Cass 4 and above, up to 32GB in FAT16/32 format Supported audio formats: MP3, WMA and WAV (16 bit 48Khz PCM) Support Mp3 and WMA up to 320kbps. Does not support WMA Pro / Lossess Records audio, voice or mobie cas at 16k, ADPCM WAV format. Note: Compiance markings are ocated on the bottom of this product. * Refer to your Buetooth device (notebook¹, PC¹, or mobie device²) manufacturer s documentation/website for supported profies. ¹ Compatibe with PC (Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1), Appe Macintoshes equipped with Buetooth wireess stereo. ² Compatibe with most major brands of Buetooth A2DP enabed mobie phones. Compatibiity Discaimer Wireess performance is dependent on your device s Buetooth wireess technoogy. Refer to your device manufacturer s manua. Creative wi not be iabe for any ost of data or eakages resuting from the use of these devices. Product Registration Registering your product ensures you receive the most appropriate service and product support avaiabe. You can register your product during instaation or at http://www.creative.com/register. Pease note that your warranty rights are not dependent on registration. Safe Remova of Buit-in Battery Detaied instructions on remova of integrated battery can be found at creative.com/support/ ROARPRO, these instructions are meant stricty for independenty quaified professionas. Top 1. NFC Receptor 2. Battery Indicator 3. Record Indicator 4. Power / Buetooth Status Indicator 5. Mutifunction Button 6. Voume Up / Down Button 7. Button 8. Power ON / Standby Button 9. Microphone 10. DC Input 11. Aux-in / MegaStereo Feature 12. DC Out (USB 1.0A) Rear 13. Micro USB Connector 14. MicroSD Sot 15. Mic On / Mute Switch 16. Record Button 17. (Record) Pay / Pause Button 18. Random / Repeat A Switch 19. Previous Button 20. Next Button 21. (MP3 Payback) Pay / Pause Button 22. Energetic, Neutra, Warm Profie 23. TeraBass Mode Button 24. USB Audio / Mass Storage mode switch 1 2
Charging your speaker - Power Adapter Charging your speaker - USB Power Option 1 : Power Adapter Option 2 : USB 3 Hours Charge the speaker with the suppied power adapter for at east 3 hours before use. Pease ensure your speaker is powered off for optimised charging.* * Battery performance may degrade over time depending on charge cyces. The Sound Baster ROAR can aso be charged using a USB cabe. It may take onger to charge due to USB power imitation. Switch off your speaker when charging. Assembing the Power Adapter US, Japan & Taiwan Europe Removing Adapter Pug Head - Suppied interchangeabe pugs may vary to region and country Mains * Not incuded, USB adapter with DC 5V and up to 1A output rating can be used. Optimize your charging The speaker wi charge your smartphones even when the speaker is off. When turned on, some smartphones require a higher charging rate than battery banks can typicay provide. For the quickest charging time, turn off your smartphone before charging it. The dua-purpose battery powers your Sound Baster Roar and aso charges your smartphone! Simpy connect a USB cabe to the Sound Baster Roar s USB DC Out and the other end to your smartphone. PC/Mac TIP: Lithium-ion battery ife may suffer when it is constanty fuy depeted or overexerted at ow votage. It is a good practice to keep the battery we charged. For optimized charging: Creative recommends using the bunded USB cabe for optimized charging. 3 4
Charging your speaker - LED Indications Connecting your speakers - Buetooth / NFC Battery Status Indication The Sound Baster Roar ets you stream music wireessy. Sow Bink Running LED Battery fu Battery at about 70% Battery ow Battery extremey ow Battery charging* * Whenever the speaker is ON and connected to a power source, the LED status indicators wi continuay bink in sequence. To check the battery capacity, power OFF the speaker or disconnect it from the power adapter. Power Saving For better user connectivity experience, the Sound Baster Roar wi now by defaut automaticay enter power saving mode ony after approximatey 28 hours of inactivity when the power adapter is attached via a main outet to the speaker. However, you have the option to keep the power on permanenty if needed. To Disabe Power saving mode with power adapter attached (For keeping your speaker ON permanenty): 1) Ensure that the speaker is powered ON and not connected to any other devices. 2) Press the Power and Voume + button together. The LED status indicator wi fash once to indicate power saving feature is disabed. To Enabe Power saving mode with power adapter attached: 1) Ensure that the speaker is powered ON and not connected to any other devices. 2) Press the Power and Voume - button together. The LED status indicator wi fash once to indicate power saving feature is enabed. Note: The speaker automaticay powers down when there is no Buetooth connection, recording using microsd card, microsd card payback or audio input for more than 15 minutes on battery mode. This feature heps to protect the interna battery and cannot be disabed. The Sound Baster Roar connects to Buetooth devices with robust high-quaity aptx and AAC music streaming. NFC technoogy makes connecting even easier just tap and pay! A. B. 1 A. One-touch pairing with NFC Turn on NFC on your NFC-enabed device and tap your device on the NFC ogo to connect. To disconnect, tap your device on the Sound Baster Roar again. OR B. Manua Buetooth pairing (i) Press and hod unti the white LED binks rapidy. (ii) Seect SB ROAR PRO on your device. 2 Start payback on your connected device. LED Indication Green LED stays it White LED binking rapidy White LED stays it Status Powered ON but not connected to any Buetooth devices Buetooth Pairing Mode, waiting for device to connect Connected to a Buetooth device 5 6
Mutipe Audio Profies Connecting your speakers - Understanding Mutipoint You can choose between THREE different audio profies to suit your preference or environment and enhance your istening experience Creative Buetooth Mutipoint ets you pair 2 devices to the Sound Baster Roar.^ Warm Experience tube ike warmth with richness in your voca, instruments and tones. Neutra Experience baanced audio from the origina Sound Baster Roar cassic that has thousands of reviews a over the word. Energetic Inject energy and ife for a more expansive and dynamic fee. Simpy fick the sider switch to your desired preference and you are done! With Creative Buetooth Mutipoint, you can connect up to two Buetooth devices simutaneousy. Togge easiy between your phone and tabet, or share music payback from your phone or a friend s phone. 1 Pause payback on the connected device. 2 Pair and connect a second device. 3 Start payback on either one of the connected devices. To togge between devices Pause payback on the first connected device before starting payback on the second connected device. Note : Creative Muitipoint is not avaiabe when the iroar mic is connected to the Sound Baster Roar Pro. 7 8
Understanding TeraBass / feature Switching to USB Audio / TeraBass button inteigenty boost the bass and oudness of your music. You can pay digita audio from your PC/Mac with the Sound Baster Roar. Like our in-house reference systems, the Roar is tuned to be accurate, baanced, and we defined, whie deivering fu spectra output at maximium eves with minima or no compression. (NOT common in many battery operated portabes). At ow eve istening conditions, some peope may perceive audio differenty. Be it being ess sensitive to bass reproduction, in ess than idea environments or stricty persona preference. The TeraBass feature inteigenty compensates the oss of perceived oudness in bass during ow eve payback without artificiay over accentuating bass eves. However when sheer audio power is needed such as arge parties and socia gatherings the mode instanty boost the oudness, depth and spaciousness of the audio. Press TeraBass during music payback. Press the TeraBass button whie your music is paying and hear the difference! Enhance music payback from your PC/Mac with the powerfu Sound Baster Roar by connecting it with the USB cabe suppied. 1 Side the sider switch to USB Audio to connect USB Audio mode. 2 Connect the Sound Baster Roar to a PC/Mac. A tone is heard indicating USB audio is connected. * * If no tone is heard, disconnect the cabe from the computer, and start from Step 1 again. 3 Pay your music on the PC/Mac. Enhance your audio To enhance your digita music further, you can use the Sound Baster Contro Pane software. See next page. For added boost Connecting the Sound Baster Roar to the power adapter gives your music added voume boost. It is recommended to use a power adapter when using the feature. Note: If the Sound Baster Roar is not detected by the computer after your computer recovers from seep / hibernate / restart, pease Power OFF and ON the Sound Baster Roar to re-estabish the USB audio connection. You may aso need to restart your computer s media payer. USB audio wi disconnect if button is pressed during USB audio mode.? If no audio is heard For Windows: Cick Voume Contro and seect Sound Baster Roar Pro as your output device. For Mac: 1. Go to System Preferences and cick Sound. 2. Cick the Output tab and seect Sound Baster Roar Pro. 9 10
Instaing the Sound Baster Contro Pane Paying MP3 / WMA audio fies The Sound Baster Contro Pane enhances PC/Mac audio in rea time. Your Sound Baster Roar comes with a buit-in WMA/MP3 payer. Have compete contro over your PC/Mac audio with the Sound Baster Contro Pane software. The SBX Pro Studio technoogies such as SBX Bass and SBX Diaog Pus inteigenty enhance PC/Mac audio in rea time. 1 Connect the Sound Baster Roar to a PC/Mac with a USB cabe. 2 Visit www.soundbaster.com/ downoads/roarpro/sbcp to downoad and insta the Sound Baster Contro Pane. * 3 Setting the defaut audio device. a. For Windows This setting wi be automaticay configured after Sound Baster Contro Pane is instaed. b. For Mac 1. Go to System Preferences and cick Sound. 2. Cick the Output tab and seect Sound Baster Roar Pro. * The Sound Baster Contro Pane requires the speaker to be connected to your computer as USB audio before it can be instaed. Besides streaming music from your smart phone wireessy via Buetooth, the Sound Baster Roar can aso pay audio fies on a microsd card with the buit-in WMA/MP3 payer. Payback tips You can pay WMA, WAV or MP3 fies. The Sound Baster Roar supports microsd or microsdhc cards up to 32GB. 1 Insert a microsd card. 2 Press. 3 Navigate through tracks. microsd Card To skip foders: Press and hod or during payback. OR Press or when payback is stopped. The Sound Baster Roar doubes up as a microsd card reader! To skip tracks (in Repeat A mode): Press or during payback. 1 Side the sider switch to USB Mass Storage to connect as USB Mass Storage mode. 2 Connect the speaker to a computer via USB cabe. 3 Insert a microsd card. 4 Browse or modify microsd card contents on your computer. Note: To switch back to USB Audio mode, side the sider switch to USB Audio. Depending on your operating system, a pop-up message may appear informing you that the Mass Storage Device has not been ejected propery. This is norma and not disruptive to your microsd card. 11 12
Recording audio with your speaker Answering ca with your speaker Recording is made reay easy with the Sound Baster Roar. You can use the Sound Baster Roar as a speakerphone. If you need to record the song paying on your Sound Baster Roar or do a voice recording, just insert a microsd card and you re ready to go. 1 Insert a microsd card. 2 Seect source. microsd Card From buit-in microphone When your phone is connected to the Sound Baster Roar you can simpy answer cas without ifting your phone just press a button! 1 Connect your smart device. (Ensure the microphone is on) Recording specifications Audio recording is saved in WAV format in the VOICE foder. For recording, a Cass 4 microsd card is recommended. The defaut recording samping rate is at 16 khz. This is designed to record onger voice recording sessions (e.g. meetings) and avoid arge fie sizes. Recording from microphone aso records the audio coming out from Buetooth and Aux-in audio sources. Simutaneous WMA / MP3 audio payback using microsd card and audio recording is not supported. Switch on the microphone. Records voice and sounds picked up by the microphone. From Aux-in / Buetooth source Mute the microphone. Records Aux-in audio directy from your media payer or Buetooth device. 3 Press (REC) to start recording. Press (REC) again to stop recording. 4 Press (REC) to payback recordings. To skip recorded tracks: Press or during payback. Recording cas Press (REC) during a ca to start recording. Ensure a microsd card is inserted into the speaker and the conversation wi be saved in the VOICE foder on the microsd card. 2 Press to answer an incoming ca. 3 Press again to end a ca. To reject a ca: Press and hod than 2 seconds. for more 13 14
Understanding Bedtime Mode* MegaStereo Feature The Sound Baster Roar is the perfect companion to end the day with. Besides paying music at oud voumes, the Sound Baster Roar can aso genty soothe you to seep. In Bedtime Mode, audio payback from the microsd card wi graduay fade out within 15 or 30 minutes, after which the speaker wi power off automaticay. This is great for parents of young chidren you can record yoursef reading a bedtime story and pay it back to your chidren as they are about to seep. You can aso use it to pay music before you seep! 1 Insert a microsd card. 2 Start audio payback. To pay music fies: Press. To pay voice recordings: Press (REC). 3 Activate Bedtime Mode. Enjoy the fu MegaStereo experience with another Sound Baster Roar Pro!^ The MegaStereo technoogy is a unique feature buit into the Sound Baster Roar to give you a wider soundstage and doube the punch when 2 Sound Baster Roar are connected together with a MegaStereo cabe. Use the MegaStereo cabe for 1 A wider stereo experience * 2 3 MASTER (LEFT) Connecting to other audio devices May not work with audio devices using the OMTP standard. Having fun ensaving other speakers!^^ SLAVE (RIGHT) * Patent pending For 15 minutes: Press and hod you hear a beep. (REC) unti For 30 minutes: Press and hod (REC) unti you hear two beeps. OR To deactivate Bedtime Mode: Press. MASTER (LEFT) 15 16? SLAVE (RIGHT) How to use : After estabishing connection via the above diagram with the MegaStereo cabe, ensure that the save (Right) unit is set to the maximum voume. Thereafter you may use the Master (Left) speaker to contro the voume for both speakers. MegaStereo Cabe sod separatey. *Aux-in for both speakers are disabed when the MegaStereo cabe is connected. For optimum sound performance, it is recommended to connect both speakers to their power adapters. ^ MegaStereo feature is ony avaiabe on the Sound Baster Roar and Roar Pro. For an updated ist of supported speakers pease visit. www.creative.com/qr/megastereo ^^Audio may sound unbaanced due to difference in speaker matching. Note : When connected via the MegaStereo Cabe, the audio from the two connected Sound Baster Roars may sound unbaanced after running on battery for an extended period of time. This is due to the difference in the battery eves between the two speakers. For optimum performance, it is recommended to connect both speakers to their power adapters.
Next-Generation Persona P.A. System (with optiona iroar Mic) FAQ Transform the Sound Baster Roar Pro into the next generation portabe wireess Pubic Address (P.A.) System when paired with the Wireess iroar Mic*. The iroar Mic deivers cear and oud voice, which is great for power presentations, pubic speaking, teaching, storyteing or singing! For more information about the iroar Wireess Mic, pease see visit www.creative.com Note : Creative Buetooth Muitipoint is not avaiabe when the iroar mic is connected to the Sound Baster Roar Pro. * With optiona iroar Mic * Perform the foowing troube-shooting steps before sending it for servicing. For more information, pease refer to www.creative.com/support. If there is no audio heard after connecting your phone or tabet with the Sound Baster Roar via Buetooth... It coud be a case of your phone or tabet having a firmware bug that makes it unabe to choose the right audio codec. The Sound Baster Roar can hep enhance compatibiity by disabing its advanced audio codec and switching ony to the basic codec*. However, we advise customers facing this probem to update your phone / tabet with the atest firmware before attempting the foowing steps beow which may just sove this probem. To bypass this bug (by disabing advanced audio codec) 1 Ensure that the speaker is Powered on 2 Press the Vo - and ROAR button together. (A voice prompt is heard indicating Advanced Codec disabed). The speaker wi reboot to remember your settings. 3 Power OFF and ON your audio device again 4 Connect to the Sound Baster Roar via Buetooth and pay music To restore advanced audio codec feature 1 Ensure that the speaker is Powered on 2 Press the Vo + and ROAR button together. (A voice prompt is heard indicating Advanced Codec enabed). The speaker wi reboot to remember your settings. 3 Power OFF and ON your audio device again 4 Connect to the Sound Baster Roar via Buetooth and pay music * You woud ony need to do this once and the Sound Baster Roar wi remember your preference. How do I disabe Voice Prompt? With the speaker powered ON, press both Voume and Mutifunction Button at the same time. A prompt is heard indicating voice prompt is disabed. How do I enabe Voice Prompt? On a speaker with disabed voice prompt, ensure that it is powered ON. Press both Voume + and Mutifunction Button at the same time. A prompt is heard indicating voice prompt is enabed. What do I do if I find that the speaker is not behaving the way it shoud? Shoud any of the above happens, we woud recommend that you master reset the speaker. In any state, press and hod the Power button for more than 10 seconds then press the Power button again to turn on the speaker. Aternativey You can perform a factory master reset to cear paired device ist. 1 Ensure your speaker is not connected to any Buetooth device. 2 With your speaker powered on, Press and hod the Mutifunction button unti the white LED binks rapidy. Press and hod the Mutifunction button and Voume - button unti a voice prompt is heard indicating the speaker has been master reset and returned to pairing mode. Why do I hear beep tones when I disabe voice prompts? The beep tones are meant to be indicators for the foowing items: 1 Beep tone 2 Beep tone 3 Beep tone Feature activated indicator Feature confirmation indicator Error indicator 17 18
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