I'm amazed, you did so many tweaks on the MV-1 that I thought had to be done on a computer! This is an especially good time to grab one after the recent update.
Starsky, you sound eerily like the vocalist from Starsailor - what great vocal chops you have, and more to the point the balls to use them because it is not easy. 👍👍
Thankyou for posting. just getting going on singing... this is in the manual but not easy for me to pick up. Watching you really really helped. There is quite a bit going in with the vocal processor. Used to do songs on a br1200 in a very linear fashion... and picking this up has really changed how I take on doing a song...completely agree with how useful it is, but also just so portable....loved your example of layering different vocal phrases and then singing something different over the top.. Top vocal was so clear in the mix. This is taking me ages to learn but something about this magic box keeps drawing me back.
Gosh! That first vocal clip at 0:48 sounded so Lennon's early Beatles to me! I guess the video's title put me in a Queen Rhapzody mood and I was expecting that. Man, after hearing so many Hip-Hop-Urban oriented demos of this Roland box, it was a great and pleasurable susprise to hear that Beatlemania sound coming out! I paused and gave you a like immediately just for that, and then enjoyed the rest of the video,Great Review. Blessings.
Easy going tutorial and it like having an appointment with a Verselab hypnotist. I always feel calm and hardly need to rewind his tutorials. Carr is the Lindt and Suchard. The information melts in your brain cells. Behringer praised him days ago. There is something in that Merseyside water the Vocal were commercial quality as expected without even trying. The beat as you said was just to demonstrate. Still like you to make a full rockand Prince like song on the Verselab. But it is finding the time. No doubt.
I picked up one of these here doo dads to use as a sequencer becuase i don't have 7 sets of arms to play 7 synths but I'm a industrial/metal/rock guy.. I pretty much understand how it works but im having problems finding a simple walkthrough of how one would sequence an entire song.. i know it's probably super simple too but i find many others gloss over the basics for the flashier aspects. I (and i feel many others) would really apreciate a start,verse,chorus,break etc walkthough and your super easy to learn from.. any chance of something like that sir? Oh and this trick is gold man.. gold.
Did you check out my walkthrough? I think I showed song mode there… and you’re right it’s dead easy … once you know how. 😀 just go into song mode, press record and then select the sequences one by one.. it auto adds them to the song.
Very nice video (liked/sub). Good to see other than hip-hop/rap production use cases on the MV-1. It still needs a few firmware enhancements, but we are at the early stages of the firmware so I have hopes they will bring some much needed stuff such as more flexible stem exporting or more FX slots per track and why not side-chaining source on the track compressors ? The integration with the iPad/iPhone could also get visual/touch based sample and vocal take editing/arranging to avoid endless knob twisting you mention. Otherwise it’s a surprising production box that can do much more than what it is currently advertised for.
Yeah, I had a list of future improvements that I edited out in the end, as they were almost exclusively about the iPad app rather than the MV-1 itself.
@@StarskyCarr yep better iOS integration would be cool. But side-chaining, full separated stem export + another FX slot per track would be really nice to have on the firmware to get more serious stuff done.
This little box is gonna be great for coming up with song ideas! I can see taking this over to a bud's house and collaborating, having a few beers and not being crowded around a PC.
Starsky..am I late to the party ?... I really had no idea you were also a singer! Really do love you tone mate.. very much to my taste.. I really am genuinely impressed Starsky.
I’ve had stuff released with me singing… but this isn’t one of them. Maybe I should’ve made it clearer that this was someone I was recording some demos and ideas with.
Enteraros bien de las cosas que os las estoy explicando,como va la evolucion del asunto musical,configuraciones MIDIS..,etc..etc...bien animo y vayamos todos con alegrias..
What do you think of one of these for making vocal demos? How’s the quality with the mixing available on the device? I’m thinking about getting this solely for vocal demo purposes….I’ve tried to Maschine and fumbled around enough to make a decent baseline beat but want to throw vocals down, which is incredibly frustrating to do through a DAW or the Maschine software….:that’s why this is getting my attention. FYI I’m not a rap or hip hop artist. I sing 80s rock….90s rock, pop, some folksy type stuff, and have a good understanding of music and a good ear.
You could… but you need to create the song structure first - as you play over the sections. ie you would have to put in ‘blank’ or very simple sections to play over. It only has limited sample space so 5 channels recording over a while 3 minute track wouldn’t work etc. So yes.. but you have to plan it.
You can resample anything. But I don’t think you’ll have enough memory to do a whole vocal track in the drum samples. I could well be wrong, but I think the vocal track has its own memory just for this.
Yes.. its what I did here. You can resample anything from the machine itself.. so set up the complete track or even add BV mix then resample as a single take.
The scrolling at 16:20 looks really cumbersome indeed. Wondering if there's a shift combination to scroll through faster (otherwise they should really add it) Thanks for another great video!
SHIFT + CTRL knob moves the SEQ EDIT at larger increments, by measure I believe. Perhaps Starsky forgot while filming or isn't running the most current firmware.
Aaah… I hadn’t found that I’ll have to check my firmware. Every time I do something in this there’s a trick I missed. Great to have a community of users helping out 😀
@@StarskyCarr No problem. I’m just glad you made this video so I didn’t have to. Hold both measure buttons and press project and it will tell what firmware you have loaded. The current is 1.03 Also, the routing between the vocal processor, vocal track MFX, and global FX can be a little confusing at first, but only because they’re so flexible. You can chain them in various ways and even apply FX while still only recording a dry signal, if the vocalist wants plenty of reverb to get in the zone, for instance.
@@cooloutbeats yeah that’s why I made a little section on the vocal FX in its own. It could probably do with its own video tbh as I didn’t do it justice - but didn’t want to digress too far. You’re right it’s so much more flexible than it appears at first. I wish the FX channel had a strip in the app, and the MFX for each channel was also available. It would make it easier to explain 😂
I'm amazed, you did so many tweaks on the MV-1 that I thought had to be done on a computer! This is an especially good time to grab one after the recent update.
Yes. This video needed to be made. I like your Verselab tutorials. Thank you so much!
Thanks.. I just thought it could be useful.. hopefully it will be to someone. :)
@@StarskyCarr Useful? Of course it is - I never even thought about harmonies on the Verselab. Thanks again.
Brilliant This box is ticking all the boxes..
Super cool! I love stacking samples of my vocals or vintage analog synthesizers! Sampling ROCKS!
Starsky, you sound eerily like the vocalist from Starsailor - what great vocal chops you have, and more to the point the balls to use them because it is not easy. 👍👍
If only it was me … ☹️ I was working with him for a while m, recording some ideas and bits and bobs.
@@StarskyCarr I'm crushed...LMAO!!
Thanks for that beautiful Demonstration !
This is amazing!!!! New to Verselab
Nice work! Thanks for sharing! Great sound and very clever bouncing the vocals!
Thankyou for posting. just getting going on singing... this is in the manual but not easy for me to pick up. Watching you really really helped. There is quite a bit going in with the vocal processor. Used to do songs on a br1200 in a very linear fashion... and picking this up has really changed how I take on doing a song...completely agree with how useful it is, but also just so portable....loved your example of layering different vocal phrases and then singing something different over the top.. Top vocal was so clear in the mix. This is taking me ages to learn but something about this magic box keeps drawing me back.
Gosh! That first vocal clip at 0:48 sounded so Lennon's early Beatles to me! I guess the video's title put me in a Queen Rhapzody mood and I was expecting that. Man, after hearing so many Hip-Hop-Urban oriented demos of this Roland box, it was a great and pleasurable susprise to hear that Beatlemania sound coming out! I paused and gave you a like immediately just for that, and then enjoyed the rest of the video,Great Review. Blessings.
Easy going tutorial and it like having an appointment with a Verselab hypnotist. I always feel calm and hardly need to rewind his tutorials. Carr is the Lindt and Suchard. The information melts in your brain cells. Behringer praised him days ago. There is something in that Merseyside water the Vocal were commercial quality as expected without even trying. The beat as you said was just to demonstrate. Still like you to make a full rockand Prince like song on the Verselab. But it is finding the time. No doubt.
Very cool , beatles like lyrics!
I picked up one of these here doo dads to use as a sequencer becuase i don't have 7 sets of arms to play 7 synths but I'm a industrial/metal/rock guy.. I pretty much understand how it works but im having problems finding a simple walkthrough of how one would sequence an entire song.. i know it's probably super simple too but i find many others gloss over the basics for the flashier aspects. I (and i feel many others) would really apreciate a start,verse,chorus,break etc walkthough and your super easy to learn from.. any chance of something like that sir? Oh and this trick is gold man.. gold.
Did you check out my walkthrough? I think I showed song mode there… and you’re right it’s dead easy … once you know how. 😀 just go into song mode, press record and then select the sequences one by one.. it auto adds them to the song.
Cool and musical, top vocals!
Very nice video (liked/sub). Good to see other than hip-hop/rap production use cases on the MV-1.
It still needs a few firmware enhancements, but we are at the early stages of the firmware so I have hopes they will bring some much needed stuff such as more flexible stem exporting or more FX slots per track and why not side-chaining source on the track compressors ?
The integration with the iPad/iPhone could also get visual/touch based sample and vocal take editing/arranging to avoid endless knob twisting you mention.
Otherwise it’s a surprising production box that can do much more than what it is currently advertised for.
Yeah, I had a list of future improvements that I edited out in the end, as they were almost exclusively about the iPad app rather than the MV-1 itself.
@@StarskyCarr yep better iOS integration would be cool. But side-chaining, full separated stem export + another FX slot per track would be really nice to have on the firmware to get more serious stuff done.
Beautiful vox workx Starsky!!! you one of the lucky can use MV-1 proper way with vocals and becoming King of Verselab (Queen in this case :)
This little box is gonna be great for coming up with song ideas! I can see taking this over to a bud's house and collaborating, having a few beers and not being crowded around a PC.
Starsky..am I late to the party ?... I really had no idea you were also a singer! Really do love you tone mate.. very much to my taste..
I really am genuinely impressed Starsky.
I’ve had stuff released with me singing… but this isn’t one of them. Maybe I should’ve made it clearer that this was someone I was recording some demos and ideas with.
@@StarskyCarr ah... sorry for the misunderstanding... pass on my compliments as I do like the voice :)
brillant mate!!
Enteraros bien de las cosas que os las estoy explicando,como va la evolucion del asunto musical,configuraciones MIDIS..,etc..etc...bien animo y vayamos todos con alegrias..
What do you think of one of these for making vocal demos? How’s the quality with the mixing available on the device?
I’m thinking about getting this solely for vocal demo purposes….I’ve tried to Maschine and fumbled around enough to make a decent baseline beat but want to throw vocals down, which is incredibly frustrating to do through a DAW or the Maschine software….:that’s why this is getting my attention.
FYI I’m not a rap or hip hop artist. I sing 80s rock….90s rock, pop, some folksy type stuff, and have a good understanding of music and a good ear.
Why not hold shift while scrolling thru wouldn't it be quicker!!?
oh momma mia
That vocal on the demo is extremely tightly doubled, which is also very hard
Yeah, I guess it’s a good skill for vocalists to have up their sleeve.
If you have loads of external instruments, would you suggest or could you use the vocal tracks to build a song?
You could… but you need to create the song structure first - as you play over the sections. ie you would have to put in ‘blank’ or very simple sections to play over. It only has limited sample space so 5 channels recording over a while 3 minute track wouldn’t work etc. So yes.. but you have to plan it.
Nice harmonies. But just to clear up something: if you plug in a Keystep or equivalent into it, you could have played that piano part, right?
I did play the piano part using a MIDI keyboard. … no problem whatsoever … except it doesn’t record sustain pedal.
Can you export your vocal takes and import them into a drum track? Maybe it's easier to sequence that way. Thanks for the video!
You can resample anything. But I don’t think you’ll have enough memory to do a whole vocal track in the drum samples. I could well be wrong, but I think the vocal track has its own memory just for this.
Hey starsky, can the Verselab merge vocal takes? I record pretty much all my songs bar for bar and so 16 takes wouldn't be enough to fill a song
Yes.. its what I did here. You can resample anything from the machine itself.. so set up the complete track or even add BV mix then resample as a single take.
@@StarskyCarr Awesone! Thanks for clearing that up
@@StarskyCarr Did you ever figure out if it can save sampled drum kits?
@@Teddyrobinson No I've still not tried it. I don't see why not... but ..??
@@StarskyCarr Haha yeah sorry I keep insisting! I'm still on the edge of buying one and that's the one question I still don't know the answer to
Do you have a full length song for this?
I do. It’s quite old so not produced brilliantly but might upload it somewhere.
Wow didn't know you could sing like a bird
Shame I thought it was going to be one of those auto-harmony generators. aka Sweet in a box.
It does have auto-harmony as an option.
as Jason says - it does have a number of auto harmony algorithms. I wanted to go old school with this to push the limits of the 16 takes etc.
The scrolling at 16:20 looks really cumbersome indeed. Wondering if there's a shift combination to scroll through faster (otherwise they should really add it)
Thanks for another great video!
Yeah that’s a real pain. Shift and twist would be a great idea!
SHIFT + CTRL knob moves the SEQ EDIT at larger increments, by measure I believe. Perhaps Starsky forgot while filming or isn't running the most current firmware.
Aaah… I hadn’t found that I’ll have to check my firmware. Every time I do something in this there’s a trick I missed. Great to have a community of users helping out 😀
@@StarskyCarr No problem. I’m just glad you made this video so I didn’t have to. Hold both measure buttons and press project and it will tell what firmware you have loaded. The current is 1.03
Also, the routing between the vocal processor, vocal track MFX, and global FX can be a little confusing at first, but only because they’re so flexible. You can chain them in various ways and even apply FX while still only recording a dry signal, if the vocalist wants plenty of reverb to get in the zone, for instance.
@@cooloutbeats yeah that’s why I made a little section on the vocal FX in its own. It could probably do with its own video tbh as I didn’t do it justice - but didn’t want to digress too far. You’re right it’s so much more flexible than it appears at first. I wish the FX channel had a strip in the app, and the MFX for each channel was also available. It would make it easier to explain 😂
I like this guy's voice. Has a 90s vibe to me. Reminds me a bit of Damon Johnson from Brother Cane.