Channeling your inner QUEEN: Creating Huge Harmonies on the Roland Verselab MV-1

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Getting the most out of the vocal channel by stacking multiple harmonies and bouncing tracks internally. This way you can create huge sounding harmonies and still have tonnes of sample memory left for instruments, ad-libs and whatever else you need.
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0:00 intro
1:44 quick tour of the track
3:47 Building harmonies
7:51 Vocals & FX
10:54 Bouncing
12:43 Optimising takes
14:02 Arranging
18:08 Using samples
19:14 Final thoughts
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@jeffryarchambeau5441 Год назад

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.

@ALTARBEATZ 3 года назад

Brilliant This box is ticking all the boxes..

@KenKthulhu 3 года назад

Yes. This video needed to be made. I like your Verselab tutorials. Thank you so much!

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

Thanks.. I just thought it could be useful.. hopefully it will be to someone. :)

@KenKthulhu 3 года назад

@@StarskyCarr Useful? Of course it is - I never even thought about harmonies on the Verselab. Thanks again.

@roberttaylor9241 Год назад

Nice work! Thanks for sharing! Great sound and very clever bouncing the vocals!

@SynthgodXXX 3 года назад

Super cool! I love stacking samples of my vocals or vintage analog synthesizers! Sampling ROCKS!

@simonc8265 3 года назад

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.

@regulocastromusic 3 года назад

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.

@juergensutter521 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for that beautiful Demonstration !

@FlatWHDF 5 месяцев назад

This is amazing!!!! New to Verselab

@petercastle4381 3 года назад

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.

@davidvochocjr1005 3 года назад

Cool and musical, top vocals!

@mrburns366 Год назад

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.

@fincorrigan7139 3 года назад

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. 👍👍

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

If only it was me … ☹️ I was working with him for a while m, recording some ideas and bits and bobs.

@fincorrigan7139 3 года назад

@@StarskyCarr I'm crushed...LMAO!!

@samprock 3 года назад

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 :)

@cresshead 3 года назад

Very cool , beatles like lyrics!

@chesleyrolleMusic 3 года назад

brillant mate!!

@XarianPrime 3 года назад

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.

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

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.

@ShaunCymruDS8 3 года назад

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.

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

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.

@ShaunCymruDS8 3 года назад

@@StarskyCarr ah... sorry for the misunderstanding... pass on my compliments as I do like the voice :)

@LaurentDiscShowMan Год назад

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..

@alexandrosroussos 3 года назад

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.

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

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.

@alexandrosroussos 3 года назад

@@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.

@jollygoodtime9197 2 года назад

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.

@ogasi1798 3 года назад

oh momma mia

@kelvin_darwin 3 года назад

If you have loads of external instruments, would you suggest or could you use the vocal tracks to build a song?

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

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.

@elsantoproductora 3 года назад

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!

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

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.

@TROGULAR10000 3 года назад

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?

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

I did play the piano part using a MIDI keyboard. … no problem whatsoever … except it doesn’t record sustain pedal.

@Teddyrobinson 3 года назад

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

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

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.

@Teddyrobinson 3 года назад

@@StarskyCarr Awesone! Thanks for clearing that up

@Teddyrobinson 3 года назад

@@StarskyCarr Did you ever figure out if it can save sampled drum kits?

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

@@Teddyrobinson No I've still not tried it. I don't see why not... but ..??

@Teddyrobinson 3 года назад

@@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

@LaymensLament 3 года назад

That vocal on the demo is extremely tightly doubled, which is also very hard

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

Yeah, I guess it’s a good skill for vocalists to have up their sleeve.

@Aristoper Год назад

Why not hold shift while scrolling thru wouldn't it be quicker!!?

@Dooblecaine 3 года назад

Do you have a full length song for this?

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

I do. It’s quite old so not produced brilliantly but might upload it somewhere.

@SamLowryDZ-015 3 года назад

Shame I thought it was going to be one of those auto-harmony generators. aka Sweet in a box.

@JasonHader 3 года назад

It does have auto-harmony as an option.

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

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.

@chickenlickin3820 3 года назад

Wow didn't know you could sing like a bird

@thaJeztah 3 года назад

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!

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

Yeah that’s a real pain. Shift and twist would be a great idea!

@cooloutbeats 3 года назад

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.

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

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 😀

@cooloutbeats 3 года назад

@@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.

@StarskyCarr 3 года назад

@@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 😂

@mrburns366 Год назад

I like this guy's voice. Has a 90s vibe to me. Reminds me a bit of Damon Johnson from Brother Cane.