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Description

Finish more music.

When inspiration strikes, VERSELAB helps you capture, refine, and finish your ideas. The fluid, hands-on workflow simplifies music making with modern vocal recording, pattern generators, thousands of ZEN-Core sounds, mastering effects, and more. Plug-and-play integration with Roland’s Zenbeats app expands your production capabilities using your computer or mobile device.

FEATURES

  • Finish complete songs with inspiring hands-on workflow
  • Use Roland's Zenbeats app, to turn your tablet into a touchscreen to control the MV-1
  • Record vocals with modern effects like Auto-Pitch, Harmonizer, and Doubler
  • Curated collection of over 3000 sounds for modern styles from the makers of the TR-808
  • 4x4 pads and TR-REC step sequencer for drums, basslines, and melodic parts
  • Songwriting tools and generators get you started and keep you flowing
  • Interface with your smartphone, tablet, or computer for easy file transfer
  • Plug-and-play integration with Roland Zenbeats app expands your production capabilities
  • High-quality mixing and mastering effects for pro results
  • Make music on the move with power via a mobile battery or USB
  • Built-in mic and XLR mic input with phantom power
  • Stereo ¼-inch I/O, dual headphones jacks, and MIDI I/O

From intro to outro.

If you’re a vocalist, beatmaker, or both, it’s easy to create complete songs with VERSELAB, regardless of your skill level. Move fluidly from ideas to beats, hooks, and your listeners’ ears with song templates, pattern generators, and a guided workflow that keeps you on track. Whether you’re just getting started, getting lost with too many options, or need to take a sledgehammer to writer’s block, VERSELAB is there to keep it moving.

Verselab on the desk
Recording vocals with the Verselab

Bars meet beats.

VERSELAB is designed for modern music making and vocal recording. The high-quality XLR mic input makes it easy to record vocals with built-in effects like Auto-Pitch, Harmonizer, Doubler and more. Just plug in a mic, dial in the sound, and go. With 16 easy access takes and the ability to copy them anywhere in your song, arranging is a snap.

Sounds from the source.

For songs to knock, you need the best sounds available. Roland’s sound has helped define hip-hop and other modern genres for decades, from the TR-808 to the SP-404. This sonic legacy is packed into VERSELAB, with over 3000 curated sounds that hit the spot.

Get more with ZEN-Core.

VERSELAB uses our most advanced sound engine—the ZEN-Core Synthesis System. It’s at the heart of our professional synthesizers and ensures top-notch sound quality. With Roland Cloud, you can expand the onboard library with thousands of new tones, including genre-specific Sound Packs to keep your music fresh.

Verselab on the desk with mic



Using Verselab with Zenbeats on tablet

Plug-and-play with Zenbeats.

With expanding plug-and-play Zenbeats integration, you can connect VERSELAB to your computer, tablet, or smartphone for another level of production capability. Enhance your workflow with faster tone editing, mix all tracks simultaneously, easily re-organize clips and sections, access all-in-one mastering FX control, and stem out projects for further production and refinement. Zenbeats will continue to upgrade the VERSELAB integration, so be on the lookout for new functionality!

  • Use your own device for an expansive, touch-friendly interface for VERSELAB
  • Makes production and mixing much faster and easier
  • Further develop and refine songs in Zenbeats
  • Works on all platforms
  • Easy to get started, cloud storage

Collab and connect.

VERSELAB is compact, portable, and can be powered by a mobile battery, so you can make tracks just about anywhere. Collaborate in person or remotely by sharing projects or tapping into the cloud storage features of Zenbeats. When your song is ready, mix and master directly from VERSELAB, then connect your mobile device and upload to your favorite music platform or social channels.

Two people collaborating with vocals and Verselab
Come experience the MV-1 at The Roland Store inside Bananas.

Free live training for the MV-1 is available

At Roland Cloud Academy when you register your product at www.roland.com/backstage. You can also book a 1-2-1 for free with our Roland Product Specialist at The Roland Store inside Bananas.

Roland Cloud Academy is an online learning platform providing free training courses for registered owners of Roland DJ controllers, TR-8S Rhythm Performer, and MC-101 + MC-707 GROOVEBOXES. In a series of live group video sessions, Roland’s top product specialists will guide you step-by-step through various product features and provide tips for studio creation, stage performance, and event production. With the benefit of Cloud Academy’s interactive online platform, instructors provide real-time responses to your questions submitted via live chat, voice, or webcam.

SPECIFICATIONS

General

  • Sound Generator: ZEN-Core (Tone, Drum Kit)
  • Track Type: Tone, Drum Kit, Looper (Audio Loop)
  • Tracks: 7 tracks and 1 vocal track
  • Sections: 16 sections
  • Vocal Take: 16 takes
  • Step Sequencer: Maximum Step: 128 steps
    * Available on a Tone or Drum Kit Track
  • Looper: Time Stretch, Pitch Shift
    * Available on a Looper Track
  • Display: 16 characters, 2 lines LCD (with backlit)
  • External Storage: SD card (SDHC supported) for saving Project Data and Audio Data
  • Maximum Polyphony
  • ZEN-Core: 128 voices (varies according to the sound generator load)
  • Looper: 8 (varies according to the available number of Looper track)
  • Vocal Take: 16 (varies according to the vocal take size)

Tones

  • Preset Tone: 3,000 or greater
  • Preset Drum Kit: 80 or greater
  • User Sample (as a Tone or Drum Kit): available by importing from SD card
  • Looper Sample (as a clip of Looper track): available by importing from SD card, recording via EXT IN/Tracks
    * Available total time for User Sample and Vocal take: 12 minutes in mono, 6 minutes in stereo (44.1 kHz)
    * Available format of User Sample: WAV 32--96 kHz/16-bit, 24-bit (mono, stereo)
    * Available total time for Looper Sample: Approx. 60 sec (44.1 kHz)
    * Available format of Looper Sample: WAV 44.1 kHz/16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 32-bit float (mono, stereo)

Effects

  • Track Multi-Effects: 90 types
  • Track EQ
  • Chorus/Delay: 9 types
  • Reverb: 7 types
  • Master Effects: 90 types
  • Master Compressor
  • Master EQ

Connectors

  • PHONES jacks: Stereo 1/4-inch phone type, Stereo miniature phone type
  • MIX OUT (L/MONO, R) jacks: 1/4-inch phone type
  • EXT IN (L/MONO/MIC, R) jacks: 1/4-inch phone type
  • MIC IN: XLR type (phantom power: +48 V, 10 mA Max.)
  • MIDI (IN, OUT1) connectors
  • USB port: USB B type (Audio, MIDI)
  • DC IN jack

Power Supply

  • AC adaptor
  • Obtained via USB port (USB bus power)

Current Draw

  • 2,000 mA (AC adaptor)
  • 500 mA (USB bus power)

Accessories

  • Leaflet "Read Me First"
  • AC adaptor
  • SD card (installed in the product when shipped from the factory)
  • SD card protector

Size and Weight

  • Width: 13-15/16 inches (354 mm)
  • Depth: 8-3/16 inches (208 mm)
  • Height: 2-3/8 inches (60 mm)
  • Weight: 2 lbs 10 oz (1.165 kg)
Bananas At Large Inc

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$599.99 down from $829.99
Bananas At Large Inc
Bananas at Large
415-457-7600
San Rafael, CA
8:53 AM
Monday - Saturday (11:00am - 6pm PST) Sunday (11am - 3pm PST)

We accept major credit and debit cards - Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express. We also accept Paypal. Please contact us for Western Union. Orders must be approved by our authorization process. This includes validation of the shipping address with the issuing bank.

About Shipping and Delivery We utilize legitimate bonded and licensed shipping carriers only (UPS, Fed Ex, USPS etc). We are not the shipping company and therefore cannot be held responsible for faults that lay with the shipping company. By placing orders with us you agree to be present to receive packages sent to you. Bananas cannot be held responsible for lost packages once they are logged as delivered by the shipping company. Once a package is logged as delivered by the shipping company the customer is responsible for any issues related to the delivery of the package at that point. Packaging and Shipping Information Due to conditions beyond our control (weather, shipper's handling etc.) some boxes that products originally come in cannot be re-used to ship out to customers. In those rare cases we will remove and inspect all items and repackage them in acceptable boxing to make it safe to you. All items are still considered brand new, under full warranty and fall under our same guarantees. Note: Bananas recycles unused boxes when possible.

Online Returns: In order to return a product, Request a Return Authorization Number (RA Number). To request a Return Authorization Number (RA Number), please email info@bananas.com with your full name, order number, item that you are returning, and what type of return you would like us to process - either exchange for the same item, exchange for another item, or return for refund. In addition, if you can include the reason for your return, and any other comments, that would be appreciated. Once we process your RA request, we will send you a Return Authorization Number, and instructions on how to return the item. Return and Customer Satisfaction Policy: Any item (other than as noted below) purchased from Bananas at Large online store may be returned, within 45 days of the shipment date, for a full refund of the purchase price minus shipping costs, or for exchange or credit. Rather than make you click elsewhere for the 'small print', here it is in not-so-small print: The following items may not be returned: Consumable items such as (but not limited to) strings, picks, drum sticks, drum heads, phono cartridges and replacement speakers. Any item that is worn on the body or is blown into, such as (but not limited to) earplugs, wind controllers or harmonicas Computer software, items that can be copied and copyrighted material such as (but not limited to) books, videos and CD's Installed items such as (but not limited to) guitar pickups, drum heads, headphone parts and other installed parts If you agree to back order or special order a product, you agree that order may not be canceled unless approved by Bananas. Special orders already in transit either from manufacturer or Bananas cannot be canceled. Special order items may be returned if defective for exchange. You will be notified what items qualify as special order status. *In-store sales, please see posted Return Policies Other Things You Need to Know about Online Returns Shipping and/or handling charges are not refundable. It is your responsibility to pay return shipping and to fully insure the unit(s) you are returning. Also, it is your responsibility to cover shipping charges for sending the item to you. If you are quoted free shipping and return the item, you will be required to cover the actual shipping costs incurred by your order. Items that are returned must be in the original packaging, with all accessories and paperwork included in the original shipment, such as owner's manual(s) and warranty card. Items must be free from signs of use or wear, and both warranty card and manual(s) must not have any writing in them. If your order was shipped to you in outer packaging it must be returned in that packaging as well as the inner box or boxes. Returned items that do not arrive in the condition described above are subject to a $25 repackaging charge, plus the cost of replacing missing, soiled, worn or marked-on items. Obvious signs of use that reduce the value of a returned unit will be subject to additional charges based on how much we need to mark down the unit to make it sellable.