DAW-less DAW? Producing a full track with vocals on Verselab MV-1
Added 2021-02-06 14:55:33 +0000 UTCHi!
When I first saw the MV-1 Verselab from Roland, I was hesitant to review it - it's designed to produce vocals-based songs: I've heard myself sing, and I didn't like what I heard (though with auto tune I'm a darn good robot!).
MV-1 seems like a real attempt to create a DAWless-DAW. Maschine, Deluge and AKAI Force already have arranger based sequencing options fully capable of producing full tracks. MV-1 ditches the real time performance features to focus on making arranger style song production as simple as possible.
It seems like Roland are marketing it as a hip-hop/rap production station (the default BPM is 70 and the default kit it very trap) - and, while I have a lot of love for the genre, I completely lack the talent.
But then I remembered a track a good friend of mine wrote, produced and never published anywhere. I asked her for the vocal stem, and took upon myself to reproduce the track in MV-1, as a challenge to whether MV-1 can be used to produce a "real" song, which was produced on a DAW, with no real orientation towards "electronic music". Plus it was a good opportunity to force her to publish the song somewhere...
I've attached my direct mixdown export from MV-1 to this post.
Hopefully, my reproduction does her version justice! Here's a link to her bandcamp if you want to listen to the original, and if you like what you hear, please leave her a nice comment!
Have a great weekend!
Ziv (unfortunately still not rapping on youtube as "Loopop"...)
