Electronic Musician

Verselab MV-1

$699 roland.com

Unusually for a hardware sequencer, the Roland Verselab MV-1 is all about vocals. It’s a sequencer, sampler, and software instrument host that uses all that as a support network for your voice. Whether processing your vocals in real time, or recording them, or importing from another source: the Verselab is good for it all.

The MV-1 features a small LCD display, and various well-labeled knobs and buttons, all of which have some chance of being readable on stage, being either black-on-white or white-on-black, and no greys in-between. There are 16 sequencer step buttons arrayed along the lower edge, and there are 16 square

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