PERFORMANCE Editor User’s Guide
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Table of contents Contents What is BK-9 Performance Editor? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Connecting your equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Before You Start Using BK-9 Performance Editor. . . . . 6 Using Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 MIXER PAGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
What is BK-9 Performance Editor? BK-9 Performance Editor is an application that allows you to graphically control various aspects of the Roland BK-9 Backing keyboard. The Roland BK-9 is a powerful backing keyboard with many functions and parameters. This Editor will help you to edit the parameters related to your performances in an easy and comfortable way. In addition, each parameter that you will change by using the Performance Editor application will be immediately available in BK-9, in real time.
Connecting your equipment What do you need to use BK-9 Performance Editor? MIDI cable connection • A BK-9 Backing Keyboard equipped with the software version 1.06 or later. • An Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit (Camera connectors made by Apple Inc.) • A standard USB cable (type A–male - type B–male: commercially available) Wireless connection • A BK-9 Backing Keyboard equipped with the software version 1.06 or later.
Before You Start Using BK-9 Performance Editor 1. 2. 3. Connect your BK-9 and your iPad. See “Connecting your equipment” (p. 5). Turn your BK-9 and your iPad on. Press the BK-9 Performance Editor icon on your iPad to open this app. BK-9 Performance Editor checks the available devices. At the end the following page appears: If BK-9 Performance Editor finds no available device, a. Press the [Options] button to check general settings and the available devices. .
Using Controls All the controls in BK-9 Performance Editor were especially designed to provide maximum flexibility and convenience. Knob operation The Knobs control most parameters with continuous values, such as Reverb, Chorus, Cutoff and many other effects. Coarse Control To move a knob, simply touch the knob (it will retain focus) with your finger and slide your finger up or down. Its corresponding value box is updated with the current value.
MIXER PAGE The Mixer page (automatically selected at the startup) allows you to adjust the Volume,reverb, chorus and panpot for each real-time part (UPPER1, UPPER2, LOWER, MANUAL BASS, MELODY INTELLIGENT and D-BEAM). You can set the part ON or OFF. Adjusting the Volume for Each Part 1. Use the sliders to adjust the Volume for each real-time part. See “Slider operation” (p. 7). Tones/D-BEAM Function The tone name for each part is vertically displayed at the left of each slider.
MIXER PAGE Switching the D-BEAM part ON/OFF The D-BEAM part ON/OFF button works slightly different from the others, since you will need to choose your desired type of function [DJ GEAR], [SFX], [INST] and [CTRL]. 1. Press the “Off” field to switch the D-BEAM part ON. A pop-up window appears with four buttons. Each button represents a family of effects/functions ([DJ GEAR], [SFX], [INST] and [CTRL]). Each family contains a series of different effects/functions. You can choose one at a time.
MIXER PAGE Using the READ button BK-9 Performance Editor and your BK-9 always interact in real time. But if you happen to find that some values are mismatching with each others, don’t get puzzled, but simply 1. 10 Press the READ button on top of the screen page and both your devices will be newly synchronized.
PARTS EDITOR PAGE In this page you can change tones and edit the parameters for each real time part. Changing the Tone for Each Part 1. Press a [TONE] button to open the Tone page of the desired part. The following page appears: 2. Select the tone you like. To select your desired tone you can search either by Tone Families (use the [FAMILY] button) or by Tone Names (use the [NAME] button). The chosen tone name is shown vertically at the left of each slider.
PARTS EDITOR PAGE Changing the Equalizer for Each Part. 1. Press the [EQUALIZER] button of the desired part to switch its equalizer ON/OFF. 2. If you want to edit the parameters of the equalizer, you have to push and hold the [EQUALIZER] button of the desired part . A pop-up window appears. Modify the equalization setting as you like. Changing the Octave for Each Part 1. Press an [OCTAVE] field to transpose the desired part. The following pop-up window appears: 2.
PARTS EDITOR PAGE 2. Use the knobs to change the Coarse and Fine Tune. Selecting an MFX to Process the Desired Part The BK-9 contains two multi-effect processors (MFX). 1. Press an [MFX] field to select which MFX will process the desired part. The following pop-up window appears: 2. Select the desired MFX for the selected part. Select “OFF” for parts that don’t need to be processed by any MFX. 3. Press the [MFX] button to enable (lights) or disable the multi-effects processor overall.
PARTS EDITOR PAGE Transposing to a different Key Depending on the mode setting, this transposition applies to either all sections or just a specific setting. 1. Press the [KEY] button to open the “KEY” pop-up window. The following pop-up window appears: 2. 3. Select which parts should be affected: “Keyboard”, “Song”, “Song + Keyboard”. Use the arrow buttons to select the desired “Key” setting. Playing Different Voices with the Left and Right Hands (SPLIT) 1. Press the [SPLIT] button.
PARTS EDITOR PAGE If this parameter is “ON” the notes of the Lower part go on sounding until you play other notes in the left keyboard area. (This function is only available while the [SPLIT] button lights.) Adjusting the Volume for Each Part 1. Use the sliders to adjust the Volume for each real-time part. See “Slider operation” (p. 7). I Tones The tone name for each part is vertically displayed at the left of each slider. Switching a Part ON/OFF 1. Use the buttons to switch the desired part ON/OFF .
MFX EDITOR PAGE In this page you can control and edit the multi-effect processors (MFX1 and MFX2) provided in BK-9 for processing tones and real time keyboard parts. You can also edit reverb and chorus. Editing and controlling the Chorus / Reverb effect 1. Press the CHORUS / REVERB button to enable the corresponding effect (it lights red). 2. Press the corresponding name field. In the above example we selected the chorus effect.
MFX EDITOR PAGE Editing and controlling MFX1 and MFX2 1. Press either the MFX1 or the MFX2 name field to select one of the two multi-effect processors. 2. To choose any of the 84 available multi-effect types, press the field in the central page area (orange background). A drop down menu appears to make your choice. Alternatively, you can scroll the effect types using the up/down arrow buttons beside on the left of the effect name field. 3.
MFX EDITOR PAGE How to control some effects using the MFX1 and MFX2 sliders BK-9 enables you to control some effects by using the MFX1 and MFX2 sliders located under the display area. Indeed every effect type is characterised by its own parameters, which you can handily control by these two sliders during your performance in real time. 1. Press any of the two [Controls] buttons to open a pop-up window related to the multi-effect processor (MFX1 or MFX2) you want to control.
TONES EDITOR PAGE The Tone Edit function lets you comfortably adjust the distinctive parameters of most tones available in BK-9. The TONE EDITOR page shows four separate areas corresponding to the four keyboard real-time parts: Upper 1, Upper 2, M.Bass, Lower. 1. Use the knob and slider controls inside every area to adjust the parameters of the tone selected for every part. The typical tone parameters are: Cut Off, Resonance, Attack, Decay, Release, Vibrato Rate, Vibrato Depth, Vibrato Delay, C1.
HAND CONTROLS PAGE This page collects all those functions involving hand controllers, like Pitch Bend/Modulation lever as well as the Assignable Switches. Of course, you can make separate settings for every real time keyboard part. How to control Portamento 1. Use the slider switch and knob to set the Portamento Mode and Time for any part you wish. How to set the Pitch Bender 1. Use the slider switch and knob to choose your desired pitch bender assignment and the corresponding range for any part you wish.
HAND CONTROLS PAGE How to assign functions to the S1, S2, S3, S4 switches BK-9 has four assignable switches. You can use them to directly access frequently used functions that are only available via the function menu. 1. Press the S1, S2, S3, S4 fields on your iPad to choose the function you wish to assign to any of these four switches. If you do not need any direct access to this kind of controls during your performance, choose “OFF”.
FOOT CONTROLS PAGE This page collects functions involving some foot controllers, such as Expression Pedal (e.g. Roland EV-5) and Pedal switches (e.g. Roland DP-series or BOSS FS-5U). Of course, you can make separate settings for every real time keyboard part. How to control the Expression Pedal The expression pedal allows you to control the volume of all BK-9 real-time parts by foot, if this comes in handy during your performance. 1. 2. Use the slider switch to set Expression Pedal on / off.
