User Manual

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Table Of Contents

Important notes
Features
Contents
Panel description
- Front panel
- Rear panel
Shortcut list
Before you start using the BK5OR
- Connecting the AC adaptor
- Connecting the BK5OR to an amplifier, mixer, etc.
- Connecting a MIDI device
- Connecting the BK5OR to your computer
  - If the computer doesn’t ‘see’ the BK5OR
- Connecting a television set
- Connecting an optional footswitch, hold pedal or expression pedal
- Connecting a portable audio player
- Listening through headphones
- Installing the music rest
- Turning the power on/off
- Demo of the BK5OR
Basic operation of the BK5OR
- About the display and cursor operation
Playing the BK5OR’s real-time parts
- Switching the UP2 and LWR parts on and off
- Selecting Tones for the real-time parts
- Using the ‘Help’ function
Rhythm functions
- Volume balance between the backing and the real-time parts
- About the rhythms
- Using rhythms
- Selecting rhythms
- Playing back rhythms
- Using the ‘One Touch’ function
  - Programming your own ONE TOUCH settings (OneTouch Edit)
- Using oriental tunings
  - Tuning individual notes a quarter tone down
  - Saving and loading your tunings (MEMORY)
Using the BK5OR as a USB player
- Getting ready to use the BK5OR as a USB player
  - File types the BK5OR can read and play back
- Selecting a song or rhythm on a USB memory
- Playing back a song or rhythm from a USB memory
- Renaming or deleting files/folders on a USB memory
  - Delete
- Using the ‘Search’ function to locate songs, rhythms or pictures
- Activating the ‘Play All Songs’ parameter for the USBmemory
  - Deactivating the ‘Play All Songs’ function
- Loop function (MARK A/B)
Other important functions
- Changing the key
- Changing the octave
- Using ‘Track Mute’ and ‘Center Cancel’
  - Selecting the track(s) to mute for rhythms orSMFsongs
- Using the ‘Melody Intell(igence)’ function
- Using Split mode
- Setting the volume of the real-time parts
Performance Lists
- Performance/Music Assistant/ Factory Songs info
- Loading a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘Factory Songs’ List
- Recalling a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘FactorySongs’memory
- Quickly locating Performance memories
- Saving your settings as a Performance
- Other Performance List functions
- Editing Performance memories
  - Delete Performance
  - Saving the edited Performance List
Adding pictures to the music
- Displaying photos automatically
  - Enjoying a VIMA TUNES slide show
  - Enjoying a slide show of your own pictures
- Using one of your own pictures as background
Recording your performance as audio data
- Recording
  - Listening to your recording
  - Saving your recording as an audio file
Lock functions
- Switching the locks on and off
Menu options
- General procedure
- Internal Lyrics
  - External Lyrics
- ‘Performance Edit’ parameters
- ‘Global’ parameters
- Mastering Tools
  - Compressor
    - Write User
  - Equalizer
    - Write User
- Makeup Tools (rhythms and SMF)
- Rhythm Composer (programming your own rhythms)
- Editing individual rhythm events (Micro Edit)
- MIDI parameters
- Factory Reset
- Formatting a USB memory
Visual Control function
- Selecting clips and banks on an optional MIDI Visual Control/ VLINK device
Troubleshooting
Specifications
- Style Converter 4 system requirements
MIDI Implementation Chart
Chord Intelligence
Index

Panel description

Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR

AUDIO REC button

This button is used to start audio recording of your

performance. This function records everything the

BK-5 OR transmits to its OUTPUT sockets (audio sig-

nals you play back and audio versions of the MIDI

parts you control). See page 55.

This button is also used to select the Rhythm Com-

poser function (see p. 85).

BASS INV button

This button is used to switch the Bass Inversion func-

tion on and off (page 31).

AUTO FILL IN button

This button is used to activate the Auto Fill-In func-

tion, which causes a transition to be played before

selecting the new rhythm variation (which is selected

with the VARIATION buttons).

VARIATION 1/2/3/4 buttons

These buttons are used to select a rhythm “Variation”,

i.e. a simpler or more complex arrangement of the

selected rhythm.

INTRO button

When you activate this button, rhythm playback

starts with a musical introduction whose complexity

depends on which VARIATION button currently lights

(there are four different introductions per rhythm).

After selecting a song file, this button allows you to

rewind.

NOTE

You can also press this button during rhythm playback.

ENDING button

When you activate this button, rhythm playback

stops with a musical ending whose complexity

depends on which VARIATION button currently lights

(there are four different ending phrases per rhythm).

After selecting a song file, this button allows you to

fast-forward.

START/STOP button

This button allows you to start and stop rhythm play-

back. If you select a song, it starts and temporarily

stops (pause) song playback.

MEMORY and USER SCALE buttons

These three buttons allow you to save and recall the

tuning settings carried out with the USER SCALE but-

tons. When the BK-5 OR is shipped, these memories

already contain useful settings.

The USER SCALE buttons allow you to change the

tuning of each note of the scale (one octave). By

default, pressing one of these buttons will lower the

corresponding notes in all octaves by a quarter tone

(–50 cents). Other tunings can also be selected and

saved to one of the three scale memories or a Perfor-

mance.

NOTE

The settings of the USER SCALE buttons are also saved to a

Performance, so that you can use the three Scale memories

for more “general” settings.

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