User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Important notes
- Features
- Contents
- Panel description
- 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
- 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
- Playing the BK5OR’s real-time parts
- Rhythm functions
- Using the BK5OR as a USB player
- Getting ready to use the BK5OR as a USB player
- 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
- Using the ‘Search’ function to locate songs, rhythms or pictures
- Activating the ‘Play All Songs’ parameter for the USBmemory
- Loop function (MARK A/B)
- Other important functions
- 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
- Adding pictures to the music
- Recording your performance as audio data
- Lock functions
- Menu options
- General procedure
- Internal Lyrics
- ‘Performance Edit’ parameters
- ‘Tone Part View’ parameters
- Tone
- Volume
- Reverb Send
- Chorus Send
- Panpot
- Key Touch (velocity sensitivity)
- Eq Part Edit
- Mfx
- Expression Pedal
- Pedal Exp Down/Up
- Hold Pedal
- Octave Shift
- Coarse Tune
- Fine Tune
- Portamento Mode
- Portamento Time
- Bender Assign
- Bender Range
- Modulation Assign
- Cut Off
- Resonance
- Attack (only for Tones)
- Decay
- Release
- Vibrato Rate
- Vibrato Depth
- Vibrato Delay
- C1
- ‘Tone Part MFX’ parameters
- ‘Rhythm Parts’ parameters
- Split
- Scale Tune Switch
- Scale Tune
- Key
- ‘Arranger Setting’ parameters
- ‘Melody Intelligent’ parameters
- Save As Default
- ‘Tone Part View’ parameters
- ‘Global’ parameters
- Mastering Tools
- Makeup Tools (rhythms and SMF)
- Rhythm Composer (programming your own rhythms)
- Clearing the RAM memory (Initialize Rhythm)
- Getting ready for the first track
- Recording a rhythm pattern
- Auditioning your rhythm and adding more tracks
- Saving your rhythm
- Recording other tracks and divisions
- Help function on the main Rhythm Composer page
- Muting tracks while recording others
- Solo
- Rhythm Track Edit functions
- Editing individual rhythm events (Micro Edit)
- MIDI parameters
- Factory Reset
- Formatting a USB memory
- Visual Control function
- Troubleshooting
- Specifications
- MIDI Implementation Chart
- Chord Intelligence
- Index
Specifications
Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR
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18. Specifications
Display type
Display Graphic LCD, 160 x 160 dots, backlit
Keyboard
Keyboard 61 velocity sensitive keys
Sound Source
Max. Polyphony 128 voices (GM2/GS/XG Lite compatible)
Sounds Over 1,100 tones
Over 50 Drum Sets
Multitimbral parts 3 keyboard parts (UP1, UP2, LWR) + 16 song parts
Master Tuning 415.3~466.2 Hz
Key Control (Transpose) –6~+5 in semitones (for audio/MIDI data)
Tempo change 20~250 BPM for SMF and rhythms
75~125% for mp3 and WAV files
Part mute functions TRACK MUTE: Rhythms, SMF
CENTER CANCEL: mp3, WAV, AUDIO INPUT signals
Effects
Keyboard parts (UP1, UP2, LWR)
Rhythms/SMF section
Reverb: 8 types (selectable via Makeup Tools)
Chorus: 8 types (selectable via Makeup Tools)
MFX: 84 types for keyboard parts (selectable via Tone Part MFX)
A & B for rhythm and SMF section (selectable via Makeup Tools)
Parametric EQ: 6 presets + 1 User memory
Multi-band compressor: 6 presets + 1 User memory
Rhythm section
Rhythms Over 250 in 6 “Rhythm” families (localized rhythms for specific areas are included)
Rhythm Composer Internal Rhythm Composer, SMF-to-Rhythm Converter provided as PC application (Win-
dows) on the bundled CD-ROM
One Touch memories 4 programmable registrations per rhythm
Rhythm Makeup Tools Instrument-oriented editing
Songs
Real-time player SMF (Format 0/1), KAR, mp3, WAV, mp3+CDG
Song chord extractor Automatic chord detection for SMF files
SMF Makeup Tools Instrument-oriented editing
Oriental tunings
MEMORY buttons 1, 2, 3 (storage of three USER SCALE sets of frequently used settings)
USER SCALE buttons Instant quarter-tone tuning of each note of a scale (C~B).
Adjustable tuning range (–64~+63 cent) for each button.
Tunings can also be saved to Performance memories.
Performance Memories
Performance Lists Unlimited number (storage on USB memory)
Over 500 “Music Assistant” memories (internal memory)
5 “Factory Song” memories (internal memory)
Performance memories per List Max. 999
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