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

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