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
Basic operation of the BK-5 OR
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6. Basic operation of the BK-5 OR
About the display and cursor
operation
This section introduces the information that appears on
the main page in the BK-5 OR’s display and how to nav-
igate the menu.
Main page
Moving the cursor and setting parameter values
The display cursor can only be moved to the fields that
contain numeric values.
1.
Rotate the dial to move the cursor to the
parameter whose value you want to change.
2.
Press the [ENTER/SELECT] button to confirm
your selection.
The setting field of the selected parameter is dis-
played in reverse.
In our example, we want to assign a different Tone to
the Upper1 (UP1) part.
3.
Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to change
the value.
4.
Press the [ENTER/SELECT] button again to
deselect the “UP1” field.
The parameter’s setting field once again appears on a
white background and the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial can
once again be used to select another parameter.
Moving between windows
Here is how to navigate the menu to select the setting
you want to change.
1.
Press [MENU] button.
The display changes to:
This page allows you to select the function group
that contains the setting you want to change.
NOTE
In some cases, the [MENU] button may recall a special edit
menu window instead of a main menu page.
2.
Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select
the entry of the desired function group.
Current measure or
remaining time
Time signature
Tempo setting or time
stretching
Selected file type:
Rhythm, .SMF,
.WAV, .mp3
Real-time part field:
UP1, UP2, LWR. The
black field refers to
the selected real-
time part.
Name of the last
chord you played
One Touch mem-
ory indication
Name of the
selected rhythm
(or loaded file)
Current “Key”
setting
Selected sounds
Lock status of
these parameters
Octave settings of
the real-time
parts.
Recording time
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