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

Rhythm functions

Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR

■ VARIATION [1], [2], [3], [4]

These buttons are used to select the complexity

(number of parts) of the rhythm’s arrangement:

Note that the VARIATION patterns are repeated

(played back in a loop) until select a different pattern

or stop rhythm playback.

■ INTRO

Selects an introduction, which is usually used at the

beginning of a song. You can, however, also select

this pattern for other song sections. The behavior of

the Intro pattern depends on when you press the

[INTRO] button:

There are, in fact, four different INTRO patterns, that

can be selected using the VARIATION [1], [2], [3] and

[4] buttons. Again, the VARIATION buttons determine

the complexity of the intro arrangement.

■ ENDING

This button allows you to end your songs with a suit-

able closing section if you don’t want to simply stop

playback. The behavior of the Ending pattern depends

on when you press the [ENDING] button:

Sync Start/

Stop

Lights green Rhythm playback can be

started by playing a note or

chord. Playback will stop when

you release all keys.

— Dark Rhythm playback needs to be

started and stopped using the

[START/STOP] button (or the

assigned optional footswitch).

VARIATION

Explanation

[1] The simplest accompaniment pattern. A

good choice for the first of the songs you

play.

[2] A slightly more complex pattern you may

want to use for subsequent verses.

[3] This pattern would be a good choice for

the first chorus.

[4] This is the most complex arrangement.

Consider selecting it for the bridge or the

final chorus sections of a song.

Function

[SYNC START]

indicator

Explanation

[INTRO] Behavior

Pressed before

starting rhythm

playback

The indicator lights.

When you start rhythm playback, the

Arranger first plays a musical intro-

duction. (This pattern is played back

only once).

Pressed during

rhythm playback

The indicator flashes to signal that

the INTRO pattern will begin on the

next downbeat.

When the intro is finished, the

BK-5 OR returns to the previously

selected VARIATION pattern.

[ENDING] Behavior

Pressed before

starting rhythm

playback

The indicator lights.

When you start rhythm playback, the

Arranger plays a musical ending. At

the end of the phrase, playback stops.

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