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
Using the BK-5 OR as a USB player
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2.
Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select
the folder that contains the audio files you
want to listen to.
3.
Press the [ENTER/SELECT] button to open
the folder.
4.
Use the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select the
audio file where you want playback to start.
5.
Press [ENTER/SELECT] to confirm your selec-
tion.
6.
Press the [USB MEMORY] button to activate
the playback function of the selected and all
subsequent songs.
NOTE
.STL and .JPG files contained in the selected folder will be
ignored when you start playback (see below).
The icon in the lower left corner of the display page
changes as follows:
7.
Press the [®÷π] button to start playback of
all audio songs.
NOTE
While playback of all songs is running, you can navigate
the USB memory (to check its contents, for example). The
“Play All Songs” function continues to play back the files of
the folder you selected in step (2) above.
If you select a different file while navigating (by pressing
[ENTER/SELECT]), the “Play All Songs” function is switched
off and the following message appears:
8.
Press the [π] button to stop sequential play-
back.
Deactivating the ‘Play All Songs’ function
The “Play All Songs” function needs to be deactivated if
you no longer need it. To do so, proceed as follows:
1.
If the display doesn’t currently show the
contents of the connected USB memory,
press the [USB MEMORY] button.
2.
Press the [USB MEMORY] button (again) to
change the icon back to .
Pressing the [®÷π] button now will only start playback
of the selected song.
Loop function (MARK A/B)
The Loop function can be used to specify a passage,
such as the chorus of a song, that will be repeated sev-
eral times. This function is available for both audio and
SMF songs. You can also use it to practise difficult song
passages.
Setting and using the loop positions
1.
Select the song you want to play back.
2.
Press the [START/STOP] button to start play-
back.
3.
When the BK-5 OR reaches the beginning of
the passage you want to play back in a loop,
press the VARIATION [3] button.
The VARIATION [3] button flashes to indicate that the
position has been set.
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