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

Recalling a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘Factory Songs’ memory

Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR

You can now select a Performance memory (see

below).

If you need to load another Performance List, press

the PERFORMANCE [LIST] button again.

Recalling a Performance/‘Music

Assistant’/‘Factory Songs’ memory

Here is how to select a Performance/ “Music Assistant”/

“Factory Songs” memory from the last list you loaded

(see p. 48).

If the display doesn’t yet show a list of Per-

formance/“Music Assistant”/“Factory Songs”

memories, press the PERFORMANCE [LIST]

button.

In this example, we loaded the “Music Assistant” List.

Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select

the memory whose settings you want to use,

then press the [ENTER/SELECT] button to

confirm your selection.

The PERFORMANCE [LIST] button lights to signal that

the BK-5 OR is now using the settings of the selected

Performance memory. The name of that memory is

highlighted.

The selected memory also refers to a rhythm or song,

which can be started in the usual ways ([START/STOP]

button, [SYNC START], etc.).

During playback of that rhythm or song, you can

already select a new Performance/“Music Assistant”/

“Factory Songs” memory.

If you need to return to the main page,

press the [EXIT] button.

To return to the page that lists the memories, press

PERFORMANCE [LIST] again.

Quickly locating Performance

memories

Performance memories can also be loaded using the

BK-5 OR’s “Numeric” function. See “Using the ‘Numeric’

function to select Tones, Rhythms and Performances”

on p. 26 for details.

Saving your settings as a

Performance

Select a rhythm or song.

Select all settings you would like to use for

this rhythm or song.

You can, for instance, assign the desired Tones to the

real-time parts, switch on the [INTRO] button, modify

the “Performance Edit” settings, etc.

Press the [WRITE] button to jump to the

“Write Performance” page.

The [WRITE] indicator flashes and the display changes

to:

By default, the BK-5 OR assigns the name of the

selected rhythm, song or of the last Performance you

loaded to the Performance settings you are about to

save. If you agree with that name, proceed with step

(7) below.

Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select

the desired position.

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