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

Recording your performance as audio data

Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR

13. Recording your performance as audio data

Your BK-5 OR allows you to record everything it can transmit to its outputs, i.e. rhythm or song playback, your playing,

your singing, and any audio signal transmitted to the BK-5 OR. (The metronome signal is not recorded.)

Feel free to connect the master outputs of an external

mixing console to the BK-5 OR’s AUDIO INPUT (STEREO)

socket if you want to record your band or the signals of

an accordion, additional synthesizers, pianos, drum

machines, etc., as well.

The resulting audio file is stored in the WAV format (not

mp3), which allows you to burn your recordings onto a

CD using your computer.

NOTE

You will need a USB memory to record your performance.

Recording

NOTE

The following is based on the assumption that the “Rec Audio

Sync” parameter (page 72) is active.

Connect the USB memory to which you wish

to save the audio data.

NOTE

Use USB memory sold by Roland (M-UF-series). We cannot

guarantee operation if any other USB memory is used.

Prepare everything you want to record:

• Select the rhythm or song you want to use as accom-

paniment

• Set the levels and effects, etc.

Set the desired balance between the

rhythm/song and the real-time parts using

the BALANCE buttons.

You may also want to set the “Audio In Level” param-

eter (page 72).

Press the [AUDIO REC] button (its indicator

flashes).

NOTE

If you pressed the [AUDIO REC] button by accident, press

and hold it until its indicator goes dark again.

Press the [START/STOP] button.

The indicators of the [AUDIO REC] and [START/STOP]

buttons light and the BK-5 OR starts playing back the

selected rhythm or song and recording. Everything

you play on the keyboard is recorded.

At the end of the song, press the

[AUDIO REC] or [START/STOP] button to stop

recording.

Rhythm or song playback and recording stop. The fol-

lowing message appears:

You can now…

(a) Save the song under a new name.

‰ “Saving your recording as an audio file” on p. 56

(b) Save the song under the name suggested by the

BK-5 OR (“My recording001”).

‰Press the [WRITE] button. After a few seconds, the

display will return to the main page. In this case, your

audio file is saved in the “My Recordings” folder.

unhappy with it.

‰ Press the [EXIT] button. The display changes to:

‰ Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select “YES”,

then press [ENTER/SELECT] to erase your recording.

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