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
Menu options
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Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR
Perform Next
Song
Off, On At the end of the cur-
rent song, the next
song in the Perfor-
mance List starts auto-
matically. If the
Performance List step
refers to a rhythm, the
rhythm in question is
loaded, but you will
need to start manually
by pressing the [START/
STOP] button.
UP1 EQ/MFX
Link
Off, On If you select “on”, the
BK-5 OR selects suit-
able MFX and equalizer
settings for each Tone
you assign to the
Upper1 part.
Rec Audio Level –24, –18, –12,
–6, +0 dB
Allows you to set the
recording level for
your own perfor-
mances (see p. 55). The
setting of the [VOL-
UME] knob does not
affect the recording
level. (Default setting:
+0dB)
Rec Audio Sync Off, On Off: Choose this set-
ting when you want to
start recording before
starting rhythm or
song playback.
On: Choose this set-
ting when you want to
be able to start record-
ing simultaneously
with rhythm/song
playback. When you
choose this setting,
pressing the [AUDIO
REC] button will stop
both playback and the
recorder.
Audio In Level 0~127 Allows you to set the
input level of the sig-
nals received via the
INPUT (STEREO) socket.
See also page 20.
Audio In Center
Canc
Off, On Select “On” if the “Cen-
ter Cancel” function
(see p. 45) should also
affect the signals
received via the AUDIO
INPUT sockets.
Parameter Setting Explanation
USB Driver Generic,
Original
Generic: Choose this if
you want to use the
standard USB driver
that was included with
your computer. Nor-
mally, you should use
this mode.
Original: Choose this
if you want to use a
USB driver down-
loaded from the
Roland website
(www.roland.com).
Recall MIDI Set Off, Key/
Rhythm, PK
Series, Song,
User1, User2,
User3, User4,
User5, User6,
User7, User8
This parameter selects
the MIDI Set whose
settings are loaded
when the BK-5 OR is
switched on. Select
“Off” if no MIDI Set
should be recalled
when the BK-5 OR is
switched on.
Auto Off* Off,
10 (5)
30 (15)
240 (30)
This parameter allows
you to cause the
BK-5 OR to switch
itself off after the
selected number of
minutes if you are not
using it. The default
setting is “30”. Select
“Off” if you prefer not
to use this function.
The values in paren-
theses indicate when
the pop-up count-
down appears.
Visual Ctrl
Mode
MVC, V-LINK This parameter allows
you to select the visual
control mode. The
option to select
depends on the mes-
sages supported by the
external device: MIDI
Visual Control (MVC) or
V-LINK.
Version Info n.nn Shows the version
number of the
BK-5 OR’s operating
system.
[*] When the BK-5 has been switched off by this function, you
need to press the [POWER] button, wait a few seconds, then
press the button again to switch the BK-5 back on. (Do not
switch it on too quickly.)
Parameter Setting Explanation
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