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

Makeup Tools (rhythms and SMF)

Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR

Write User

This function allows you to save the settings you

made on the “Equalizer” page.

Press the [WRITE] button.

Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select

“YES”, then press the [ENTER/SELECT] but-

ton to save the current settings.

The display shows a confirmation message.

If you don’t want to define the current settings as

the default state, rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to

select “NO”, then press the [ENTER/SELECT] button.

The BK-5 OR then returns to the “Equalizer” page.

NOTE

There is only one “User” memory for your own settings. By

saving new settings, you therefore overwrite the previous

ones.

NOTE

When you switch on the BK-5 OR, it automatically loads

the “User” settings.

Makeup Tools (rhythms and SMF)

These functions allow you to actually edit the selected

rhythm or SMF song (Standard MIDI File) without pay-

ing too much attention to the underlying parameters.

NOTE

The “Rhythm Makeup Tools” and “SMF Makeup Tools” func-

tions cannot be used to edit Standard MIDI Files that use the

XG format.

Using the Makeup Tools

Select the rhythm or SMF song you wish to

modify on the connected USB memory (see

p. 37).

You can also select an internal rhythm.

Press the [START/STOP] button to start play-

back of the song or rhythm.

This allows you to listen to the song or rhythm before

you start editing it. Press the [START/STOP] button

again to halt playback.

NOTE

If you selected a rhythm or SMF song on the connected

USB memory, press and hold the [EXIT] button to return to

the main page.

Press the [MENU] button.

Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select

“Makeup Tools”, then press the [ENTER/

SELECT] button.

If you selected a rhythm in step (1), the display

changes to:

If you selected an SMF song in step (1), the display

changes to:

Mid Q 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8 Use this parameter to

specify the width of the

“Mid Frequency” band

that you want to boost

or cut. Smaller values

mean that neighboring

frequencies above/below

that value are also

affected.

Mid Gain –15~15dB Use this parameter to set

the level of the selected

“Mid” frequency.

Low Fre-

quency

50, 80, 100,

150, 200, 250,

300, 400Hz

Allows you to set the

cutoff frequency of the

low band (this is a shelv-

ing filter).

Low Gain –15~15dB Use this parameter to set

the level of the selected

“Low” frequency.

Parameter Setting range Explanation

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