User Manual

Features
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Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR
2. Features
The BK-5 OR is a professional keyboard designed to provide everything the entertaining artist and serious amateur musi-
cian needs on stage, in the studio, or at home.
All-in-one arranger instrument
The BK-5 OR is a superb instrument that uses
Roland’s latest technology for professional-grade
sounds and 128 notes of polyphony.
High-quality rhythms
Your BK-5 OR comes loaded with over 250 stunning
accompaniments (“rhythms”) that cover a variety of
musical genres for various geographic areas. Each
rhythm comprises 4 intros, 4 main accompaniments,
4 endings, 3 “Up” and 3 “Down” fill-ins.
Three Scale memories, plus Performance-depen-
dent scale settings
The BK-5 OR provides 3 Scale memories for oriental
tunings, plus the possibility to save the current tun-
ing settings to a Performance memory (even if its
settings differ from those in the Scale memories).
This allows you to use a different tuning system for
each Performance memory if you so desire.
Four suitable settings for each rhythm
(One Touch)
For each rhythm, the Roland team has prepared four
sets of suitable tones, effects and other settings that
can be loaded for the realtime parts (One Touch
function).
USB-based Standard MIDI Files and rhythm
player
The BK-5 OR plays Standard MIDI Files and rhythms
directly from a connected USB memory.
USB-based audio player and audio recorder
The BK-5 OR contains an audio player function that
allows you to play back mp3 and WAV files directly
from a connected USB memory.
The BK-5 OR also allows you to record your perfor-
mances. The resulting WAV files (audio) can be played
back on the BK-5 OR itself.
Three real-time parts
The BK-5 OR comes with three MIDI parts (Upper 1,
Upper 2, Lower) that can be played in real time.
16 Song parts
The BK-5 OR also provides 16 Song parts, which are
used for Standard MIDI File playback but can also be
controlled via MIDI (a computer connected to the
MIDI IN socket or the COMPUTER USB port). This
allows you to use the BK-5 OR as a 16-part multitim-
bral MIDI tone generator.
Song and Rhythm Makeup Tools for Standard
MIDI Files and rhythms
These tools allow you to modify songs in no time
without knowing the MIDI commands normally used
to perform such changes.
Performance List function
This function allows you to save nearly all of the
BK-5 OR’s settings for each song and/or rhythm you
will be using during your performances. The list that
contains these settings can be saved to a USB mem-
ory and loaded from there whenever the need arises.
Possibility to create new rhythms and to edit
existing ones
The Rhythm Composer function allows you to create
new rhythms and to edit (i.e. change) existing ones,
and then save them as “User Rhythms” to a USB
memory.
Multi-effects for rhythms or Standard MIDI files
and real-time parts
With a view to obtaining the highest possible sound
quality, the BK-5 OR contains two dedicated multi-
effects processors (MFX A and B) for the Standard
MIDI Files and rhythms you play back. In addition,
there is one MFX processor for the real-time parts
(Upper 1, Upper 2, Lower).
Composite Video Out
The BK-5 OR’s VIDEO OUTPUT socket can be con-
nected to an external screen, allowing your audience
or fellow musicians to follow the lyrics and chord
symbols (only SMF files) of the songs you perform.
You can also view digital pictures in the .jpg format
you took yourself.
16 NTA parts (Note-to-Arranger)
The BK-5 OR provides up to 16 MIDI parts dedicated
to Arranger control via MIDI (“Note-to-Arranger”).
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