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

Menu options

Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR

The display changes to:

“Initialize Rhythm” is already selected, so

press the [ENTER/SELECT] button.

The display changes to:

The settings shown on this display page are sug-

gested as defaults for every new rhythm you pro-

gram. Feel free to change them depending on the

kind of accompaniment you want to prepare:

Use the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial and [ENTER/

SELECT] button to edit the available param-

eters.

Press the [WRITE] button (its indicator

flashes) to confirm your settings.

The display changes to:

Rotate the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select

“YES” and press the [ENTER/SELECT] button.

The display returns to the “Rhythm Composer” page,

which only contains the sound assignments you have

just made.

Select “NO” if you don’t want to initialize the rhythm

memory area.

Getting ready for the first track

On the “Rhythm Composer” page, use the

[CURSOR÷VALUE] dial and [ENTER/SELECT]

button to select the “Division” parameter.

Use the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial to select the

Division you want to record (“Intro”, “Main”,

“Fill” or “Ending”).

Parameter Setting Explanation

Rec Track ADrum, ABass,

Acc1, Acc2,

Acc3, Acc4,

Acc5, Acc6

This parameter allows

you to select the track

whose settings you

want to change.

Inst (Tone assigned

to the track)

This is where you select

a sound (or Drum Set)

for the track marked

for recording (“Rec

Track”).

Tempo 20~250 You can already set the

tempo here or leave

that for later.

Time Signature 1/16, 1/4~4/

4…

This value needs to be

set when you initialize

the Rhythm RAM

memory (i.e. now). All

Divisions and Modes

use this time signa-

ture. You could, how-

ever, edit the patterns

at a later stage (see

“Time Signature” on

p. 102) and specify

that VARIATION [1]

should use “4/4”, MAIN

[2] “6/8”, etc.

Expression 0~127 Temporary volume

changes (CC11).

Reverb 0~127 Reverb Send (CC91),

i.e. how strongly the

selected track should

be processed by the

reverb effect.

Chorus 0~127 Chorus Send (CC93),

i.e. how strongly the

selected track should

be processed by the

chorus effect.

Panpot 0~127 The track’s stereo

placement (00[L]~64~

127[R]).

Parameter Setting Explanation

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