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

Rhythm Composer (programming your own rhythms)

Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR

Press the [AUDIO REC] button.

The display changes to:

If necessary, use the [CURSOR÷VALUE] dial

and [ENTER/SELECT] button to edit the

available parameters.

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 record.

Inst (Tone assigned

to the track)

This is where you select

a sound (or Drum Set)

for the track marked

for recording (“Rec

Track”).

Key C, C#, D, Eb, E,

F, F#, G, Ab, A,

Bb, B

If you want to use the

accompaniment in a

musically meaningful

way, you need to tell

the BK-5 OR what key

you are recording in.

This is to ensure that

the chords you play

during everyday use of

your rhythm with the

BK-5 OR’s Arranger

lead to the correct

real-time transposi-

tions of the selected

Division.

The BK-5 OR allows

you to record rhythms

in any key. But do set

the KEY parameter to

the right value before

recording.

The key of AccDrums

parts cannot be set

(because that doesn’t

make sense).

Octave –4~+4 This parameter allows

you to transpose the

keyboard in octave

steps, which may be

convenient for

extremely high or low

notes – or for using

the special “noises” of

certain sounds.

Mode** Major, Minor,

7th, M=m,

M=7, m=7,

M=m=7

This parameter allows

you to specify whether

you are about to

record the accompani-

ment for major, minor

or seventh chords. If

you listen to the

rhythm prepared by

Roland, you will notice

that there are slight

differences in the

looped patterns – and

sometimes striking dif-

ferences for Intros and

Endings, with com-

pletely different

phrases. Such varia-

tions can be prepared

using the “Mode”

parameter.

Division* Intro, Main,

Fill, Ending

Select the pattern you

want to create. This

parameter is linked to

the division you select

on the main “Rhythm

Composer” page.

Tempo 20~250 The tempo value you

set here is recorded

and regarded as preset

tempo. You can

change it at any stage

in Rhythm Composer

mode, so start by

selecting a tempo that

allows you to record

the music the way you

want it to sound.

Parameter Setting Explanation

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