User Manual

Backing Keyboard BK-5 OR
r
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Contents
1. Important notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Panel description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4. Shortcut list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. Before you start using the BK-5 OR . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting the AC adaptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting the BK-5 OR to an amplifier, mixer, etc.17
Connecting a MIDI device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting the BK-5 OR to your computer . . . . . . . 18
If the computer doesn’t ‘see’ the BK-5 OR . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Connecting a television set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting an optional footswitch, hold pedal or
expression pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting a portable audio player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Listening through headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing the music rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Turning the power on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Turning the power on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Turning the power off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Energy saving function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Demo of the BK-5 OR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6. Basic operation of the BK-5 OR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
About the display and cursor operation. . . . . . . . . . . 23
Main page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Moving the cursor and setting parameter values . . . . . .23
Moving between windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
7. Playing the BK-5 OR’s real-time parts. . . . . . . . . . 25
Switching the UP2 and LWR parts on and off . . . . . 25
Selecting Tones for the real-time parts . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using the [UP2] or [LWR] button to select Tones . . . . . .25
Selecting a Tone on the main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Using the ‘Numeric’ function to select Tones, Rhythms
and Performances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Checking a Tone’s or rhythm’s MIDI address . . . . . . . . . .27
Using the ‘Help’ function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
8. Rhythm functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Volume balance between the backing and the real-
time parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
About the rhythms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using rhythms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Selecting rhythms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Playing back rhythms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the ‘One Touch’ function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Programming your own ONE TOUCH settings (One Touch
Edit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Using oriental tunings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Tuning individual notes a quarter tone down . . . . . . . . .35
Saving and loading your tunings (MEMORY). . . . . . . . . .36
9. Using the BK-5 OR as a USB player . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Getting ready to use the BK-5 OR as a USB player . 37
File types the BK-5 OR can read and play back . . . . . . . .37
Selecting a song or rhythm on a USB memory. . . . . 37
Playing back a song or rhythm from a USB memory38
Renaming or deleting files/folders
on a USB memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Rename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Delete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the ‘Search’ function to locate songs, rhythms
or pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Activating the ‘Play All Songs’ parameter for the
USB memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Deactivating the ‘Play All Songs’ function . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Loop function (MARK A/B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Setting and using the loop positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
10. Other important functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Changing the key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Changing the octave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using ‘Track Mute’ and ‘Center Cancel’ . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Selecting the track(s) to mute for rhythms
or SMF songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using the ‘Melody Intell(igence)’ function . . . . . . . . 46
Using Split mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setting the volume of the real-time parts . . . . . . . . 46
11. Performance Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Performance/Music Assistant/Factory Songs info . . 48
Loading a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘Factory
Songs’ List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Recalling a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/
‘Factory Songs’ memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Quickly locating Performance memories. . . . . . . . . . 49
Saving your settings as a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Other Performance List functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
If you select ‘Rename’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
If you select ‘Delete’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
If you select ‘Make New List’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Editing Performance memories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Delete Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Saving the edited Performance List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
12. Adding pictures to the music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Displaying photos automatically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Enjoying a VIMA TUNES slide show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Enjoying a slide show of your own pictures . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using one of your own pictures as background. . . . 54
13. Recording your performance as audio data . . . . . 55
Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Listening to your recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Saving your recording as an audio file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
14. Lock functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Switching the locks on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
15. Menu options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
General procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Internal Lyrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
External Lyrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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