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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

NOTE

This function provides no “To” pointer. Instead, you need to

specify the length of the insert using the “For” values.

Press the [WRITE] button (its indicator flashes) to

confirm your settings and edit the data.

■ Key (transposition)

This function allows you to transpose the notes of

the selected track (non-note data obviously cannot

be transposed).

Press the [WRITE] button (its indicator flashes) to

confirm your settings and edit the data.

Parameter Setting Explanation

Track ADrums~Acc6,

ALL

Allows you to select

the track you wish to

edit. You can also

select “ALL” here, in

which case the opera-

tion applies to all

tracks.

Mode Major, Minor,

7th

Allows you to select

the Mode to be edited.

Division Intro 1~4,

Main 1~4, Fill

Dwn 1~3, Fill

Up 1~3, End

1~4

Use this parameter to

select the Division you

want to edit.

From Bar~

From CPT

See page 92.

For Bar,

For Beat,

For CPT

Specifies how many bars, beats and

CPTs are to be inserted.

Parameter Setting Explanation

Track ADrums~Acc6,

ALL

Allows you to select

the track you wish to

edit. You can also

select “ALL” here, in

which case the opera-

tion applies to all

tracks.

Mode Major, Minor,

7th

Allows you to select

the Mode to be edited.

Division Intro 1~4,

Main 1~4, Fill

Dwn 1~3, Fill

Up 1~3, End

1~4

Use this parameter to

select the Division you

want to edit.

From Bar~

To CPT

See page 92.

Value –127~127) This is where you set

the transposition

interval in semi-tone

steps. Select “2”, for

example, to transpose

a pattern in “C” to “D”.

Be careful when apply-

ing “Key” to the

AccDrums track. Trans-

posing all notes of this

track leads to dra-

matic changes.

From Note 0 C-~127 G9 This parameter allows

you to set the note (or

lower limit of the note

range) to be modified

within the specified

“From”/“To” time

range.

To Note 0 C-~127 G9 This parameter allows

you to set the upper

limit of the note range

to be modified within

the specified “From”/

“To” time range.

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