Document Outline

• Important notes
• Features
• Contents
• Panel description
  • Front panel
  • Rear panel
• Shortcut list
• Before you start using the BK5
  • Connecting the AC adaptor
  • Connecting the BK5 to an amplifier, mixer, etc.
  • Connecting a MIDI device
  • Connecting the BK5 to your computer
    • If the computer doesn’t ‘see’ the BK5
  • 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
    • Turning the power on
    • Turning the power off
    • Energy saving function
  • Demo of the BK5
• Basic operation of the BK5
  • About the display and cursor operation
    • Main page
    • Moving the cursor and setting parameter values
    • Moving between windows
• Playing the BK5’s real-time parts
  • Switching the UP2 and LWR parts on and off
  • Selecting Tones for the real-time parts
    • Using the [UP2] or [LWR] button to select Tones
    • Selecting a Tone on the main page
    • Using the ‘Numeric’ function to select Tones, Rhythms and Performances
    • Checking a Tone’s or rhythm’s MIDI address
  • 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 the BK5 as a USB player
  • Getting ready to use the BK5 as a USB player
    • File types the BK5 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
    • If you select ‘Rename’
    • If you select ‘Delete’
    • If you select ‘Make New List’
  • 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
    • ‘Tone Part View’ parameters
      • Tone
      • Volume
      • Reverb Send
      • Chorus Send
      • Panpot
      • Key Touch (velocity sensitivity)
      • Eq Part Edit
      • Mfx
      • Expression Pedal
      • Pedal Exp Down/Up
      • Hold Pedal
      • Octave Shift
      • Coarse Tune
      • Fine Tune
      • Portamento Mode
      • Portamento Time
      • Bender Assign
      • Bender Range
      • Modulation Assign
      • Cut Off
      • Resonance
      • Attack (only for Tones)
      • Decay
      • Release
      • Vibrato Rate
      • Vibrato Depth
      • Vibrato Delay
      • C1
    • ‘Tone Part MFX’ parameters
      • Mfx Switch
      • Mfx Type
      • Mfx Edit
    • ‘Rhythm Parts’ parameters
      • Mute
      • Solo
      • Volume
      • Exp. Pedal
      • Exp. Pedal All Parts On
      • Exp. Pedal All Parts Off
    • Split
      • Split Point
      • Lower Hold
    • Key
      • Key
      • Mode
    • ‘Arranger Setting’ parameters
      • Arranger
      • Zone
      • Type
      • Arranger Hold
      • Tempo
      • Fill In Half Bar
      • Fill Ritardando
      • Tempo Change Accel/Ritard, CPT, Fill Rit
    • ‘Melody Intelligent’ parameters
      • Switch
      • Type
      • 2nd Tone
      • Intell Threshold
      • Level
      • Expression Pedal
      • Hold Pedal
    • Save As Default
  • ‘Global’ parameters
    • Display Contrast
    • Display Brightness
    • Tuning
    • Rhythm/SMF TrackMute
    • Scale Tune Switch
    • Scale Tune
    • One Touch Hold
    • Performance Hold
    • Metronome
    • Video Settings
    • Lyrics Settings
    • Utility
    • Pedal Switch
    • Language
    • Save Global
    • One Touch Edit
  • Mastering Tools
    • Compressor
      • Write User
    • Equalizer
      • Write User
  • Makeup Tools (rhythms and SMF)
    • Using the Makeup Tools
    • Common
    • Instrument
      • Tone (T), Drum (D)
      • Mute (T)/Drum Mute (D)
      • Solo
      • Perc Mute (D)
      • Volume
      • Reverb
      • Chorus
      • Panpot
      • Octave (T)
      • Velocity
      • Cut Off
      • Resonance
      • Attack (T)
      • Decay (T)
      • Release (T)
      • Vibrato Rate (T)
      • Vibrato Depth (T)
      • Vibrato Delay (T)
      • Mfx
      • Mfx Type
      • Mfx Edit
      • Equalizer
      • Edit EQ
      • Drum Instrument (D)
    • Freeze Data
    • Saving your new rhythm or song (SMF) version
  • Rhythm Composer (programming your own rhythms)
    • Clearing the RAM memory (Initialize Rhythm)
    • Getting ready for the first track
    • Recording a rhythm pattern
    • Auditioning your rhythm and adding more tracks
    • Saving your rhythm
    • Recording other tracks and divisions
    • Help function on the main Rhythm Composer page
    • Muting tracks while recording others
    • Solo
    • Rhythm Track Edit functions
  • Editing individual rhythm events (Micro Edit)
    • General procedure
    • Editing events
    • Other edit operations
  • MIDI parameters
    • Local
    • Loading a MIDI Set
    • Edit Rhythm Parts
      • Tx
      • Tx Ch
      • Tx Shift
      • Tx Local
      • Tx Event
      • Rx
      • Rx Ch
      • Rx Shift
      • Rx Limit Low/Limit High
      • Rx Event
    • Edit Tone Parts
      • Tx, Tx Ch, Tx Shift, Tx Local, Tx Event
      • Rx, Rx Ch, Rx Shift, Rx Limit Low/High, Rx Event
    • Edit Song Parts
      • Tx, Tx Ch, Tx Shift, Tx Local, Tx Event
      • Rx, Rx Ch, Rx Shift, Rx Limit Low/High, Rx Event
    • Edit System
    • Sync
      • Rhythm Start/Stop Tx
      • Rhythm Clock Tx
      • SMF Start/Stop Tx
      • SMF Clock Tx
      • SMF Position Tx
      • Sync Rx
      • Mode
    • Basic
      • Tx
      • Tx Channel
      • Performance PCTx
      • Part Switch Tx
      • Rx
      • Rx Channel
      • Performance PC Rx
      • Master Volume Rx
      • Part Switch Rx
    • Rhythm
      • Tx
      • Tx Channel
      • Rx
      • Rx Channel
      • Rhythm Volume Rx
      • Rhythm Pc Rx
    • NTA
      • Channel
      • Rx
      • Rx Octave
      • Rx Global Limit Low/High
    • Parameters
      • Part Switch
      • Tx Velocity
      • Tx SysEx
      • Tx Data Change
      • Octave Tx
      • Rx Velocity
      • Rx SySex
      • Rx Transpose
      • Soft Thru
    • Visual Control TxCh
    • Save MIDI Set
  • Factory Reset
  • Formatting a USB memory
• Visual Control function
  • Selecting clips and banks on an optional MIDI Visual Control/ VLINK device
• Troubleshooting
• Rhythm list
  • Rhythm division program change numbers
  • E-Series compatibility
  • Recalling a Performance memory from the loaded Performance List via MIDI
• Tone List
• Drum Sets
• Specifications
  • Style Converter 4 system requirements
• MIDI Implementation Chart
• Chord Intelligence
• Index