Roland BK-5 Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 9)

Backing Keyboard BK-5

Contents

1. Important notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2. Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

3. Panel description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

4. Shortcut list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Changing the octave in just one touch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

5. Before you start using the BK-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting the AC adaptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Connecting the BK-5 to an amplifier, mixer, etc. . . . 17

Connecting a MIDI device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Connecting the BK-5 to your computer. . . . . . . . . . . 18

If the computer doesn’t ‘see’ the BK-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

6. Basic operation of the BK-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .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’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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

8. Favorite Tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Recalling a Favorite Tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Compiling your own Favorite tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

9. Rhythm functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Volume balance between the backing and the real-

time parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

About the rhythms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using rhythms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Selecting rhythms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Playing back rhythms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using the ‘One Touch’ function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Programming your own ONE TOUCH settings

(One Touch Edit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

10. Using the BK-5 as a USB player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Getting ready to use the BK-5 as a USB player . . . . 37

File types the BK-5 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 or 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

11. 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 and other aspects of

the real-time parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Adjusting the volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Adjusting the reverb send, chorus send and pan

settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Leaving the Part Mixer page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

12. 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

Direct selection of the required Performance memory. 49

‘Speed-dial’ Performance memory selection . . . . . . . . . 49

Saving your settings as a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Other Performance List functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

If you select ‘Rename’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

If you select ‘Delete’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

If you select ‘Make New List’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Editing Performance memories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Delete Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Move Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Rename Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Copy Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Saving the edited Performance List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

13. Adding pictures to the music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Displaying photos automatically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Enjoying a VIMA TUNES slide show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Enjoying a slide show of your own pictures . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using one of your own pictures as background. . . . 57

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