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C onten ts
1. Using the Unit Safely ........................................ 4
2. Important Notes ............................................ 6
3. Look at What you Can Do! ................................... 7
4. Panel Description ..........................................10
Left Fr ont P anel .............................................10
Right Fron t Panel ............................................11
Rear Panel ..................................................12
5. Shortcut List ...............................................13
6. Before Y ou Star t Using BK -3 ................................14
Connecting the AC Adaptor .................................14
Connecting Headphones and External Audio Equipment .....14
Connecting a MIDI Device ...................................15
Connecting the BK-3 to Y our Computer ......................15
Connecting an Optional Footswit ch or Hold Pedal ............15
Installing the Music Rest .....................................16
T urning the P ower On/O ...................................16
T urning the P ower On .................................16
T urning the P ower O .................................16
Adjusting the Sound V olume ................................17
V olume balance between the backing and the real-time parts 17
Demo of the BK-3 ...........................................17
7. Basic Operation of the BK-3 ................................18
About the Display and Cursor Opera tion .....................18
Main page ............................................18
Moving Between Windows and Setting P arameter Values 18
8. Playing the BK -3’ s Real- Time Parts ..........................19
Selecting T ones and Playing the Keyboar d (Upper Part) .......19
Selecting T ones and Play Tw o V oices Simultaneously (Dual) ...19
Play Dier ent V oices with the Left and Right Hands (Split) ....19
Using the ‘Numeric’ function to Selec t T ones, Rhythms and
Performances ...............................................20
Setting the volume of the real-time parts (Upper and Lower) .20
Recalling a F avorite T one ....................................21
Viewing the List of F avorite T ones ...........................21
Creating the List of F avorite T ones ...........................21
9. F avorite T ones ............................................. 21
10. Playing with Aut omatic Acc ompaniments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
About the Rhythms .........................................22
Structure of the Rhythm Accompanimen ts ...................22
Using Rhythms ..............................................22
[ST ART/STOP] / [ * /, ] ..................................22
[SYNC ST ART ] / [ + ] ................................. 22
V ARIA TION [1], [2], [3], [4] ..............................23
[INTRO] / [ ' ] .........................................23
[ENDING] / [ & ] .......................................23
[BASS INV ] ............................................23
[A UT O FILL IN] .........................................24
Selecting Rhythms ..........................................24
Playing Back Rhythms .......................................24
11. One T ouch Memories: W hy using them? ...................26
Select a ‘ One T ouch’ .........................................26
Deselect ‘One T ouch’ .........................................26
How Can Y ou T ell Whether the ONE T OUCH F unction is On
or O? ......................................................26
Prog ramming Y our Own ONE TOUCH Settings ( One T ouch
Edit) ........................................................27
What a One T ouch memory saves ......................27
12. Using the BK-3 as a USB pla yer ............................28
Getting Ready to Use the BK-3 as a USB Pla yer ................28
File types the BK -3 can read and play back .............28
Selecting a Song or R hythm on a USB Memory ...............28
Playing Back a Song or Rhythm from a USB Memory ..........28
Activating the ‘Play All Songs ’ parameter for the USB memory 29
Activating the ‘Play All Songs ’ function .................29
Deactivating the ‘Play All Songs’ func tion ...............30
Loop function (MARK A/B) ...................................30
Setting and using the loop positions ...................30
Using ‘ T rack Mute ’ and ‘C enter Canc el’ ........................30
Selecting the T rack(s) to Mute for Rhythms or SMF Songs .....31
Changing the Name of a F ile or Folder .......................32
Deleting a File or F older .....................................32
Using the ‘Search ’ F unction to Locat e Songs or Rhythms ......32
13. Operations on USB Memory ...............................32
14. Other impor tant functions ................................34
T ransposing to a Di erent Key ...............................34
Changing the Octave ........................................34
Using the ‘Melody Intell(igent)’ F unction .....................34
Using the Metronome .......................................35
Metronome Settings ..................................35
15. Performance Lists ........................................36
Performance/Music Assistant/F ac tory Songs I nfo .............36
Loading a P erformance/‘Music Assistant’/‘Factory Songs’ List .36
Recalling a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘F actory Songs’
memory ....................................................36
Quickly Locating Performance Memories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Saving your Settings as a P erformance .......................37
Other Performance List Functions ............................37
Rename a Performance List ............................38
Delete a Performance List .............................38
Create a New P erformance List .........................38
Editing Performance Memories ..............................38
Delete a Performance memory ........................38
Move a P erformance ..................................39
Saving the edited P erformance List ....................39
Filt ering Performance Memories Settings (Lock function) .....39
Why is it Con venient to U se Filt ers (Lock F unction)? .....39
Which Par ameter Can you F ilter? .......................39
How to Switch F ilters On/O Directly by Panel ..........39
16. Recording your performance as audio data ................41
Recording ...................................................41
Listening to your r ecording ..................................42
17. Menu options ............................................43
General procedure ..........................................43
Internal Lyrics ...............................................43
‘Performance Edit’ parameters ...............................43
‘ T one Part V iew’ parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
T one ..........................................43
V olume .......................................44
Reverb Send ..................................44
Chorus Send ..................................44
Panpot .......................................44
Key T ouch (velocity sensitivity) ................44
Eq Part Edit ...................................44
Mfx ...........................................45
Hold Pedal ....................................45
Octave Shift ..................................45
Coarse T une ..................................45
Fine T une .....................................45
Portamento Mode ............................45
Portamento Time .............................45
Bender Assign ................................45
Bender Range ................................45
Modulation Assign ............................45
Cut O .......................................45
Resonance ....................................46
Attack (only for T ones) ........................46
Decay ........................................46
Release .......................................46
Vibrato Rate ..................................46