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Roland BK-3 Manual

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Contents
1. Using the Unit Safely ........................................ 4
2. Important Notes ............................................6
3. Look at What you Can Do! ...................................7
4. Panel Description ..........................................10
Left Front Panel .............................................10
Right Front Panel ............................................11
Rear Panel ..................................................12
5. Shortcut List ...............................................13
6. Before You Start 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 Your Computer ......................15
Connecting an Optional Footswitch or Hold Pedal ............15
Installing the Music Rest .....................................16
Turning the Power On/O ...................................16
Turning the Power On .................................16
Turning the Power O .................................16
Adjusting the Sound Volume ................................17
Volume 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 Operation .....................18
Main page ............................................18
Moving Between Windows and Setting Parameter Values 18
8. Playing the BK-3’s Real-Time Parts ..........................19
Selecting Tones and Playing the Keyboard (Upper Part) .......19
Selecting Tones and Play Two Voices Simultaneously (Dual) ...19
Play Dierent Voices with the Left and Right Hands (Split) ....19
Using the ‘Numeric’ function to Select Tones, Rhythms and
Performances ...............................................20
Setting the volume of the real-time parts (Upper and Lower) .20
Recalling a Favorite Tone ....................................21
Viewing the List of Favorite Tones ...........................21
Creating the List of Favorite Tones ...........................21
9. Favorite Tones .............................................21
10. Playing with Automatic Accompaniments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
About the Rhythms .........................................22
Structure of the Rhythm Accompaniments ...................22
Using Rhythms ..............................................22
[START/STOP] / [ */, ] ..................................22
[SYNC START] / [ + ] .................................22
VARIATION [1], [2], [3], [4] ..............................23
[INTRO] / [ ' ] .........................................23
[ENDING] / [ & ] .......................................23
[BASS INV] ............................................23
[AUTO FILL IN] .........................................24
Selecting Rhythms ..........................................24
Playing Back Rhythms .......................................24
11. One Touch Memories: Why using them? ...................26
Select a ‘One Touch’ .........................................26
Deselect ‘One Touch’ .........................................26
How Can You Tell Whether the ONE TOUCH Function is On
or O? ......................................................26
Programming Your Own ONE TOUCH Settings (One Touch
Edit) ........................................................27
What a One Touch memory saves ......................27
12. Using the BK-3 as a USB player ............................28
Getting Ready to Use the BK-3 as a USB Player ................28
File types the BK-3 can read and play back .............28
Selecting a Song or Rhythm 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’ function ...............30
Loop function (MARK A/B) ...................................30
Setting and using the loop positions ...................30
Using ‘Track Mute’ and ‘Center Cancel’ ........................30
Selecting the Track(s) to Mute for Rhythms or SMF Songs .....31
Changing the Name of a File or Folder .......................32
Deleting a File or Folder .....................................32
Using the ‘Search’ Function to Locate Songs or Rhythms ......32
13. Operations on USB Memory ...............................32
14. Other important functions ................................34
Transposing to a Dierent Key ...............................34
Changing the Octave ........................................34
Using the ‘Melody Intell(igent)’ Function .....................34
Using the Metronome .......................................35
Metronome Settings ..................................35
15. Performance Lists ........................................36
Performance/Music Assistant/Factory Songs Info .............36
Loading a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘Factory Songs’ List .36
Recalling a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘Factory Songs’
memory ....................................................36
Quickly Locating Performance Memories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Saving your Settings as a Performance .......................37
Other Performance List Functions ............................37
Rename a Performance List ............................38
Delete a Performance List .............................38
Create a New Performance List .........................38
Editing Performance Memories ..............................38
Delete a Performance memory ........................38
Move a Performance ..................................39
Saving the edited Performance List ....................39
Filtering Performance Memories Settings (Lock function) .....39
Why is it Convenient to Use Filters (Lock Function)? .....39
Which Parameter Can you Filter? .......................39
How to Switch Filters On/O Directly by Panel ..........39
16. Recording your performance as audio data ................41
Recording ...................................................41
Listening to your recording ..................................42
17. Menu options ............................................43
General procedure ..........................................43
Internal Lyrics ...............................................43
‘Performance Edit’ parameters ...............................43
‘Tone Part View’ parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Tone ..........................................43
Volume .......................................44
Reverb Send ..................................44
Chorus Send ..................................44
Panpot .......................................44
Key Touch (velocity sensitivity) ................44
Eq Part Edit ...................................44
Mfx ...........................................45
Hold Pedal ....................................45
Octave Shift ..................................45
Coarse Tune ..................................45
Fine Tune .....................................45
Portamento Mode ............................45
Portamento Time .............................45
Bender Assign ................................45
Bender Range ................................45
Modulation Assign ............................45
Cut O .......................................45
Resonance ....................................46
Attack (only for Tones) ........................46
Decay ........................................46
Release .......................................46
Vibrato Rate ..................................46
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