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1. Using the Unit Safely ........................................ 4
2. Important Notes ............................................ 6
3. Look at What y ou Can Do! ................................... 8
4. Panel Description ..........................................14
Left Fr ont Panel .............................................14
Right Fron t Panel ............................................15
Rear Panel ..................................................17
5. Shortcut List ...............................................18
6. Before Y ou Start Using BK-9 ................................20
Connecting the AC Adaptor .................................20
Ground T erminal ..............................................20
Connecting External Audio Equipment ......................20
Listening Through Headphones .............................21
Connecting a Microphone ...................................21
Connecting an Optional Vocal P erformer ( VE-5, VE-20) ........22
Connecting a MIDI Device ...................................22
Connecting Optional Pedals .................................22
Connecting the BK-9 to Y our Comput er ......................23
Connecting the BK-9 to Y our iP ad ............................23
Connecting a T elevision Set ..................................23
Installing the Music Rest .....................................24
Placing the BK-9 on the Stand ...............................24
T urning the Po wer On/O ...................................24
T urning the Po wer On ........................................24
T urning the Po wer O ........................................25
Demo of the BK-9 ...........................................25
7. Basic Operation of the BK-9 ................................26
About the Displays and Cursor Oper ation ....................26
Selecting the Display to Operate on It ........................26
Main Page ....................................................26
Browsing W indows and Setting P arameter V alues ............26
How to type a name in BK-9 ..................................27
Using the ‘Help ’ function ......................................27
8. Playing the BK -9’ s Real- Time P arts .......................... 28
Selecting Piano and Organ Mode Easily ......................28
Selecting T ones and Playing the Keyboard ...................28
About SuperNA TURAL Sounds ..............................29
Using the Harmonic Bars ....................................29
What is SuperNA TURAL? .........................29
What is Behavior Modeling T echnology? .........29
Using the Registration Memories .............................30
Setting Example of Harmonic Bars ............................31
Hard Rock .......................................31
Pop .............................................31
Prog ressive Rock ................................31
Jazz .............................................31
Rock ............................................31
Blue .............................................31
Pipe Organ ......................................31
Jazz (manual bass) ...............................31
Organ eects .................................................32
Play Dier ent V oices with the Left and Right Hands (Split) ....32
Using the ‘Numeric’ func tion to Select T ones, Rhythms and
Performances ...............................................33
Setting the V olume of the R eal- Time Parts or Rhythm Parts
(Mixer) ......................................................33
Sound Eects for the real-time parts .........................34
9. F av orite T ones .............................................35
Recalling a F avorite T one ....................................35
Creating the List of F avorite T ones ...........................35
10. Playing with Aut omatic Acc ompaniments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
About the Rhythms .........................................36
Structure of the Rhythm Accompanimen ts ...................36
Using Rhythms ..............................................36
[ST ART/STOP] / [ */, ] ......................................... 36
[SYNC ST ART ] / [ + ] ........................................ 36
V ARIA TION [1], [2], [3], [4] ..................................... 37
[INTRO] / [ ' ] ................................................ 37
[ENDING] / [ & ] ............................................... 37
[BASS INV ] .................................................... 37
[A UTO FILL IN] ................................................ 38
Selecting Rhythms ..........................................38
Playing Back Rhythms .......................................38
11. One T ouch Memories: Wh y using them? ................... 41
Select a ‘ One T ouch’ .........................................41
Deselect ‘One T ouch’ .........................................41
How Can Y ou T ell Whether the ONE TOUCH F unction is On
or O? ......................................................42
Prog ramming Y our Own ONE T OUCH Settings (One T ouch
Edit) ........................................................42
What a One T ouch memor y saves .............................43
12. Using the BK-9 as a USB pla yer ............................44
Getting Ready to Use the BK-9 as a USB Pla yer ................44
File types the BK -9 can read and play back ....................44
Selecting a Song or R hythm on a USB Memory ...............44
Caution when Playing Back A udio Files ....44
Playing Back a Song or Rhythm from a USB Memory ..........45
Activating the ‘Play All Songs’ parameter for the USB memory 45
Activating the ‘Play All Songs’ function ........................ 45
Deactivating the ‘Play All Songs’ func tion ..................... 46
Using ‘ T rack Mute ’ and ‘C enter Cancel’ ........................46
Selecting the T rack(s) to Mute for Rhythms or SMF Songs .....46
Activating the L yrics .........................................47
Using the “Mark & Jump” function (only for SMF) .............48
Creating “Mark ” locations .....................................48
Saving the Song with the “Mark ” locations inside .............49
Play using the “Mar k” location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
13. Operations on USB Memory ...............................50
Changing the Name of a F ile or Folder (Rename) .............50
Deleting a File or F older (Delete) .............................50
Using the ‘Search ’ Function to L ocate Songs or Rhythms ......50
14. Other impor tant functions ................................52
T ransposing to a Dier ent Key ...............................52
Changing the Octave ........................................52
Using the ‘Melody Intell(igent)’ Function .....................52
Assign Switches [S1], [S2], [S3], [S4] ..........................53
How to Assign a F unc tion .....................................53
How to Recall the Assigned F unctions ........................53
Using the Assign Swit ches with SuperNA TURAL T ones. .......53
Using the D-BEAM Controller ................................53
Using the Metronome .......................................55
Metronome Settings .......................................... 55
15. Performance Lists ........................................57
Performance/Music Assistant/F ac tory Songs Info .............57
Loading a P erformance/‘Music Assistant’/‘Factory Songs’ List .57
Recalling a Performance/‘Music Assistant’/‘F actory S ongs’
memory ....................................................57
Quickly Locating Performance Memories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Recall Performance Memories by [NUMERIC] button .........58
Recall Performance Memories by [F A VORITE] button .........58
Saving your Settings as a P er formance .......................59
Other Performance List Functions ............................59
Rename a Performance List ................................... 59
Delete a Performance List .....................................60
Create a New P erformance List ............................... 60
Impor ting User P rogram Sets created f or previous Roland
backing instruments .......................................... 60
Editing Performance Memories ..............................61
Delete a Performance memory ............................... 61
Move a P er formance ..........................................61