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Features

• Color touch screen
• One 15 Watt front-facing monitor speaker
• Easy remote control with tablet or phone
  • Scan an onscreen QR image with your device's camera for instant remote app installation
  • Secure authentication connects you to the system anywhere you have Internet
  • Local short-range remote options are also available
• One year Managed Subscription to access Chime Center™
• Enhanced SmartAlmanac™
  • Follows the almanac calendar and plays music appropriate to the season automatically
  • 80-year Eastern/Western Roman/Orthodox calendars with all movable feasts and seasons
  • Add/remove seasons and assign appropriate music with Chime Center
• Flexible clock ringing
  • keep time with customizable hour striking
  • options for quarter hours
  • Hour strike with or without melody
  • Westminster (or customer recorded) chime melody
• Liturgical ringing
  • Peals, Tolls, Swinging, and Angelus bells to meet your congregation’s needs for Weddings, Funerals, Worship, Mass and Prayer.
• Super-capacitor clock backup never needs replacing
• Automatic daylight time correction

Instrumentation and Library

Standard Equalized Audio

• Compatible with legacy, Value and Outreach audio systems
• Horn driver protection

Instruments

150 Equalized bells (largest bell)

• 30-bell tubular chime (F3)
• Three-octave carillon (F3)
• Four-octave harp bells (F2)
• 17 swinging bells (F3)
• 17 tolling bells (F3)

Library

Bell Music

Thousands of musical titles in three selectable musical arrangement styles. Enable your favorite arrangement style to create your own sound or mix them for more variety.

• Melody only chime
• Three-octave carillon
• Harp accompaniment for melody on either chime or carillon

Ringing

More than 70 ringing functions

• Time strikes with or without Westminster chime
• Tolling bells for memorials
• Swinging bells for times of Worship and Mass
• Peals of multiple bells for festive occasions
• Angelus and prayer bells

Audio recordings

• Amazing Grace on bagpipes
• Taps on Bugle

Optional inSpire Audio

Optional inSpire™ full fidelity sound upgrade only available with a Chime Master inSpire audio package

• High fidelity speaker options and DSP crossover amplification
• Very large bells with sonority in the bass region are included with the upgrade

Instruments

339 High Definition bells (largest bell)

• Six-octave carillon (C2)
• Three-octave Orchestral chime (C2)
• Three-octave Millennium electro-mechanical chime (C2)
• Five-octave Concert harp bells - vibraharp (C2)
• Five-octave Millennium harp bells - (C2)
• 35 swinging bells (C2)
• 35 tolling bells (C2)

Library

Bell Music

• Thousands of musical titles in five selectable musical arrangement styles. Enable your favorite arrangement style to create your own sound or mix them for more variety
  • Melody only for chime or carillon
  • Simple melody with occasional harmony notes
  • Three-octave carillon
  • Five-octave carillon
  • Harp accompaniment for melody on either chime or carillon

Ringing

• • More than 300 liturgical ringing functions

Audio recordings

• Memorial selections on bagpipe, including Amazing Grace
• Military selections on bugle, including Taps

Installable library upgrades

The library can be expanded with Chime Center add-on volumes:

• Inspirational Music (including copyrighted)
• Memorial Music (including US Military and other copyrighted Patriotic)
• Contemporary Hymns
• Ethnic libraries such as Spanish, Greek, Polish, Ukrainian and others
• others to be announced

Specification

Connections

• MIDI keyboard support
  • Single MIDI channel support (carillon or split on one keyboard)
  • Standard MIDI jack on rear panel
  • USB connection will accept a USB MIDI keyboard
  • Available keyboard options
    • American Guild of Organists (AGO) standard Touch responsive dedicated carillon keyboard
    • World Carillon Federation (WCF) standard Touch responsive carillon style keyboard
• Professional balanced audio outputs (one inside and one outside)
• Amplifier control for Chime Master audio systems
• Wired Ethernet network interface (optional WiFi available separately)
• Optional outside tower bell and clock interfaces

Physical

• Handsome cabinet for tabletop use
• Available rack mounting brackets
• 16.5 W x 5.25 H x 8 D (inch)
• 9 lb.

This specification is preliminary and subject to change.