Millennium AX

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Chime Master AX Model Comparison
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Features

• Color touch screen
• One 15 Watt front-facing monitor speaker
• Solid maple face plate
• Easy remote control using your tablet or phone
  • Scan an front screen 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
  • Each user can have a their own custom remote control menu (and front panel screen)
• Manage scheduling and preferences remotely using the Chime.Center™ web portal
• 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
  • Premium Chime.Center feature: Schedule seasonal event times
• Flexible clock ringing
  • Keep time with customizable hour striking
  • Options to select 1, 2 or all four quarters
  • Hour strike with or without melody
  • Westminster (or customized) chime melody
    • Record or upload chime melodies
    • Premium Chime.Center feature: Create a custom ringing pattern for chime melody
• Liturgical ringing
  • Peals, Tolls, Swinging, and Angelus bells to meet your congregation’s needs for Weddings, Funerals, Worship, Mass and Prayer.
  • Premium Chime.Center ringing editor:
    • Create custom ringing patterns for prayer bells
    • Create custom tolling functions, select bell, select tempo, select duration
    • Create custom swinging functions, select up to nine bells and choose the duration
• Advanced clock
  • Clock backup power source never needs replacing
  • Internet clock synchronization
  • Automatic daylight time correction

Instrumentation and Library

You can expand your library using a MIDI keyboard or compatible organ to add your own custom recordings. Chime Center also supports MIDI file loading so you can make your own arrangements using notation software such as Sibelius or Finale.

Standard Equalized Audio

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

Instruments

152 Equalized bells (largest bell)

• Listen to the standard musical voices
• 30-bell tubular chime (F3)
• Three-octave carillon (F3)
• Four-octave harp bells (F2)
• 18 swinging bells (F3)
• 18 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
  • Quick toll function with bell select, tempo and count/duration option
• 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

326 High Definition bells (largest bell)

• Listen to the inSpire musical voices
• Five-octave carillon (C3)
• 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
• Three-octave carillon
• Five-octave carillon
• Harp accompaniment for melody on either chime or carillon

Ringing

More than 300 liturgical ringing functions make use of large bells

• Time strikes with or without Westminster chime
• Tolling bells for memorials
• De Profundis toll on G2 bell
• Quick toll function with bell select, tempo and count/duration option
• Swinging bells for times of Worship and Mass
• Peals of multiple bells for festive occasions
• Angelus and prayer bells

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
The number of titles/tunes for each volume are given in parenthesis.

• In Memoriam (US Military and oft-requested memorial music)
• Inspirational Music
• Contemporary Hymns
• Ethnic libraries such as Spanish, Greek, Polish, Ukrainian and others
• more to be announced

Specification

Connections

• MIDI keyboard support
  • Keyboard performance recording
  • Standard MIDI jack on rear panel
    • Single MIDI channel support (carillon or split on one keyboard)
  • 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.