Platinum carillon specification

Our Best Digital Carillon

A MIDI based digital carillon system. The Platinum carillon offers the highest quality sound of all our electronic carillons.

You may be interested in the Platinum Carillon if you

• Desire high quality bell reproduction
• Need a unique bell ringing voice
• Want to play from a keyboard or add custom bell music to the system

Also see Millennium carillon

Distinguishing Features

• Made in USA
• No Moving Parts
• Ten Year Warranty
• "Set it and forget it" ease of use
• Management Suite ready - free download
• MIDI input (input connection for modern organs and keyboards)
• Recording capability
  • Single selection record on all systems
  • Optional recording librarian for saving and using 2000 additional selections
• Bell voicing included (variety of musical bell timbres)
  • bells tuned to A-440, can be custom tuned (to pipe organs, for example)
  • English tuned cast bronze bells
    • Full five-octave carillon
    • Two-octave chime
  • Flemish tuned cast bronze bells
    • Full five-octave carillon
    • Two-octave chime
  • Concert Chime (two-octave tubular orchestral bells)
  • Welsh Chime (two-octave tubular tower bells)
  • Millennium Chime (two-octave classic electric semantra)
  • Concert Harp bells (five-octave metalophone)
  • Millennium Harp bells (five-octave celesta sound)
    • Combine with either chime or chimes can ring solo
• Pre-recorded music arrangement options (huge library with a variety of styles)
  • Seasonal playlists, tempo and transposition adjustments can be made using Management Suite Premium
  • Chime and Harp, Chime without Harp and Five-octave Carillon arrangements
• Authentic swinging bells and peals with the most natural manual stop function available
  • Peals with more combinations of bells and flexible timing than other products
• Funeral tolls, Angelus and DeProfundis bells
• Multiple time strike melodies (available melodies vary with firmware/library release dates)
• Taps on bugle can be combined with a 21-gun salute
• High definition audio quality
  • 24bits at 48Khz digital mixer output
  • 16-bit linear sample storage
  • up to 64 bells can sound simultaneously
• Rack Mountable
• Built-in monitor speaker and 1W amplifier

Options

• inSpire Edition full-range output (removal of horn protect filter)
• Optional walnut or oak cabinet
• System rack for carillon and amplifiers
• Built-in 60W monitor amplifier (omit Switched AC Receptacle)
• User SD cardslot for MP3 files
• Tower clock driver and interface box (-D option)
  

Control for minute impulse tower clock movements. The clock setting menu changes to ask for the 'hands' position and also will display an error if the clock is not powered.

• Tower bells driver and interface box (-T option)
  

The Millennium carillon can control from one bell to a five-octave tower bell carillon. Single bell controls also allow mixing the electronic clock chime melody with tolling on the tower bell. Music on tower bells replaces the Flemish bell electronic voice.

• Choice of music library
• Choice of Easter almanac dates - Eastern Orthodox or Western Standard (at time of order)

Connections

• Power
  • 120 VAC 50-60 Hz
  • Optional 240 VAC 50-60 Hz
• Audio
  • Tower Line Output (Quarter Inch - Unbalanced)
  • Tower Control (Din-4 - balanced line output and amplifier control signal)
  • PA Output (Quarter Inch - Unbalanced)
• Data
  • MIDI Keyboard Input
  • USB Computer Interface
  • Tower Accessory Interface
    • Supports Chime Master Clock Drive
    • Supports Chime Master Tower Bell Relays (up to six ringing channels)
  • Remote Control (proprietary serial interface)
• Optional Switched AC Receptacle for Tower Amplifier

Physical

• Rack Mount Dimensions
  • Height is 5-1/4 inches (3U rackspace)
  • Width is 19 inches
  • Depth is 15-3/4 (allow 17 inches for cabling)
• Optional wood cabinet Dimensions
  • 7-1/2 H x 20-1/2 W x 16-3/4 D
• Weight
  • No options: 20 lb.
  • Oak cabinet +14 lb.
  • Walnut cabinet +13 lb.
  • Monitor amplifier +4 lb.
  • MP3 cardslot +1 lb.