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[[File:PAXClockWiki.jpg|400px|frameless|right|Platinum Advanced eXperience<sup>™</sup>]] | [[File:PAXClockWiki.jpg|400px|frameless|right|Platinum Advanced eXperience<sup>™</sup>]] | ||
'''[https://www.chimemaster.com/audition-platinum-ax Listen to the Platinum AX] | |||
== Features == | == Features == | ||
* Color touch screen | * Color touch screen | ||
* Two 15 Watt front facing monitor speakers (stereo) | * Two 15 Watt front facing monitor speakers (stereo) | ||
* Aircraft aluminum chassis | |||
* Solid cherry face plate | * Solid cherry face plate | ||
* Easy remote control with tablet or phone | * Easy remote control with tablet or phone | ||
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** Secure authentication connects you to the system anywhere you have Internet | ** Secure authentication connects you to the system anywhere you have Internet | ||
** Local short-range remote options are also available | ** Local short-range remote options are also available | ||
*Manage remotely using [[Chime Center]]™ | * Manage remotely using [[Chime.Center]]™ | ||
** | ** Includes one year free access to Premium [[Chime.Center]],™ then optional annual subscription | ||
* Enhanced SmartAlmanac™ | * Enhanced SmartAlmanac™ | ||
** Follows the almanac calendar and plays music appropriate to the season automatically | ** 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 | ** 80-year Eastern/Western Roman/Orthodox calendars with all movable feasts and seasons | ||
** Add/remove seasons and assign appropriate music with Chime Center | ** Add/remove seasons and assign appropriate music with Chime.Center | ||
* Flexible clock ringing | * Flexible clock ringing | ||
** keep time with customizable hour striking | ** keep time with customizable hour striking | ||
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* Automatic daylight time correction | * Automatic daylight time correction | ||
== | == Instrumentation == | ||
==== Cast bronze carillon instruments ==== | ==== Cast bronze carillon instruments ==== | ||
All carillon instruments feature 73 bells (six full octaves) each, starting on C2 | All carillon instruments feature 73 bells (six full octaves) each, starting on C2 | ||
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* St. Louis bells, 23 bells, C3 | * St. Louis bells, 23 bells, C3 | ||
== Library == | |||
=== | === Bell Music === | ||
[[Media:Chime Center - Library Platinum & Millennium 220426.pdf|Platinum AX Music List (PDF)]]<br /> | |||
Our beautiful and expansive musical library has been performed by [[Music_staff|experienced church musicians]]. | |||
Each song is available in up to five styles of arrangements: | Each song is available in up to five styles of arrangements: | ||
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* Two-Part - melody on chime or carillon accompanied by an harp bell instrument | * Two-Part - melody on chime or carillon accompanied by an harp bell instrument | ||
You can assign each arrangement style to its own bell instrument. Enable only your favorite arrangement style to create your own unique sound. | You can assign each arrangement style to its own bell instrument. Enable only your favorite arrangement style to create your own unique sound. | ||
==== Audio recordings ==== | |||
* Memorial selections on bagpipe, including Amazing Grace | |||
* Military selections on bugle, including Taps | |||
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. | ==== User recordings ==== | ||
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. | |||
=== Ringing === | |||
[[Media:PAX MAX Ringing and Special Functions Sheet.pdf|Platinum AX Ringing List (PDF)]]<br /> | |||
More than 300 liturgical ringing functions make use of large bells | More than 300 liturgical ringing functions make use of large bells | ||
* Time strikes with or without chime melody | * Time strikes with or without a preceding chime melody | ||
** Westminster | * Included chime melodies: | ||
** | ** Westminster | ||
** Avondale | |||
** Bigelow | |||
** Christus Vincit | |||
** Let All Things Now Living | |||
** Lourdes | |||
** Parsifal | |||
** Praise Peal (Grosser Gott) | |||
** St. Michael’s | |||
** Warren | |||
** We Shall Overcome | |||
** Whittington | |||
* Tolling bells for memorials | * Tolling bells for memorials | ||
** Quick toll function with bell select, tempo and count/duration option | ** Quick toll function with bell select, tempo and count/duration option | ||
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* Peals of multiple bells for festive occasions | * Peals of multiple bells for festive occasions | ||
* Angelus and prayer bells | * Angelus and prayer bells | ||
'''Premium Chime.Center subscribers''' will find Custom Ringing on Chime.Center's Music menu. You can use this screen to customize existing factory supplied ringing or create your own. | |||
* Combine swinging bells into custom peals | |||
* Make a permanent toll button with its own bell, tempo and duration options | |||
* Create custom time strike melodies | |||
=== | === Library Upgrades === | ||
One add-on bundle is included in purchase price. Additional bundles can be purchased when you contact our office. Licensed, copyrighted music, designated with a star (☆), can only be used in the US. With an internet connection, the Platinum AX library can be expanded with these add-on bundles: | |||
* | * ☆ '''In Memoriam''' [[Media:AAC00-inmemoriam.pdf|PDF listing]] | ||
* ☆ '''Copyrighted Catholic''' [[Media:AAC02-catholic.pdf|PDF listing]] | |||
* ☆ ''' Modern Hymns ''' [[Media:AAC01-modernhymns.pdf|PDF listing]] | |||
* ☆ '''Christmas Memories''' [[Media:AAC04-christmasmemorie.pdf|PDF listing]] | |||
* '''Maronite''' [[Media:AAAMR-maronite.pdf|PDF listing]] | |||
* '''Byzantine''' [[Media:AABYZ-Byzantine.pdf|PDF listing]] | |||
* '''Greek''' [[Media:AAGRKAMR-Greek.pdf|PDF listing]] | |||
* ''' Polish''' [[Media:AAPOL-Polish.pdf|PDF listing]] | |||
* others to be announced | |||
==== | == Specification == | ||
=== High Definition Bell Instrumentation === | |||
A generous variety (over 900 and growing) of the most realistic bells provide your distinctive voice in the community. | |||
* | * All musical bell instruments can be played from the keyboard | ||
* | * Select preferred arrangements and instruments for almanac selected music | ||
* | * Cast bronze bells from different regions have distinctive timbres resulting from different foundry profile patterns | ||
* | * High Definition Advanced eXperience specifications | ||
* | ** Original recordings are either 48k/24 or 5.6MHz DSD and stored on the system as at least 48k 24-bit PCM | ||
** Bell samples are stored and played in their entirety without looping (large bells may take more than two minutes to ring and decay completely) | |||
** Dynamic Headroom - up to 18 carillon bells can be struck simultaneously before distortion (velocity = 100) | |||
** Polyphony - there is no limit to the number of bells that can be decaying together | |||
=== Connections === | === Connections === | ||
[[Rear_panel_AX#Platinum|Rear panel view]] | |||
* MIDI keyboard support | * MIDI keyboard support | ||
** Keyboard performance recording | ** Keyboard performance recording | ||