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=== HD-Bells™ Instrumentation === | === HD-Bells™ Instrumentation === | ||
A variety of the most realistic bell instruments allow you to have a distinctive voice in your community. | A generous variety of the most realistic bell instruments allow you to have a distinctive voice in your community. | ||
* All musical bell instruments can be played from the keyboard | * All musical bell instruments can be played from the keyboard | ||
* Select preferred arrangements and instruments for almanac selected music | * Select preferred arrangements and instruments for almanac selected music | ||
* Cast bronze bells from different regions have distinctive timbres resulting from different foundry profile patterns | * Cast bronze bells from different regions have distinctive timbres resulting from different foundry profile patterns | ||
* Dynamic Headroom - up to 18 carillon bells can be struck simultaneously before distortion (velocity = 100) | * High Definition Advanced eXperience specifications | ||
* Polyphony - there is no limit to the number of bells that can be decaying together | ** Original recordings are either 48k/24 or 5.6MHz DSD and stored on the system as 48k 24-bit PCM | ||
** Bell samples are stored and played in their entirety (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 | |||
==== Cast bronze carillon instruments ==== | ==== Cast bronze carillon instruments ==== | ||
All carillon instruments feature at least 73 bells (six full octaves) each | All carillon instruments feature at least 73 bells (six full octaves) each | ||
* English carillon - cast bronze carillon from | * English carillon - cast bronze carillon from an historic English foundry | ||
* Flemish carillon - cast bronze carillon from the Flemish region | * Flemish carillon - cast bronze carillon from the Flemish region | ||
* Savoie™ carillon - cast bronze carillon from the foothills of the Alps | * Savoie™ carillon - cast bronze carillon from the foothills of the Alps | ||