Millennium carillon specification

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Description

The Chime Master Millennium is a MIDI based digital carillon system. In addition to its keyboard performance capability music style options, the Millennium carillon offers higher quality sound for a reasonable price.

Millennium carillon distinguishing features

  • High quality bell reproduction
  • Play from a keyboard or add custom bell music to the system
  • Generally adequate choice of bell voicing (more available with the Platinum carillon)

Voicing

Musical bells:
English-Tuned Cast Bronze Carillon (61 bells)
English-Tuned Chime (27 bells)
Concert Tubular Orchestral Chime (27 bells)
Concert Harp Bells (61 bells)

Bugles:

  • Taps with and without 21-gun salute

Features

  • Made in Ohio, USA
  • No Moving Parts
  • Seven Year Chime Care Warranty
  • "Set it and forget it" ease of use
  • Premium Management Suite software
    • PC compatible
    • Mobile remote app support (Apple and Android)
      • Administer remote user names and passwords
      • Set user access times and functions
      • Customize remote functionality
    • Graphical weekly schedule editing
    • Custom seasonal playlists
    • Annual and special event scheduling
    • Tempo adjustments
    • Transposition adjustments
    • Special concert Jukebox
    • Backup
      • System settings
      • Schedules
      • Recorded music library
  • Chime Master exclusive SmartAlmanac™ for automatic liturgical season changes through 2099 AD
  • Automatic Daylight time switching
  • Music library of over 1700 selections
    • Full five-octave carillon arrangements
    • Split keyboard harp bells with chime arrangements
    • Solo chime without accompaniment arrangements
  • MIDI input (input connection for modern organs and keyboards)
    • Live bell performances
    • Bells can be tuned to organ pipes
    • MIDI keyboard recording capability
    • Recording librarian can save 2000 additional music selections from keyboard or MIDI file import
  • 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
  • Selectable time strike melodies
    • Westminster (5-bell)
    • Westminster (4-bell)
    • Whittington
    • St. Michaels
    • Christus Vincit
    • Lourdes (Immaculate Mary)
    • Praise (Holy God We Praise Thy Name)
    • Warren
    • Bigelow
    • Parsifal
    • Avondale (Ding-Dong)
    • Nautical (authentic Ship's Time)
    • User (record or import your own with Record Librarian)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
    • Millennium carillon can control from one to six tower bells
    • Combine electronic clock chime melody with tolling on the tower bell
  • Choice of music library - Catholic, Protestant, General or All
  • 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 (supports Management Suite)
    • 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.