Millennium AX Carillon

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.

Instruments

284 High Definition bells (largest bell)

  • 63 Five-octave carillon (Bb2-C8)
  • 27 Three-octave Orchestral chime - (F2-F5) ????
  • 27 Three-octave Millennium electro-mechanical chime (F2-F5) ????
  • 61 Five-octave Concert harp bells - (C2-C7)
  • 61 Five-octave Millennium harp bells - (C2-C7)
  • 20 swinging bells - (C3-G4)
  • 25 tolling bells - (C3-C5)

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 voices
  • Three-octave carillon: harmonized carillon arrangements
  • Five-octave carillon: embellished carillon arrangements
  • 2-Part: Harp accompaniment for melody on either chime or carillon
Purchase more music
One add-on bundle included in purchase price
The library can be expanded with Chime.Center add-on bundles:
  • In Memoriam (licensed copyrighted music)
  • Inspirational Music (licensed copyrighted music)
  • Ethnic libraries such as Spanish, Greek, Polish, Ukrainian and others
  • others to be announced
Ringing

Ringing for every occasion

  • Time strikes with or without Westminster chime
  • Tolling bells for memorials
  • De Profundis curfew toll
  • 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

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
  • 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 for 2022 model year shipments beginning July 2021. Subject to change.