Millennium® Carillon Specifications
Recording Librarian now Standard Equipment
Perform and store 2000 average length selections. User recordings are permanently stored and cataloged in FLASH memory. You can use the free Millennium Suite Lite software to backup all of your recordings or move them to new equipment when you upgrade. The optional Millennium Suite supports remote control of the recording and librarian functions.
Clock Accuracy
The heart of the time clock is a temperature compensated crystal oscillator that is accurate to ±1 Min/Yr. (0°C to 40°C). Battery back up insures continuous time keeping. We offer two options to daily synchronize the clock to within 1 sec. Millennium Suite Lite (free download) can be set to keep the carillon corrected to Internet time. A GPS receiver/synchronizer is also available.
Circuit Protection
Optical isolation between all audio and control outputs and digital control circuits limits damage from electrical storms and power surges. Transient Voltage protection is designed in at strategic points throughout the circuitry.
Audio Resolution
The audio engine features High Definition, studio quality Digital to Analog conversion at 24 bits, 48 KHz. The bottom line: Better than CD quality, low distortion and noise, extreme dynamic range means no distortion when many bells ring together and no raspy sounding bell decay tails. Linear (non-lossy) storage of the bell samples provides the highest clarity available.
Polyphony
Polyphony is the number of simultaneous notes available for simultaneous playback. Higher numbers of available notes are better because when the total voices available are used up, a note that hasn't finished ringing has to be truncated in order for a new note to play. Other systems get by their limitations by only playing simple arrangements of two-octaves or less. The Millennium Carillon has 64 voice polyphony. All notes may sound simultaneously. None are truncated even with the fastest arpeggios used in five-octave arrangements.
Multitimbral
Multiple simultaneous bell voice capability allows bells to finish ringing when a new bell voice is selected – no notes are ever cut off. Tolling bells, which naturally take 30 seconds or more to decay, continue to hum naturally even if followed by a song.
Multisamples
In many digital carillons, distortions occur when the recording of a given-sized bell is sped up to mimic the sound of a smaller bell. The way we overcome this distortion with the Millennium Carillon is to record many sizes of bells. The bells are recorded and stored in a large sample memory so that the sound generation circuit does not have to stretch each note very far. The notes in the middle of the keyboard that are used the most are only stretched one or two semitones. This adds to the realism, because each recorded bell has its own character. Additional realism is achieved because the smaller bells retain their natural decay rate.
Electrical Connections
- MIDI compatible Keyboard Input
- Audio Line Output to Tower Amplifier
- Balanced Audio Line and Power Control to remotely located Tower Amplifier
- Audio Line Output to PA System Mixer
- USB Port for transferring music, schedule and setup data
- AC Power Input (Standby 15W)
- Data port for optional Tower Bell actuators/Clock Dial movements
- Optional 60W Audio Output for Inside/Organ Chime Speakers
- Optional Switched AC Power Outlet for Tower Amplifier (1000W Max)
Mechanical
Millennium Carillon in a 19-inch rack mountable chassis:
5¼H x 19W x 15¾D (in.); 22 lb.
When packaged in the oak case:
6¾H x 20½W x 16¾D (in.); 38 lb.
530W Rack mounted amplifier:
3½H x 19W x 15¾D (in.); 33 lb.
530W Amplifier in matching oak case:
6¾H x 20½W x 16¾D (in.); 48lb.