BELTOWER BELTOWER
Manually Calling Touches and Call ChangesYou can call your own call changes or Beltower can call random call changes, in addition to the pre-selected changes from the Call Changes Editor. You can call your own touches, including spliced, and Beltower will remember the calling, so that you can review and/or edit it - handy when it doesn't turn out as planned. You can also start a touch from call changes (manual, random or pre-selected) or you can start ringing part way through an existing touch. You can choose when to enter your calls: either at (or about) the selected voiced call time or up to a whole lead before. Calls can be voiced between 280% and 127% of a stroke before they take effect. This allows calls to be timed at pull time 2 blows before, for use with tower bells, through to just before the lead strike 1 blow before, for hand bells. External Sensors and Free Striking (silent practice) modeYou can input from sensors (dummy hand bells or tower bells) on any or all of the bells, or from a MIDI keyboard or other instrument, sounding the bells through your loud-speakers. COM Port Input: Set-up is simple, allowing selection of input mode, ports, pins, debounce time, bells, delays, switches, calls, bell/call re-assignment and more, all through a single dialog box. Sensors should, normally, send signals via either a timer interface or a multi-bell interface box. Signals applied to individual pins on the COM ports can be detected on either of the rising or the falling edges. Up to 32 inputs are available (4 pins on each of up to 8 COM ports) including USB to COM (RS232) converters. USB Hand Bells: Dummy hand bells are alternatively available for USB via Handbell Manager interface software. Buttons on the controllers can be used to start/stop, and call Go, Bobs etc. complete with Look To and Stand. Advanced Features: Beltower provides an option to automatically call Go after a selected number of strokes. Co-operative Timing allows the simulator to fit in with the real ringer(s), waiting if late or closing the gap if early, and can be used in a variety ways:
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