Hymnal Plus Features

The Hymnal Plus HT-400 US has an impressive range of features, all developed and designed  to complement the worship music experience of your church.  We believe that he Hymnal Plus HT-400 US is  the world's leading Christian worship music solution.

The range of features contained within the Hymnal Plus HT-400 US will exceed the average user's expectations and delight the musician or advanced user.  The system has been designed and built to meet the needs of either small or large church services or events. Our team of professional musicians has recorded nearly three thousand hymns and modern worship songs. 


The HT-400 US system has been designed and built to facilitate the needs of today's worshippers and takes music accompaniment to a whole new level. With hundreds of advanced preset musical styles added, the purpose-designed sounds include superb Pipe Organ combinations, stunning Acoustic Piano, rich Orchestra Strings, and realistic Drum tracks.


WHY EVERY CONGREGATION SHOULD HAVE THE  HT-400 US?


Our church customers include many Christian denominations. Worship music is extremely important to the Church's response to God, and here at Hymn Technology, our church customers assure us that the system is proving to be extremely valuable.


Operating the HT-400 US is very simple. Begin by connecting your new Hymnal Plus HT-400 US to a suitable amplification system and begin to enjoy the astonishing sound quality.

SIMPLE 4 STEP OPERATION


1. Plug it in and turn it on

2. Press the PLAY tab

3. Select your hymn or key in the hymn number and press ACCEPT

4. Press START to play the music


The number of verses can easily be changed if needed, and you can add an introduction, change the speed or pitch, or even alter the length of pause between verses - all at the touch of a button. These few buttons are at the very heart of the design of the HT-400 US, enabling you to simply adjust the playback of any hymn to suit how your congregation is accustomed to singing it. You can't do that with CDs, mp3 files, or YouTube downloads!


Our Hymnal Plus users are more than satisfied with our easy-to-follow, step-by-step instruction manual. It avoids the use of jargon and it couldn't be simpler to use.


LCD TOUCH SCREEN

The 7" colour, capacitive touch screen is back-lit so it can be used even in darkness. The user is led, through simple prompts, to do things such as select a hymn or create a playlist for a service. 


The Tiresias font is used for all text throughout the user interface. Developed for the Royal National Institute for the Blind, the Tiresias font is used for all UK TV subtitling and provides impressive legibility. (It is also used for the labelling of the connectors on the back of the unit and all labelling on the supplied infrared remote handset.)



MUSICAL STYLES

The HT-400 US is designed to accompany the singing of all kinds of worship music. Choose from hundreds of preset musical styles - everything from simple piano or organ to a full orchestra or worship band. For convenience, the preset styles are divided into four lists:


Organ - The 36 preset organ styles range from simple, quiet pipe organ sounds to the full sound of the mighty cathedral organ. Gospel organs with slow and fast rotating speaker effects are included, along with a harmonium.


Orchestral - Piano, harpsichord, orchestral strings, together with the full range of orchestral and band instruments.


Combination - Mixtures of instruments such as piano with orchestral strings, contemporary music group, pipe organ with orchestra, string and woodwind quartets, brass band, etc.


Rhythmic - Mixtures of instruments with drum rhythms: Contemporary music groups, marching bands, calypso bands etc.


You can also add a realistic drum track to any style of your choice - there are 98 drum rhythm patterns to choose from.


 

PLAYLISTS

Using the Playlist feature you can plan and store all the music for services and other events in advance. It is quick and easy to change or rearrange your Playlists. You can store up to 999 Playlists, with no limit to the number of items (including your own MIDI and MP3 files)in a Playlist. You can even incorporate PDF files to display images, texts and messages via a connected projector or monitor.


It's easy to add and delete items in a Playlist, and you can quickly re-arrange the play order with simple Move Up and Move Down buttons.


If desired, specific styles can be pre-selected for the introduction and each verse of a hymn, and stored in the playlist. Those styles will then be automatically applied as that hymn is played.

YOUR OWN BOOK INDEX

The new OurBook feature lets you create your own sub-list of songs from the vast repertoire of the Hymnal Plus. Whether you want to make up a numbered index to another hymn book or your church has its own unique collection of songs compiled over time, you can easily pull them into your own numbered list for future use. You can even share your OurBook with other HT-400 US owners if you choose.

HYMN SEARCH

For added ease of use, the HT-400 US has a powerful built-in search engine. Just press the Search tab and enter any part of a first line, tune name, or title (either on-screen or using the optional qwerty typing keyboard). The HT-400 US will list all matching entries in its database within moments. You can search within any of the available book indexes, or search the entire database (the Master Index). If you are unsure which of the search results is the one you want, you can quickly audition them one by one.

HUMANISE

The Hymnal Plus doesn't play wrong notes and has incredible timing accuracy. In fact, it is far more accurate than any human could ever be. If you prefer a little more character, the new Humanise feature enables you easily to add subtle amounts of performance inaccuracy to the playback, to mimic a real musician more accurately. Don’t worry, you can’t ruin it – and it still won’t play wrong notes!

INTERNAL SPEAKER

The HT-400 US features built-in stereo speakers (10 watts per channel), useful for personal monitoring (e.g. when preparing playlists) or use in outreach. When these are used on their own, the HT-400 US automatically processes the sound to maximize the performance of the internal audio system.

VIDEO

The HT-400 US comes with both digital and analog* video output as standard via its DVI-I video output port. The main purpose of the Hymnal Plus will always be to accompany the singing of congregational music, but there are many resources available for subtly enhancing a service with visual elements, as well as the obvious use of displaying song lyrics.


If you do display song lyrics during a service, save your lyrics as PDF files on a Windows PC and copy them onto the Hymnal Plus' SD memory card. You can link a PDF file to any tune in the repertoire and (with some very basic text formatting) the Hymnal Plus will display your song lyrics automatically as it plays the music, showing a verse (or chorus) at a time.  You can also display any other static visual items in PDF format.


*Requires simple adapter

REMOTE CONTROL HANDSET

A fully-featured remote control infra-red handset is supplied with the HT-400 US. This can be very handy, particularly when the worship leader is also the HT-400 US operator. Each function is clearly labeled and, using the handset's Orchestrator section, 24 musical styles can be selected at the touch of a button:


8 preset organ styles.

8 preset orchestral and combination styles.

8 of your own choice. Choose any 8 from the HT-400's range of 246 preset styles, or any of your own personal styles.

VESA-COMPATIBLE MOUNT

The HT-400 US has built-in folding legs for desktop use, but on the back of the unit we have included a 75mm VESA-compatible mount. VESA is the standard mounting system used for flat-screen TVs, so a huge variety of mounts is readily available - everything from floor stands to wall-mounted fixed or swing-arm brackets and quick-release adaptors.

The HT-400 US includes a range of styles; from a single pipe organ to a full orchestra, from well-loved standards to modern rock, in a room, a hall,  or a church - the HT-400 US will perform beautifully time after time.

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