I have one of these, too. I had to recently move it out of my house and
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into a rental truck, then drive it to Chicago and unload it into storage a month and a half ago. It is _incredibly_ heavy, pretty much like lifting two CS-80s at once. The tone cabinet is even worse. I might mention it is possible to move the thing with two people if you use an appliance dolly. At first it looks like there is no way to use the dolly, but with a bit of clever strapping it is really not that bad. Moving it without anything wheeled takes at least 5 people. I should note that the EX-2 (and EX-1) use digital wavetable oscillators for their pulse, saw and sine tones. There are Yamaha IG00155 (close relative of the IG00156) filter pairs and the EGs are, while not voltage controlled, very similar in function to the GX/CS EGs slopes. There are two oscillators per voice with detuning (celeste) and octave stops, and 7 voices per manual for the "orchestra" section (pedalboard gets 1 voice as well). The flutes are 11 voices per manual though if I recall there is a limit to how many upper and lower manual notes can be keyed together. Leslie and chorus are done by the tone cabinet, which is a big, booming thing that certainly lets one feel the 32' pedal stop. You can connect two cabinets, and it has the socket needed for a real Leslie-branded cabinet. Eventually, I'll have it moved into my new house and set up to play again. Crow /**/ On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, David Rogoff wrote:
And here's the starship Enterprise GX-1 cousin, the EX-2, going pretty |