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RSF was a French company founded by Ruben and Serge Fernandez.
The Kobol was their first monophonic synthesizer released in 1978 and described as the “French Minimoog”. However, fewer than 200 were made, as the company lacked the funds. The Kobol synthesizer offers many unique features such as patch sequencer, morphing VCOs with sweepable waveforms and also full memory recall.

The RSF Kobol is an amazing sounding synthesizer, used by Vince Clarke, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel and Hans Zimmer.

While Gilles (French synthesizer engineer Gilles) has almost completed our Kobol recreation, he has also now started to study the Poly Kobol, one of the world's rarest and sought-after synthesizers. We were so lucky to have received a unit.

Time for testing . . .

 

What exactly Behringer will make of the Kobol, and whether other features
of the poly version will be included, cannot be answered at this time.

RSF KOBOL Presented by Thomas P. Heckmann

RSF KOBOL keyboard (1978)

 

"Today, we have another exciting update on the Polykobol development. The Polykobol is not only one the most sought after polyphonic synths but also it’s considered one of the best sounding synths of all times, due to its very unusual voice architecture.
Listen how beautiful this synth sounds like:
https://youtu.be/H247bhAZOS4
The Polykobol was designed by the French company RSF in the early ‘80s. Less than 40 synths were ever made and only 20 units are still in existence. We like to specially thank Olivier Grall for lending us one of his units.
Our Frech lead engineer Gilles spent huge amount of time to analyze the analog circuitry of the Polykobol and now recreated the voice “bread board” by transforming it into a modern design, while retaining the authentic behavior or the original circuitry.
The voice “bread board”, which for now only consists of two voices, is completed, together with all front panel control boards. This is the final step before moving to the actual electronic design of the synthesizer.
Because this is equally one of the most complex synthesizer ever designed, we’re still a long way from delivering a final product, but we hope you’ll find this Information interesting.
Wish us much luck with this ambitious project - like with the DS-80, there is also a substantial risk that we won’t succeed, hence we like to be upfront with you."

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"The Kobol synthesizer is a true legendary synthesizer, designed by the long extinct company RSF. It's so addictive that you'll never want to put it down. It has amazing morphing features, but also full patch memory.
Get ready to rock out with the Kobol and unleash your inner musician!
The Kobol is now fully developed and scheduled for production. We’re super excited"

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Master the waves and shape them in any way you want. The Behringer KOBOL EXPANDER is about to be your latest spell book in an infinite sea of beats, pulses and voltages.
List Price: $199 (in stock and immediately shipping from our factory)

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Now in stock at Andertons

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I... oh wow, my dick actually got a little hard. I haven't owned hardware in a while.

 

After all it's just a little synth, but imagine if it had 61 keys, full size knobs and nibbled on your earlobe.