From dkorn@imaginet.fr Fri Jul 26 09:33:08 1996 26 Jul 96 12:32:57 +0500 26 Jul 96 05:41:56 +0500 id LAA16548; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:32:25 +0200 id LAA29058; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:35:47 +0200 Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:35:47 +0200 From: dkorn@imaginet.fr (david korn) Subject: Re: RSF Kobol Cc: analogue@hyperreal.com >From: "Sven 'hOopoE' Koenig" >Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 20:01:26 +0200 (MET DST) >Subject: RSF Kobol > >Can anyone give me some information on this thing. I've seen one for a >very high price and like to know what it is worth. > > ::: s v [E] n ::: It's a french synth built at the beginning of the 80s by RSF (Ruben & Serge Fernandez, 2 brothers from the south of France, near Toulouse) featuring 2 osc, 1 filter 2 ADS envelopes and a LFO. Two versions exist: 3U rackmount and keyboard -the french Mini, very cute (I've got the rackmount). The rackmount version is semi-modular (i.e. patchable, but with a "preset" circuit flow, a la 2600), the keyboard version is not, but comprises a programmer/sequencer (there was a rackmount programmer as well). The sound is huge, I think it uses SSM chips, and the salient feature of the thing is the ability to sweep the osc's waveform continuously one waveform to another (instead of switching or cumulating like on most synths). This movement is voltage controllable. There were custom polyphonic versions, rackmount with 4 voice engines (but not patchable), under control of a Polyclavier, the very good keyboard built by the company. They later went on to produce the Polykobol I & II, which never quite made it to the market, and sampled-sound drum machines,with some success (one of which, the SD-140 allowed you to sample your own sounds, a la RZ1). Here's an offer: I'll trade mine for an ARP 2600 (perfect cond., grey, not epoxied, w/3620 keyboard). - - d a v i d k o r n - s o u n d m a n a g e r s - - digital audio, analog synths, music for every occasion - - - - - d k o r n @ i m a g i n e t . f r - - - - -