We'd like to apologize to all you 80s music connoisseurs out there, Depeche Mode's sophomore album was of course 'A Broken Frame'. Patrick's late nights preparing the script and editing the video obviously caught up with him. We will send him a big bag of coffee so that this travesty of justice never happens again😄
I was saying the other day to a friend and fellow musician "I have enough synths in my studio and shouldn't buy any more as it's becoming a seriously expensive habit" ........Saw this video..... Slapped myself and said "Never say anything as Blasphemous as that again you fool!". Fantastic demo and will be purchasing at least one (possibly 2) of these little beauties' very shortly, those oscillators are SO warm that it brought back childhood memories of Alan Parson's "I Robot". Thanks for the great tunes, that was some great sequencing and real time filter tweaking.
This is Behringer at its best. Bringing back those rare pieces that us plebs could never afford or acquire otherwise. Then taking all that engineering knowledge and creating something unique like the hopefully released soon Proton. The Kobol sounds delicious and I would totally buy this AND the additional expander/utilities with a few tweaks.
A Broken Frame just happens to be my favourite DM album. Mentioning that this synth was a main part of it is too much too resist especially at that price. Keep this up and people will need to add a Behringer wing to their home.
It's been decades since I instantly fell in love with the sound of a synth based on purely the oscillators and filter, but this one has done the trick. I'm in love.
Iam a very very big Fan of your Company! THANK YOU SO MUCH! For having access to such gear for normal people! Thank you so much! And **** to all those haters who are always bashing and do not give a *** about people who cannot buy a synth for 5000 €uro!
I´m very curious if they manage to recreate the massive subbass of the Polivoks. A feed most recent clones (including the excellent Erica Synths System) didn´t fully succeed in.
@@die_konkurrenz I hope so too, something tells me it might come up short just because it likely won't have the same soviet era components. I just know I'm likely to never get an original, maybe a few years a go I could have afforded one but they are way too rare to find now and when you do they are very expensive. The polivoks pro that elta made a few years back with Vladimir sounded pretty rad but alas no more of them either
Nice one Behringer! I have to mention that i really appreciate the new video format, ranging from the vhs effects, history of the synths to the product itself. But man, that tune that plays over the history part is just amazing!
Great video patrick and the music is and arp lines are on point! Maybe i missed it due to it being way past my bedtime but i assume its a monphonic synth? How does it compare to pro1 in this case? Cheers 🎉
Great demo. I used to subscribe to E&MM - the magazines were our primary source of info back then! We had to pick up morsels of info here and there unlike today where an hour or so nets us more information than we can handle.
Brilliant and I think Jarre used RSF Kobol with the MDB Polysequencer on the Concerts in China album and that sounded amazing, so I look forward to the possibilities of this!
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Oh, well, this Kobol sounds just so nice! After getting the Pro-800 in July I did not plan on any new purchases until the 2XM, UB-Xa or maybe either the Pro-16 or the MS-5, but now I suddenly started longing for this one, not having even considered this earlier. Still on the fence regarding the ProVS mini, too. Thanks, Behringer, for making this even harder for me 😜
Magnifique! cocorico! 😀 the kobol sound is back in ... 2023! If there was an old analog synths to resurrect it was the kobol synths, they were as good as rare. Nice to see the expander version of the kobol, with the patch points like the original, good for peoples with other other modern modular or semi modular synths, or modules, like the neutron. Just in this video we can hear the character of the sound , it is a good come back to the 80's. Next the kobol . ... and the polykobol? 😉 It looks like it is already a succes in shop.
Great! I like everything you are doing with the recreation of synths!!! (Side note: I would never buy the ripoff of the Keystep though, this crossed a line)
Yes, as usual when you demonstrate one of these recreations from the ancient of days I start remembering bits and pieces of music but clearly had this bit of equipment in it
Finally ... mine was shipped today (pre-ordered). Looking forward to add it to my 'collection' (Poly-D, Odyssey, MonoPoly, 2x Pro-1, 2x Pro-800, K-2, Neutron, Cat). I hope the Proton is coming soon.
A little update. Like all your reproductions, I love the sound of the Kobol. The envelopes are lightning fast, the waveforms sound fat and warm and that filter is so creamy. It has that typical French vibe (Jarre / Vangelis) but is still capable of experimental sounds (although not to the extent like a Cat, Odyssey or 2600). I just wish, you implemented the ability to save sounds / presets. The voltage controlled parameters offer that possibility.
Come on Bheringer, when are you going to hit us up with that distant 'kin' of the synthesizer, the digitalized version of the reel-to-reel tape recorder? Back in the day the synth was coupled to the long-playing recorder, it was part of the process, something we now take for granted. These largely anonymous contraptions preserved those happy accidents so that they could be recalled and noddled into something joyous. These days we have the Daw, or the digital recorder but you can't just leave those things running, instead you have to make that conscious effort set them up and then to hit record, by which time that spark of an idea, has been and gone. So how about it Bheringer, something new, something borrowed something true. You can make this happen. A device which is always on, always in your audio chain, always recording waiting for you to hit record ' after the event', to preserve the last wow, the last minute, the last 5 mins, the last 10 mins, or the last 30 mins of recording. You would just hit the appropriate button 1 5 10 30 for that span to be saved to SD as a lossless file. A forever moment. [This must read like something from the first episode of that netflix series Black Mirror.] The SP404 has something called the 'skip back' providing a miserly 40 seconds of audio recall. This might be ok for a beat, but its not nearly enough for any other kind of instrumentalist. If this were 5 mins i might have jumped on it. If you could make a device to take a verity audio input/output types with a high enough audio quality to auto-loop for at least 30 mins, I and other musicians across the full spectrum of music would thank you for this 'forever machine'.. Anyone who has ever jammed and thought 'if only i could have recorded that', will thank you. It would open the gates to original and spontaneous. It would change music. From a record of familiar muscle memories, or labored notation into a real stream of consciousness.. You could transition from practice into creation and not stop to turn something on . After the basic 'reel-to-real' version you might add effects, and extend the time and features, it would be its own thing, a new whatchamacallit.
Is the MIDI to CV converter like the Neutron? If it has the Assign feature for aftertouch control of filter cutoff and VCA (even if hidden as a configuration parameter) that would be absolutely amazing for us wind controller players! The Neutron's converter is the best I've come across for compatibility with my Roland AE-30 wind synth. Aftertouch for breath control, _proper_ handling of legato, and no dead spot in the middle of the pitch bend ... perfect 👍👍👍👍👍
Looking folwald to this one - sounding good. The leal dleam is the mighty PolyKobol II so I hope we get one of those one day.. pletty impossible to find a used one these days 😊
They are working on it, but it is a complex synth. I really hope that they would succeed. I like the modulation section they have done for the New polykobold. 😂
Sounds really nice! LOL at DM A Broken Flame. I also love their other albums: Construction Slime Again, Some Gray Reward & Blue Celebration. The newer albums such as: Pounds of the Universe & Momentous Lorrie's are also not bad.
Hi, it's written "External audio input for processing external sound sources" on Kobol Expander Do you mean there's an external in in the Kobol ? Where's is it ? I would love to put into the Kobol some external audio sounds and manipulate it with the Expander
Jeez I haven’t heard about this synth since I was a kid in the early 80’s lol. I was into Kraftwerk , Tangerine Dream and J-M Jarre so I had magazines on them and on the gear as I was looking to buy a synth back then, my first one. This one is extremely rare and you will never see one in person. Sounds good.
I've been waiting on this!!!! I'm in the middle of a hurricane in FL and this is the best news!!!!! Thank you for making my terrible day better!!! Love yo Behringer!!!!
