{"id":1109,"date":"2016-12-10T14:52:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T14:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:08:32","slug":"rsf-polykobol-ii-demo-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/bloggosphere-v2-0\/rsf-polykobol-ii-demo-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"RSF Polykobol II demo (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful realtime demo of the RSF Polykobol II synth<\/p>\n<p>The Polykobol II is a synthesizer analog polyphonic manufactured by RSF and marketed in 1983. It has 8 voices and a 61-key keyboard and a backup K7 integrated interface. Used by Jean-Michel Jarre and Lightwave, it was quite complex (more than 500 components including 3 microprocessors, Motorola 6809 ) and unstable, and was never fully developed. However, it was appreciated for its warm and powerful sound.<\/p>\n<p>RSF filed for bankruptcy before closing completely.<\/p>\n<p>A VST recreation of the Polykobol is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xils-lab.com\/products\/polykb-iii-&#038;-ii-p-159.html\" target=\"_blank\">Xils Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H247bhAZOS4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful realtime demo of the RSF Polykobol II synth The Polykobol II is a synthesizer analog polyphonic manufactured by RSF and marketed in 1983. It has 8 voices and a 61-key keyboard and a backup K7 integrated interface. Used by Jean-Michel Jarre and Lightwave, it was quite complex (more than 500 components including 3 microprocessors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggosphere-v2-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jnrg-hT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilovecubus.co.uk\/v3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}